Biology Open

Papers
(The TQCC of Biology Open 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
First person – Daisy Pineda-Suazo36
Primary human neutrophils and monocytes migrate along endothelial cell boundaries to optimize search efficiency under static in vitro conditions34
Unpredictable aggressive defence of the venomous snake, Crotalus ravus, towards predators and humans30
First person – Rajeshwari B. R.28
Concrete consequences: construction on prime honey bee habitat doubles foraging distances26
Reorganization of the heterochromatin-associated gene-dense subcompartment in early neuronal development24
Local differences in robustness to ocean acidification24
Cuticular microstructure of the locust femur–tibia joint24
A year at the forefront of plasmodesmal biology22
Fast & Fair peer review: a bold experiment in scientific publishing22
Divalent metal content in diet affects severity of manganese toxicity in Drosophila21
Chromosomal organization of multigene families and meiotic analysis in species of Loricariidae (Siluriformes) from Brazilian Amazon, with description of a new cytotype for genus Spatuloricaria20
Macrophages allocate before apoptosis initiation and produce reactive oxygen species during interdigital phagocytosis19
Hip stabilization in an australopithecine-like hip: the influence of shape on muscle activation18
EyeHex toolbox for complete segmentation of ommatidia in fruit fly eyes18
The extracellular matrix controls stem cell specification and crypt morphology in the developing and adult mouse gut16
First person – Neha Jadhav Giridhar and Bita Hambrecht16
Over-expressing NadA quinolinate synthase inEscherichia colienhances the bioelectrochemistry in microbial fuel cells16
Knee position affects medial gastrocnemius and soleus activation during dynamic plantarflexion: no evidence for an inter-muscle compensation in healthy young adults16
Shaping the future of male reproductive health: fostering talent at the 14th Network of Young Researchers in Andrology meeting15
Correction: Stable atrogin-1 (Fbxo32) and MuRF1 (Trim63) gene expression is involved in the protective mechanism in soleus muscle of hibernating Daurian ground squirrels (<15
shRNAs targeting mouseAdam10diminish cell response to proinflammatory stimuli independently ofAdam10silencing15
Young minds, deeper insights: a recap of the BMAS Summer School 2023, ranging from basic research to clinical implications of bone marrow adipose tissue15
Empowering tomorrow's leaders: the impact of the 15th Network of Young Researchers in Andrology (NYRA) meeting on male reproductive health and interdisciplinary collaboration14
Dynamic shapes of the zygote and two-cell mouse and human14
Retraction: Overexpression of long non-coding RNA SBF2-AS1 promotes cell progression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) by repressing miR-494 to up-regulate PFN2 expression14
NANOS3 suppresses premature spermatogonial differentiation to expand progenitors and fine-tunes spermatogenesis in mice14
Manipulating mitochondrial reactive oxygen species alters survival in unexpected ways in a Drosophila Cdk5 model of neurodegeneration13
First person – Franziska Hacker13
The relationship between locomotion and hindlimb morphology in the leopard (Panthera pardus) using a geometric morphometric approach13
Ccn2a acts downstream of cx43 to influence joint formation during zebrafish fin regeneration12
First person – Mikaela Scheer12
Insulated piggyBac and FRT vectors for engineering transgenic homozygous and heterozygous eHAP cells12
First person – Avik Banerjee11
The importance of considering regulatory domains in genome-wide analyses – the nearest gene is often wrong!11
EFEMP1 contributes to light-dependent ocular growth in zebrafish11
Normotensive metabolic syndrome in Transient Receptor Potential Canonical Channel type 1 Trpc1−/− mice.10
First person – Tom Carruthers10
Fluorescent protein tags for human tropomyosin isoform comparison10
Investigating the link between morphological characteristics and diet in an island population of omnivorous reptiles (Sphenodon punctatus)10
Winging it: hummingbirds alter flying kinematics during molt10
The Endosomal Sorting Complex, ESCRT, has diverse roles in blood progenitor maintenance, lineage choice and immune response10
First person – Avery Hinks10
Social interactions among ants are impacted by food availability and group size10
An experimental test of chronic traffic noise exposure on parental behaviour and reproduction in zebra finches10
From fossils to future – Jane Francis on polar exploration and changing climates10
Differential effect of ubiquitous and germline depletion of Integrator complex function on C. elegans physiology10
Effects of blood extraction and ecophysiological experiments on stress in adult males of Liolaemus attenboroughi10
First person – Leah Eller10
First person – Angela Fan and Yoldas Yildiz9
Elucidating the genetic architecture of migratory timing in a songbird migrant, the great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus9
Hotter deserts and the impending challenges for the spiny-tailed Lizard in India9
Feeding a rich diet supplemented with the translation inhibitor cycloheximide decreases lifespan and ovary size in Drosophila9
Ethanol downregulates gastrula gene expression and cell movement, causing symptoms of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders9
Cellular senescence limits translational readthrough9
Holding time has limited impact on constitutive innate immune function in a long-lived Antarctic seabird, the Adélie penguin: implications for field studies8
Metabolic shift towards oxidative phosphorylation reduces cell-density-induced cancer-stem-cell-like characteristics in prostate cancer in vitro8
Frequency-dependent avoidance movement of glass catfish in response to sinusoidal electrical stimulation and associated spiking patterns of electroreceptors8
Mutational cooperativity of RUNX1::RUNX1T1 isoform 9a and oncogenic NRAS in zebrafish myeloid leukaemia8
Fully automated point spread function analysis using PyCalibrate8
Bees display limited acclimation capacity for heat tolerance8
First person – Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé8
Neural crest development and disorders: from patient to model system and back again – the NEUcrest conference8
Meeting proceedings of the 43rd Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR)8
The Abl-interactor Abi suppresses the function of the BRAG2 GEF family member Schizo8
Parental exposure to ocean acidification impacts gamete production and physiology but not offspring performance in Nematostella vectensis8
Investigating the effect of cholinergic and adrenergic blocking agents on maternal-fetal heart rates and their interactions in mice fetuses8
Response to Correspondence: Hajnal et al. ‘The role of lin-12 notch in C. elegans anchor cell proliferation’8
Glycogen synthase is required for heat shock-mediated autophagy induction in neuronal cells8
Zika virus-induces metabolic alterations in fetal neuronal progenitors that could influence in neurodevelopment during early pregnancy7
Retraction: Overexpression of Wnt7a enhances radiosensitivity of non-small-cell lung cancer via the Wnt/JNK pathway7
Aging disrupts spatiotemporal regulation of germline stem cells and niche integrity7
Reliable replicative lifespan determination of yeast with a single-channel microfluidic chip7
Temporal integration and decision-making in crocodiles7
Vestigial-dependent induction contributes to robust patterning but is not essential for wing-fate recruitment in Drosophila7
Intrinsic function of the peptidylarginine deiminase PADI4 is dispensable for normal haematopoiesis7
Protein complexes from mouse and chick brain that interact with phospho-KXGS motif tau/microtubule associated protein antibody7
Single-motor and multi-motor motility properties of kinesin-6 family members7
Linking peak intensity of mechanically stimulated bioluminescence and cell surface area in dinoflagellates7
Arf6 is necessary for senseless expression in response to wingless signalling during Drosophila wing development7
Effects of vessel noise on beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) call type use: ultrasonic communication as an adaptation to noisy environments?7
ASCL2 is a key regulator of the proliferation–differentiation equilibrium in the esophageal epithelium7
Pacsin2 is required for endocytosis in the zebrafish pronephric tubule7
SlicerMorph photogrammetry: an open-source photogrammetry workflow for reconstructing 3D models7
Na,K-ATPase activity promotes macropinocytosis in colon cancer via Wnt signaling7
The zebrafish ETS transcription factor Fli1b functions upstream of Scl/Tal1 during embryonic hematopoiesis7
First person – Latasha Ludwig7
A novel technique for atraumatic transurethral catheterisation of male rats7
Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world7
First person – Emily Bulger6
Characterization of alternative splicing during mammalian brain development reveals the extent of isoform diversity and potential effects on protein structural changes6
Biomechanical analysis of little penguins’ underwater locomotion from the free-ranging dive data6
Maintenance of neuronal fate and transcriptional identity6
Actin cytoskeleton in angiogenesis6
Wnt and BMP signalling direct anterior–posterior differentiation in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells6
Metabolic scaling of fire ants ( Solenopsis invicta ) engaged in collective behaviors6
Hormonal regulation of miRNA during mammary gland development6
Insights into Octopus maya cathepsins from metatranscriptome and genome: structure evolutionary relationships and functional role prediction in digestive processes6
First person – Kaisa Pakari6
Retraction: MicroRNA-96-5p promotes proliferation, invasion and EMT of oral carcinoma cells by directly targeting FOXF26
Innervation of the developing kidney in vivo and in vitro6
Deletion of taf1 and taf5 in zebrafish capitulate cardiac and craniofacial abnormalities associated with TAFopathies through perturbations in metabolism6
A Drosophila model of mitochondrial disease phenotypic heterogeneity6
microRNA-guided immunity against respiratory virus infection in human and mouse lung cells6
SOX2 and NR2F1 coordinate the gene expression program of the early postnatal visual thalamus6
CDX2 dose-dependently influences the gene regulatory network underlying human extraembryonic mesoderm development6
Changes in mitochondrial distribution occur at the axon initial segment in association with neurodegeneration in Drosophila6
Gait speed and incline modulate peak deceleration and timing of horizontal center of mass deceleration during double support6
Partial role of volatile organic compounds in behavioural responses of mice to bedding from cancer-affected congeners6
Antimicrobial peptide expression in the cockroach gut during enterobacterial infection is specific and influenced by type III secretion6
Increased expression of the small lysosomal gene SVIP in the Drosophila gut suppresses pathophysiological features associated with a high-fat diet6
Experimental playback of urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in captive Australian magpies6
Intermittent hypoxia differentially affects metabolic and oxidative stress responses in two species of cyprinid fish6
An optimized retroviral toolbox for overexpression and genetic perturbation of primary lymphocytes6
Coilin as a regulator of NF-kB mediated inflammation in preeclampsia6
Morphlight theory inspired by raptors: musculoskeletal modeling and muscle control in Falco peregrinus wing flapping6
Computational anatomy and geometric shape analysis enables analysis of complex craniofacial phenotypes in zebrafish6
Alterations in lifespan and sleep:wake duration under selective monochromes of visible light in Drosophila melanogaster5
Experimental short-term heatwaves negatively impact body weight gain and survival during larval development in Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)5
PatternJ: an ImageJ toolset for the automated and quantitative analysis of regular spatial patterns found in sarcomeres, axons, somites, and more5
First person – Ming-Hsuan Wen5
Introducing Daniel Gorelick – a new Editor-in-Chief for Biology Open5
Transgenic force sensors and software to measure force transmission across the mammalian nuclear envelope in vivo5
Saccharomyces cerevisiae deficient in the early anaphase release of Cdc14 can traverse anaphase I without ribosomal DNA disjunction and successfully complete meiosis5
First person – Francesca Mastropasqua and Marika Oksanen5
Cdc48 and its co-factor Ufd1 extract CENP-A from centromeric chromatin and can induce chromosome elimination in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe5
Cerebral organoids in primary progressive multiple sclerosis reveal stem cell and oligodendrocyte differentiation defect5
Stress-induced elemental retention in an ectothermic vertebrate5
Alpha-T-catenin is expressed in peripheral nerves as a constituent of Schwann cell adherens junctions5
IFT139 regulates Hedgehog signaling and cilia structure through ciliary protein localization5
Plpp3, a novel regulator of pluripotency exit and endodermal differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells5
Zebrafish embryos hatch early in response to chemical and mechanical indicators of predation risk, resulting in underdeveloped swimming ability of hatchling larvae5
First person – Amy Irving5
First person – Kelly Diamond5
First person – Adam Downie5
exTREEmaTIME: a method for incorporating uncertainty into divergence time estimates5
Gene expression and DNA methylation changes in response to hypoxia in toxicant-adapted Atlantic killifish ( Fundulus heteroclitus )5
First person – Daniel Lenthall5
Dirichlet process mixture models for single-cell RNA-seq clustering5
Sox8: a multifaceted transcription factor in development and disease5
trithorax is an essential regulator of cardiac Hox gene expression and anterior-posterior patterning of the Drosophila embryonic heart tube5
Reevaluating the relationship between EGL-43 (EVI1) and LIN-12 (Notch) during C. elegans anchor cell invasion5
Ethanol induces subcellular trafficking of the RNA-binding protein, hnRNP A1, in neuronal cells in vitro, but not in the peripubertal rat brain5
EphA1 receptor tyrosine kinase is localized to the nucleus in rhabdomyosarcoma from multiple species4
So long, and thanks for all the papers about fish (and other organisms too)4
A larval zebrafish model of cardiac physiological recovery following cardiac arrest and myocardial hypoxic damage4
Correction: Polyphyllin II inhibits liver cancer cell proliferation, migration and invasion through downregulated cofilin activity and the AKT/NF-κB pathway4
The uncoating of EV71 in mature late endosomes requires CD-M6PR4
BBQ methods: streamlined workflows for bacterial burden quantification in infected cells by confocal microscopy4
Spatial structure could explain the maintenance of alternative reproductive tactics in tree cricket males4
A genome-wide CRISPR screen implicates plasma membrane asymmetry in exogenous C6-ceramide toxicity4
WntA expression and wing transcriptomics illuminate the evolution of stripe patterns in skipper butterflies4
First person – Valentina Laverde4
The next stage in Biology Open's support for early-career researchers4
First person – Neydiana Pina-Lopes4
First person – Ricardo Villalba-Briones4
First person – Yixing Wu and Ying Bai4
Cohesin protein Smc3 influences kinocilial structure and function4
Tbx5 overexpression in embryoid bodies increases TAK1 expression but does not enhance the differentiation of sinoatrial node cardiomyocytes4
First person – Alexandra Venuto4
Population-level antagonism between FGF and BMP signaling steers mesoderm differentiation in embryonic stem cells4
foxg1a is required for hair cell development and regeneration in the zebrafish lateral line4
A human stem cell resource to decipher the biochemical and cellular basis of neurodevelopmental defects in Lowe syndrome4
PIWIL2 downregulation in colon cancer promotes transposon activity and pro-tumorigenic phenotypes4
PTP10D-mediated cell competition is not obligately required for elimination of polarity-deficient clones4
Characterization of nitric oxide in Octopus maya nervous system and its potential role in sensory perception4
Metabolic FRET sensors in intact organs: Applying spectral unmixing to acquire reliable signals4
Flavonols do not affect aphid load in green or senescing birch leaves but coincide with a decrease in Photosystem II functionality4
The lymphatic system favours survival of a unique T. brucei population4
Correction: IRS-1 increases TAZ expression and promotes osteogenic differentiation in rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells4
midline represses Dpp signaling and target gene expression in Drosophila ventral leg development4
Development of the dictyostelid Polysphondylium violaceum does not require secreted cAMP4
Altered epithelial development of the lateral ventricle choroid plexus in Mllt11 mutants4
Hepatic leukemia factor-expressing paraxial mesoderm cells contribute to the developing brain vasculature4
Development of a cypovirus protein microcrystal-encapsulated Bacillus thuringiensis UV-tolerant and mosquitocidal δ-endotoxin4
Temporal transcriptomic profiling of human three-dimensional neuromuscular co-cultures4
Low colostrum intake results in potential accumulation of peroxisome lipid substrates in vaginal tissue of 3-week-old gilts4
First person – Matthew Penaso-Stinson and Summer Paulson4
Future leader to watch – Nathan Harmston4
Elliptical Fourier analysis of hominoid radius shape: implications for Ardipithecus ramidus4
Beyond bold versus shy: Zebrafish exploratory behavior falls into several behavioral clusters and is influenced by strain and sex4
First person – Fatima Batool4
Expression levels and activities of energy-yielding ATPases in the oligohaline neritid snail Theodoxus fluviatilis under changing environmental salinities4
Theoretical model of impact mitigation mechanisms inherent to the North American bison skull4
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