Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits71
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation62
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards46
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees44
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations34
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm32
Philosophical foundations of microevolution32
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals32
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction31
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes31
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases30
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster28
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration28
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness27
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite27
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward26
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry26
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates26
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems26
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish25
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes25
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation24
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae24
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment24
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior24
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach24
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence23
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration23
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes23
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution23
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior22
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves22
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)22
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success22
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations22
Issue information ‐ Ed Board22
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?21
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes21
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows20
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea : implications for divergence and constraint20
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders20
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa20
Why do hybrids turn down sex?19
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques19
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data18
Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides18
Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes.18
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection18
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology18
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates18
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels18
Hitting rock bottom: exaptation, ecological filtering, and the benthopelagic divergence of percid fishes17
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids17
The change in a mean measurement that is invariant under reshuffling of genes17
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster17
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits17
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks17
Selection bias in mutation accumulation17
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both16
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly16
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog16
Distinct intraspecific diversification dynamics in Neotropical montane versus lowland canopy birds (Thraupidae: Tangara ) revealed by whole-genome compar16
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model16
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments16
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners16
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems16
Genetic parallelism underlying repeated bill divergence in the Island Scrub-jay ( Aphelocoma insularis ) increases at higher genetic levels of organizati16
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization15
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis15
A pangenomic approach reveals the sources of genetic variation fueling the rapid radiation of Capuchino Seedeaters15
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model15
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers15
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm15
CORRIGENDUM15
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
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?15
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions15
Improving inference and avoiding overinterpretation of hidden‐state diversification models: Specialized plant breeding has no effect on diversification in frogs15
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness14
Early-warning signals of impending speciation14
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Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species14
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs14
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability14
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly14
Phenotypic plasticity as a function of genetic polymorphism: thermal dominance reversal in Drosophila species with contrasting melanism14
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions14
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies14
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives14
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory14
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”14
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning14
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior14
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards14
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life13
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments13
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica13
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses13
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility13
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes13
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong13
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish13
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model12
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)12
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism12
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients12
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
Parental care liberates juvenile growth: a common-garden test of the evolutionary benefits of care12
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments12
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?12
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues12
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms12
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )12
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis12
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers12
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders12
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback12
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets11
Applications of evolutionary science11
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection11
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de11
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction11
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species11
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species11
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites11
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture11
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon11
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago11
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies11
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae11
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story11
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution10
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait10
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds10
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system10
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes10
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species10
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation10
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments10
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism10
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone10
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits10
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)10
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures10
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Persistence of the persistent9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards9
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs9
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’9
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species9
Evolution of dominance in a Mendelian trait is linked to the evolution of environmental plasticity9
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates9
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
The emergence of group fitness9
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
Digest: Parks aren’t just for us: city parks as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties8
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
Loss of pair formation predates the evolution of male-less society in termites8
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
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
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Sex ratio theory for facultative parthenogens: from fortuitously optimal stick insects to the origin of haplodiploidy in Hymenoptera8
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
Expression of Concern: The relationship between sexual dimorphism and androgen response element proliferation in primate genomes7
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae7
Genetic drift drives faster-Z evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis7
Correction to: Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes7
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
A junk-filled genome7
How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes7
Ecological theater, evolutionary play, and collective behavior7
Can sexual selection promote within-species divergence of male genitalia? A study case with a male-dimorphic arachnid7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
Parallel and non-parallel phenotypic responses to environmental variation across Lesser Antillean anoles7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding7
Correction to: Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?7
Evolutionary Adaptation in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Evolutionary potential and constraints in an aposematic species: genetic correlations between warning coloration and fitness components in wood tiger moths7
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