Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Evolutionary Biology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems39
Cycles of trans‐Arctic dispersal and vicariance, and diversification of the amphi‐boreal marine fauna37
Climate‐associated genetic variation in Fagus sylvatica and potential responses to climate change in the French Alps35
What is reproductive isolation?34
Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites33
Evolution of life cycles and reproductive traits: Insights from the brown algae31
Speciation in marine environments: Diving under the surface31
Experimental evolution on heat tolerance and thermal performance curves under contrasting thermal selection in Drosophila subobscura30
Death feigning as an adaptive anti‐predator behaviour: Further evidence for its evolution from artificial selection and natural populations28
SARS‐CoV‐2 virulence evolution: Avirulence theory, immunity and trade‐offs28
Post‐glacial establishment of locally adapted fish populations over a steep salinity gradient26
Speciation‐by‐depth on coral reefs: Sympatric divergence with gene flow or cryptic transient isolation?26
How do species barriers decay? Concordance and local introgression in mosaic hybrid zones of mussels26
Two‐hundred million years of anuran body‐size evolution in relation to geography, ecology and life history25
Speciation and gene flow across an elevational gradient in New Guinea kingfishers24
Why and how we should join the shift from significance testing to estimation23
A need to consider the evolutionary genetics of host–symbiont mutualisms23
Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak22
Heterospecific mating interactions as an interface between ecology and evolution22
Associated evolution of fruit size, fruit colour and spines in Neotropical palms21
Illustrating the importance of meta‐analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution21
The evolution of parasite host range in heterogeneous host populations19
Love at first flight: wing interference patterns are species‐specific and sexually dimorphic in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)19
microRNA expression variation as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulphide18
The role of the environment in the spatial dynamics of an extensive hybrid zone between two neotropical cats18
A rapidly evolved shift in life‐history timing during ecological speciation is driven by the transition between developmental phases18
Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal18
Recent progress in research on the gut microbiota and highland adaptation on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau18
Oxidative and radiation stress induces transposable element transcription in Drosophila melanogaster17
Selfing rates vary with floral display, pollinator visitation and plant density in natural populations of Mimulusringens17
Secondary contact zones of closely‐related Erebia butterflies overlap with narrow phenotypic and parasitic clines17
Fork tails evolved differently in swallows and swifts17
Male phenotypes in a female framework: Evidence for degeneration in sperm produced by male snails from asexual lineages16
Complex effects of environment and Wolbachia infections on the life history of Drosophila melanogaster hosts16
Limited genetic parallels underlie convergent evolution of quantitative pattern variation in mimetic butterflies15
Social organization in ungulates: Revisiting Jarman’s hypotheses15
Oceanic dispersal barriers in a holoplanktonic gastropod15
Hidden genetic variance contributes to increase the short‐term adaptive potential of selfing populations14
Female sperm storage mediates post‐copulatory costs and benefits of ejaculate anticipatory plasticity in the guppy14
Patterns of genomic divergence and introgression between Japanese stickleback species with overlapping breeding habitats14
The loss of self‐incompatibility in a range expansion14
Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid14
A meta‐analysis on the heritability of vertebrate telomere length14
Animal chromosome counts reveal a similar range of chromosome numbers but with less polyploidy in animals compared to flowering plants13
Floral trait differentiation in Anacamptis coriophora: Phenotypic selection on scents, but not on colour13
Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming13
Hybridization and transgressive exploration of colour pattern and wing morphology in Heliconius butterflies13
A test of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours: Chlorophyll resorption, not anthocyanin production, is correlated with nitrogen translocation13
Species divergence and repeated ancient hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system13
Genotype‐environment interactions rule the response of a widespread butterfly to temperature variation13
Evolutionary dynamics of sex‐biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads13
Phenotypic and functional variation in venom and venom resistance of two sympatric rattlesnakes and their prey13
Three‐dimensional characterization of osteocyte volumes at multiple scales, and its relationship with bone biology and genome evolution in ray‐finned fishes12
Diversity in CRISPR‐based immunity protects susceptible genotypes by restricting phage spread and evolution12
Pathogen‐mediated selection favours the maintenance of innate immunity gene polymorphism in a widespread wild ungulate12
Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype‐level bet‐hedging strategy12
Conserved ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in Caribbean croaking geckos (Aristelliger: Sphaerodactylidae)12
Secondary contact and genomic admixture between rhesus and long‐tailed macaques in the Indochina Peninsula12
Modification of reproductive schedule in response to pathogen exposure in a wild insect: Support for the terminal investment hypothesis12
Convergence in sympatry: Evolution of blue‐banded wing pattern in Morpho butterflies12
The relevance of chromosome fissions for major ribosomal DNA dispersion in hymenopteran insects11
Sexual selection and population divergence III: Interspecific and intraspecific variation in mating signals11
Historical climatic instability predicts the inverse latitudinal pattern in speciation rate of modern mammalian biota11
A comparative analysis of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours11
The cost of travel: How dispersal ability limits local adaptation in host–parasite interactions11
Truly ubiquitous CRESS DNA viruses scattered across the eukaryotic tree of life11
Identification of a candidate sex determination gene in Culaea inconstans suggests convergent recruitment of an Amh duplicate in two lineages of stickleback11
The evolution of sexually dimorphic cuticular hydrocarbons in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)11
The microevolutionary response to male‐limited X‐chromosome evolution in Drosophila melanogaster reflects macroevolutionary patterns11
Interactions between cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes confer sex‐specific effects on lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster11
The phenomenon of red and yellow autumn leaves: Hypotheses, agreements and disagreements11
Body size and climate as predictors of plumage colouration and sexual dichromatism in parrots11
X chromosomes show relaxed selection and complete somatic dosage compensation across Timema stick insect species11
Macroevolutionary dynamics of parasite diversification: A reality check10
Mutation and selection processes regulating short tandem repeats give rise to genetic and phenotypic diversity across species10
Recent expansion of the non‐recombining sex‐linked region on Silene latifolia sex chromosomes10
Insectivory leads to functional convergence in a group of Neotropical rodents10
Ovarian fluid proteome variation associates with sperm swimming speed in an externally fertilizing fish10
Enhanced leaky sex expression in response to pollen limitation in the dioecious plant Mercurialis annua10
Adjustment of sex allocation to co‐foundress number and kinship under local mate competition: An inclusive‐fitness analysis10
Pre‐introduction introgression contributes to parallel differentiation and contrasting hybridization outcomes between invasive and native marine mussels10
Colour pattern variation forms local background matching camouflage in a leaf‐mimicking toad10
Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps and seed‐dispersing ants10
Assortative mating can help adaptation of flowering time to a changing climate: Insights from a polygenic model10
Host genetic drift and adaptation in the evolution and maintenance of parasite resistance10
Riverscape properties contribute to the origin and structure of a hybrid zone in a Neotropical freshwater fish9
Genomically correlated trait combinations and antagonistic selection contributing to counterintuitive genetic patterns of adaptive diapause divergence in Rhagoletis flies9
Little parallelism in genomic signatures of local adaptation in two sympatric, cryptic sister species9
Genomic inference of complex domestication histories in three Solanaceae species9
Temporally consistent species differences in parasite infection but no evidence for rapid parasite‐mediated speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish9
Genetic and morphological divergence between Littorina fabalis ecotypes in Northern Europe9
Change in sexual signalling traits outruns morphological divergence across an ecological gradient in the post‐glacial radiation of the songbird genus Junco9
Intersexual differences in density‐dependent dispersal and their evolutionary drivers9
Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating‐type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther‐smut fungi9
The influence of immune activation on thermal tolerance along a latitudinal cline9
Polyploidization as an opportunistic mutation: The role of unreduced gametes formation and genetic drift in polyploid establishment9
Reproductive senescence and parental effects in an indeterminate grower9
Arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria coevolving with phage OMKO19
Evolution of multivariate wing allometry in schizophoran flies (Diptera: Schizophora)9
Genetic colour variation visible for predators and conspecifics is concealed from humans in a polymorphic moth9
Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes9
Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification9
Female‐driven intersexual coevolution in beetle genitalia9
Genomic landscape of reproductive isolation in Lucania killifish: The role of sex loci and salinity9
Ecological fitting is the forerunner to diversification in a plant virus with broad host range9
Endosymbionts facilitate rapid evolution in a polyphagous herbivore9
Egg‐induced changes to sperm phenotypes shape patterns of multivariate selection on ejaculates8
Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities8
Warmer temperatures enhance beneficial mutation effects8
The combined effect of host and food availability on optimized parasitoid life‐history traits based on a three‐dimensional trade‐off surface8
Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities8
Divergence of seminal fluid gene expression and function among natural snail populations8
Parasitism and host dispersal plasticity in an aquatic model system8
Measuring, comparing and interpreting phenotypic selection on floral scent8
Evolution of sex‐specific heat stress tolerance and larval Hsp70 expression in populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to larval crowding8
Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological changes in a Mediterranean blue tit population8
The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences8
Do the ages of parents or helpers affect offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird?8
Identification of a cis‐sex chromosome transition in banded geckos (Coleonyx, Eublepharidae, Gekkota)8
Relaxed selection on male mitochondrial genes in DUI bivalves eases the need for mitonuclear coevolution8
The tarnished silver spoon? Trade‐off between prenatal growth and telomere length in wild boar8
The target of selection matters: An established resistance—development‐time negative genetic trade‐off is not found when selecting on development time8
Evolutionary rescue at different rates of environmental change is affected by trade‐offs between short‐term performance and long‐term survival8
Cryptic female choice within individual males – A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?7
Punctuational ecological changes rather than global factors drive species diversification and the evolution of wing phenotypes inMorphobutterflies7
Contemporary climate change hinders hybrid performance of ecologically dominant marine invertebrates7
Evidence from automixis with inverted meiosis for the maintenance of sex by loss of complementation7
Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes7
Sex‐specific genetic (co)variances of standard metabolic rate, body mass and locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster7
Symbiont‐mediated fly survival is independent of defensive symbiont genotype in the Drosophila melanogasterSpiroplasma–wasp interaction7
Compiling forty years of guppy research to investigate the factors contributing to (non)parallel evolution7
Dunnock social status correlates with sperm speed, but fast sperm does not always equal high fitness7
Combined effects of rearing and testing temperatures on sperm traits7
Latitudinal variation in norms of reaction of phenology in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza7
Adaptation and correlated fitness responses over two time scales in Drosophila suzukii populations evolving in different environments7
Body size and sexual selection shaped the evolution of parrot calls7
The evolution of flower longevity in unpredictable pollination environments7
The evolution of red blood cell shape in fishes7
Social animal models for quantifying plasticity, assortment, and selection on interacting phenotypes7
Negotiating mutualism: A locus for exploitation by rhizobia has a broad effect size distribution and context‐dependent effects on legume hosts6
Environmental and morphological constraints interact to drive the evolution of communication signals in frogs6
Visual and nonvisual opsin genes of sharks and other nonosteichthyan vertebrates: Genomic exploration of underwater photoreception6
Predation risk and the evolution of a vertebrate stress response: Parallel evolution of stress reactivity and sexual dimorphism6
Glucocorticoid levels are linked to lifetime reproductive success and survival of adult barn owls6
Genotype diversity promotes the persistence of Daphnia populations exposed to severe copper stress6
Experimentally induced intrasexual mating competition and sex‐specific evolution in female and male nematodes6
Bateman gradients reflect variation in sexual selection in a species with dynamic sex roles6
Open questions in the social lives of viruses6
Repeatable social network node‐based metrics across populations and contexts in a passerine6
Viral susceptibility across host species is largely independent of dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios6
Simultaneous evolution of host resistance and tolerance to parasitism6
Breeding behaviour predicts patterns of natural hybridization in North American minnows (Cyprinidae)6
Geographic patterns in colonial reproductive strategy in Myrmecina nipponica: Links between biogeography and a key polymorphism in ants6
Opposing population trends of fork‐tailed swallows and reddish‐coloured swallows in our changing world6
Why and how do Y chromosome stop recombining?6
Alteration of gut microbiota with a broad‐spectrum antibiotic does not impair maternal care in the European earwig6
Environmental drivers of sexual dimorphism in a lizard with alternative mating strategies6
Consequences of population structure for sex allocation and sexual conflict6
Becoming creatures of habit: Among‐ and within‐individual variation in nesting behaviour shift with age6
Mechanical and structural adaptations to migration in the flight feathers of a Palaearctic passerine6
How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process6
Population genomics reveals repeated signals of adaptive divergence in the Atlantic salmon of north‐eastern Europe6
Mitonuclear conflict in a macaque species exhibiting phylogenomic discordance6
How plants conquered land: evolution of terrestrial adaptation6
Evolution of static allometry and constraint on evolutionary allometry in a fossil stickleback6
Comparison of methodological approaches to the study of young sex chromosomes: A case study in Poecilia6
Biased predation could promote convergence yet maintain diversity within Müllerian mimicry rings of Oreina leaf beetles6
A role for sex‐determination genes in life history evolution? Doublesex mediates sexual size dimorphism in the gazelle dung beetle6
Early‐life effects on body size in each sex interact to determine reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides6
The pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: Detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences6
Sensory plasticity in a socially plastic bee5
XX/XY sex chromosomes in a blind lizard (Dibamidae): Towards understanding the evolution of sex determination in squamates5
Genotypes and their interaction effects on reproduction and mating‐induced immune activation in Drosophila melanogaster5
The role of balancing selection in maintaining human RhD blood group polymorphism: A preregistered cross‐sectional study5
Differences in the contributions of sex linkage and androgen regulation to sex‐biased gene expression in juvenile and adult sticklebacks5
Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome‐wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)5
Niche divergence contributes to geographical parthenogenesis in two dandelion taxa5
Moderate evidence for heritability in the duet contributions of a South American primate5
Evolution and dosage compensation of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) mediated by mobile elements in turtles with female (ZZ/ZW) but not with male (XX/XY5
Responses to artificial selection for locomotor activity: A focus on death feigning in red flour beetle5
Phylogenetic and environmental patterns of sex differentiation in physiological traits across Drosophila species5
Environment dependence of the expression of mutational load and species’ range limits5
Sex‐specific effects of experimental ectoparasite infestation on telomere length in great tit nestlings5
The association between personalities, alternative breeding strategies and reproductive success in dunnocks5
A variance partitioning perspective of assortative mating: Proximate mechanisms and evolutionary implications5
Are evolutionary transitions in sexual size dimorphism related to sex determination in reptiles?5
Evolutionary biology and development model of medicines: A necessary ‘pas de deux’ for future successful bacteriophage therapy5
Behavioural response to songs between genetically diverged allopatric populations of Darwin’s small tree finch in the Galápagos5
Correlated evolution of larval development, egg size and genome size across two genera of snapping shrimp5
Genetic sex determination, sex chromosome size and sex‐specific lifespans across tetrapods5
Cryptic community structure and metabolic interactions among the heritable facultative symbionts of the pea aphid5
Evidence for genetic isolation and local adaptation in the field cricket Gryllus campestris5
The evolutionary impact of population size, mutation rate and virulence on pathogen niche width5
Immune priming depends on age, sex and Wolbachia in the interaction between Armadillidium vulgare and Salmonella5
The genomic view of diversification5
Condition‐dependent mortality exacerbates male (but not female) reproductive senescence and the potential for sexual conflict5
A lot of convergence, a bit of divergence: Environment and interspecific interactions shape body colour patterns in Lissotriton newts5
Lack of assortative mating might explain reduced phenotypic differentiation where two grasshopper species meet5
Mimicry genes reduce pre‐adult survival rate in Papilio polytes: A possible new mechanism for maintaining female‐limited polymorphism in Batesian mimicry5
Extinction and the temporal distribution of macroevolutionary bursts5
Evaluating the existence and benefit of major histocompatibility complex‐based mate choice in an isolated owl population5
Reconstruction of evolutionary changes in fat and toxin consumption reveals associations with gene losses in mammals: A case study for the lipase inhibitor PNLIPRP1 and the xenobiotic receptor 5
Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates5
Sequence dynamics of three influenza A virus strains grown in different MDCK cell lines, including those expressing different sialic acid receptors5
Fluctuating selection driven by global and local climatic conditions leads to stasis in breeding time in a migratory bird5
Molecular evolution and convergence of the rhodopsin gene in Gymnogobius, a goby group having diverged into coastal to freshwater habitats5
Selection on dispersal drives evolution of metabolic capacities for energy production in female wing‐polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus4
Evolution of thermal performance curves: A meta‐analysis of selection experiments4
Trade‐offs between weapons and testes do not manifest at high social densities4
New insights into Xenopus sex chromosome genomics from the Marsabit clawed frog X. borealis4
Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies4
Resource allocation is determined by both parents and offspring in a burying beetle4
Greater reproductive assurance of asexual plant compared with sexual relative in a low‐density sympatric population: Experimental evidence for pollen limitation4
Commonalities and evolutionary divergences of mandible shape ontogenies in rodents4
Antagonistic interactions subdue inter‐species green‐beard cooperation in bacteria4
Extensive hybridization and past introgression between divergent lineages in a quasi‐clonal hermaphroditic fish: Ramifications for species concepts and taxonomy4
A novel neo‐sex chromosome in Sylvietta brachyura (Macrosphenidae) adds to the extraordinary avian sex chromosome diversity among Sylvioidea songbirds4
When does parasitism maintain sex in the absence of Red Queen Dynamics?4
Reproductive isolation is a heuristic, not a measure: a commentary on Westram et al., 20224
Rapid evolution and plasticity of genitalia4
Temperature‐mediated plasticity in incubation schedules is unlikely to evolve to buffer embryos from climatic challenges in a seasonal songbird4
Indications for rapid evolution of trait means and thermal plasticity in range‐expanding populations of a butterfly4
Putative chromosomal rearrangements are associated primarily with ecotype divergence rather than geographic separation in an intertidal, poorly dispersing snail4
Sexual and ecological selection on a sexual conflict gene4
Assortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms4
Ecological and life‐history correlates of erythrocyte size and shape in Lepidosauria4
Phylogeography of Artemisia frigida (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on genotyping‐by‐sequencing and plastid DNA data: Migration through Beringia4
Within‐population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time4
Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve4
No obvious transcriptome‐wide signature of indirect selection in termites4
Within‐population variation in female mating preference affects the opportunity for sexual selection and the evolution of male traits, but things are not as simple as expected4
Compost spatial heterogeneity promotes evolutionary diversification of a bacterium4
Forty‐two, and other precise answers to difficult questions: a commentary on Westram et al., 20224
Sociality, ecology and developmental constraints predict variation in brain size across birds4
Strong phenotypic trait correlations between mating partners do not result from assortative mating in wild great tits (Parus major)4
100 years of Haldane's rule4
The avian lightweights: Trans‐Saharan migrants show lower lean body mass than short‐/medium‐distance migrants4
Interspecific and intraspecific comparisons reveal the importance of evolutionary context in sunfish brain form divergence4
Variable routes to genomic and host adaptation among coronaviruses4
The evolution of conspicuousness in frogs: When to signal toxicity?4
Strong genotype‐by‐genotype interactions between aphid‐defensive symbionts and parasitoids persist across different biotic environments4
A comment on The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade‐offs of satiation threshold by Pruitt & Krauel (2010)4
Sexual selection increased offspring production via evolution of male and female traits4
Evolution of antagonistic and mutualistic traits in the yucca‐yucca moth obligate pollination mutualism4
Direct and indirect selection on mate choice during pollen competition: Effects of male and female sexual traits on offspring performance following two‐donor crosses4
Assessing the evolutionary lability of insulin signalling in the regulation of nutritional plasticity across traits and species of horned dung beetles4
Phylogenetic conservation of behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes4
Extra‐pair paternity as a strategy to reduce the costs of heterospecific reproduction? Insights from the crow hybrid zone4
Environmental and genealogical effects on DNA methylation in a widespread apomictic dandelion lineage3
The evolution of the additive variance of a trait under stabilizing selection after autopolyploidization3
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