OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution & Development is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What does modularity mean?	46
The making of the defensive caste: Physiology, development, and evolution of the soldier differentiation in termites	28
What can lycophytes teach us about plant evolution and development? Modern perspectives on an ancient lineage	27
Evolution of DELLA function and signaling in land plants	24
The evo‐devo of molluscs: Insights from a genomic perspective	19
Evolvability and evolutionary rescue	14
Inheritance of DNA methylation differences in the mangrove Rhizophora mangle	13
Thyroid hormone shapes craniofacial bones during postembryonic zebrafish development	11
Evolutionary rescue via transgenerational plasticity: Evidence and implications for conservation	11
Multiple roles for laccase2 in butterfly wing pigmentation, scale development, and cuticle tanning	10
Ephedra as a gymnosperm evo‐devo model lineage	10
Evolutionary developmental biology and sustainability: A biology of resilience	9
Maternal and larval niche construction interact to shape development, survival, and population divergence in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus	8
Tergal and pleural wing‐related tissues in the German cockroach and their implication to the evolutionary origin of insect wings	8
Changes in Nkx2.1, Sox2, Bmp4, and Bmp16 expression underlying the lung‐to‐gas bladder evolutionary transition in ray‐finned fishes	8
Disentangling the correlated evolution of body size, life history, and ontogeny in miniaturized chelydroid turtles	7
Teeth outside the mouth: The evolution and development of shark denticles	7
A fundamental developmental transition in Physcomitrium patens is regulated by evolutionarily conserved mechanisms	7
A tale of two leeches: Toward the understanding of the evolution and development of behavioral neural circuits	6
Heterochrony and growth rate variation mediate the development of divergent genital morphologies in closely related Ohomopterus ground beetles	6
Comparative transcriptomics of a monocotyledonous geophyte reveals shared molecular mechanisms of underground storage organ formation	6
Spontaneous homeotic mutants and genetic control of floral organ identity in a ranunculid	6
Establishment of the novel bivalve body plan through modification of early developmental events in mollusks	6
All type II classic MADS‐box genes in the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii are broadly yet discretely expressed in vegetative and reproductive tissues	6
Recombination facilitates genetic assimilation of new traits in gene regulatory networks	6

Evidence for BMP‐mediated specification of primordial germ cells in an indirect‐developing hemichordate	6
Evolvability under climate change: Bone development and shape plasticity are heritable and correspond with performance in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)	6
Comparative analysis of corolla tube development across three closely related Mimulus species with different pollination syndromes	5
Burrowing constrains patterns of skull shape evolution in wrasses	5
The role of ontogenetic allometry and nonallometric flower shape variation in species‐level adaptive diversification – Calceolaria polyrhiza (Calceolariaceae) as a case study	5
Course‐based undergraduate research experiences (CURES) as a pathway to diversify science	5
Comparative reconstruction of the predatory feeding structures of the polyphenic nematodePristionchus pacificus	5
Sex‐specific evolution of a Drosophila sensory system via interacting cis‐ and trans‐regulatory changes	5
Evolution of lbx spinal cord expression and function	4
Promises and limits of an agency perspective in evolutionary developmental biology	4
The role of heterotopy and heterochrony during morphological diversification of otocephalan epibranchial organs	4
Effects of the egg incubation environment on turtle carapace development	4
Regulation of the limb shape during the development of the Chinese softshell turtles	4
Transcriptomic similarities and differences between the limb bud AER and unique carapacial ridge of turtle embryos	4
Developing the genotype‐to‐phenotype relationship in evolutionary theory: A primer of developmental features	4
Emerging trends in the study of spiralian larvae	4
A detailed redescription of the mesoderm/neural crest cell boundary in the murine orbitotemporal region integrates the mammalian cranium into a pan‐amniote cranial configuration	4