OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	59
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	51
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	49
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	36
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	36
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	35
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	33
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	30
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	28
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	27
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	26
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	25
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	24
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	23
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	23
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	23
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	22
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	22
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	21
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	20
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	20
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	20
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	19
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies	19

Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	19
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	19
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	18
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	17
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	17
Relative testis size is associated with vagina length but not sperm storage traits in Galliformes	17
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On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	16
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)	16
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	15
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	15
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	15
Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	15
Joint test of historical vs. contemporary biogeography supports abundant center hypothesis shaping spatial patterns of self-fertilization	15
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus	14
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	14
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	14
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	13
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	13
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	13
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	13
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	13
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	13
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	13
Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality	12
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	12
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	12
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	12
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	12
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	11
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	11
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	11
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	10
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	10
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	10
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Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	10
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	10
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	10
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	10