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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression	149
Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis	48
Application of a novel haplotype-based scan for local adaptation to study high-altitude adaptation in rhesus macaques	47
Selection on a small genomic region underpins differentiation in multiple color traits between two warbler species	39
Mutation load decreases with haplotype age in wild Soay sheep	35
Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation	30
Not so clonal asexuals: Unraveling the secret sex life ofArtemia parthenogenetica	29
Does genetic diversity protect host populations from parasites? A meta-analysis across natural and agricultural systems	29
Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclearDrosophilapanel	27
Evolutionary mechanisms that determine which bacterial genes are carried on plasmids	26
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	26
Regional differences in rapid evolution during severe drought	22
The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation	22
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	22
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	20
Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	19
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	19
Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness	19
Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: Migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows	18
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	18
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	18
A need for standardized reporting of introgression: Insights from studies across eukaryotes	17
Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: Assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification	17
Phenotypic integration in the carnivoran backbone and the evolution of functional differentiation in metameric structures	17
Ageing as “early-life inertia”: Disentangling life-history trade-offs along a lifetime of an individual	17

Experimental evidence for stabilizing selection on virulence in a bacterial pathogen	17
Widespread cryptic variation in genetic architecture between the sexes	17
How does the strength of selection influence genetic correlations?	16
Context dependence in the symbiosis betweenDictyostelium discoideumandParaburkholderia	16
Butterfly dichromatism primarily evolved via Darwin's, not Wallace's, model	16
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	16
Surprising spatiotemporal stability of a multi-peak fitness landscape revealed by independent field experiments measuring hybrid fitness	15
Parent of origin gene expression in the bumblebee,Bombus terrestris, supports Haig's kinship theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting	15
Differing associations between sex determination and sex-linked inversions in two ecotypes ofLittorina saxatilis	15
Experimental evolution supports signatures of sexual selection in genomic divergence	15
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	14
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	14
The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	13
Should females prefer old males?	13
Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback	13
Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: Evidence of virus by host species interactions	13
Pollution induces epigenetic effects that are stably transmitted across multiple generations	12
The thermal environment at fertilization mediates adaptive potential in the sea	12
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	12
Helpers compensate for age-related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird	12
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	12
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	12
The evolution of thermal performance in native and invasive populations ofMimulus guttatus	12
The repeatable opportunity for selection differs between pre- and postcopulatory fitness components	11
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	11
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	11
Pleistocene glaciations caused the latitudinal gradient of within-species genetic diversity	11
Slower-X: reduced efficiency of selection in the early stages of X chromosome evolution	11
Recent range shifts of moths, butterflies, and birds are driven by the breadth of their climatic niche	11
A century-long record of plant evolution reconstructed from a coastal marsh seed bank	11
Transcriptomic evidence for a trade-off between germline proliferation and immunity inDrosophila	10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	10
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	10
Association with a novel protective microbe facilitates host adaptation to a stressful environment	10
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	9
Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution	9
Morning glory species co-occurrence is associated with asymmetrically decreased and cascading reproductive isolation	9
Ancient hybridization leads to the repeated evolution of red flowers across a monkeyflower radiation	9
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	9
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	8
Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios	8
A reexamination of theoretical arguments that indirect selection on mate preference is likely to be weaker than direct selection	8
Individual- and group-level sex ratios under local mate competition: consequences of infanticide and reproductive dominance	8
Plasticity via feedback reduces the cost of developmental instability	8
The coevolutionary dynamics of cryptic female choice	8
Why did the Wolbachia transinfection cross the road? drift, deterministic dynamics, and disease control	8
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	8
Maternal behavioral thermoregulation facilitated evolutionary transitions from egg laying to live birth	8
Experimental and theoretical support for costs of plasticity and phenotype in a nematode cannibalistic trait	8
Mosaic vaccination: How distributing different vaccines across a population could improve epidemic control	8

Thermal tolerance and preference are both consistent with the clinal distribution of house fly proto-Y chromosomes	8
Ecological interactions shape the evolution of flower color in communities across a temperate biodiversity hotspot	7
From scales to armor: Scale losses and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes	7
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	7
Experimental evidence that network topology can accelerate the spread of beneficial mutations	7
Experimental evolution of metabolism under nutrient restriction: enhanced amino acid catabolism and a key role of branched-chain amino acids	7
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	7
Rapid and transient evolution of local adaptation to seasonal host fruits in an invasive pest fly	7
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	7
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	7
From genotype to phenotype: Genetic redundancy and the maintenance of an adaptive polymorphism in the context of high gene flow	7
The ecology and quantitative genetics of seed and seedling traits in upland and lowland ecotypes of a perennial grass	6
Causation, not collinearity: Identifying sources of bias when modelling the evolution of brain size and other allometric traits	6
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	6
Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds, revisited: Hard selection and the evolution of plasticity	6
Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism	6
Herbivory and pollination impact on the evolution of herbivore-induced plasticity in defense and floral traits	6
Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution	6
Experimental evolution reveals sex-specific dominance for surviving bacterial infection in laboratory populations ofDrosophila melanogaster	6
Intrinsic apoptosis is evolutionarily divergent among metazoans	6
Sex-specific natural selection on SNPs inSilene latifolia	6
Identifying the fitness consequences of sex in complex natural environments	6
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	6
A shift to shorter cuticular hydrocarbons accompanies sexual isolation amongDrosophila americanagroup populations	5
Plasticity and associated epigenetic mechanisms play a role in thermal evolution during range expansion	5
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	5
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior byPeromyscusmice	5
Genomic divergence landscape in recurrently hybridizingChironomussister taxa suggests stable steady state between mutual gene flow and isolation	5
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	5
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	5
Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks	5
The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care	5
Host body size, not host population size, predicts genome-wide effective population size of parasites	5
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	5
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	4
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	4
Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	4
Evolutionary adaptation to climate change	4
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	4
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	4
Hybridization enables the fixation of selfish queen genotypes in eusocial colonies	4
Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time	4
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	4
Antagonistic pleiotropy and the evolution of extraordinary lifespans in eusocial organisms	4
Male harm suppresses female fitness, affecting the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue	4
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	4
Divergent evolution of genetic sex determination mechanisms along environmental gradients	3
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	3
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	3
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	3
Heat stress reveals a fertility debt owing to postcopulatory sexual selection	3
Hypermutator emergence in experimental Escherichia coli populations is stress-type dependent	3
Sex chromosome turnover plays an important role in the maintenance of barriers to post-speciation introgression in willows	3
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	3
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	3
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	3
Evolutionary robustness of killer meiotic drives	3
Neopolyploidy increases stress tolerance and reduces fitness plasticity across multiple urban pollutants: support for the “general-purpose” genotype hypothesis	3
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	3