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Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Letters is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	59
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Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	44
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	39
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	33
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	31
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	30
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	29
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	29
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	27
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	24
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	24
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	23
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	22
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	21
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	21
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	20
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	20
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	20
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	20
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	20
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	20
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	19
Vertebrate herbivory weakens directional selection for earlier emergence in competition	19

Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	19
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	18
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	18
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	17
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Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	17
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The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)	17
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	17
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	16
Should females prefer old males?	16
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	16
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	16
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	15
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	15
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	15
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	15
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	15
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	14
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	14
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	14
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	13
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	13
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	13
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	13
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	13
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	12
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	12
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	12
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	11
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	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
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Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	11
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	11
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Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	10
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	10
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	9
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	9
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	9
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	9
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Experimental evolution reveals sex-specific dominance for surviving bacterial infection in laboratory populations ofDrosophila melanogaster	8
Evolutionary robustness of killer meiotic drives	8

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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	8
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	8
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Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations	8
Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiome	8
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior byPeromyscusmice	7
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	7
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	7
Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone	7
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Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness	7
Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate	7
Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes	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
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	6
Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation	6
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	6
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	6
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	6
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	6
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	6
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	6
Antagonistic pleiotropy and the evolution of extraordinary lifespans in eusocial organisms	6
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	6
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	6
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	6
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	6
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	6
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	5
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	5
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	5
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	5
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	5
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	5
Mosaic vaccination: How distributing different vaccines across a population could improve epidemic control	5
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	5
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	4
Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios	4
Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds, revisited: Hard selection and the evolution of plasticity	4
Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits	4
Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism	4
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	4
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	4
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Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	4
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A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change	4
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	4
Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution	3
Sex chromosome turnover in hybridizing stickleback lineages	3
Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks	3
Limited sex differences in plastic responses suggest evolutionary conservatism of thermal reaction norms: A meta-analysis in insects	3
Selection on the vascular-remodeling BMPER gene is associated with altitudinal adaptation in an insular lizard	3
Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution	3
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Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances	3
Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba	3
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	3
Toward greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of caste fate conflict in insect societies	3
Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies	3
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems	3
Widespread cryptic variation in genetic architecture between the sexes	3
The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	3
Evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer in macrophage-associatedSalmonella	3
Mating systems and recombination landscape strongly shape genetic diversity and selection in wheat relatives	3
Quantifying the strength of viral fitness trade-offs between hosts: a meta-analysis of pleiotropic fitness effects	3
Which cues are sexy? The evolution of mate preference in sympatric species reveals the contrasted effect of adaptation and reproductive interference	3
Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	3