Current Opinion in Insect Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Insect Science 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board122
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes97
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly92
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior85
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects76
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species58
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?52
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes50
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects46
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models44
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling41
Publisher's Note40
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate40
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?38
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects38
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change36
Parasitoid speciation and diversification35
Editorial Board35
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems33
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks31
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view31
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies29
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications29
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination28
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene27
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks27
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control27
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality27
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids26
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster26
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development26
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects26
Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods26
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve25
Editorial Board25
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry24
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees24
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems24
Editorial Board23
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management23
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond23
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions22
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions22
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods21
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model20
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects20
Editorial Board20
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation20
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects20
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods19
Editorial Board19
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control18
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles18
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?18
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change18
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions18
Honeydew management to promote biological control18
Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens17
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: Lessons from a multispecies approach17
Adaptation to urban environments17
Evolution and loss of ß-catenin and TCF-dependent axis specification in insects17
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests17
Virus and endogenous viral element-derived small non-coding RNAs and their roles in insect–virus interaction17
Genetic and viral approaches to record or manipulate neurons in insects16
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis16
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects16
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males16
Edible insect farming as an emerging and profitable enterprise in East Africa16
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function16
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa15
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science15
Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season15
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts14
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission14
Editorial Board14
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out14
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery14
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees14
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications14
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges14
Measuring and modelling crop yield losses due to invasive insect pests under climate change14
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era14
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination14
Editorial Board14
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms13
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?13
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects13
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies13
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses13
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation13
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects13
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management12
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species12
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate12
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants12
Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science12
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management12
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe12
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems12
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions12
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures11
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America11
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests10
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects10
An intricate evolutionary connection between meiotic drive and sex10
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance10
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles10
tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods10
Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches10
Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?10
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