Evolution Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation59
Issue information57
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity44
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies39
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas33
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission31
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders30
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales29
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)29
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids27
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification24
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila24
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation23
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada22
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue21
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei21
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive21
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation20
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction20
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?20
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species20
A biological circuit to anticipate trend20
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism20
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment19
Vertebrate herbivory weakens directional selection for earlier emergence in competition19
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider19
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa18
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics18
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species17
Issue information17
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite17
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The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)17
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation17
Should females prefer old males?16
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus16
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?16
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows16
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes15
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus15
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity15
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change15
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?15
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?14
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes14
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population14
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider13
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections13
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast13
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit13
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets13
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 change12
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis12
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene12
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird11
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth11
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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Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation11
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance11
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Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)10
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes10
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal10
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