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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits80
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation75
Philosophical foundations of microevolution54
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees54
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm36
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness36
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes34
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration34
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior33
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation33
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction32
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster32
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates31
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems29
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae27
Probabilistic principal component analysis for phylogenetic comparative studies26
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment26
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes26
Wing length canalisation and behaviour across birds: a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance26
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases26
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations26
Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds-of-paradise26
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two-island system with continuous migration25
The long and difficult history of the path between Darwinism and Lamarckism25
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach24
The effects of developmental temperature and inbreeding on sexually selected traits of male guppies ( Poecilia reticulata )24
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence23
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution23
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards23
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals23
Why do hybrids turn down sex?22
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes22
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques21
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes20
Digest: Drift and environmental fluctuations reveal fitness variance under balancing selection20
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?20
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea : implications for divergence and constraint20
Issue information ‐ Ed Board19
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels19
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success19
Digest: Chance and necessity shape introgression patterns across three replicate avian hybrid zones19
Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders18
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior18
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders18
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa18
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations18
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves18
Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes18
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows18
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks17
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection17
Genetic parallelism underlying repeated bill divergence in the island scrub-jay ( Aphelocoma insularis ) increases at higher genetic levels of organizati17
Commentary: evidence that sexually antagonistic male coloration factors are clustered in a rarely recombining region near the guppy male-determining locus17
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Allochronic isolation between sympatric populations of an alpine butterfly17
The change in a mean measurement that is invariant under reshuffling of genes17
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates17
Digest: Reassortment-based evolution of H1N1 subtype swine influenza virus in China17
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster16
Distinct intraspecific diversification dynamics in Neotropical montane versus lowland canopy birds (Thraupidae: Tangara ) revealed by whole-genome compar16
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids16
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both16
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits16
Hitting rock bottom: exaptation, ecological filtering, and the benthopelagic divergence of percid fishes16
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model16
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology16
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments16
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems16
Comparing the hermaphroditic mating system of a parasitic flatworm between populations with an ancestral, three-host life cycle and a derived, facultative precocious life cycle15
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness15
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species15
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CORRIGENDUM15
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs15
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly15
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model15
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”15
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions15
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis15
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions15
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives14
Statistical decomposition of passive and active phenotypic plasticity in traits under homeostatic regulation14
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle14
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly14
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior14
Digest: thermal selection creates a mosaic of trait evolution14
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm14
Phenotypic plasticity as a function of genetic polymorphism: thermal dominance reversal in Drosophila species with contrasting melanism14
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism13
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms13
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback13
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life13
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders13
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning13
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong13
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients13
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago13
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species13
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis13
Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time13
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica13
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility13
A pangenomic approach reveals the sources of genetic variation fueling the rapid radiation of Capuchino Seedeaters13
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies13
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model13
Early-warning signals of impending speciation13
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory13
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes13
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish13
Conservation of sensory pathways implies a localized change in the mushroom bodies is associated with cognitive evolution in Heliconius butterflies12
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues12
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments12
Testing cohesive selective paths and evaluating loss of evolutionary information while delimiting species of Brazilian wandering spiders12
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution12
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de12
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets12
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )12
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback12
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation12
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae12
Applications of evolutionary science12
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection12
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?12
Parental care liberates juvenile growth: a common-garden test of the evolutionary benefits of care12
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses12
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon12
Issue information ‐ Ed Board12
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?12
The dose makes the poison and the lesson12
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction11
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds11
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko11
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata11
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation11
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story11
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism11
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species11
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites11
The evolution of thermal performance curves and life-history traits in responses to thermal selection11
Latitude and communal living are associated with the evolution of joint territory defense in New World songbirds11
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas11
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits11
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test11
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina11
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture11
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species11
Digest: same senses, different minds in Heliconius butterflies11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem10
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs10
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds10
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush10
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs10
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes10
Evolution of dominance in a Mendelian trait is linked to the evolution of environmental plasticity10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus10
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments10
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species9
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)9
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system9
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain9
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Monogamy is necessary but not sufficient for eusociality in African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)9
Persistence of the persistent9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
The emergence of group fitness9
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Pollinator assemblage composition predicts trait divergence in a pollination-generalized plant9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets9
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
Loss of pair formation predates the evolution of male-less society in termites8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
Sex ratio theory for facultative parthenogens: from fortuitously optimal stick insects to the origin of haplodiploidy in Hymenoptera8
Evolutionary history of delayed plumage maturation in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)8
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Insights from the “Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop” on gender equality in science8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Female reed warblers in social pairs with low MHC dissimilarity achieve higher MHC dissimilarity through random extra-pair mating8
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Divergent organelle allocation in the evolution of sperm gigantism revealed from subcellular quantification of nematode sperm with electron microscopy8
Genotype‐by‐environment interactions modulate the rate of microevolution in reproductive timing in humans7
Revisiting the Evolution of Wing Dimorphisms in the Genomics Era7
Evolutionary potential and constraints in an aposematic species: genetic correlations between warning coloration and fitness components in wood tiger moths7
Maternal effects do not resolve the paradox of stasis in birth weight in a wild red deer populaton7
The DNA of bias: science, identity, and the fight for belonging7
Parallel and non-parallel phenotypic responses to environmental variation across Lesser Antillean anoles7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
A junk-filled genome7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Genetic drift drives faster-Z evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis7
Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion7
Caenorhabditis diversity on Pohnpei, Micronesia, provides evidence that the Elegans Supergroup has its roots in the Americas and diversified in the Pacific 7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
Correction to: Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes7
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
Genetics of adaptation and fitness landscapes: From toy models to testable quantitative predictions7
The city and forest bird flock together in a common garden: genetic and environmental effects drive urban phenotypic divergence7
The rate of chromosomal inversion fixation in plant genomes is highly variable7
Genetic offset and vulnerability modeling under climate change scenarios: common misinterpretations and violations of evolutionary principles7
Microgeographic diversity does not drive macroevolutionary divergence in bite force of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Expression of Concern: The relationship between sexual dimorphism and androgen response element proliferation in primate genomes7
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