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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction69
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits56
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation53
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster41
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes38
Philosophical foundations of microevolution35
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations33
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration32
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes32
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees31
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases29
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm28
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards27
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish27
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment27
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior27
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system26
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward26
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems25
Polyploidy and mutation in Arabidopsis25
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone25
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite25
Sexual selection towards a protamine expression ratio optimum in two rodent groups?25
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae24
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates24
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration24
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence23
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*23
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness22
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality22
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry22
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice*22
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach22
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation22
Issue information ‐ Ed Board21
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques21
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows21
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior21
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes20
Why do hybrids turn down sex?20
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves20
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution20
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)19
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus19
Ecdysis‐related neuropeptide expression and metamorphosis in a non‐ecdysozoan bilaterian19
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success18
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea: implications for divergence and constraint18
Digest: Macroevolutionary pattern from microevolutionary processes *18
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?18
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa18
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels18
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Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes18
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations18
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Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates17
Sick of eating: Eco‐evo‐immuno dynamics of predators and their trophically acquired parasites17
Selection bias in mutation accumulation17
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster17
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection17
CANCER AND EVOLUTION: A STORY OF CHEATERS AND REBELS17
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology17
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog17
Digest: No conflict of interest between the sexes for optimal immune response in threespine stickleback *17
Wolbachia and host intrinsic reproductive barriers contribute additively to postmating isolation in spider mites17
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids17
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners17
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks16
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both16
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Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides16
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments16
Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster16
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
CORRIGENDUM15
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly15
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives15
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems15
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model15
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm15
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs15
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle14
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization14
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions14
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly14
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species14
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards14
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior14
Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self‐compatible mating system*14
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?14
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis14
Improving inference and avoiding overinterpretation of hidden‐state diversification models: Specialized plant breeding has no effect on diversification in frogs14
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions13
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species13
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats13
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution13
Comparing the hermaphroditic mating system of a parasitic flatworm between populations with an ancestral, three-host life cycle and a derived, facultative precocious life cycle13
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability13
Early-warning signals of impending speciation13
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model13
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness13
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers13
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Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility13
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model13
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues12
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica12
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments12
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning12
Genetics of quantitative traits with dominance under stabilizing and directional selection in partially selfing species12
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life12
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes12
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory12
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies12
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments12
Testing the adaptive value of sporulation in budding yeast using experimental evolution12
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)12
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?12
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses12
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers12
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation12
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong12
Comparing diversification rates in lakes, rivers, and the sea12
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species11
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )11
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution11
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets11
Applications of evolutionary science11
Aberrant RNA splicing due to genetic incompatibilities in sunflower hybrids11
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback11
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test11
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon11
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species11
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
Cytogenomic analysis unveils mixed molecular evolution and recurrent chromosomal rearrangements shaping the multigene families onSchistocercagrasshopper genomes10
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas10
Multidimensional divergent selection, local adaptation, and speciation10
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko10
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits10
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism10
Speciation rates are positively correlated with the rate of plumage color evolution in hummingbirds10
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait10
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina10
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae10
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata10
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture10
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation10
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites10
Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs10
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de10
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone10
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies10
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story10
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds9
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace9
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids9
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)9
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system9
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes9
Taking fear back into the Marginal Value Theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles9
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush9
The emergence of group fitness9
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Sewall Wright's criticism of the gene's‐eye view of evolution8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Inversions shape the divergence ofDrosophila pseudoobscuraandDrosophila persimilison multiple timescales8
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought8
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant8
Issue information ‐ Ed Board8
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence8
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Sex ratio theory for facultative parthenogens: from fortuitously optimal stick insects to the origin of haplodiploidy in Hymenoptera8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Digest: Evolutionary rescue following the introduction of a pathogen *8
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
A response to Justen et al. 2020: Estimating hybridization rates in the wild: Easier said than done?7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
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2020 Hindsight: Should evolutionary virologists have expected the unexpected during a pandemic?7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
A junk-filled genome7
The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions7
Functional modularity and mechanical stress shape plastic responses during fish development7
The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
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Juvenile and total reproductive values for sexual reproduction under any genetic system7
Genetic drift drives faster-Z evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis7
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