OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 8. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue information	168
Antagonistic pleiotropy and the evolution of extraordinary lifespans in eusocial organisms	48
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	47
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	35
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	30
Issue information	29
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	29
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	27
Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay-dates and their consequences for population persistence	26
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	26
Limited sex differences in plastic responses suggest evolutionary conservatism of thermal reaction norms: A meta-analysis in insects	22
Micro-evolutionary response of spring migration timing in a wild seabird	22
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	22
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	20
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	19
Individual- and group-level sex ratios under local mate competition: consequences of infanticide and reproductive dominance	19
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	19
Range expansion can promote the evolution of plastic generalism in coarse-grained landscapes	18
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	18
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	18
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	17
Context dependence in the symbiosis betweenDictyostelium discoideumandParaburkholderia	17
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	17
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	17
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	17

Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	16
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	16
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	15
Emergence of phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic mechanisms	15
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	14
The community background alters the evolution of thermal performance	14
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	14
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	13
Shared genetic architecture links energy metabolism, behavior and starvation resistance along a power-endurance axis	13
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	13
Quantifying the strength of viral fitness trade-offs between hosts: a meta-analysis of pleiotropic fitness effects	12
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	12
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	12
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	12
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	12
Evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer in macrophage-associatedSalmonella	12
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	12
Divergence in evolutionary potential of life history traits among wild populations is predicted by differences in climatic conditions	12
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	12
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	11
Which cues are sexy? The evolution of mate preference in sympatric species reveals the contrasted effect of adaptation and reproductive interference	11
Mating systems and recombination landscape strongly shape genetic diversity and selection in wheat relatives	11
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	11
Unraveling mate choice evolution through indirect genetic effects	11
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	11
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	11
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	10
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	10
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Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	10
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Issue information	9
Transcriptomic evidence for a trade-off between germline proliferation and immunity inDrosophila	9
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Thermal tolerance and preference are both consistent with the clinal distribution of house fly proto-Y chromosomes	9
Pollinator and habitat-mediated selection as potential contributors to ecological speciation in two closely related species	9
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	8
Rapid and transient evolution of local adaptation to seasonal host fruits in an invasive pest fly	8
The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird	8
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	8
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	8
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	8
Host body size, not host population size, predicts genome-wide effective population size of parasites	8
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	8
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	8
The ecology and quantitative genetics of seed and seedling traits in upland and lowland ecotypes of a perennial grass	8