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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	55
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	40
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	39
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	36
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	34
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	32
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	30
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	26
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	25
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	24
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	23
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	23
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	22
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	22
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	21
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	21
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	21
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	21
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	21
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	21
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	20
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	20
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies	19
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	19

Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	18
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	18
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	17
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	17
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	17
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	17
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	16
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	15
Issue information	15
Should females prefer old males?	15
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Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	15
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)	15
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	14
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	14
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	14
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	14
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	14
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	14
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	14
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	13
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	12
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	12
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	12
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	12
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	12
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	11
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Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	11
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	11
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	11
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	11
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	11
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	11
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	10
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	10
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	10
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	10
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	10
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	10
Issue information	9
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	9
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	9
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	9
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	9
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	8
Issue information	8

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