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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Metamorphosing Professor: Adapting Teaching to Fulfill the Promise of Biology Education	60
Integrating DNA-Based Prey Occurrence Probability into Stable Isotope Mixing Models	38
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2024	33
Day Versus Night Melatonin and Corticosterone Modulation by LPS in Distinct Tissues of Toads (Rhinella Icterica)	33
An Animal Model of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Exposure to Light and Sound in the Preterm Infant	31
Estimating Wingbeat Frequency of Hummingbirds Using a No-Labeling Learning Computer Vision Approach	31
Regional Patterning in Tail Vertebral Form and Function in Chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus)	29
Introduction to the Symposium: Effects of Light Pollution Across Diverse Natural Systems	28
Mind the Gap: A Review of Disjunctions in Coastal Marine Species	27
Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna Elephants	26
What is Known—and not Known—About Acoustic Communication in an Urban Soundscape	26
Erratum To: Foretelling the Flex—Vertebral Shape Predicts Behavior and Ecology of Fishes	26
Exoskeletal Trade-off between Claws and Carapace in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Decapod Crustaceans	25
Hydric Environment and Chemical Composition Shape Non-avian Reptile Eggshell Absorption	25
Exploring the Unknown: How Can We Improve Single-cell RNAseq Cell Type Annotations in Non-model Organisms?	24
Rescaling Biology: Increasing Integration Across Biological Scales and Subdisciplines to Enhance Understanding and Prediction	24
The Shape of Water: Physiological Adaptations to Habitat Aridity in the Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)	23
Pervasiveness of Biological Impacts of Artificial Light at Night	22
Climate-Change Impacts on Cephalopods: A Meta-Analysis	21
Gut Microbial Ecology of Five Species of Sympatric Desert Rodents in Relation to Herbivorous and Insectivorous Feeding Strategies	21
Rare and Opportunistic Use of Torpor in Mammals—An Echo from the Past?	20
Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses	19
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2021	19
Spatiotemporal Asymmetry in Metachronal Rowing at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers	18
A Creative Model for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Service-Learning	18

The Influence of Life History on the Response to Parasitism: Differential Response to Non-Lethal Sea Lamprey Parasitism by Two Lake Charr Ecomorphs	18
Maternal Responses in the Face of Infection Risk	17
Asymmetric Segregation of Maternal mRNAs and Germline-related Determinants in Cephalochordate Embryos: Implications for the Evolution of Early Patterning Events in Chordates	17
Temperature and Turgor “Limitation” and Environmental “Control” in Xylem Biology and Dendrochronology	17
Evolutionary Patterns in Chemical Composition and Biomechanics of Articulated Coralline Algae	17
Incorporating Research into an Undergraduate Animal Behavior Course using Zoos and Webcams	16
The Variability and Malleability of Frog Call-Timing Mechanisms are Neglected in Traditional Call-Timing Models	16
Effect of network structure and adaptive foraging on pollination services of species-rich plant-pollinator communities	16
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2023	16
Locomotion and Energetics of Divergent Foraging Strategies in Hummingbirds: A Review	16
Physiological Basis of Convergent Evolution in Animal Communication Systems	16
Correlated Evolution of Acrobatic Display and Both Neural and Somatic Phenotypic Traits in Manakins (Pipridae)	16
A Mitochondrial Perspective on the Demands of Reproduction	16
Practical Guidance and Workflows for Identifying Fast Evolving Non-Coding Genomic Elements Using PhyloAcc	15
Scaling of Jumping Performance in Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)	15
Common Interests Without Common Expertise: Reflections on Early-career Experiences in Cross-Disciplinary Research	15
Sleep Posture Influences Metabolic Rate and Vigilance in the Common Whitethroat (Curruca Communis)	15
Induced Power Scaling Alone Cannot Explain Griffenfly Gigantism	15
Trait Loss in Evolution: What Cavefish Have Taught Us about Mechanisms Underlying Eye Regression	14
From Individual Calcifiers to Ecosystem Dynamics: Ocean Acidification Effects on Urchins and Abalone	14
Developmental Plasticity in Anurans: Meta-analysis Reveals Effects of Larval Environments on Size at Metamorphosis And Timing of Metamorphosis	14
Ecological Transitions and the Shape of the Decapod Tree of Life	14
Sex Without Sexes: Can the Cost of Finding a Mate Explain Diversity in Fungal Mating Systems?	14
The Stabilizing Function of the Tail During Arboreal Quadrupedalism	13
Equipment Repositories for Accessibility: A Model for Improving Access in Field Science	13
The Versatility of Simplicity: Structures of Cardiocephaloides longicollis Used for Different Purposes during Cercarial Transmission	13
Racing Time: Physiological Rates and Metabolic Scaling in Marine Mammals	13
How Hot is too Hot? Metabolic Responses to Temperature Across Life Stages of a Small Ectotherm	13
Pursuit and Evasion Strategies in the Predator–Prey Interactions of Fishes	13
Integrating the Life Sciences to Jumpstart the Next Decade of Discovery	13
Early Development of Locomotion in the Term Piglet Model: Does Size Matter?	12
Starting a Dialogue: Understanding the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Related to Fisheries Management of a Black Fishing Community in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	11
From Flatland to Jupiter: Searching for Rules of Interaction Across Biological Scales	11
Oxygenation-Controlled Collective Dynamics in Aquatic Worm Blobs	11
Ecological Limits on the Decoupling of Prey Capture and Processing in Fishes	11
Non-Bilaterians as Model Systems for Tissue Mechanics	11
Revisiting TSHβ’s Role in Avian Seasonal Reproduction, Insights, and Challenges from Mammalian Models	11
Food hoarding, anxiety, and stress in a mammalian hibernator	11
Impact of Different Wavelengths of Artificial Light at Night on Phototaxis in Aquatic Insects	11
Examining Cultural Structures and Functions in Biology	11
The Ties that Stick: Challenges and Future Promise in the Field of Bioadhesives	11
On the Physiology of High-altitude Flight and Altitudinal Migration in Birds	11
Chronic Stress Decreases Lactation Performance	11
Suction Feeding Turned on Its Head: A Functional Novelty Facilitates Lower Jaw Protrusion	11
Form and Function of the Caudal Fin Throughout the Phylogeny of Fishes	11
Editorial: Correction of an error in our production process concerning the article “discovering and applying the urban rules of life to design sustainable and healthy cities” by Langen et al	11
Building, Maintaining, and (re-)Deploying Genetic Toolkits during Convergent Evolution	11
Steep Decline in the Rare Flat Abalone, Haliotis walallensis, Following Fishing Exploitation and a Marine Heat Wave: The Next Neoextinction?	11
A Framework for Investigating Rules of Life by Establishing Zones of Influence	11
Advances and Challenges in Paleobiological Reconstructions of Joint Mobility	11

Foraging Under Fire: A robotic flower system incorporating multimodal signaling and aversive stimuli	11
Invited Letter. Organ Regeneration Occurs in Vertebrates with Aquatic-Related Life Cycles Including Metamorphosis and was Lost During Land Transition	10
Digestive Enzyme Activities in Mussel Mytilus californianus Endure Acute Heat Exposure in Air	10
The Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices	10
Mudskippers Modulate their Locomotor Kinematics when Moving on Deformable and Inclined Substrates	10
Freshwater Salinization Leads to Sluggish, Bloated Frogs and Small, Cramped Embryos but Adaptive Countergradient Variation in Eggs	10
Erratum To: Biology Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning Through Authentic Research, Design, and Community Engagement	10
Communication via Biotremors in the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): Part I- Biotremor Production and Response to Substrate-Borne Vibrations	10
Circulating Hormones and Dominance Status Predict Female Behavior during Courtship in a Lekking Species	10
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited	10
Muscle-Driven Predictive Physics Simulations of Quadrupedal Locomotion in the Horse	10
Every Hue Has Its Fan Club: Diverse Patterns of Color-Dependent Flower Visitation across Lepidoptera	10
Editor-in-Chief's Note—Thank you to Reviewers	10
What about Females? Urban Female Song Sparrows Elevate Aggressive Signaling Compared to Rural	10
Does Phenotypic Integration Promote Convergent Evolution?	10
The Spring-Mass Model and Other Reductionist Models of Bipedal Locomotion on Inclines	10
Knowing Your Field Community: Elevating the Human Dimension in Ecological Research and Teaching	10
Hybrid Metachronal Rowing Augments Swimming Speed and Acceleration via Increased Stroke Amplitude	9
Water Availability and Temperature as Modifiers of Evaporative Water Loss in Tropical Frogs	9
“The PO-Driven Model”: A Basic Science Pipeline for the Bioeconomy with Solutions Inspired by Convergent Evolution for Connecting Parallel Research Ideas	9
Co-occurring Environmental Stressors have Emerging Impacts on Sensory-Motor Behavior	9
The influence of bee movements on patterns of pollen transfer between plants: an exploratory model	9
Environmental Cue Integration and Phenology in a Changing World	9
Early-Life Corticosterone Body Condition Influence Social Status and Survival in a Food-Caching Passerine	9
The Young and the Resilient: Investigating Coral Thermal Resilience in Early Life Stages	9
Addressing Diverse Motivations to Enable Bioinspired Design	9
The Development and Expansion of in vivo Germline Editing Technologies in Arthropods: Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT Control) and Beyond	9
The Yin and Yang of Self-Regulation in Developing Vertebrates. An Energetics Perspective	9
Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists	9
Microbiome Comparison and Pathogen Identification for Three Migrating Passerines Captured During Spring Season in Jordan Using 16S rRNA Sequencing	8
Body Caudal Undulation Measured by Soft Sensors and Emulated by Soft Artificial Muscles	8
Best Practices of Bioinspired Design: Key Themes and Challenges	8
Opsin Expression Varies with Reproductive State in the Cichlid FishAstatotilapia burtoni	8
Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants	8
Complementary roles for differential gene expression and differential exon use in the heat shock response of an intertidal copepod	8
High Wing-Loading Correlates with Dive Performance in Birds, Suggesting a Strategy to Reduce Buoyancy	8
A Unifying Framework for Understanding Biological Structures and Functions Across Levels of Biological Organization	8
Invasive Spotted Lanternflies (Lycorma delicatula) Are Larger in More Urban Areas	8
An Integrative Perspective On the Mechanistic Basis of Context- Dependent Species Interactions	8
Sex and Biology: Broader Impacts Beyond the Binary	7
Interspecific Asymmetries in Behavioral Plasticity Drive Seasonal Patterns of Temporal Niche Partitioning in an Island Carnivore Community	7
Analysis of Odor-Tracking Performance of Silk Moth Using a Sensory–Motor Intervention System	7
Kinematic Trajectories in Response to Speed Perturbations in Walking Suggest Modular Task-Level Control of Leg Angle and Length	7
Metabarcoding Approaches in Amphibian Disease Ecology: Disentangling the Functional Contributions of Skin Bacteria on Disease Outcome	7
Integrative Studies of Sexual Selection in Manakins, a Clade of Charismatic Tropical Birds	7
What Women Want: Lessons Learned from Grant Applications	7
Mechanosensory Control of Locomotion in Animals and Robots: Moving Forward	7
Roles and future opportunities for genomic architecture in understanding repeated evolution	7
Gaps to Address in Ecological Studies of Temperament and Physiology	7
Implementing Fabrication as a Pedagogical Tool in Vertebrate Anatomy Courses: Motivation, Inclusion, and Lessons	7
Diel Patterns of Pheromone Release by Male Sea Lamprey	7
Divergent Genital Morphologies and Female–Male Covariation in Watersnakes	7
Remaining safe conducting Field work While Black (FWB), and Tips for PIs, Universities, and Employers of Black Individuals	7
Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) and wild bee resource competition: how big is this problem?	7
Universal Features in Panarthropod Inter-Limb Coordination during Forward Walking	7
The Microbiome as a Maternal Effect: A Systematic Review on Vertical Transmission of Microbiota	7
Multi-Joint Analysis of Pose Viability Supports the Possibility of Salamander-Like Hindlimb Configurations in the Permian TetrapodEryops megacephalus	7
Metachronal Coordination of Multiple Appendages for Swimming and Pumping	7
The Aquatic Microbial Environment Shapes the Tadpole Microbiome and Antipredator Behavior	7
A Guide for Successful Research Collaborations between Zoos and Universities	7
Resolving the Rules of Robustness and Resilience in Biology Across Scales	6
Cnidarian Circadian Clocks Model How Animals Find Predictability in a Complex World	6
Applying 3D Models of Giant Salamanders to Explore Form–Function Relationships in Early Digit-Bearing Tetrapods	6
CRISPR/Cas9 Protocols for Disrupting Gene Function in the Non-vertebrate Chordate Ciona	6
Patterns of Phenotypic Evolution Associated with Marine/Freshwater Transitions in Fishes	6
Investigating best-practices for applying a quantitative tooth complexity metric to fishes	6
Correction to: Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2022	6
Motherhood and Academia: Tradeoffs	6
Time-Series Sequences for Evolutionary Inferences	6
Loss of collagen gene expression in the notochord of the tailless tunicate Molgula occulta	6
Pheromone Perception in Fish: Mechanisms and Modulation by Internal Status	6
Thermomechanical and Morphological Properties of Loligo vulgaris Squid Sucker Ring Teeth	6
Mechanoethology: The Physical Mechanisms of Behavior	6
Internal State: Dynamic, Interconnected Communication Loops Distributed Across Body, Brain, and Time	6
Leptinergic Regulation of Vertebrate Communication Signals	6
Scaling Relationships among the Mass of Eggshell, Albumen, and Yolk in Six Precocial Birds	6
The Causes and Consequences of Public Misunderstanding of Shark Conservation	6
Energetic Lifestyle Drives Size and Shape of Avian Erythrocytes	6