OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Letters 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	61
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	53
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	35
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	35
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	34
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	32
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	32
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	25
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	25
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	25
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	25
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	24
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	24
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	23
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	23
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	22
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	22
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	22
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	21
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	21
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	21
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	21
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	20
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies	20

Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	19
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	19
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	19
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	19
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	18
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Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	18
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	18
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Should females prefer old males?	17
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)	17
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	16
Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	16
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	16
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	15
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	15
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	15
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	15
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	15
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	14
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	14
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	14
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	14
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	14
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	14
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	13
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	13
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	13
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	13
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	12
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	12
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Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	12
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	12
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Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	11
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	11
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	11
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	11
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	11
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	11
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	10
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	10
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	10
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
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Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	10

Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations	9
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When does antimicrobial resistance increase bacterial fitness? Effects of dosing, social interactions, and frequency dependence on the benefits of AmpC β-lactamases in broth, biofilms, and a gu	9
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	9
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	9
Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate	8
Evolutionary robustness of killer meiotic drives	8
Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness	8
Experimental evolution reveals sex-specific dominance for surviving bacterial infection in laboratory populations ofDrosophila melanogaster	8
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	8
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior byPeromyscusmice	8
Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback	8
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	8
Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiome	8
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Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone	7
Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated in Drosophila simulans	7
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	7
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	7
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	7
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	7
Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation	7
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	7
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	7
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	7
Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes	7
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	7
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	7
Mosaic vaccination: How distributing different vaccines across a population could improve epidemic control	6
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Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	6
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	6
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	6
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	6
Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	6
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	6
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	6
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	6
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	6
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	6
Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism	6
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	6
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	6
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	6
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	6
A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change	5
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The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	5
Widespread cryptic variation in genetic architecture between the sexes	5
Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances	5
Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits	5
Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba	5
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	5
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Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds, revisited: Hard selection and the evolution of plasticity	5
Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios	5
Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution	5
Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks	5