Evolution Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity61
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies53
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission35
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas35
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders34
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation32
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth32
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids25
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila25
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)25
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification25
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation24
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales24
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species23
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada23
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism22
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive22
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction22
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei21
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider21
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue21
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend21
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies20
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics20
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation19
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa19
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation19
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species19
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite18
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities18
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On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment18
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The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)17
Should females prefer old males?17
Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types16
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation16
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows16
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change15
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?15
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes15
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?15
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity15
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?14
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus14
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast14
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population14
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus14
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider14
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds13
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change13
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets13
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections13
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Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis12
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit12
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene12
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population12
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth11
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird11
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?11
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird11
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Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia11
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance11
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