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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression	122
On the use of the coefficient of variation to quantify and compare trait variation	84
Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA	57
Plasticity leaves a phenotypic signature during local adaptation	57
Assessing biological factors affecting postspeciation introgression	45
The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics	43
Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis	42
Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome	37
Where is the optimum? Predicting the variation of selection along climatic gradients and the adaptive value of plasticity. A case study on tree phenology	35
Application of a novel haplotype-based scan for local adaptation to study high-altitude adaptation in rhesus macaques	34
How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization inDrosophila melanogaster	34
Adaptation via pleiotropy and linkage: Association mapping reveals a complex genetic architecture within the sticklebackEdalocus	33
Selection on a small genomic region underpins differentiation in multiple color traits between two warbler species	32
Mutation load decreases with haplotype age in wild Soay sheep	30
Environmental variation mediates the evolution of anticipatory parental effects	29
Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation	28
Not so clonal asexuals: Unraveling the secret sex life ofArtemia parthenogenetica	27
Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclearDrosophilapanel	25
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	25
Metabolic rate, context-dependent selection, and the competition-colonization trade-off	25
Evolutionary mechanisms that determine which bacterial genes are carried on plasmids	23
Does genetic diversity protect host populations from parasites? A meta-analysis across natural and agricultural systems	23
Hybridization and introgression between toads with different sex chromosome systems	22
Regional differences in rapid evolution during severe drought	21
The geographic mosaic of arms race coevolution is closely matched to prey population structure	21

The contribution of ancient admixture to reproductive isolation between European sea bass lineages	20
Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness	19
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	19
Predicting the strength of urban-rural clines in a Mendelian polymorphism along a latitudinal gradient	19
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	17
Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: Migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows	17
Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: Assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification	16
Loss of ecologically important genetic variation in late generation hybrids reveals links between adaptation and speciation	16
Experimental evidence for stabilizing selection on virulence in a bacterial pathogen	16
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	16
Butterfly dichromatism primarily evolved via Darwin's, not Wallace's, model	15
Experimental evolution supports signatures of sexual selection in genomic divergence	15
Ageing as “early-life inertia”: Disentangling life-history trade-offs along a lifetime of an individual	15
Parent of origin gene expression in the bumblebee,Bombus terrestris, supports Haig's kinship theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting	15
Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	15
Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity	15
How does the strength of selection influence genetic correlations?	15
A novel seed dispersal mode ofApostasia nipponicacould provide some clues to the early evolution of the seed dispersal system in Orchidaceae	14
Ecological speciation in European whitefish is driven by a large-gaped predator	14
The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation	14
Widespread cryptic variation in genetic architecture between the sexes	13
Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: Evidence of virus by host species interactions	13
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	13
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	12
Surprising spatiotemporal stability of a multi-peak fitness landscape revealed by independent field experiments measuring hybrid fitness	12
Phenotypic integration in the carnivoran backbone and the evolution of functional differentiation in metameric structures	12
A need for standardized reporting of introgression: Insights from studies across eukaryotes	12
Context dependence in the symbiosis betweenDictyostelium discoideumandParaburkholderia	12
Morphology does not covary with predicted behavioral correlations of the domestication syndrome in dogs	11
Helpers compensate for age-related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
The thermal environment at fertilization mediates adaptive potential in the sea	11
Resource heterogeneity and the evolution of public goods cooperation	10
The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	10
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback	10
Should females prefer old males?	10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	10
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	10
Pollution induces epigenetic effects that are stably transmitted across multiple generations	10
Association with a novel protective microbe facilitates host adaptation to a stressful environment	10
The repeatable opportunity for selection differs between pre- and postcopulatory fitness components	9
Morning glory species co-occurrence is associated with asymmetrically decreased and cascading reproductive isolation	9
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	9
The evolution of thermal performance in native and invasive populations ofMimulus guttatus	9
A century-long record of plant evolution reconstructed from a coastal marsh seed bank	9
Recent immigrants alter the quantitative genetic architecture of paternity in song sparrows	9
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	9
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	8
Plasticity via feedback reduces the cost of developmental instability	8
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	8

The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	8
Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios	8
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	8
Differing associations between sex determination and sex-linked inversions in two ecotypes ofLittorina saxatilis	8
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	7
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Longevity and the drift barrier: Bridging the gap between Medawar and Hamilton	7
Transcriptomic evidence for a trade-off between germline proliferation and immunity inDrosophila	7
Recent range shifts of moths, butterflies, and birds are driven by the breadth of their climatic niche	7
Rapid and transient evolution of local adaptation to seasonal host fruits in an invasive pest fly	7
Experimental and theoretical support for costs of plasticity and phenotype in a nematode cannibalistic trait	6
Ancient hybridization leads to the repeated evolution of red flowers across a monkeyflower radiation	6
A reexamination of theoretical arguments that indirect selection on mate preference is likely to be weaker than direct selection	6
Thermal tolerance and preference are both consistent with the clinal distribution of house fly proto-Y chromosomes	6
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	6
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	6
Mosaic vaccination: How distributing different vaccines across a population could improve epidemic control	6
Herbivory and pollination impact on the evolution of herbivore-induced plasticity in defense and floral traits	6
Identifying the fitness consequences of sex in complex natural environments	6
Why did the Wolbachia transinfection cross the road? drift, deterministic dynamics, and disease control	6
The ecology and quantitative genetics of seed and seedling traits in upland and lowland ecotypes of a perennial grass	6
From genotype to phenotype: Genetic redundancy and the maintenance of an adaptive polymorphism in the context of high gene flow	5
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	5
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	5
Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution	5
The coevolutionary dynamics of cryptic female choice	5
Individual- and group-level sex ratios under local mate competition: consequences of infanticide and reproductive dominance	5
Causation, not collinearity: Identifying sources of bias when modelling the evolution of brain size and other allometric traits	5
Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds, revisited: Hard selection and the evolution of plasticity	5
Slower-X: reduced efficiency of selection in the early stages of X chromosome evolution	5
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior byPeromyscusmice	5
Ecological interactions shape the evolution of flower color in communities across a temperate biodiversity hotspot	5
Artificial selection reveals the role of transcriptional constraints in the maintenance of life history variation	4
Sex-specific natural selection on SNPs inSilene latifolia	4
Genomic divergence landscape in recurrently hybridizingChironomussister taxa suggests stable steady state between mutual gene flow and isolation	4
Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism	4
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	4
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	4
Loss of consumers constrains phenotypic evolution in the resulting food web	4
Experimental evolution of metabolism under nutrient restriction: enhanced amino acid catabolism and a key role of branched-chain amino acids	4
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	4
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	4
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	4
Hybridization enables the fixation of selfish queen genotypes in eusocial colonies	4
Pleistocene glaciations caused the latitudinal gradient of within-species genetic diversity	4
Experimental evolution reveals sex-specific dominance for surviving bacterial infection in laboratory populations ofDrosophila melanogaster	4
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	4
Antagonistic pleiotropy and the evolution of extraordinary lifespans in eusocial organisms	4
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	3
Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time	3
Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution	3
Evolution of strategic cooperation	3
Heat stress reveals a fertility debt owing to postcopulatory sexual selection	3
Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks	3
From scales to armor: Scale losses and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes	3
Intrinsic apoptosis is evolutionarily divergent among metazoans	3
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	3
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	3
A shift to shorter cuticular hydrocarbons accompanies sexual isolation amongDrosophila americanagroup populations	3
Host body size, not host population size, predicts genome-wide effective population size of parasites	3
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	3
Maternal behavioral thermoregulation facilitated evolutionary transitions from egg laying to live birth	3