American Naturalist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Naturalist is 7. 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
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse221
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms50
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations38
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants37
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey34
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models33
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change32
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna32
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History30
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy27
Front and Back Matter26
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish25
Front and Back Matter22
Front and Back Matter22
Front and Back Matter22
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?21
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density21
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations21
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet21
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees21
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress20
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift19
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish18
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies18
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes18
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms18
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs18
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites18
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness18
Front and Back Matter18
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)18
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps18
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition18
Front and Back Matter18
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery17
Correction17
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds17
Front and Back Matter17
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy17
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice17
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard17
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities16
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor16
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence16
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees16
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males15
Integrating Infection Intensity into Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Dynamics: Implications for Invasion and Virulence Evolution15
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive15
Front and Back Matter15
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities15
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations15
Front and Back Matter15
Can Conflicting Selection from Pollinators and Nectar-Robbing Antagonists Drive Adaptive Pollen Limitation? A Conceptual Model and Empirical Test15
Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations14
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards14
Physiological color change in the Neotropical tree frog (Pithecopus hypochondrialis) as a potential mechanism of nocturnal camouflage14
Treasurer’s Report, 202014
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog14
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits14
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors14
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales14
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish13
The Extension of Foundress Life Span and the Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera13
Social Behavior, Ovary Size, and Population of Origin Influence Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma13
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere13
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network13
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments13
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data12
Nested versus Independent Sampling: Solving the Mystery of Contradictory Species-Area Relationships12
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution12
Corrigendum12
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes12
Front and Back Matter12
Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence?12
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist12
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization12
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes11
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission11
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window11
The Evolution of Mate Attachment11
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories11
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird11
Host Energetics Explain Variation in Parasite Productivity across Hosts and Ecosystems11
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants11
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism11
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)10
Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution10
Secretary’s Report, 202310
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory10
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology10
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks10
Bargain to Be Dominant10
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix10
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community10
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating10
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)9
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny9
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates9
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains9
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders9
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster9
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes9
The evolution of dependence and cohesion in incipient endosymbioses9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster9
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)9
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate9
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish9
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects9
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes9
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator9
Front and Back Matter9
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere9
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny9
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities9
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly9
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations8
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons8
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers8
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities8
Front and Back Matter8
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce8
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers8
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting8
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis8
Front and Back Matter8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change8
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees8
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio8
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect8
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics8
Front and Back Matter8
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars8
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females8
Front and Back Matter8
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion7
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense7
Front and Back Matter7
Allee Effects and Coexistence7
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum7
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics7
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment7
Front and Back Matter7
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model7
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation7
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change7
Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms7
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review7
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates7
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds7
Front and Back Matter7
Front and Back Matter7
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output7
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation7
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test7
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids7
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change7
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent7
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes7
Secretary’s Report, 20247
Front and Back Matter7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales7
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
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