Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolution is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Co‐evolution of dormancy and dispersal in spatially autocorrelated landscapes150
Ecological outcomes of hybridization vary extensively in Catostomus fishes67
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits51
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The evolution of host specialization in an insect pathogen38
Suture zones, speciation, and evolution37
Digest: Evolution of redirected help in a viscous population31
Feather evolution following flight loss in crown group birds: relaxed selection and developmental constraints29
Sex matters: predator presence induces sexual dimorphism in a monomorphic prey, from stress genes to morphological defences28
Digest: Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners26
Digest: Taxonomically inclusive and quantitative tests for convergence*26
Digest: More than just a pretty fin: The evolution of sexual ornaments in killifish *26
Sexual selection towards a protamine expression ratio optimum in two rodent groups?26
Digest: Recurrence of sexually dimorphic neurological structure in neotropical butterflies *26
Digest: Exploring the interplay between migration and speciation in the barn swallow *25
Issue information ‐ Ed Board25
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*24
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases23
Digest: The non-redundancy of non-ephemeral reproductive isolation23
Correction to: How development affects evolution23
Evolutionary drivers of sexual signal variation in Amazon Slender Anoles23
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration23
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior22
Early diversification of avian limb morphology and the role of modularity in the locomotor evolution of crown birds22
Evidence that genomic incompatibilities and other multilocus processes impact hybrid fitness in a rattlesnake hybrid zone22
Eco‐evolutionary feedbacks among pollinators, herbivores, and their plant resources21
Polyploidy and mutation in Arabidopsis21
Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles21
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees21
Gene pseudogenization in fertility-associated genes in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), a species with long-term low effective population size20
Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals20
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction19
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation19
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems19
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Growth‐defense trade‐offs masked in unadmixed populations are revealed by hybridization19
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite18
Why and how to apply Weber's Law to coevolution and mimicry18
Correction to: Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach18
The evolutionary history and mechanistic basis of female ornamentation in a tropical songbird18
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward18
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice*17
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone17
The synthesis and the two scenarios17
Macroevolutionary foundations of a recently evolved innate immune defense17
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments17
Thermal adaptation in a holobiont accompanied by phenotypic changes in an endosymbiont17
Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*17
The emergence of group fitness17
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure16
The historical connection of the Arctic and Qinghai–Tibet Plateau floras and their asynchronous diversification in response to Cenozoic climate cooling16
Plastic mechanisms for unraveling a universal trade-off between water loss and respiration16
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production16
Richard Owen: revolutionary comparative anatomy, or “antiquarian business?”16
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks16
Luck, lottery, or legacy? The problem of confounding. A reply to Harden16
Digest: Selection for staggered pollen release as a driver of heteranthery*16
Salamanders reveal novel trajectories of amphibian MHC evolution16
The effects of costly telomere maintenance on lifespan: reproductive tradeoffs in sand lizards16
Baby makes three: Maternal, paternal, and zygotic genetic effects shape larval phenotypic evolution16
Additive and non‐additive effects of day and night temperatures on thermally plastic traits in a model for adaptive seasonal plasticity15
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates15
Secondary contact rather than coexistence— Erebia butterflies in the Alps15
Variation and heritability of retinal cone ratios in a free‐ranging population of rhesus macaques15
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*15
Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population14
Rapid evolution of sex role specialization in a hermaphrodite under sex-limited selection14
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation14
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta14
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry14
An effect size for comparing the strength of morphological integration across studies14
Genome-wide DNA methylation predicts environmentally driven life history variation in a marine fish14
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration14
Erratum to “Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry”14
Hybridization in the absence of an ecotone favors hybrid success in woodrats (Neotomaspp.)14
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus14
Heterozygote advantage and pleiotropy contribute to intraspecific color trait variability14
Fish out of water: Genomic insights into persistence of rainbowfish populations in the desert14
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific14
Is Mendelism wrong?14
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei14
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster14
Early origin and diverse phenotypic implementation of iridescent UV patterns for sexual signaling in pierid butterflies14
From micro to macroevolution: drivers of shape variation in an island radiation ofPodarcislizards*14
Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta14
Digest: Salamanders reveal novel trajectories of amphibian MHC evolution13
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume13
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace13
Transgressive segregation in mating traits drives hybrid speciation13
Heritability and preadult survivorship costs of ectoparasite resistance in the naturally occurring DrosophilaGamasodes mite system13
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)13
Macroevolution of floral scent chemistry across radiations of male euglossine bee-pollinated plants13
Digest: A sex chromosome driver without a sperm deficit13
Feeding biomechanics reveals niche differentiation related to insular gigantism13
Engaging the public in the science of evolution13
Ecological character displacement among Nothobranchius annual killifishes in Tanzania13
Effects of selfing on the evolution of sexual reproduction13
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness13
Seasonality and competition select for variable germination behavior in perennials13
Ultraviolet signaling in a butterfly is preferred by females and conveys male genetic quality12
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures12
The eco-evolutionary origins of life12
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes12
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes12
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach12
Intermittent migration can induce pulses of speciation in a two-island system12
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes12
Philosophical foundations of microevolution12
Sexually antagonistic coevolution can explain female display signals and male sensory adaptations12
An experimental test of the evolutionary consequences of sympatry in Drosophila subquinaria11
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations11
Shared environmental similarity between relatives influences heritability of reproductive timing in wild great tits11
A multivariate view of the speciation continuum11
Sex, amitosis, and evolvability in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila11
Digest: Evaluating sexual conflict in the genome11
From individual behaviors to collective outcomes: fruiting body formation inDictyosteliumas a group-level phenotype11
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds11
Go west, young bunting: recent climate change drives rapid movement of a Great Plains hybrid zone11
Tracing evolutionary trajectories in the presence of gene flow in South American temperate lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii group)11
Extreme range in adult body size reveals hidden trade-offs among sexually selected traits11
Optimal polyandry in fruit flies11
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush11
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem11
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment11
Geographic variability of hybridization between red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers11
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes11
Phenotypic plasticity in tropical butterflies is linked to climatic seasonality on a macroevolutionary scale11
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs11
Selection drives divergence of eye morphology in sympatric Heliconius butterflies11
The effect of miniaturization on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in geckos11
Digest: Rare male offspring highlight an alternative pathway to obligate asexuality11
Placental evolution from a three-dimensional and multiscale structural perspective11
Asexual male production by ZW recombination inArtemia parthenogenetica11
Decoupling of height growth and drought or pest resistance tradeoffs is revealed through multiple common-garden experiments of lodgepole pine11
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable11
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds11
Digest: Urbanization shapes selection altering food webs11
Selection on sporulation strategies in a metapopulation can lead to coexistence11
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster11
Shared patterns of segment size development in trilobites and vertebrates10
Body size and substrate use affect ventral, but not dorsal, brightness evolution in lizards10
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids10
Digest: Longitudinal data demonstrate heightened environmental sensitivity of sexually selected trait expression10
Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change10
Within-generation and transgenerational social plasticity interact during rapid adaptive evolution10
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration10
Complex interactions underlie the correlated evolution of floral traits and their association with pollinators in a clade with diverse pollination systems10
Plastic responses of males and females interact to determine mating behavior10
Sequential trait evolution did not drive deep-time diversification in sharks10
Can we ignore trait-dependent colonization and diversification in island biogeography?10
Sexual conflict over phenological traits: selection for protandry can lock populations into temporally mismatched reproduction10
Mapping the evolution of accurate Batesian mimicry of social wasps in hoverflies10
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system10
Evolutionary history of sexual selection affects microRNA profiles in Drosophila sperm10
An age‐related decline in the expression of a red carotenoid‐based ornament in wild birds9
Constraints to speciation despite divergence in an old haplochromine cichlid lineage9
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence9
Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster9
Revisiting a classic hybrid zone: Movement of the northern flicker hybrid zone in contemporary times9
Fluctuating selection among years in a wild insect9
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Dawkins or Lewontin or both? Review of The Gene's‐Eye View of Evolution, by J.Arvid Ågren, Oxford, U.K: Oxford University Press.9
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish9
Correlated evolution of parental care with dichromatism, colors, and patterns in anurans9
Population bottleneck has only marginal effect on fitness evolution and its repeatability in dioecious Caenorhabditis elegans9
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality9
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm9
Nonadaptive molecular evolution of seminal fluid proteins in Drosophila9
Phenotypic and Developmental Dissection of an Instance of the Island Rule9
Digest: Population genomics reveals convergence toward melanism in different island populations9
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Spatial heterogeneity in resources alters selective dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster9
Topographically distinct adaptive landscapes for teeth, skeletons, and size explain the adaptive radiation of Carnivora (Mammalia)9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
Niches for neglected ideas?9
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards9
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties9
Evidence for an evo‐devo‐derived hypothesis on three‐dimensional flower shape modularity in a tropical orchid clade9
Sewall Wright's criticism of the gene's‐eye view of evolution9
Host phenology can drive the evolution of intermediate virulence strategies in some obligate‐killer parasites8
Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?8
Tattersall’s take on human evolution8
Cenozoic evolutionary history obscures the Mesozoic origins of acanthopterygian fishes8
Lottery, luck, or legacy. A review of “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality”8
Digest: Evolution of plasticity and its potential role in the decline of specialists8
Quantifying male harm and its divergence8
From leaves to seeds? The dietary shift in late Miocene colobine monkeys of southeastern Europe8
Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populations *8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations8
Correction to: Is Mendelism wrong?8
Digest: Stable phenotypes, fluid genotypes: how stochasticity impacts network evolution and speciation8
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success8
Adaptive divergence generates distinct plastic responses in two closely related Senecio species8
Digest: Positive selection and recombination shape the genomic landscape in flycatchers*8
Josh Van Buskirk (1959–2021)8
Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates8
Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate8
Positive selection plays a major role in shaping signatures of differentiation across the genomic landscape of two independent Ficedula flycatcher species pairs*8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Digest: Whole genomes delimit multiple species of Galapagos giant tortoises8
Re‐emergence and diversification of a specialized antennal lobe morphology in ithomiine butterflies*8
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)8
Developmental plasticity reveals hidden fish phenotypes and enables morphospace diversification8
Issue information ‐ Ed Board8
Digest: Recurrent evolution of worker production by interspecific hybridization in harvester ants: Parasitism or kludge? *8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
Evolutionary consequences of pesticide exposure include transgenerational plasticity and potential terminal investment transgenerational effects8
Exploring adaptive landscapes across deep time: A case study using echinoid body size8
Estimation of the strength of mate preference from mated pairs observed in the wild8
Inversions shape the divergence ofDrosophila pseudoobscuraandDrosophila persimilison multiple timescales7
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations7
Experimental manipulation of sexual traits in barn swallow populations—No evidence for divergent sexual selection7
Digest: Evolutionary rescue following the introduction of a pathogen *7
Issue information ‐ Ed Board7
The contribution of extra‐pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age‐specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species7
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus7
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird7
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa7
Small-scale genetic differentiation in mean flowering time, but not in plasticity, along a geothermal heating gradient7
Ecdysis‐related neuropeptide expression and metamorphosis in a non‐ecdysozoan bilaterian7
Response to technical comment by Muir (2022) on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Partial paternity does not always select for female‐biased care7
Issue information ‐ Ed Board7
Artificial mosaic brain evolution of relative telencephalon size improves inhibitory control abilities in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )7
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection7
Digest: Morphological diversity in urban dark-eyed juncos7
Temperature predicts the rate of molecular evolution in Australian Eugongylinae skinks7
On the origin of patterns of temperature-dependent sex determination7
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant7
Digest: Social context underlies subordinate status in a primitively social bee7
Digest: Drivers of diversification in Indo‐Australian monitor lizards*7
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus7
Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi *7
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought7
Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery7
Trade‐offs in expressed major histocompatibility complex diversity seen on a macroevolutionary scale among songbirds7
Natural selection fluctuates at an extremely fine spatial scale inside a wild population of snapdragon plants7
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants6
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models6
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?6
Digest: Stabilizing selection drives sperm length divergence in promiscuous passerines6
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior6
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration6
Does brain size of Asiatic toads (Bufo gargarizans) trade-off with other energetically expensive organs along altitudinal gradients?6
Widespread reticulate evolution in an adaptive radiation6
Both selection and drift drive the spatial pattern of adaptive genetic variation in a wild mammal6
Digest: Asymmetrical introgression of belly coloration across a manakin hybrid zone in Panama6
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”6
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