Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Evolutionary Biology is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites45
What is reproductive isolation?43
Evolution of life cycles and reproductive traits: Insights from the brown algae43
Why and how we should join the shift from significance testing to estimation35
Speciation in marine environments: Diving under the surface35
Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak33
Experimental evolution on heat tolerance and thermal performance curves under contrasting thermal selection in Drosophila subobscura32
How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process31
Recent progress in research on the gut microbiota and highland adaptation on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau29
Speciation‐by‐depth on coral reefs: Sympatric divergence with gene flow or cryptic transient isolation?28
SARS‐CoV‐2 virulence evolution: Avirulence theory, immunity and trade‐offs28
microRNA expression variation as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulphide22
Identification of a candidate sex determination gene in Culaea inconstans suggests convergent recruitment of an Amh duplicate in two lineages of stickleback21
Love at first flight: wing interference patterns are species‐specific and sexually dimorphic in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)21
Mutation and selection processes regulating short tandem repeats give rise to genetic and phenotypic diversity across species20
Selfing rates vary with floral display, pollinator visitation and plant density in natural populations of Mimulusringens20
Oxidative and radiation stress induces transposable element transcription in Drosophila melanogaster20
The role of the environment in the spatial dynamics of an extensive hybrid zone between two neotropical cats20
Complex effects of environment and Wolbachia infections on the life history of Drosophila melanogaster hosts19
Social organization in ungulates: Revisiting Jarman’s hypotheses19
Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal19
Oceanic dispersal barriers in a holoplanktonic gastropod19
Evolutionary dynamics of sex‐biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads18
The phenomenon of red and yellow autumn leaves: Hypotheses, agreements and disagreements18
Animal chromosome counts reveal a similar range of chromosome numbers but with less polyploidy in animals compared to flowering plants18
A meta‐analysis on the heritability of vertebrate telomere length18
The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences18
The relevance of chromosome fissions for major ribosomal DNA dispersion in hymenopteran insects17
Species divergence and repeated ancient hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system16
Arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria coevolving with phage OMKO116
Phenotypic and functional variation in venom and venom resistance of two sympatric rattlesnakes and their prey16
X chromosomes show relaxed selection and complete somatic dosage compensation across Timema stick insect species16
Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification15
A test of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours: Chlorophyll resorption, not anthocyanin production, is correlated with nitrogen translocation15
Truly ubiquitous CRESS DNA viruses scattered across the eukaryotic tree of life14
Polyploidization as an opportunistic mutation: The role of unreduced gametes formation and genetic drift in polyploid establishment14
Pathogen‐mediated selection favours the maintenance of innate immunity gene polymorphism in a widespread wild ungulate13
Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming13
Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype‐level bet‐hedging strategy13
Evolution of thermal performance curves: A meta‐analysis of selection experiments13
Genetic colour variation visible for predators and conspecifics is concealed from humans in a polymorphic moth13
Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities12
The cost of travel: How dispersal ability limits local adaptation in host–parasite interactions12
Recent expansion of the non‐recombining sex‐linked region on Silene latifolia sex chromosomes12
Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities12
Colour pattern variation forms local background matching camouflage in a leaf‐mimicking toad12
Convergence in sympatry: Evolution of blue‐banded wing pattern in Morpho butterflies12
Historical climatic instability predicts the inverse latitudinal pattern in speciation rate of modern mammalian biota12
A comparative analysis of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours12
Genomically correlated trait combinations and antagonistic selection contributing to counterintuitive genetic patterns of adaptive diapause divergence in Rhagoletis flies12
Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates12
Genomic landscape of reproductive isolation in Lucania killifish: The role of sex loci and salinity12
Assortative mating can help adaptation of flowering time to a changing climate: Insights from a polygenic model11
Sex‐specific genetic (co)variances of standard metabolic rate, body mass and locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster11
Parasitism and host dispersal plasticity in an aquatic model system11
Adjustment of sex allocation to co‐foundress number and kinship under local mate competition: An inclusive‐fitness analysis11
Little parallelism in genomic signatures of local adaptation in two sympatric, cryptic sister species11
Enhanced leaky sex expression in response to pollen limitation in the dioecious plant Mercurialis annua11
Insectivory leads to functional convergence in a group of Neotropical rodents11
Evolutionary rescue at different rates of environmental change is affected by trade‐offs between short‐term performance and long‐term survival11
Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes10
Open questions in the social lives of viruses10
Host genetic drift and adaptation in the evolution and maintenance of parasite resistance10
Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating‐type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther‐smut fungi10
A role for sex‐determination genes in life history evolution? Doublesex mediates sexual size dimorphism in the gazelle dung beetle10
Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological changes in a Mediterranean blue tit population10
Identification of a cis‐sex chromosome transition in banded geckos (Coleonyx, Eublepharidae, Gekkota)10
The evolution of red blood cell shape in fishes10
Pre‐introduction introgression contributes to parallel differentiation and contrasting hybridization outcomes between invasive and native marine mussels10
Cryptic female choice within individual males – A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?9
Compiling forty years of guppy research to investigate the factors contributing to (non)parallel evolution9
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 9
Why and how do Y chromosome stop recombining?9
Alteration of gut microbiota with a broad‐spectrum antibiotic does not impair maternal care in the European earwig9
Relaxed selection on male mitochondrial genes in DUI bivalves eases the need for mitonuclear coevolution9
Body size and sexual selection shaped the evolution of parrot calls9
Sensory plasticity in a socially plastic bee9
Genomic inference of complex domestication histories in three Solanaceae species9
Visual and nonvisual opsin genes of sharks and other nonosteichthyan vertebrates: Genomic exploration of underwater photoreception9
Genotype diversity promotes the persistence of Daphnia populations exposed to severe copper stress8
Genetic sex determination, sex chromosome size and sex‐specific lifespans across tetrapods8
Measuring, comparing and interpreting phenotypic selection on floral scent8
A novel neo‐sex chromosome in Sylvietta brachyura (Macrosphenidae) adds to the extraordinary avian sex chromosome diversity among Sylvioidea songbirds8
How plants conquered land: evolution of terrestrial adaptation8
Implementing code review in the scientific workflow: Insights from ecology and evolutionary biology8
Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes8
Punctuational ecological changes rather than global factors drive species diversification and the evolution of wing phenotypes inMorphobutterflies8
Evolution of sex‐specific heat stress tolerance and larval Hsp70 expression in populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to larval crowding8
The tarnished silver spoon? Trade‐off between prenatal growth and telomere length in wild boar8
Immune priming depends on age, sex and Wolbachia in the interaction between Armadillidium vulgare and Salmonella8
Comparison of methodological approaches to the study of young sex chromosomes: A case study in Poecilia8
Bateman gradients reflect variation in sexual selection in a species with dynamic sex roles8
Social animal models for quantifying plasticity, assortment, and selection on interacting phenotypes8
Environmental drivers of sexual dimorphism in a lizard with alternative mating strategies8
Predation risk and the evolution of a vertebrate stress response: Parallel evolution of stress reactivity and sexual dimorphism8
Adaptation and correlated fitness responses over two time scales in Drosophila suzukii populations evolving in different environments8
Evolution of reproductive modes in sharks and rays8
Phylogeography of Artemisia frigida (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on genotyping‐by‐sequencing and plastid DNA data: Migration through Beringia7
The association between personalities, alternative breeding strategies and reproductive success in dunnocks7
The evolution of flower longevity in unpredictable pollination environments7
The role of balancing selection in maintaining human RhD blood group polymorphism: A preregistered cross‐sectional study7
The pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: Detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences7
Negotiating mutualism: A locus for exploitation by rhizobia has a broad effect size distribution and context‐dependent effects on legume hosts7
Mitonuclear conflict in a macaque species exhibiting phylogenomic discordance7
Molecular evolution and convergence of the rhodopsin gene in Gymnogobius, a goby group having diverged into coastal to freshwater habitats7
Assessing the evolutionary lability of insulin signalling in the regulation of nutritional plasticity across traits and species of horned dung beetles7
Evolution of static allometry and constraint on evolutionary allometry in a fossil stickleback7
Evidence from automixis with inverted meiosis for the maintenance of sex by loss of complementation7
Simultaneous evolution of host resistance and tolerance to parasitism7
Evidence for genetic isolation and local adaptation in the field cricket Gryllus campestris7
Breeding behaviour predicts patterns of natural hybridization in North American minnows (Cyprinidae)7
Opposing population trends of fork‐tailed swallows and reddish‐coloured swallows in our changing world7
The redlegged earth mite draft genome provides new insights into pesticide resistance evolution and demography in its invasive Australian range7
Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome‐wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)7
Correlated evolution of larval development, egg size and genome size across two genera of snapping shrimp7
Viral susceptibility across host species is largely independent of dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios7
Population genomics reveals repeated signals of adaptive divergence in the Atlantic salmon of north‐eastern Europe7
Evolution of antagonistic and mutualistic traits in the yucca‐yucca moth obligate pollination mutualism6
A lot of convergence, a bit of divergence: Environment and interspecific interactions shape body colour patterns in Lissotriton newts6
Hoisted with his own petard: How sex‐ratio meiotic drive in Drosophila affinis creates resistance alleles that limit its spread6
XX/XY sex chromosomes in a blind lizard (Dibamidae): Towards understanding the evolution of sex determination in squamates6
100 years of Haldane's rule6
phylosem: A fast and simple R package for phylogenetic inference and trait imputation using phylogenetic structural equation models6
Consequences of population structure for sex allocation and sexual conflict6
Evolution and dosage compensation of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) mediated by mobile elements in turtles with female (ZZ/ZW) but not with male (XX/XY6
No room for males in caves: Female‐biased sex ratio in subterranean amphipods of the genus Niphargus6
The role of migration in mutant dynamics in fragmented populations6
Phylogenetic and environmental patterns of sex differentiation in physiological traits across Drosophila species6
Fluctuating selection driven by global and local climatic conditions leads to stasis in breeding time in a migratory bird6
Extinction and the temporal distribution of macroevolutionary bursts6
Lack of assortative mating might explain reduced phenotypic differentiation where two grasshopper species meet6
New insights into Xenopus sex chromosome genomics from the Marsabit clawed frog X. borealis6
Cryptic community structure and metabolic interactions among the heritable facultative symbionts of the pea aphid6
Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies6
Within‐population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time6
Evolutionary biology and development model of medicines: A necessary ‘pas de deux’ for future successful bacteriophage therapy6
Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve6
Temperature‐mediated plasticity in incubation schedules is unlikely to evolve to buffer embryos from climatic challenges in a seasonal songbird6
Are evolutionary transitions in sexual size dimorphism related to sex determination in reptiles?6
Moderate evidence for heritability in the duet contributions of a South American primate6
Capturing the rapidly evolving study of adaptation6
Sequence dynamics of three influenza A virus strains grown in different MDCK cell lines, including those expressing different sialic acid receptors6
Diet and habit explain head‐shape convergences in natricine snakes5
The influence of divergent reproductive strategies in shaping modularity and morphological evolution in mammalian jaws5
When does parasitism maintain sex in the absence of Red Queen Dynamics?5
A variance partitioning perspective of assortative mating: Proximate mechanisms and evolutionary implications5
The evolution of the additive variance of a trait under stabilizing selection after autopolyploidization5
The evolutionary impact of population size, mutation rate and virulence on pathogen niche width5
Phylogenetic conservation of behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes5
Sex‐specific effects of experimental ectoparasite infestation on telomere length in great tit nestlings5
Reproductive isolation is a heuristic, not a measure: a commentary on Westram et al., 20225
Niche divergence contributes to geographical parthenogenesis in two dandelion taxa5
Interspecific and intraspecific comparisons reveal the importance of evolutionary context in sunfish brain form divergence5
Ecology and the evolution of sex chromosomes5
Advantages of laboratory natural selection in the applied sciences5
Greater reproductive assurance of asexual plant compared with sexual relative in a low‐density sympatric population: Experimental evidence for pollen limitation5
No obvious transcriptome‐wide signature of indirect selection in termites5
Extra‐pair paternity and sexual dimorphism in birds5
Candidate gene polymorphisms are linked to dispersive and migratory behaviour: Searching for a mechanism behind the “paradox of the great speciators”5
Genetic traces of hybrid zone movement across a fragmented habitat5
Strong phenotypic trait correlations between mating partners do not result from assortative mating in wild great tits (Parus major)5
Causes and consequences of variation in development time in a field cricket5
Environment dependence of the expression of mutational load and species’ range limits5
Domestication shapes the pig gut microbiome and immune traits from the scale of lineage to population5
Commonalities and evolutionary divergences of mandible shape ontogenies in rodents5
Variable routes to genomic and host adaptation among coronaviruses5
A socially polymorphicFormicaant species exhibits a novel distribution of social supergene genotypes5
Sexually antagonistic evolution of mitochondrial and nuclear linkage5
Comparative analysis of the superoxide dismutase gene family in Cetartiodactyla5
Responses to artificial selection for locomotor activity: A focus on death feigning in red flour beetle5
Compost spatial heterogeneity promotes evolutionary diversification of a bacterium5
Mutation accumulation in inbreeding populations under evolution of the selfing rate5
Trees growing in Eastern North America experience higher autumn solar irradiation than their European relatives, but is nitrogen limitation another factor explaining anthocyanin‐red autumn leaves?5
Hybrid incompatibility between Drosophila virilis and D. lummei is stronger in the presence of transposable elements5
Sociality, ecology and developmental constraints predict variation in brain size across birds5
Forty‐two, and other precise answers to difficult questions: a commentary on Westram et al., 20225
Behavioural response to songs between genetically diverged allopatric populations of Darwin’s small tree finch in the Galápagos5
Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket5
Strong genotype‐by‐genotype interactions between aphid‐defensive symbionts and parasitoids persist across different biotic environments5
The evolution of conspicuousness in frogs: When to signal toxicity?5
Indications for rapid evolution of trait means and thermal plasticity in range‐expanding populations of a butterfly4
Evolutionary divergence in phenotypic plasticity shapes brain size variation between coexisting sunfish ecotypes4
Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts4
Evolution of seed mass associated with mating systems in multiple plant families4
Assortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms4
Enforced specialization fosters mutual cheating and not division of labour in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa4
Ecological and life‐history correlates of erythrocyte size and shape in Lepidosauria4
Rare morph Lake Malawi mbuna cichlids benefit from reduced aggression from con‐ and hetero‐specifics4
Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape4
Evolution of resistance under alternative models of selective interference4
Life history, mating dynamics and the origin of parental care4
Environmental fluctuations dampen the effects of clonal reproduction on evolutionary rescue4
Hybridization, ecogeographical displacement and the emergence of new lineages – A genotyping‐by‐sequencing and ecological niche and species distribution modelling study ofSempervivum tectorumL.4
Assessment of phylogenetic approaches to study the timing of recombination cessation on sex chromosomes4
Genetic and ecomorphological divergence between sympatricAstyanaxmorphs from Central America4
The language of isolation: a commentary on Westram et al., 20224
The avian lightweights: Trans‐Saharan migrants show lower lean body mass than short‐/medium‐distance migrants4
Trade‐offs between weapons and testes do not manifest at high social densities4
Not just the sum of its parts: Geographic variation and nonadditive effects of pyrazines in the chemical defence of an aposematic moth4
Bait‐ER: A Bayesian method to detect targets of selection in Evolve‐and‐Resequence experiments4
A comment on The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade‐offs of satiation threshold by Pruitt & Krauel (2010)4
Resource partitioning is not coupled with assortative mating in sympatrically divergent ricefish in a Wallacean ancient lake4
A tangled web: Comparing inter‐ and intraspecific mating dynamics in Anasa squash bugs4
Sexual selection increased offspring production via evolution of male and female traits4
Female‐induced selective modification of sperm protein SUMOylation—potential mechanistic insights into the non‐random fertilization in humans4
Selection on dispersal drives evolution of metabolic capacities for energy production in female wing‐polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus4
Putative chromosomal rearrangements are associated primarily with ecotype divergence rather than geographic separation in an intertidal, poorly dispersing snail4
Evolution of choosiness dictates whether search costs of mate choice enhance speciation by sexual selection4
Selection on sperm size in response to promiscuity and variation in female sperm storage organs4
Morph‐specific life‐history correlations in a wing‐dimorphic water strider4
Seasonal stability and species specificity of environmentally acquired chemical mating signals in orchid bees4
Multiple paternity is related to adult sex ratio and sex determination system in reptiles4
Correlated evolution between orb weaver glue droplets and supporting fibres maintains their distinct biomechanical roles in adhesion4
The effect of mutational robustness on the evolvability of multicellular organisms and eukaryotic cells4
Long‐term persistence of exaggerated ornaments under Fisherian runaway despite costly mate search4
Environmental and genealogical effects on DNA methylation in a widespread apomictic dandelion lineage4
Transcriptomic signatures of temperature adaptation in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica4
Divergent selection on behavioural and chemical traits between reproductively isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster4
Epigenetics and reproductive isolation: a commentary on Westram et al., 20224
Reproductive isolating mechanisms contributing to asymmetric hybridization in Killifishes (Fundulus spp.)3
Why do Hymenopteran workers drift to non-natal groups? Generalized reciprocity and the maximization of group and parental success3
Epistatic interactions between sex chromosomes and autosomes can affect the stability of sex determination systems3
How do host plant use and seasonal life cycle relate to insect body size: A case study on European geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)3
Genetic, social and maternal contributions to Mycobacterium bovis infection status in European badgers (Meles meles)3
Avoiding the tragedy of the commons: Improved group‐feeding performance in kin groups maintains foraging cooperation in subsocial Stegodyphus africanus spiders (Araneae, Eresidae)3
Songbirds of the Americas show uniform morphological evolution despite heterogeneous diversification3
Heightened among‐individual variation in life history but not morphology is related to developmental temperature in reptiles3
Sustained positive consequences of genetic rescue of fitness and behavioural traits in inbred populations of Drosophila melanogaster3
Red and yellow pigments in autumn leaves are associated with higher nitrogen resorption3
Correlated responses in basal immune function in response to selection for fast development in Drosophila melanogaster3
Assessing co-diversification in host-associated microbiomes3
A theoretical model for host-controlled regulation of symbiont density3
More to legs than meets the eye: Presence and function of pheromone compounds on heliothine moth legs3
Sex chromosome evolution: The remarkable diversity in the evolutionary rates and mechanisms3
Evolution of sex allocation plasticity in a hermaphroditic flatworm genus3
Composition of a chemical signalling trait varies with phylogeny and precipitation across an Australian lizard radiation3
Beyond morphs: Inter‐individual colour variation despite strong genetic determinism of colour morphs in a wild bird3
Evidence of a rapid and adaptive response of hemipteran mouthparts to a physical barrier3
Are brood sex ratios adaptive?—The effect of experimentally altered brood sex ratio on nestling growth, mortality and recruitment3
No evidence for incipient speciation by selfing in North American Arabidopsis lyrata3
Towards a global perspective for Salvia L.: Phylogeny, diversification and floral evolution3
The eggshell‐matrix protein gene OC‐17 is functionally lost in the viviparous Chinese crocodile lizard3
Predator response to the coloured eyespots and defensive posture of Colombian four-eyed frogs3
Males and females contribute differently to the evolution of habitat segregation driven by hybridization3
Effects of genetic vs. environmental quality on condition‐dependent morphological and life history traits in a neriid fly3
Evolutionary coexistence in a fluctuating environment by specialization on resource level3
Revisiting the number of self‐incompatibility alleles in finite populations: From old models to new results3
Limited evidence of a genetic basis for sex determination in the common creek chub, Semotilus atromaculatus3
Sex chromosome systems in Neotropical Primates: What have we learnt so far from cytogenetics and genomics?3
Sperm competition risk affects ejaculate strategy in terms of sperm number but not sperm size in squid3
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