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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	103
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	89
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	66
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	54
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	43
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	41
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	40
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	39
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	35
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	33
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	29
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	27
Phylograms better fit neutrally evolving traits than chronograms	27
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	26
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	25
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	25
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	25
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	24
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	23
Neural crest cell biology shapes lizard skull evolution across evolutionary time scales	22
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	22
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	22
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	22
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	22
Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history	22

Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	22
Relative testis size is associated with vagina length but not sperm storage traits in Galliformes	22
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	22
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	21
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies	21
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	21
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	20
Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects	20
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	20
Evolution under the city’s shadow: reproductive divergence of urban and rural great tits revealed by a common garden experiment	20
Joint test of historical vs. contemporary biogeography supports abundant center hypothesis shaping spatial patterns of self-fertilization	20
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean ( Phaseolus coccineus L.)	20
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	19
Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	19
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	18
Historical contingency limits adaptive diversification in a spatially structured environment	18
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	17
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	17
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	17
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	17
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	16
Repeated evolution of convergent iridescence in closely related species of Morpho butterflies living in sympatry	16
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	16
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	15
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	15
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	15
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	15
Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality	14
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	14
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	14
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	14
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	13
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	13
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	13
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	13
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	13
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	13
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	12
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	12
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	12
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	12
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	12
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	12
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	12
Tempo and drivers of 3D eye size evolution in temperate butterflies	12
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	12
Issue information	12
Increased adaptive potential in novel environments can be predicted from genetic variance in development time expressed in native environments	11
The hidden threat: genetic load dynamics in tetraploids and diploids	11
Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations	11

Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	11
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	11
Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiome	10
Infrared thermography is a useful tool in research on thermoregulation and evolution of heat tolerance	10
Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone	10
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	10
Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate	10
Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation	10
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice	10
Not just mutations: inbreeding depression persists without genetic variation	10
Issue information	10
Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes	10
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments	10
Variation in the resource environment affects patterns of seasonal adaptation at phenotypic and genomic levels in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated in Drosophila simulans	9
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	8
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	8
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	8
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	8
Sexual selection and speciation: a meta-analysis of comparative studies	8
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	8
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	8
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	8
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	8
Impact of Salmonella genome rearrangement on gene expression	8
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	8
Coevolution of species’ range borders: Interactions between interspecific competition, gene flow, and matching habitat choice	8
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	8
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	8
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	8
Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases	8
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	7
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	7
Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology	7
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	7
Environmental predictability drives different routes to adaptation	7
Pace of life predicts parasite resistance and fecundity tolerance, but not mortality tolerance, among Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata	7
Early-life stress reduces senescence in the field for an indeterminately growing ectotherm	7
The legacy of past climate warming: strong local adaptation in rear-edge populations	7
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	7
Causes and consequences of sex-chromosome turnovers in Diptera	7
Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits	7
How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals	6
A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change	6
Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution	6
Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances	6
Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba	6
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The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	5
Group size modulates kinship dynamics and selection on social traits	5
Horizontal gene transfer, segregation loss, and the speed of microbial adaptation	5
Limited sex differences in plastic responses suggest evolutionary conservatism of thermal reaction norms: A meta-analysis in insects	5
Urbanization correlates with genetic and plastic variation of Impatiens capensis flower morphology	5
Sex chromosome turnover in hybridizing stickleback lineages	5
Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems	5
Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater	5
Evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer in macrophage-associatedSalmonella	5
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	5