OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative and Comparative 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Metamorphosing Professor: Adapting Teaching to Fulfill the Promise of Biology Education	86
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2024	46
An Animal Model of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Exposure to Light and Sound in the Preterm Infant	43
Mind the Gap: A Review of Disjunctions in Coastal Marine Species	39
Expanding Conservation Science through Emerging Interdisciplinary STEM Fields	36
Estimating Wingbeat Frequency of Hummingbirds Using a No-Labeling Learning Computer Vision Approach	36
Collective Neuromechanics in Sea Stars	34
Hydric Environment and Chemical Composition Shape Non-avian Reptile Eggshell Absorption	34
Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna Elephants	30
Beyond the Hexagon: Meso-structures in the Bee’s Honeycomb for Bio-Inspired Design	25
The Shape of Water: Physiological Adaptations to Habitat Aridity in the Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)	24
Exploring the Unknown: How Can We Improve Single-cell RNAseq Cell Type Annotations in Non-model Organisms?	23
Rare and Opportunistic Use of Torpor in Mammals—An Echo from the Past?	23
Sexes are polymorphisms: Describing and understanding sexual diversity as phenotypic variation	22
Climate-Change Impacts on Cephalopods: A Meta-Analysis	22
Innovative techniques to investigate comparative biomaterials across disciplines and length scales	22
Exoskeletal Trade-off between Claws and Carapace in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Decapod Crustaceans	22
Comparing Functional Immune Responses in Three Aquatic Turtle Species	22
Effect of Network Structure and Adaptive Foraging on Pollination Services of Species-Rich Plant-Pollinator Communities	22
Correction to: Proteomic Signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility in Mexican Free-tailed Bats and Their Application to Viral Surveillance	22
Physiological Basis of Convergent Evolution in Animal Communication Systems	20
Asymmetric Segregation of Maternal mRNAs and Germline-related Determinants in Cephalochordate Embryos: Implications for the Evolution of Early Patterning Events in Chordates	20
Temperature and Turgor “Limitation” and Environmental “Control” in Xylem Biology and Dendrochronology	19
Population consequences of physiological responses to stressors: A road map for endocrine data	19
Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses	19

The Variability and Malleability of Frog Call-Timing Mechanisms are Neglected in Traditional Call-Timing Models	18
A Perspective on the Role of Motivated Thinking in Research on Black Representation in Science	18
Trait Loss in Evolution: What Cavefish Have Taught Us about Mechanisms Underlying Eye Regression	18
A Mitochondrial Perspective on the Demands of Reproduction	18
Sleep Posture Influences Metabolic Rate and Vigilance in the Common Whitethroat (Curruca Communis)	18
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2023	18
From Individual Calcifiers to Ecosystem Dynamics: Ocean Acidification Effects on Urchins and Abalone	18
Sex Without Sexes: Can the Cost of Finding a Mate Explain Diversity in Fungal Mating Systems?	17
Induced Power Scaling Alone Cannot Explain Griffenfly Gigantism	17
Common Interests Without Common Expertise: Reflections on Early-career Experiences in Cross-Disciplinary Research	17
Practical Guidance and Workflows for Identifying Fast Evolving Non-Coding Genomic Elements Using PhyloAcc	16
Flapping frequency, amplitude, and organization: associations between accelerometer data and flight energy costs during solo and small group flight of European starlings	16
Developmental Plasticity in Anurans: Meta-analysis Reveals Effects of Larval Environments on Size at Metamorphosis And Timing of Metamorphosis	15
Equipment Repositories for Accessibility: A Model for Improving Access in Field Science	14
Early Development of Locomotion in the Term Piglet Model: Does Size Matter?	14
How Hot is too Hot? Metabolic Responses to Temperature Across Life Stages of a Small Ectotherm	14
Beyond adaptive gene transfers: a primer on horizontal gene transfer across scales	14
On the Physiology of High-altitude Flight and Altitudinal Migration in Birds	13
The Buzz Around Biopesticides: The Effects Of Bt Formulation DOR Bt-1 On Honey Bee Cognition	13
Overcoming Waves of Challenges: Experiences of BIPOC Shark Scientists in the Global South	13
The role of epigenetics and non-genetic inheritance in plant–pollinator interactions: A perspective	13
Host–Microbiome Interactions as Moderators of Host Quality and Biodiversity–Disease Relationships	13
Chronic Stress Decreases Lactation Performance	13
Non-Bilaterians as Model Systems for Tissue Mechanics	12
Knowing Your Field Community: Elevating the Human Dimension in Ecological Research and Teaching	12
Building, Maintaining, and (re-)Deploying Genetic Toolkits during Convergent Evolution	12
Limited Cranial Shifts in City-Dwelling Rodents after a Century of Urbanization	12
SICB 2026 Annual Meeting Abstracts	12
Food hoarding, anxiety, and stress in a mammalian hibernator	12
Starting a Dialogue: Understanding the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Related to Fisheries Management of a Black Fishing Community in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	12
Freshwater Salinization Leads to Sluggish, Bloated Frogs and Small, Cramped Embryos but Adaptive Countergradient Variation in Eggs	11
Predator communities with invasive pike are associated with changes in parental care and brain gene expression in wild Alaskan stickleback	11
The Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices	11
Foraging Under Fire: A Robotic Flower System Incorporating Multimodal Signaling and Aversive Stimuli	11
Steep Decline in the Rare Flat Abalone, Haliotis walallensis, Following Fishing Exploitation and a Marine Heat Wave: The Next Neoextinction?	11
Does Urbanization Alter Purifying Selection? A Case Study in the Burrowing Owl	11
Every Hue Has Its Fan Club: Diverse Patterns of Color-Dependent Flower Visitation across Lepidoptera	11
Suction Feeding Turned on Its Head: A Functional Novelty Facilitates Lower Jaw Protrusion	11
Editor-in-Chief's Note—Thank you to Reviewers	11
Muscle-Driven Predictive Physics Simulations of Quadrupedal Locomotion in the Horse	11
Does Phenotypic Integration Promote Convergent Evolution?	10
The Development and Expansion of in vivo Germline Editing Technologies in Arthropods: Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT Control) and Beyond	10
Best Practices of Bioinspired Design: Key Themes and Challenges	10
Water Availability and Temperature as Modifiers of Evaporative Water Loss in Tropical Frogs	10
The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model	10
Teaching accurate sex-related biology: Approaches for more socially just instruction	10
Communication via Biotremors in the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): Part I- Biotremor Production and Response to Substrate-Borne Vibrations	10
Microbiomes in Animal Ecology: Advances, Assumptions, and Opportunities	10
An Exploratory Look at Functional Responses to a Second Antigen Injection in a Freshwater Turtle	10
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited	10

Microbiome Comparison and Pathogen Identification for Three Migrating Passerines Captured During Spring Season in Jordan Using 16S rRNA Sequencing	10
Digestive Enzyme Activities in Mussel Mytilus californianus Endure Acute Heat Exposure in Air	10
Invasive Spotted Lanternflies (Lycorma delicatula) Are Larger in More Urban Areas	9
“The PO-Driven Model”: A Basic Science Pipeline for the Bioeconomy with Solutions Inspired by Convergent Evolution for Connecting Parallel Research Ideas	9
The Young and the Resilient: Investigating Coral Thermal Resilience in Early Life Stages	9
Application of Microbiome Feedback Theory to Animals: Can Parasites Drive Coexistence in Ungulate Communities?	9
Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists	9
Roles and Future Opportunities for Genomic Architecture in Understanding Repeated Evolution	9
Mechanosensory Control of Locomotion in Animals and Robots: Moving Forward	8
Preferred body temperatures are increasing in 3 anguimorph lizards with passive thermoregulation	8
Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants	8
Sex and Biology: Broader Impacts Beyond the Binary	8
The Yin and Yang of Self-Regulation in Developing Vertebrates. An Energetics Perspective	8
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) and Wild Bee Resource Competition: How Big Is This Problem?	8
The Microbiome as a Maternal Effect: A Systematic Review on Vertical Transmission of Microbiota	8
Analysis of Odor-Tracking Performance of Silk Moth Using a Sensory–Motor Intervention System	8
Hermaphrodite, Gonochorist, and More: Navigating the Complexities of Sex-Related Language in Biology	8
Complementary Roles for Differential Gene Expression and Differential Exon Use in the Heat Shock Response of an Intertidal Copepod	8
What Women Want: Lessons Learned from Grant Applications	8
Time-Series Sequences for Evolutionary Inferences	7
The Aquatic Microbial Environment Shapes the Tadpole Microbiome and Antipredator Behavior	7
Correction to: Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2022	7
Cnidarian Eyes as a Meta-Model to Explore Evolutionary Repeatability Over Deep Time	7
Rhagovelia Uses Interfacial Run-and-Tumble Locomotion to Improve Food Capture in Flowing Environments	7
Remaining safe conducting Field work While Black (FWB), and Tips for PIs, Universities, and Employers of Black Individuals	7
Cnidarian Circadian Clocks Model How Animals Find Predictability in a Complex World	7
Loss of collagen gene expression in the notochord of the tailless tunicate Molgula occulta	7
Towards a Grading Model That Supports Learning in Biology Courses	7
Motherhood and Academia: Tradeoffs	7
Investigating Best Practices for Applying a Quantitative Tooth Complexity Metric to Fishes	7
Scaling Relationships among the Mass of Eggshell, Albumen, and Yolk in Six Precocial Birds	7
The Causes and Consequences of Public Misunderstanding of Shark Conservation	7
Testing the Adaptive Sterilization Hypothesis in Mice Inoculated with Chlamydia muridarum	6
Katydids Shift to Higher-Stability Gaits when Climbing Inclined Substrates	6
Applying 3D Models of Giant Salamanders to Explore Form–Function Relationships in Early Digit-Bearing Tetrapods	6
Viewing Fragmentation through the Disease Triangle: Implications for Pathogen Pressure on Seeds	6
In Hot Water: Current Thermal Threshold Methods Unlikely to Predict Invasive Species Shifts in NW Atlantic	6
Ontogenetic Plasticity in Shoaling Behavior in a Forage Fish under Warming	6
Under the Sea: Investigation of Telson Morphology and Cryptic Diversity within Eucopia sculpticauda, a Deep-Sea Lophogastrid from the Gulf of Mexico (Peracarida: Lophogastrida)	6
Diverse Tongue Base Retraction Strategies Drive Bolus Propulsion during Mammalian Swallowing	6
The Bioinspiration Feedback Loop: An Interdisciplinary Exchange of Processes and Progress Between Biologists and Engineers	6
Introduction to the 2024 Chordate Origins, Evolution, and Development SICB Symposium	6
Interrogating Metabolic Plasticity in Marine Organisms: A Framework for Best Practices Using Metabolomic and Lipidomic Approaches	6
The Effect of Venipuncture Site on Hematology of Bats: Implications for Comparative Analyses	6
Thermomechanical and Morphological Properties of Loligo vulgaris Squid Sucker Ring Teeth	6
Into the spongy-verse: structural differences between leaf and flower mesophyll	6
Repeated Hyposalinity Pulses Immediately and Persistently Impair the Sea Urchin Adhesive System	6
Evolution of distal swimming structures in Gerromorpha: functional use of claws and fan	6
Mechanosensory Feedback in Lamprey Swimming Models and Applications in the Field of Spinal Cord Regeneration	6
Time-dependent Changes in Shrimp Armor and Escape Kinematics under Ocean Acidification and Warming	6
Pheromone Perception in Fish: Mechanisms and Modulation by Internal Status	6
Methods for Artificial Incubation of Passerine Eggs	6
CRISPR/Cas9 Protocols for Disrupting Gene Function in the Non-vertebrate Chordate Ciona	6
The Silverjaw Minnow, Ericymba buccata: An Extraordinary Lateral Line System and its Contribution to Prey Detection	6
Leeches Predate on Fast-Escaping and Entangling Blackworms by Spiral Entombment	6
Cephalopod-omics: Emerging Fields and Technologies in Cephalopod Biology	6
How Damage, Recovery, and Repair Alter the Fitness Impacts of Thermal Stress	6