OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Evolutionary Biology is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites	45
Evolution of life cycles and reproductive traits: Insights from the brown algae	43
What is reproductive isolation?	43
Speciation in marine environments: Diving under the surface	35
Why and how we should join the shift from significance testing to estimation	35
Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak	33
Experimental evolution on heat tolerance and thermal performance curves under contrasting thermal selection in Drosophila subobscura	32
How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process	31
Recent progress in research on the gut microbiota and highland adaptation on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	29
SARS‐CoV‐2 virulence evolution: Avirulence theory, immunity and trade‐offs	28
Speciation‐by‐depth on coral reefs: Sympatric divergence with gene flow or cryptic transient isolation?	28
microRNA expression variation as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulphide	22
Love at first flight: wing interference patterns are species‐specific and sexually dimorphic in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	21
Identification of a candidate sex determination gene in Culaea inconstans suggests convergent recruitment of an Amh duplicate in two lineages of stickleback	21
Selfing rates vary with floral display, pollinator visitation and plant density in natural populations of Mimulusringens	20
Oxidative and radiation stress induces transposable element transcription in Drosophila melanogaster	20
The role of the environment in the spatial dynamics of an extensive hybrid zone between two neotropical cats	20
Mutation and selection processes regulating short tandem repeats give rise to genetic and phenotypic diversity across species	20
Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal	19
Oceanic dispersal barriers in a holoplanktonic gastropod	19
Complex effects of environment and Wolbachia infections on the life history of Drosophila melanogaster hosts	19
Social organization in ungulates: Revisiting Jarman’s hypotheses	19
Animal chromosome counts reveal a similar range of chromosome numbers but with less polyploidy in animals compared to flowering plants	18
A meta‐analysis on the heritability of vertebrate telomere length	18
The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences	18

Evolutionary dynamics of sex‐biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads	18
The phenomenon of red and yellow autumn leaves: Hypotheses, agreements and disagreements	18
The relevance of chromosome fissions for major ribosomal DNA dispersion in hymenopteran insects	17
Arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria coevolving with phage OMKO1	16
Phenotypic and functional variation in venom and venom resistance of two sympatric rattlesnakes and their prey	16
X chromosomes show relaxed selection and complete somatic dosage compensation across Timema stick insect species	16
Species divergence and repeated ancient hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system	16
A test of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours: Chlorophyll resorption, not anthocyanin production, is correlated with nitrogen translocation	15
Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification	15
Truly ubiquitous CRESS DNA viruses scattered across the eukaryotic tree of life	14
Polyploidization as an opportunistic mutation: The role of unreduced gametes formation and genetic drift in polyploid establishment	14
Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype‐level bet‐hedging strategy	13
Evolution of thermal performance curves: A meta‐analysis of selection experiments	13
Genetic colour variation visible for predators and conspecifics is concealed from humans in a polymorphic moth	13
Pathogen‐mediated selection favours the maintenance of innate immunity gene polymorphism in a widespread wild ungulate	13
Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming	13
Colour pattern variation forms local background matching camouflage in a leaf‐mimicking toad	12
Convergence in sympatry: Evolution of blue‐banded wing pattern in Morpho butterflies	12
Historical climatic instability predicts the inverse latitudinal pattern in speciation rate of modern mammalian biota	12
A comparative analysis of the photoprotection hypothesis for the evolution of autumn colours	12
Genomically correlated trait combinations and antagonistic selection contributing to counterintuitive genetic patterns of adaptive diapause divergence in Rhagoletis flies	12
Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates	12
Genomic landscape of reproductive isolation in Lucania killifish: The role of sex loci and salinity	12
Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities	12
The cost of travel: How dispersal ability limits local adaptation in host–parasite interactions	12
Recent expansion of the non‐recombining sex‐linked region on Silene latifolia sex chromosomes	12
Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities	12
Little parallelism in genomic signatures of local adaptation in two sympatric, cryptic sister species	11
Enhanced leaky sex expression in response to pollen limitation in the dioecious plant Mercurialis annua	11
Insectivory leads to functional convergence in a group of Neotropical rodents	11
Evolutionary rescue at different rates of environmental change is affected by trade‐offs between short‐term performance and long‐term survival	11
Assortative mating can help adaptation of flowering time to a changing climate: Insights from a polygenic model	11
Sex‐specific genetic (co)variances of standard metabolic rate, body mass and locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster	11
Parasitism and host dispersal plasticity in an aquatic model system	11
Adjustment of sex allocation to co‐foundress number and kinship under local mate competition: An inclusive‐fitness analysis	11
Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating‐type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther‐smut fungi	10
A role for sex‐determination genes in life history evolution? Doublesex mediates sexual size dimorphism in the gazelle dung beetle	10
Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological changes in a Mediterranean blue tit population	10
Identification of a cis‐sex chromosome transition in banded geckos (Coleonyx, Eublepharidae, Gekkota)	10
The evolution of red blood cell shape in fishes	10
Pre‐introduction introgression contributes to parallel differentiation and contrasting hybridization outcomes between invasive and native marine mussels	10
Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes	10
Open questions in the social lives of viruses	10
Host genetic drift and adaptation in the evolution and maintenance of parasite resistance	10
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 earwig	9
Relaxed selection on male mitochondrial genes in DUI bivalves eases the need for mitonuclear coevolution	9
Body size and sexual selection shaped the evolution of parrot calls	9
Sensory plasticity in a socially plastic bee	9
Genomic inference of complex domestication histories in three Solanaceae species	9

Visual and nonvisual opsin genes of sharks and other nonosteichthyan vertebrates: Genomic exploration of underwater photoreception	9
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 evolution	9
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
Evolution of sex‐specific heat stress tolerance and larval Hsp70 expression in populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to larval crowding	8
The tarnished silver spoon? Trade‐off between prenatal growth and telomere length in wild boar	8
How plants conquered land: evolution of terrestrial adaptation	8
Implementing code review in the scientific workflow: Insights from ecology and evolutionary biology	8
Punctuational ecological changes rather than global factors drive species diversification and the evolution of wing phenotypes inMorphobutterflies	8
Bateman gradients reflect variation in sexual selection in a species with dynamic sex roles	8
Social animal models for quantifying plasticity, assortment, and selection on interacting phenotypes	8
Predation risk and the evolution of a vertebrate stress response: Parallel evolution of stress reactivity and sexual dimorphism	8
Immune priming depends on age, sex and Wolbachia in the interaction between Armadillidium vulgare and Salmonella	8
Comparison of methodological approaches to the study of young sex chromosomes: A case study in Poecilia	8
Environmental drivers of sexual dimorphism in a lizard with alternative mating strategies	8
Genetic sex determination, sex chromosome size and sex‐specific lifespans across tetrapods	8
Measuring, comparing and interpreting phenotypic selection on floral scent	8
A novel neo‐sex chromosome in Sylvietta brachyura (Macrosphenidae) adds to the extraordinary avian sex chromosome diversity among Sylvioidea songbirds	8
Adaptation and correlated fitness responses over two time scales in Drosophila suzukii populations evolving in different environments	8
Evolution of reproductive modes in sharks and rays	8
Genotype diversity promotes the persistence of Daphnia populations exposed to severe copper stress	8
Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes	8
The evolution of flower longevity in unpredictable pollination environments	7
The role of balancing selection in maintaining human RhD blood group polymorphism: A preregistered cross‐sectional study	7
The pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: Detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences	7
Negotiating mutualism: A locus for exploitation by rhizobia has a broad effect size distribution and context‐dependent effects on legume hosts	7
Mitonuclear conflict in a macaque species exhibiting phylogenomic discordance	7
Molecular evolution and convergence of the rhodopsin gene in Gymnogobius, a goby group having diverged into coastal to freshwater habitats	7
Assessing the evolutionary lability of insulin signalling in the regulation of nutritional plasticity across traits and species of horned dung beetles	7
Evolution of static allometry and constraint on evolutionary allometry in a fossil stickleback	7
Evidence from automixis with inverted meiosis for the maintenance of sex by loss of complementation	7
Simultaneous evolution of host resistance and tolerance to parasitism	7
Evidence for genetic isolation and local adaptation in the field cricket Gryllus campestris	7
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 world	7
The redlegged earth mite draft genome provides new insights into pesticide resistance evolution and demography in its invasive Australian range	7
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 shrimp	7
Viral susceptibility across host species is largely independent of dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios	7
Population genomics reveals repeated signals of adaptive divergence in the Atlantic salmon of north‐eastern Europe	7
Phylogeography of Artemisia frigida (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on genotyping‐by‐sequencing and plastid DNA data: Migration through Beringia	7
The association between personalities, alternative breeding strategies and reproductive success in dunnocks	7
Hoisted with his own petard: How sex‐ratio meiotic drive in Drosophila affinis creates resistance alleles that limit its spread	6
XX/XY sex chromosomes in a blind lizard (Dibamidae): Towards understanding the evolution of sex determination in squamates	6
100 years of Haldane's rule	6
phylosem: A fast and simple R package for phylogenetic inference and trait imputation using phylogenetic structural equation models	6
Consequences of population structure for sex allocation and sexual conflict	6
Evolution and dosage compensation of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) mediated by mobile elements in turtles with female (ZZ/ZW) but not with male (XX/XY	6
No room for males in caves: Female‐biased sex ratio in subterranean amphipods of the genus Niphargus	6
The role of migration in mutant dynamics in fragmented populations	6
Phylogenetic and environmental patterns of sex differentiation in physiological traits across Drosophila species	6
Fluctuating selection driven by global and local climatic conditions leads to stasis in breeding time in a migratory bird	6
Extinction and the temporal distribution of macroevolutionary bursts	6
Lack of assortative mating might explain reduced phenotypic differentiation where two grasshopper species meet	6
New insights into Xenopus sex chromosome genomics from the Marsabit clawed frog X. borealis	6
Cryptic community structure and metabolic interactions among the heritable facultative symbionts of the pea aphid	6
Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies	6
Within‐population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time	6
Evolutionary biology and development model of medicines: A necessary ‘pas de deux’ for future successful bacteriophage therapy	6
Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve	6
Temperature‐mediated plasticity in incubation schedules is unlikely to evolve to buffer embryos from climatic challenges in a seasonal songbird	6
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 primate	6
Capturing the rapidly evolving study of adaptation	6
Sequence dynamics of three influenza A virus strains grown in different MDCK cell lines, including those expressing different sialic acid receptors	6
Evolution of antagonistic and mutualistic traits in the yucca‐yucca moth obligate pollination mutualism	6
A lot of convergence, a bit of divergence: Environment and interspecific interactions shape body colour patterns in Lissotriton newts	6