Journal of Experimental Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Biology is 5. 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
Imposter eggs of pecking cowbirds have stronger shells for protection99
Flexible wings take the effort out of swimming for diving penguins81
In the field: an interview with Roger Hanlon63
Visual nerve cells cross-communicate for fruit fly hasty exit54
ECR Spotlight – J. Lisa Hoogenboom42
ECR Spotlight – Elizabeth Atchoi42
ECR Spotlight – Callum McLean41
Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance41
ECR Spotlight – Corbin Rasmussen38
Bichirs start walking when the water gets shallow36
Sensing CO2 makes black-legged ticks quest for hosts36
Damaged insect ciliated neurons regrow axons as effectively as other neurons35
Dopamine 1-like receptor in the brain holds key to zombie cockroach transformation33
ECR Spotlight – Brett Culbert32
Different tadpole diets change how spadefoot toads react as adults32
ECR Spotlight – Udit Halder and Katya Gribkova31
Diet alters how opaleyes cope with heat31
Multiple axes of visual system diversity in Ithomiini, an ecologically diverse tribe of mimetic butterflies30
Weddell seal pups keep swimming when trading in fluff to cut costs30
Spring-powered mantis shrimp larvae punch like Ma and Pa29
Climbing parrots push and pull to counteract gravity29
Drosophila yeast lodgers are more than dietary supplement28
ECR Spotlight – Yanira Jiménez-Padilla28
Trained anoles move leucine to surprising areas27
Nile tilapia sagitta ear bones play dual role in balance and hearing27
Fluoromicrometry reveals minimal influence of tendon elasticity during snake locomotion27
Acute thermal stress elicits interactions between gene expression and alternative splicing in a fish of conservation concern26
ECR Spotlight – Nina Bean26
Ghrelin suppresses water intake with a different physiological significance from atrial natriuretic peptide in conscious seawater-acclimated eels26
Ultraviolet vision in anemonefish improves colour discrimination26
The impact of metabolic plasticity on winter energy use models25
ECR Spotlight – Brittney G. Borowiec25
Directional biosonar beams allow echolocating harbour porpoises to actively discriminate and intercept closely spaced targets25
Loud noise in early development wrecks zebrafish hearing24
Streamlining allows fan worms to make a speedy retreat24
Freshwater methamphetamine pollution turns brown trout into addicts24
ECR Spotlight – Jeffrey Hainer24
Using the reactive scope model to redefine the concept of social stress in fishes23
ECR Spotlight – Szymon Szymański23
Burly lantern bugs are lightning-fast leapers23
European seabass recover sense of smell lost in fresh water23
Promise of safety can overcome crayfish fear23
Extraordinary creatures: Tenrec ecaudatus (the common tenrec)23
ECR Spotlight – Gebrehaweria Reda23
The drawback of placentas for live-bearing fish23
Correction: Behavioural analysis of swarming mosquitoes reveals high hearing sensitivity in Anopheles coluzzii22
2024: Reflections on a year of supporting and promoting our early-career researchers22
Australian imperial blue butterflies see polarised light, even on the move22
Correction: Boat noise interferes with Lusitanian toadfish acoustic communication22
Light fine-tunes electric fish pulses to keep them in the shade21
Spitting cobras keep constant venom viscosity21
ECR Spotlight – Igor Noll Guagnoni21
ECR Spotlight – Lauren Rowsey21
JEB@100: an interview with Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sheila Patek21
CO2 bee anaesthetic can cause complications21
Rearing seahorses trigger powerful gulps21
Sensor cells in the brain wake up hibernating hamsters21
Microbiome lodgers help protect tadpoles from climate change21
ECR Spotlight – Michael Lim20
Thermal preference does not align with optimal temperature for aerobic scope in zebrafish (Danio rerio)20
How does mitochondrial function relate to thermogenic capacity and basal metabolic rate in small birds?20
Methyltransferase at the heart of stress response of all bees20
Physiological responses to acute warming at the agitation temperature in a temperate shark20
ECR Spotlight – Elisa Thoral19
Head lice dispose of blood meal fluid through breathing tubules19
Finches can lose weight without dieting or exercising19
ECR Spotlight – Stacey Shield and Naoya Muramatsu19
ECR Spotlight – Brett Hodinka19
In the field: an interview with Chris Wood19
ECR Spotlight – Kristina Muise19
ECR Spotlight – Mal Graham19
Desert grassland scorpions might navigate by touch and taste18
Correction: Ontogenetic changes in limb posture, kinematics, forces and joint moments in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)18
Microbiome transplant helps wood frog tadpoles handle heat18
Correction: The evolution of vertical climbing in primates: evidence from reaction forces18
Younger sidewinders weave identically to their elders18
Long shanks make jumping easier in mice18
Night-time light pollution makes flightless crickets more drought resistant18
Methamphetamine pollution elicits addiction in wild fish17
Climate change spells disaster for termite-loving numbats17
Light pollution makes woodlice less bold17
Correction: Intergenerational plasticity to cycling high temperature and hypoxia affects offspring stress responsiveness and tolerance in zebrafish17
More siblings means better survival for some songbirds17
ECR Spotlight – Danielle Blumstein17
ECR Spotlight – Jeanne Brülhart17
Extraordinary creatures: raptors17
Chronic bacterial infections exert metabolic costs in Drosophila melanogaster17
Picky city frogs: urban noise and light indirectly affect mate choice17
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Katie Gilmour17
ECR Spotlight – Janneke Schwaner17
ECR Spotlight – Derek Campos17
The effect of moisture during development on phenotypes of egg-laying reptiles: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
Thyroid hormones reversibly inhibit metamorphic development in ophiuroid larvae17
Monarch migration metabolism soars with rising temperatures17
ECR Spotlight – Akihiro Itahara17
Announcing the 2024 Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize shortlist and winner16
Kidnapped chloroplasts give emerald sea slugs climate change hope16
ECR Spotlight – Kwanho Ki16
Mini radiators adjust to stabilise dove body temperature16
Mutations in the albinism gene oca2 alter vision-dependent prey capture behavior in the Mexican tetra16
Habituation in mosquito larvae Aedes aegypti is context-specific16
Dolphins beat tails faster to stand up in water16
Murky waters make big eyes, but not big brains16
Transcriptomic correlates of nutritional manipulation in a facultatively social bee15
Effects of social environment and energy efficiency on preferred swim speed in a marine generalist fish, pile perch (Phanerodon vacca)15
Cryptochrome-dependent magnetoreception in a heteropteran insect continues even after 24 h in darkness15
Dung beetles knocked off course by uneven terrain15
Differences in backward and forward treadmill locomotion in decerebrated cats15
JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies15
Shorebirds shrinking and shape-shifting after hotter summers15
Soft tissue deformations explain most of the mechanical work variations of human walking15
ECR Spotlight – Michael Pedersen15
The energetic cost of human walking as a function of uneven terrain amplitude15
A new biomechanical model of the mammal jaw based on load path analysis15
Does the choosiness of female crickets change as they age?15
Higher-order dialectic variation and syntactic convergence in the complex warble song of budgerigars15
The relevance of vascular adjustments to hemodynamic control in the face of temperature change in Crotalus durissus14
Inside the coupling of ladybird beetle elytra: elastic setae can facilitate swift deployment14
Danionella cerebrum youngsters never practice to produce super-loud clicks14
Co-option of immune and digestive cellular machinery to support photosymbiosis in amoebocytes of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana14
Obligatory homeothermy of mesic habitat-adapted African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio, is governed by seasonal basal metabolism and year-round ‘thermogenic readiness’ of brown adipose tissue14
Trout surrogates could support single spawning salmon14
Multiscale flow between the branches and polyps of gorgonians14
Is hypoxia vulnerability in fishes a by-product of maximum metabolic rate?14
ECR Spotlight – Seth Shirazi14
Multispecies comparisons support a startle response origin for a novel vibrational signal in the cricket tribe Lebinthini14
Can animals tune tissue mechanics in response to changing environments caused by anthropogenic impacts?14
Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight14
Fish communicate with water flow to enhance a school's social network14
Bees with bigger thoraxes produce the strongest defence buzzes14
ECR Spotlight – Salvatore Lacava14
Metabolic rate and mitochondrial physiology adjustments in Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) during cyclic hypoxia14
Early life exposure to high temperature enhances locomotor performance without alteration in thermal ecology in different populations of Thoropa taophora tadpoles (Anura, Cycloramphidae)14
Barometric pressure decrease induces density-dependent changes in foraging behaviour in a parasitoid fly13
Flying on empty: reduced mitochondrial function and flight capacity in food-deprived monarch butterflies13
Temperature-dependent plasticity mediates heart morphology and thermal performance of cardiac function in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)13
Early exposure to UV radiation causes telomere shortening and poorer condition later in life13
Synchrony of complex signals in an acoustically communicating katydid13
Access to the sky near the horizon and stars does not play a crucial role in compass calibration of European songbird migrants13
Unruly octopuses are the rule: Octopus vulgaris use multiple and individually variable strategies in an episodic-like memory task13
Odor exposure during imprinting periods increases odorant-specific sensitivity and receptor gene expression in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)13
Histidine-rich calcium-binding protein: a molecular integrator of cardiac excitation–contraction coupling13
Development of sound production in Danionella cerebrum13
Zebrafish parental progeny investment in response to cycling thermal stress and hypoxia: deposition of heat shock proteins but not cortisol13
Head removal enhances planarian electrotaxis13
Close encounters of three kinds: impacts of leg, wing and body collisions on flight performance in carpenter bees13
The importance of muscle activation on the interpretation of muscle mechanical performance13
Plasticity of salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) respiratory phenotypes in response to changes in temperature and oxygen13
Force re-development after shortening reveals a role for titin in stretch–shortening performance enhancement in skinned muscle fibres13
Leafcutting bees defy aging by avoiding cell damage13
Dual spring force couples yield multifunctionality and ultrafast, precision rotation in tiny biomechanical systems13
Chasing the cheetah: how field biomechanics has evolved to keep up with the fastest land animal13
Measurements of body temperature and oxidative stress reveal differential costs associated with humoral immune function in a passerine bird13
Termites and other social insects as emerging model organisms of ageing research: how to achieve a long lifespan and a high fecundity13
Temperature fluctuations and estrone sulfate affect gene expression via different mechanisms to promote female development in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination13
Flight activity and effort of breeding pied flycatchers in the wild, revealed with accelerometers and machine learning12
Carbon dioxide and bicarbonate accumulation in caiman erythrocytes during diving12
Solar radiation alters heat balance and thermoregulation in a flying desert bee12
Sticky, stickier and stickiest – a comparison of adhesive performance in clingfish, lumpsuckers and snailfish12
Genome size influences adaptive plasticity of water loss, but not metabolic rates, in lungless salamanders12
House mice in human habitats are street-smart12
Scaling and development of elastic mechanisms: the tiny strikes of larval mantis shrimp12
Hindlimb muscle spindles inform preparatory forelimb coordination prior to landing in toads12
Foot extension and retraction in the clamCalyptogena okutaniiwithout any Keber's valve: an inflatable fastener bag model12
The contraction–expansion behaviour in the demosponge Tethya wilhelma is light controlled and follows a diurnal rhythm12
Innovative use of depth data to estimate energy intake and expenditure in Adélie penguins12
Functioning of unidirectional ventilation in flying hawkmoths evaluated by pressure and oxygen measurements and X-ray video and tomography12
Mouthpart adaptations of antlion larvae facilitate prey handling and fluid feeding in sandy habitats12
Detecting subtle subterranean movement via laser speckle imaging12
Aerial maneuvering by plethodontid salamanders spanning an arboreality gradient12
Bridging the divide in organismal physiology: a case for the integration of behaviour as a physiological process12
Maintaining control: metabolism of molting Arctic seals in water and when hauled out12
Prior parental experience attenuates hormonal stress responses and alters hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors in biparental rock doves12
Polarization sensitivity and decentralized visual processing in an animal with a distributed visual system12
Developmental plasticity of texture discrimination following early vision loss in the marsupialMonodelphis domestica12
Molecular and physiological characterization of a crustacean cardioactive signaling system in a lophotrochozoan – the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas): a role in reproduction and salinity acc12
Jaw kinematics and tongue protraction–retraction during chewing and drinking in the pig12
Microscopic friends help anemones tolerate the heat12
The mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer senses decreasing oxygen availability (PO2) and responds by reducing ion uptake and altering gene expression12
Fertilizers disrupt the electric feel of flowers12
A tale of two fish tails: does a forked tail really perform better than a truncate tail when cruising?12
Social and auditory experience shapes forebrain responsiveness in zebra finches before the sensitive period of vocal learning12
Hindlimb kinematics, kinetics and muscle dynamics during sit-to-stand and sit-to-walk transitions in emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae)12
Responses of terrestrial polar arthropods to high and increasing temperatures12
Residual force enhancement is not altered while force depression is amplified at the cellular level in old age12
Ants prefer the option they are trained to first12
Kinematic and hydrodynamic analyses of turning manoeuvres in penguins: body banking and wing upstroke generate centripetal force12
Climate change and polar marine invertebrates: life-history responses in a warmer, high CO2 world12
Accounting for body mass effects in the estimation of field metabolic rates from body acceleration12
Low production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species after anoxia and reoxygenation in turtle hearts11
Fish get sunburn too but mom-made gadusol can help11
The neuropeptide RhoprCCHamide2 inhibits serotonin-stimulated transcellular Na+ transport across the anterior midgut of the vector of Chagas disease, Rhodnius prolixus11
Epaxial and hypaxial co-contraction: a mechanism for modulating strike pressure and accuracy during suction feeding in channel catfish11
How rivalries shape the ranges of tropical birds11
Interspecific variation in bristle number on forewings of tiny insects does not influence clap-and-fling aerodynamics11
Early suppression of the endocannabinoid degrading enzymes FAAH and MAGL alters locomotor development in zebrafish11
Context-dependent effects on attack and defense behaviors in the praying mantisTenodera sinensis11
Muscle function during cross-country skiing at different speed and incline conditions11
Evolutionary trade-offs in osmotic and ionic regulation and expression of gill ion transporter genes in high latitude, cold clime Neotropical crabs from the ‘end of the world’11
The under-appreciated fats of life: the two types of polyunsaturated fats11
The role of thyroid hormones in the development of coloration of two species of Neotropical cichlids11
Blue whales not bothered by quake sounds11
Physiological insight into the evolution of complex phenotypes: aerobic performance and the O2 transport pathway of vertebrates11
Generation of propulsive force via vertical undulations in snakes11
Measuring the 3D wake of swimming snakes (Natrix tessellata) using volumetric particle image velocimetry11
Navigational strategies underlying temporal phototaxis in Drosophila larvae11
Joint mobility as a bridge between form and function11
Evidence for energy reallocation, not oxygen limitation, driving the deceleration in growth of adult fish11
Too big to study? The biologging approach to understanding the behavioural energetics of ocean giants11
Response to ‘Coming up for air’11
Speed-specific optimal contractile conditions of the human soleus muscle from slow to maximum running speed11
Large spiders don't stop under pressure11
Maternal food restriction during pregnancy affects offspring development and swimming performance in a placental live-bearing fish10
It takes time to heal a broken heart: ventricular plasticity improves heart performance after myocardial infarction in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss10
Spatial perception mediated by insect antennal mechanosensory system10
Functional loss of ketogenesis in odontocete cetaceans10
Urban dung beetles forge fresh paths10
Tuna keep their cool during heatwaves10
Muscle as a tunable material: implications for achieving muscle-like function in robotic prosthetic devices10
Impacts of repeated social defeat on behavior and the brain in a cichlid fish10
Thrust production and chordal flexion of the flukes of bottlenose dolphins performing tail stands at different efforts10
Comparative sound detection abilities of four decapod crustaceans10
Are reactive oxygen species always bad? Lessons from hypoxic ectotherms10
Counting Nemo: anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris identify species by number of white bars10
Environmental impact on visual perception modulates behavioral responses of schooling fish to looming predators10
Hibernating female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) adjust huddling and drinking behaviour, but not arousal frequency, in response to low humidity10
Cardiovascular responses and the role of the neurohumoral cardiac regulation during digestion in the herbivorous lizard Iguana iguana10
Formic acid modulates latency and accuracy of nestmate recognition in carpenter ants10
Plantar flexor muscles of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti) shorten at a velocity to produce optimal power during jumping10
Depth- and temperature-specific fatty acid adaptations in ctenophores from extreme habitats10
Acoustic deterrents influence foraging activity, flight and echolocation behaviour of free-flying bats10
Polarisation vision in the dark: green-sensitive photoreceptors in the nocturnal ball-rolling dung beetle Escarabaeus satyrus10
Diet influences resource allocation in chemical defence but not melanin synthesis in an aposematic moth10
Suction feeding biomechanics ofPolypterus bichir: investigating linkage mechanisms and the contributions of cranial kinesis to oral cavity volume change10
A secret gill…or a problem solved?10
The fluid dynamics of barnacle feeding10
Field physiology in the aquatic realm: ecological energetics and diving behavior provide context for elucidating patterns and deviations10
Quantifying avian inertial properties using calibrated computed tomography10
Leaky muscle, hotter otter10
Mechanical resilience of the sessile tunicate Botryllus schlosseri10
Temporal vision: measures, mechanisms and meaning10
Monarchs that fly long, live long10
Low achromatic contrast sensitivity in birds: a common attribute shared by many phylogenetic orders10
A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird10
Elastic energy storage across speeds during steady-state hopping of desert kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti)10
Sticky spittlebug foam forms predator pitfalls10
The impulse response of optic flow-sensitive descending neurons to roll m-sequences10
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans: more questions than answers9
Male and female syringeal muscles exhibit superfast shortening velocities in zebra finches9
Investigating the thermal sensitivity of key enzymes involved in the energetic metabolism of three insect species9
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