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

Article	Citations
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	69
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	59
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	52
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	37
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	36
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	36
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	34
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	32
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	29
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	28
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	27
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	25
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	25
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	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
Neural crest cell biology shapes lizard skull evolution across evolutionary time scales	24
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	24
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	22
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	21
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	20
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	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	19

Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	19
Relative testis size is associated with vagina length but not sperm storage traits in Galliformes	18
Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history	17
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	17
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	17
Interacting host modifier systems control Wolbachia -induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	16
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Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	16
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean ( Phaseolus coccineus L.)	16
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	16
Joint test of historical vs. contemporary biogeography supports abundant center hypothesis shaping spatial patterns of self-fertilization	16
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	16
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Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	16
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	16
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	15
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	15
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	15
Historical contingency limits adaptive diversification in a spatially structured environment	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
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	14
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
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	14
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	14
Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality	13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	12
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	12
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	12
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	12
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	11
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	11
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	11
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	11
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	11
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	11
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	11
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	11
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Issue information	10
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	10
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	10
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	10
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	10
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	10
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	10
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Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiome	9

The hidden threat: genetic load dynamics in tetraploids and diploids	9
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
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	9
Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations	9
Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate	9
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice	8
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	8
Infrared thermography is a useful tool in research on thermoregulation and evolution of heat tolerance	8
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	8
Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes	8
Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation	8
Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback	8
Issue information	8
Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone	8
Sexual selection and speciation: a meta-analysis of comparative studies	8
Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated in Drosophila simulans	8
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments	8
Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases	7
Variation in the resource environment affects patterns of seasonal adaptation at phenotypic and genomic levels in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	7
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	7
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies ( Poecilia reticulata )	7
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	7
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	7
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	7
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	7
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	7
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	7
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The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	6
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	6
Impact of Salmonella genome rearrangement on gene expression	6
Environmental predictability drives different routes to adaptation	6
Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits	6
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	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
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	6
Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds, revisited: Hard selection and the evolution of plasticity	6
A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change	6
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	6
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	6
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	6
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	6
Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology	6
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	6
Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances	5
Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution	5
Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater	5
How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals	5
Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba	5
Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks	5
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	5