OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Zoology is 5. 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
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	28
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	27
Phenotypic plasticity in an extended phenotype: the cobweb spider Campanicola campanulata alters web architecture in response to variation in prey availa	26
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis	20
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	18
Fine-scale habitat selection in a grassland mosaic: electivity-based vegetation-community preferences of the endangered Hungarian meadow viper ( Vipera ursinii rakosiensis	15
The color of combat: how subtleties of resource value alter the effects of fighting ability in hermit crab contests	14
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	14
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	14
Hermann's tortoise in Calabria: filling key knowledge gaps in a Western Mediterranean evolutionary hotspot	14
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopod	13
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together	13
Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity affects embryonic development but not female reproduction in a lizard from desert steppes	12
Impact of dam-induced hydrological fluctuations on the behavior of the endangered scaly-sided Merganser ( Mergus squamatus ): implications for river regu	12
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding	12
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China	11
Transgenerationally inherited incisor aberration mediated by stress in two isolated populations of Microtus hartingi vole	11
Identity and year are more important than social interactions as predictors of gut microbiota in a facultatively social rodent	11
Oral parasites alter male advertisement signals and female mate choice in the Green Treefrog ( Dryophytes cinereus )	11
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	11
SimCLR-enhanced MammalHairNet: advancing species identification through hair scale classification	11
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos	10
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes	10
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran	10
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)	10

Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony	10
Personality is associated with the hunting strategy in a specialized ant-eating spider	10
Moms do not get sick days: lack of sickness behavior in free-ranging lactating fish-eating bats	10
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses	9
Thermal stability in hypoxia tolerance irrespective of innate tolerance capacity: associations with oxygen demand and supply balance in four freshwater fishes	9
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots	9
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti	9
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues	9
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence	9
Elevational patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Mediterranean lizard	9
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression	9
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes	9
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs	9
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise	8
Dietary tryptophan modifies the effects of developmental predator stress on lifespan in male Drosophila melanogaster	8
A multi-index approach to assessing foraging mode: a case study using chameleons	8
Sex and social group altered the gut microbiome and fecal metabolome in the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise ( Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis	8
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species	8
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator	8
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata	8
Fortune may favor the flexible: environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	7
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	7
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	7
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	7
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans	7
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	7
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	7
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	7
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	7
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	7
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	7
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	6
The Yarkand hare epidermal growth factor receptor improves the survival and antioxidant capacity of HeLa cells under stress	6
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads	6
Genome-wide patterns of differentiation and gene flow in the Oligoryzomys flavescens (Waterhouse, 1837) complex (Rodentia, Cricetidae): preliminary evide	6
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs	6
Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit	6
Genome-wide copy number variation drives adaptive evolution in Macaca mulatta populations	6
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species	6
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea	6
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog	6
Cariprazine modulates affective and social behaviors through ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons	6
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin	6
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies	5
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)	5
Mate choice in female Taihangshan macaques ( Macaca mulatta tcheliensis ): analysis based on mating patterns and paternity	5
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)	5
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird ( Molothrus bonariensis ) fledglings	5
The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data	5
The influence of the post-autotomy regeneration of a sexual trait and mating tactics in a fiddler crab	5

Integrating habitat and population dynamics to uncover dispersal-driven persistence in a reintroduced Crested Ibis metapopulation	5
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	5
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	5
Genome-wide SNPs reveal the population structure and evolutionary history of the endemic toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus przewalskii in the Gobi Desert	5
Ecological and life history factors shape the complexity of bird nests	5
Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the ant Lasius flavus	5
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish	5
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity	5
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird	5
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises	5
Seasonal life stage changes contribute to gut bacterial community profiles of high-altitude birds	5
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes	5
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids	5