Journal of Theoretical Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Theoretical Biology 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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The eco-evolutionary modelling of populations and their traits using a measure of trait differentiation74
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Modeling the influence of cell–cell contact and TGF-β signaling on the epithelial mesenchymal transition in MCF7 breast carcinoma cells46
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A mathematical model to evaluate the role of memory B and T cells in heterologous secondary dengue infection42
Cell size homeostasis under the circadian regulation of cell division in cyanobacteria42
Internal phosphorus recycling promotes rich and complex dynamics in an algae-phosphorus model: Implications for eutrophication management39
A dynamical model for the origin of anisogamy39
An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila37
Evolution of mixed mating: Effects of among-parent variation in early-acting inbreeding depression coupled with overproduction of ovules33
Second compartment widens plasmid invasion conditions: Two-compartment pair-formation model of conjugation in the gut32
Resource budget model with Duffing oscillator for dynamics of synchronized biennial-bearing olives in the Levant31
A framework for relating natural movement to length and quality of life in human and non-human animals30
Topological early warning signals: Quantifying varying routes to extinction in a spatially distributed population model29
The impact of codon choice on translation process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: folding class, protein function and secondary structure28
LRBmat: A novel gut microbial interaction and individual heterogeneity inference method for colorectal cancer28
Deciphering circulating tumor cells binding in a microfluidic system thanks to a parameterized mathematical model28
Linking the disease transmission to information dissemination dynamics: An insight from a multi-scale model study25
Modelling uniaxial non-uniform yeast colony growth: Comparing an agent-based model and continuum approximations24
Nonlinear thermodynamics of biological signal transduction for predicting conservation of entropy production rate24
In Remembrance: Professor Lewis Wolpert24
A model of tubulin removal and exchange caused by kinesin motor walking on microtubule lattices22
Using geometry to rank evenness measures: Towards a deeper understanding of divergence21
Identifiability and inference of phylogenetic birth–death models21
Modeling the response of homogeneous and heterogeneous cerebral capillary networks to local changes in vessel diameters21
Learning to hunt: A data-driven stochastic feedback control model of predator–prey interactions20
Lewy body radius growth: The hypothesis of the cube root of time dependency20
Social context modulates scale-free movements in a social insect20
Computational modeling implicates protein scaffolding in p38 regulation of Akt19
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The central role of host reproduction in determining the evolution of virulence in spatially structured populations18
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Genomic compliance with Chargaff’s second parity rule may have originated non-adaptively, but stem-loops now function adaptively18
Network-based uncertainty quantification for mathematical models in epidemiology17
Exploring COVID-19 transmission patterns and key factors during epidemics caused by three major strains in Asia17
Separation of evolutionary timescales in coevolving species17
Peripheral straightness leads to shape diversification during formations of entire leaves16
A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments16
Unraveling the origin of glucose mediated disparate proliferation dynamics of cancer stem cells16
An approximate solution of the SLIP model under the regime of linear angular dynamics during stance and the stability of symmetric periodic running gaits16
Maintaining the proliferative cell niche in multicellular models of epithelia16
Impact of intervention on the spread of COVID-19 in India: A model based study15
A process-based life cycle of the cabbage stem flea beetle on winter oilseed rape: effects of temperature15
Extinctions as a vestige of instability: The geometry of stability and feasibility15
The long term effects of uncoupling interventions as a therapy for dementia in humans15
SIRS epidemics with individual heterogeneity of immunity waning15
The relative importance of social information use for population abundance in group-living and non-grouping prey15
Rules of nature’s Formula Run: Muscle mechanics during late stance is the key to explaining maximum running speed15
Inference on the structure of gene regulatory networks15
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A model of time-dependent macromolecular and elemental composition of phytoplankton14
Branching architecture affects genetic diversity within an individual tree14
Cargo transport properties are enhanced by cylindrical microtubule geometry and elliptical contact zone on cargo surface14
Bidirectional, unlike unidirectional transport, allows transporting axonal cargos against their concentration gradient14
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Multiple cohort study of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 in-host infection dynamics: Parameter estimates, identifiability, sensitivity and the eclipse phase profile14
Evolutionary game dynamics with non-uniform interaction rates in finite population13
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Calcium-dependent insulin resistance in hepatocytes: mathematical model13
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Humeri under external load: Mechanical implications of differing bone curvature in American otter and honey badger13
Pattern formation in marsh ecosystems modeled through the interaction of marsh vegetation, mussels and sediment13
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Coevolution of the reckless prey and the patient predator13
Spatial dynamics of inflammation-causing and commensal bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract13
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Evaluation of innate and adaptive immune system interactions in the tumor microenvironment via a 3D continuum model12
Sisyphus and his rock: Quasi-random walk inspired by the motion of a ball transported by a dung beetle on combined terrain12
A mathematical model of the within-host kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies following COVID-19 vaccination12
Phenotypic variation modulates the growth dynamics and response to radiotherapy of solid tumours under normoxia and hypoxia12
Estimating survival in continuous space from mark-dead-recovery data — Towards a continuous version of the multinomial dead recovery model12
A novel cost framework reveals evidence for competitive selection in the evolution of complex traits during plant domestication12
The influence of prey availability on behavioral decisions and reproductive success of a central-place forager during lactation12
Computational model of articular cartilage regeneration induced by scaffold implantation in vivo11
Optimal control of pattern formations for an SIR reaction–diffusion epidemic model11
A novel 3D atomistic-continuum cancer invasion model: In silico simulations of an in vitro organotypic invasion assay11
Genetic networks encode secrets of their past11
Vaccination strategies in a pair formation model for human papillomavirus infection: An optimal control approach11
The non-pharmaceutical interventions may affect the advantage in transmission of mutated variants during epidemics: A conceptual model for COVID-1911
Interrelating neuronal morphology by coincidence similarity networks11
The effect of heterogeneity of relative vaccine costs on the mean population vaccination rate with mpox as an example11
Uncertainty quantification for the random HIV dynamical model driven by drug adherence11
Mechanism of carbachol-induced 40 Hz gamma oscillations and the effects of NMDA activation on oscillatory dynamics in a model of the CA3 subfield of the hippocampus11
Spatial scales in human movement between reservoirs of infection11
The evolution of germ-soma specialization under different genetic and environmental effects11
Life history and deleterious mutation rate coevolution11
Artificial selection of communities drives the emergence of structured interactions11
A mathematical model to study the impact of intra-tumour heterogeneity on anti-tumour CD8+ T cell immune response11
The series of a four-node motif and coherent type-1 feed-forward loop can provide sensitive detection over arbitrary range of input signal, thereby explain Weber’s law in higher-order sensory processe11
A letter to the editor about the article “The modularity codes”11
The nasal cavity of the bearded seal: An effective and robust organ for retaining body heat and water11
Cell population growth kinetics in the presence of stochastic heterogeneity of cell phenotype10
Evolution of labor division in reproduction and multiple group tasks10
Rate-dependent effects of state-specific sodium channel blockers in cardiac tissue: Insights from idealized models10
On the fitness of informative cues in complex environments10
Noise-induced entrainment of the circadian clock by thermoperiods in tomato: A computational approach10
Stochastic simulation of a model for circadian rhythms in plants10
Dynamics of prion proliferation under combined treatment of pharmacological chaperones and interferons10
On the Fourier transform of a quantitative trait: Implications for compressive sensing10
Pillars of biology: Boolean modeling of gene-regulatory networks10
Optimization of antitumor radiotherapy fractionation via mathematical modeling with account of 4 R’s of radiobiology10
Dynamics and risk sharing in groups of selfish individuals10
Role of coupling distances in a coupled thalamocortical network in the treatment of epilepsy10
Modelling female physiology from head to Toe: Impact of sex hormones, menstrual cycle, and pregnancy10
Use of 3D chaos game representation to quantify DNA sequence similarity with applications for hierarchical clustering10
Modeling the effects of air pollutants and meteorological factors on scarlet fever in five provinces, Northwest China, 2013–201810
Chemotaxis in heterogeneous environments: A multi-agent model of decentralized gathering past obstacles10
Model of drug delivery to populations composed of two cell types9
On minimising tumoural growth under treatment resistance9
The influence of methylation status on a stochastic model of MGMT dynamics in glioblastoma: Phenotypic selection can occur with and without a downshift in promoter methylation status9
How temporal environmental stochasticity affects species richness: Destabilization, neutralization and the storage effect9
A stochastic model for topographically influenced cell migration9
Evaluating the impact of human flow on the spread of infectious diseases9
Hormonal regulation of ovarian follicle growth in humans: Model-based exploration of cycle variability and parameter sensitivities9
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Exploring the role of the potential surface in the behaviour of early warning signals9
A cell model about symmetric and asymmetric stem cell division9
Doubling time of infectious diseases9
A phenotype-structured model to reproduce the avascular growth of a tumor and its interaction with the surrounding environment9
Ancestral process for infectious disease outbreaks with superspreading9
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Kinetics, thresholds, and a comparison of mechanisms underlying systemic infection by Listeria monocytogenes9
Approximating steady state distributions for household structured epidemic models9
HIV transactivation: Stochastic modeling for studying the effects of BET inhibitors on the modulation of P-TEFb levels9
Mathematical models of retinitis pigmentosa: The trophic factor hypothesis9
Modelling how increased Cathepsin B/L and decreased TMPRSS2 usage for cell entry by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant may affect the efficacy and synergy of TMPRSS2 and Cathepsin B/L inhibitors9
A simplified longitudinal model for the development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus9
Crick’s “Frozen accident theory” of the genetic code explored by Ising models8
Modelling COVID-19 dynamics and potential for herd immunity by vaccination in Austria, Luxembourg and Sweden8
Multi-scale model of lumen formation via inverse membrane blebbing mechanism during sprouting angiogenesis process8
Age-dependence of food allergy due to decreased supply of naïve T cells8
The heterogeneous mixing model of COVID-19 with interventions8
Evolutionary emergence of plant and pollinator polymorphisms in consumer-resource mutualisms8
Temperature variability regulates the interactive effects of warming and pharmaceutical on aquatic ecosystem dynamics8
Effect of permeability on the initiation of Atherosclerosis modeled as an inflammatory process8
Modeling transit time distributions in microvascular networks8
Parameter identifiability and model selection for sigmoid population growth models8
A 3D mathematical model of coupled stem cell-nutrient dynamics in myocardial regeneration therapy8
An adaptive numerical method for multi-cellular simulations of tissue development and maintenance8
Passive electrolocation in terrestrial arthropods: Theoretical modelling of location detection8
Application of growth rate from kinetic model to calculate stochastic growth of a bacteria population at low contamination level8
A new real-time analog circuit of Ca2+ Li-Rinzel astrocyte model based on analytical method8
Comment on the article “Spatially-extended nucleation-aggregation-fragmentation models for the dynamics of prion-like neurodegenerative protein-spreading in the brain and its connectome 486 (2020) 1108
Spreading speed of chronic wasting disease across deer groups with overlapping home ranges8
Downstream resource leakage a necessary condition for the stress-gradient hypothesis in processing chain commensalisms8
Using registry data to identify individual dairy cows with abnormal patterns in routinely recorded somatic cell counts8
A resource-based mechanistic framework for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)8
Evolutionary coexistence in a metacommunity: Competition-colonization trade-off, ownership effects, environmental fluctuations8
Disentangling the growth curve of microbial culture8
Multi-timescale analysis of midbrain dopamine neuronal firing activities8
Optimal control of combination immunotherapy for a virtual murine cohort in a glioblastoma-immune dynamics model7
Modeling long COVID dynamics: Impact of underlying health conditions7
Identifying critical regulatory interactions in cell fate decision and transition by systematic perturbation analysis7
Analysis of phenotype-genotype associations using genomic informational field theory (GIFT)7
Computational model of the cancer necrotic core formation in a tumor-on-a-chip device7
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A multiscale continuum model of the vertebrate outer retina: The temporal dynamics of background-induced flicker enhancement7
Propagation of an idealized infection in an airway tree, consequences of the inflammation on the oxygen transfer to blood7
Cell orientation under stretch: A review of experimental findings and mathematical modelling7
Effects of a differentiating therapy on cancer-stem-cell-driven tumors7
Optic flow enrichment via Drosophila head and retina motions to support inflight position regulation7
Evaluation of entropy and fractal dimension as biomarkers for tumor growth and treatment response using cellular automata7
Corrigendum to “Multiscale numerical workflow describing microalgae motion and light pattern incidence towards population growth in a photobioreactor” [J. Theoret. Biol. 498 (2020) 110293]7
Phenomenological-based model of glucose transport from liver to abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue7
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The dynamics of relapses during treatment switch in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis7
Geometrically balanced model of cell growth7
Multiple colonies of cancer involved in mutual suppression with the immune system7
Choice of spatial discretisation influences the progression of viral infection within multicellular tissues7
Insights into the dynamics of ligand-induced dimerisation via mathematical modelling and analysis7
Modeling phyllotaxis: From the inhibition potential to the real plant7
PD-based ADRC using time-varying gains: An application to microalgal-based bioprocess7
Modeling identifies variability in SARS-CoV-2 uptake and eclipse phase by infected cells as principal drivers of extreme variability in nasal viral load in the 48 h post infection7
On the misuse of evolutionary theory to bolster the ‘scientific’ case for intelligent design: A cautionary note7
Mechanisms of the end-plate potential noise and its implication for the neuromuscular junction anatomy6
Data-driven models for the risk of infection and hospitalization during a pandemic: Case study on COVID-19 in Nepal6
Where do successful populations originate from?6
Predicting pathways for old and new metabolites through clustering6
The importance of ecological dynamics in evolutionary processes: A host-bacteriophage model revisited6
Representing stimulus information in an energy metabolism pathway6
Conformity and anti-conformity in a finite population6
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Virulence management: Closing the feedback loop between healthcare interventions and virulence evolution6
A virtual host model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection identifies early immune events as predictive of infection outcomes6
Inference on tissue transplantation experiments6
Hot-topics cross-propagation and opinion-transfer dynamics in the Chinese Sina-microblog social media: A modeling study6
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Optimal control applied to Zika virus epidemics in Colombia and Puerto Rico6
Hamilton’s rule and kin competition in a finite kin population6
Revisiting the exclusion principle in epidemiology at the limit of a large competitive advantage6
Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms6
Theoretical investigation of the dependence of population parameters on initial population size6
Distributions of 4-subtree patterns for uniform random unrooted phylogenetic trees6
Evolution of life cycle dimorphism: An example of sacoglossan sea slugs6
Optimal spatial monitoring of populations described by reaction–diffusion models6
Accounting for dimensional differences in stochastic domain invasion with applications to precancerous cell removal6
Flow modeling and structural characterization in fungal pellets6
Autocatalytic-protection for an unknown locus CRISPR-Cas countermeasure for undesired mutagenic chain reactions6
The mechanism of pattern transitions between formation and dispersion6
Pandemic modelling for regions implementing an elimination strategy6
A phosphoinositide-based model of actin waves in frustrated phagocytosis6
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A PID controller for synchronization between master-slave neurons in fractional-order of neocortical network model6
Enhanced precision of circadian rhythm by output system6
Cell position-based evaluation of mechanical features of cells in multicellular systems6
Numerical modeling of senile plaque development under conditions of limited diffusivity of amyloid-β monomers6
Inverted repeats in coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 genome manifest the evolution events6
A process-based, stage-structured model of potato cyst nematode population dynamics: Effects of temperature and resistance6
Pillars of theoretical biology: “Biochemical systems analysis, I, II and III”6
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Uncertainty and error in SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological parameters inferred from population-level epidemic models6
Joint impacts of media, vaccination and treatment on an epidemic Filippov model with application to COVID-196
Estimating the basic reproduction number from noisy daily data6
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Mathematical modeling of ventilator-induced lung inflammation6
Boolean function metrics can assist modelers to check and choose logical rules6
Costly punishment sustains indirect reciprocity under low defection detectability6
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Stochasticity-induced persistence in coupled social-ecological systems6
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A multi-strain model with asymptomatic transmission: Application to COVID-19 in the US6
Plant–pollinator interaction model with separate pollen and nectar dynamics5
Tradeoffs in the energetic value of neuromodulation in a closed-loop neuromechanical system5
Inferring absolute cell numbers from relative proportion in stochastic models with cell plasticity5
Corrigendum to “Bacterial resistance to antibodies: A model evolutionary study” [J. Theor. Biol. 417 (2017) 61–67]5
Kinetic analysis of prothrombinase assembly and substrate delivery mechanisms5
Optimal dormancy strategies in fluctuating environments given delays in phenotypic switching5
What does the tree of life look like as it grows? Evolution and the multifractality of time5
Causal theory on acceleration of seed germination in the vicinity of high voltage direct current transmission line5
Modified susceptible–exposed–infectious–recovered model for assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul5
How do productivity gradient and diffusion shape patterns in a plant–herbivore grazing system?5
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Flock2: A model for orientation-based social flocking5
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Beyond predation: Fish–coral interactions can tip the scales of coral disease5
A mathematical model for wound healing in the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis5
A single-locus quantitative genetic model incorporating DNA methylation5
Numerical investigation of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the chemotherapeutic drug in avascular and vascular stages of a brain tumor5
Lactate’s behavioral switch in the brain: An in-silico model5
Spatially-dependent model for rods and cones in the retina5
Modelling count data with partial differential equation models in biology5
Circulating renin-angiotensin systems mediated feedback controls over the mean-arterial pressure5
Evolution of enzyme levels in metabolic pathways: A theoretical approach. Part 25
Square root identities for harvested Beverton–Holt models5
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Antisocial peer exclusion does not eliminate the effectiveness of prosocial peer exclusion in structured populations5
Runaway signals: Exaggerated displays of commitment may result from second-order signaling5
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