Journal of Theoretical Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Theoretical 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Resource budget model with Duffing oscillator for dynamics of synchronized biennial-bearing olives in the Levant86
Modeling the influence of cell–cell contact and TGF-β signaling on the epithelial mesenchymal transition in MCF7 breast carcinoma cells73
Learning to hunt: A data-driven stochastic feedback control model of predator–prey interactions56
LRBmat: A novel gut microbial interaction and individual heterogeneity inference method for colorectal cancer50
Evolution of mixed mating: Effects of among-parent variation in early-acting inbreeding depression coupled with overproduction of ovules46
Topological early warning signals: Quantifying varying routes to extinction in a spatially distributed population model43
An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila35
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Modeling the response of homogeneous and heterogeneous cerebral capillary networks to local changes in vessel diameters32
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A model of tubulin removal and exchange caused by kinesin motor walking on microtubule lattices28
Cell size homeostasis under the circadian regulation of cell division in cyanobacteria27
A mathematical model to evaluate the role of memory B and T cells in heterologous secondary dengue infection27
A framework for relating natural movement to length and quality of life in human and non-human animals26
Deciphering circulating tumor cells binding in a microfluidic system thanks to a parameterized mathematical model25
Second compartment widens plasmid invasion conditions: Two-compartment pair-formation model of conjugation in the gut24
Inter-city infections and the role of size heterogeneity in containment strategies24
The effect of oxidative stress on the leading edge of the a-wave in retinitis pigmentosa24
Social context modulates scale-free movements in a social insect23
Stability and reactivity of food webs with trophic interactions22
Lewy body radius growth: The hypothesis of the cube root of time dependency20
Internal phosphorus recycling promotes rich and complex dynamics in an algae-phosphorus model: Implications for eutrophication management19
Identifiability and inference of phylogenetic birth–death models19
Extinctions as a vestige of instability: The geometry of stability and feasibility18
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An approximate solution of the SLIP model under the regime of linear angular dynamics during stance and the stability of symmetric periodic running gaits18
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A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments17
Drug-loaded nanoparticles for cancer therapy: A high-throughput multicellular agent-based modeling study17
Inference on the structure of gene regulatory networks17
Peripheral straightness leads to shape diversification during formations of entire leaves17
SIRS epidemics with individual heterogeneity of immunity waning16
Computational modeling implicates protein scaffolding in p38 regulation of Akt16
Separation of evolutionary timescales in coevolving species16
The relative importance of social information use for population abundance in group-living and non-grouping prey16
Network-based uncertainty quantification for mathematical models in epidemiology16
Exploring COVID-19 transmission patterns and key factors during epidemics caused by three major strains in Asia16
Pattern formation in marsh ecosystems modeled through the interaction of marsh vegetation, mussels and sediment15
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Genomic compliance with Chargaff’s second parity rule may have originated non-adaptively, but stem-loops now function adaptively15
Evolutionary game dynamics with non-uniform interaction rates in finite population15
Humeri under external load: Mechanical implications of differing bone curvature in American otter and honey badger15
Evolution of hunting efficiency of predator and hiding efficiency of prey in a stage-structured prey-predator model15
Evaluation of innate and adaptive immune system interactions in the tumor microenvironment via a 3D continuum model15
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A process-based life cycle model of the cabbage stem flea beetle on winter oilseed rape: Effects of temperature15
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Estimating survival in continuous space from mark-dead-recovery data — Towards a continuous version of the multinomial dead recovery model14
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Cargo transport properties are enhanced by cylindrical microtubule geometry and elliptical contact zone on cargo surface14
Spatial dynamics of inflammation-causing and commensal bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract14
A mathematical model of the within-host kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies following COVID-19 vaccination13
The long term effects of uncoupling interventions as a therapy for dementia in humans13
A model of time-dependent macromolecular and elemental composition of phytoplankton13
Multiple cohort study of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 in-host infection dynamics: Parameter estimates, identifiability, sensitivity and the eclipse phase profile13
Bounded environmental stochasticity generates secondary Allee thresholds13
The influence of prey availability on behavioral decisions and reproductive success of a central-place forager during lactation13
A novel cost framework reveals evidence for competitive selection in the evolution of complex traits during plant domestication12
Data-informed model reduction for inference and prediction from non-identifiable models12
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Bidirectional, unlike unidirectional transport, allows transporting axonal cargos against their concentration gradient12
Branching architecture affects genetic diversity within an individual tree12
Use of 3D chaos game representation to quantify DNA sequence similarity with applications for hierarchical clustering12
Spatial Sucrose Sink Profiles Shape Phloem Transport Efficiency and Xylem-Phloem Water Exchange12
Interrelating neuronal morphology by coincidence similarity networks12
The nasal cavity of the bearded seal: An effective and robust organ for retaining body heat and water12
Large connected components in sexual networks and their role in HIV transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa: A model-based analysis of HPTN 071(PopART) data11
Evolution of labor division in reproduction and multiple group tasks11
Vaccination strategies in a pair formation model for human papillomavirus infection: An optimal control approach11
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
On the Fourier transform of a quantitative trait: Implications for compressive sensing11
The non-pharmaceutical interventions may affect the advantage in transmission of mutated variants during epidemics: A conceptual model for COVID-1911
Rate-dependent effects of state-specific sodium channel blockers in cardiac tissue: Insights from idealized models11
Bridging short- and long-distance dispersal in individual animal movement11
A letter to the editor about the article “The modularity codes”11
Genetic networks encode secrets of their past11
Modelling female physiology from head to Toe: Impact of sex hormones, menstrual cycle, and pregnancy10
The evolution of germ-soma specialization under different genetic and environmental effects10
Pillars of biology: Boolean modeling of gene-regulatory networks10
Computational model of articular cartilage regeneration induced by scaffold implantation in vivo10
Optimization of antitumor radiotherapy fractionation via mathematical modeling with account of 4 R’s of radiobiology10
Life history and deleterious mutation rate coevolution10
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 processe10
Network reciprocity turns cheap talk into a force for cooperation10
Artificial selection of communities drives the emergence of structured interactions10
The effect of heterogeneity of relative vaccine costs on the mean population vaccination rate with mpox as an example10
Modeling the effects of air pollutants and meteorological factors on scarlet fever in five provinces, Northwest China, 2013–201810
Uncertainty quantification for the random HIV dynamical model driven by drug adherence10
Optimal control of pattern formations for an SIR reaction–diffusion epidemic model10
A mathematical model to study the impact of intra-tumour heterogeneity on anti-tumour CD8+ T cell immune response10
Dynamics and risk sharing in groups of selfish individuals10
On minimising tumoural growth under treatment resistance10
Noise-induced entrainment of the circadian clock by thermoperiods in tomato: A computational approach9
Phenomenological modeling of gene transcription by approximating cooperativity of transcription factors improves prediction and reduces complexity in gene regulatory network models9
Spreading speed of chronic wasting disease across deer groups with overlapping home ranges9
Modeling transit time distributions in microvascular networks9
HIV transactivation: Stochastic modeling for studying the effects of BET inhibitors on the modulation of P-TEFb levels9
Role of coupling distances in a coupled thalamocortical network in the treatment of epilepsy9
A simplified longitudinal model for the development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus9
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
Hormonal regulation of ovarian follicle growth in humans: Model-based exploration of cycle variability and parameter sensitivities9
How temporal environmental stochasticity affects species richness: Destabilization, neutralization and the storage effect9
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Cell population growth kinetics in the presence of stochastic heterogeneity of cell phenotype9
Chemotaxis in heterogeneous environments: A multi-agent model of decentralized gathering past obstacles9
Kinetics, thresholds, and a comparison of mechanisms underlying systemic infection by Listeria monocytogenes9
A phenotype-structured model to reproduce the avascular growth of a tumor and its interaction with the surrounding environment9
Crick’s “Frozen accident theory” of the genetic code explored by Ising models9
Evaluating the impact of human flow on the spread of infectious diseases9
Revisiting a demographic model of pest infestation in farming9
A cell model about symmetric and asymmetric stem cell division9
Parameter identifiability and model selection for sigmoid population growth models8
Model of drug delivery to populations composed of two cell types8
Mathematical models of retinitis pigmentosa: The trophic factor hypothesis8
An adaptive numerical method for multi-cellular simulations of tissue development and maintenance8
A 3D mathematical model of coupled stem cell-nutrient dynamics in myocardial regeneration therapy8
Downstream resource leakage a necessary condition for the stress-gradient hypothesis in processing chain commensalisms8
Temperature variability regulates the interactive effects of warming and pharmaceutical on aquatic ecosystem dynamics8
Approximating steady state distributions for household structured epidemic models8
Exploring the role of the potential surface in the behaviour of early warning signals8
Doubling time of infectious diseases8
Multi-timescale analysis of midbrain dopamine neuronal firing activities8
Effect of permeability on the initiation of Atherosclerosis modeled as an inflammatory process8
Age-dependence of food allergy due to decreased supply of naïve T cells8
Ancestral process for infectious disease outbreaks with superspreading8
Rankings of tuberculosis antibiotic treatment regimens are sensitive to spatial scale, detection limit, and initial host bacterial burden8
On the onset of multicellular invasive behavior in hierarchical lineage: The role of inhibitory feedback and local fluctuations8
A stochastic model for topographically influenced cell migration8
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
Multi-scale model of lumen formation via inverse membrane blebbing mechanism during sprouting angiogenesis process8
Cell orientation under stretch: A review of experimental findings and mathematical modelling7
Effects of a differentiating therapy on cancer-stem-cell-driven tumors7
Mathematical modeling of the feather follicle morphogenetic wave in birds7
Passive electrolocation in terrestrial arthropods: Theoretical modelling of location detection7
Modelling the spread and management of Varroa Destructor in naive European Honeybee populations7
Insights into the dynamics of ligand-induced dimerisation via mathematical modelling and analysis7
Modeling long COVID dynamics: Impact of underlying health conditions7
On the misuse of evolutionary theory to bolster the ‘scientific’ case for intelligent design: A cautionary note7
The dynamics of relapses during treatment switch in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis7
The heterogeneous mixing model of COVID-19 with interventions7
Using registry data to identify individual dairy cows with abnormal patterns in routinely recorded somatic cell counts7
Adaptive dynamic resource allocation can cause tragedy of the commons in plants with nutrient competition7
Evolutionary emergence of plant and pollinator polymorphisms in consumer-resource mutualisms7
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
Evaluation of entropy and fractal dimension as biomarkers for tumor growth and treatment response using cellular automata7
Disentangling the growth curve of microbial culture7
A resource-based mechanistic framework for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)7
Evolutionary coexistence in a metacommunity: Competition-colonization trade-off, ownership effects, environmental fluctuations7
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Multiple colonies of cancer involved in mutual suppression with the immune system7
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Propagation of an idealized infection in an airway tree, consequences of the inflammation on the oxygen transfer to blood6
Optic flow enrichment via Drosophila head and retina motions to support inflight position regulation6
Hot-topics cross-propagation and opinion-transfer dynamics in the Chinese Sina-microblog social media: A modeling study6
Cell position-based evaluation of mechanical features of cells in multicellular systems6
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 infection6
PD-based ADRC using time-varying gains: An application to microalgal-based bioprocess6
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Corrigendum to “Multiscale numerical workflow describing microalgae motion and light pattern incidence towards population growth in a photobioreactor” [J. Theoret. Biol. 498 (2020) 110293]6
Choice of spatial discretisation influences the progression of viral infection within multicellular tissues6
Stochasticity-induced persistence in coupled social-ecological systems6
A virtual host model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection identifies early immune events as predictive of infection outcomes6
Local and systemic factors in the resolution of inflammation6
Human papillomavirus driving cervical cancer: A mathematical model with persistent infection, cancer progression, and spontaneous remission6
Geometrically balanced model of cell growth6
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Optimal control of combination immunotherapy for a virtual murine cohort in a glioblastoma-immune dynamics model6
Data-driven models for the risk of infection and hospitalization during a pandemic: Case study on COVID-19 in Nepal6
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Uncertainty and error in SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological parameters inferred from population-level epidemic models6
Conformity and anti-conformity in a finite population6
Modeling phyllotaxis: From the inhibition potential to the real plant6
Computational model of the cancer necrotic core formation in a tumor-on-a-chip device6
Flow modeling and structural characterization in fungal pellets5
Mutant emergence timing and population immunisation status impact epidemiological dynamics5
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Accounting for dimensional differences in stochastic domain invasion with applications to precancerous cell removal5
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Tradeoffs in the energetic value of neuromodulation in a closed-loop neuromechanical system5
Theoretical investigation of the dependence of population parameters on initial population size5
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Boolean function metrics can assist modelers to check and choose logical rules5
Numerical modeling of senile plaque development under conditions of limited diffusivity of amyloid-β monomers5
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging of ischaemia flow: An in silico study5
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Establishment of risk classification index for animal brucellosis by stochastic models5
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Revisiting the exclusion principle in epidemiology at the limit of a large competitive advantage5
Pandemic modelling for regions implementing an elimination strategy5
“Normal” phylogenetic networks may be emerging as the leading class5
Pillars of theoretical biology: “Biochemical systems analysis, I, II and III”5
Costly punishment sustains indirect reciprocity under low defection detectability5
Flock2: A model for orientation-based social flocking5
A multi-strain model with asymptomatic transmission: Application to COVID-19 in the US5
The mechanism of pattern transitions between formation and dispersion5
A note on metapopulation models5
Comparing the biomechanics of triangular and cylindrical plant stems: When are triangular hollow structures mechanically superior to cylindrical ones?5
Mathematical model suggests current CAR-macrophage dosage is efficient to low pre-infusion tumour burden but refractory to high tumour burden5
Probability of extinction and peak time for multi-type epidemics with application to COVID-19 variants of concern5
Bridging Wright–Fisher and Moran models5
Distributions of 4-subtree patterns for uniform random unrooted phylogenetic trees5
Pillars of Theoretical Biology: Airway stability and heterogeneity in the constricted lung5
Inferring absolute cell numbers from relative proportion in stochastic models with cell plasticity5
The importance of ecological dynamics in evolutionary processes: A host-bacteriophage model revisited5
Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms5
Predicting pathways for old and new metabolites through clustering5
Representing stimulus information in an energy metabolism pathway5
Enhanced precision of circadian rhythm by output system5
Mechanisms of the end-plate potential noise and its implication for the neuromuscular junction anatomy5
A PID controller for synchronization between master-slave neurons in fractional-order of neocortical network model5
Estimating the basic reproduction number from noisy daily data5
Optimal control applied to Zika virus epidemics in Colombia and Puerto Rico5
Optimal spatial monitoring of populations described by reaction–diffusion models5
Optimal targeted therapy for multiple cancers based on contrastive Notch signaling networks5
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Corrigendum to “An optimal network that promotes the spread of an advantageous variant in an SIR epidemic”. [J. Theor. Biol. 605 (2025) 112095]5
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Modelling count data with partial differential equation models in biology5
Circulating renin-angiotensin systems mediated feedback controls over the mean-arterial pressure5
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