Evolutionary Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolutionary Biology is 3. 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
Not Merely a Constraint: How the Constrained Lever Model Shapes Mandibular Evolution via Integration44
Correction: Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data22
Morphological and Genetic Divergence in a Gill Monogenean Parasitizing Distant Cichlid Lineages of Lake Tanganyika: Cichlidogyrus nshomboi (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Representatives of Boulenger18
Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species17
A Hypothesis of Chaos Theory in Evolutionary Processes: Five Proposed Principles of Chaotic Evolutionary Systems16
Should Comparative Models Be Weighted when Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty?16
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry15
Shape and Size Variation in Elapid Snake Fangs and the Effects of Phylogeny and Diet15
Correction: Navigating Through the Noise: A Roadmap for Combining Interdisciplinary High Dimensional Data in Biological Systems13
Correction to: The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains11
Integration, Modularity, and Homoplasy in the Forelimbs of Apes9
Urban Life Affects Differentiation and Phenotypic Variation but not Asymmetry in a Fully Terrestrial Salamander8
Genetic Foundations of Human Brain Evolution: A Study of IRX3-Associated Human Accelerated Enhancer and the P422L Mutation8
Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis8
A Non-linear Response to Hedgehog Signalling Provides a Mechanism for Novel Directions of Shape Change During Development7
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment7
Parallel Evolution of Skull Form in Three Rodent Genera Inhabiting Steep Elevational Gradients of Ethiopian Highlands7
Navigating Through the Noise: A Roadmap for Combining Interdisciplinary High Dimensional Data in Biological Systems7
Ecomorphology of the Locomotor Apparatus in the Genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata)7
Variation of Tooth Traits in Ecologically Specialized and Sympatric Morphs6
Meta-analysis of Behavioural Research in Lizards Reveals that Viviparity Contributes Better to Animal Personality than Secretory Glands6
Evolutionary History of Hedgehog Signaling Genes and Smoothened Dose Sensitivity in Teleosts6
Decoupled Patterns of Diversity and Disparity Characterize an Ecologically Specialized Lineage of Neotropical Cricetids6
Mutational Selection: Fragile Sites, Replicative Stress, and Genome Evolution6
Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?6
Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data6
Colonization of a Novel Host Plant Reduces Phenotypic Variation6
Multiple Paths to a Larger Mouth: Morphological Divergence in Two Island Populations of Australian Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus)5
Key Adaptive Trait Promotes Contrasting Modes of Diversification in a Bivalve Clade5
Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog5
The Dynamic Ontogenetic Shape Patterns of Adaptive Divergence and Sexual Dimorphism5
Contemporary Body Size Variation of Neotropical Rodents: Environmental and Genetic Effects5
Correction: Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data5
Mosaic Evolution of Grasping and Genital Traits in Two Sympatric Scorpion Species with Reproductive Interference5
Diving into Diversity: The Complex Evolutionary History and Species Richness of the ‘sawfin barbs’ from Lake Edward and Adjacent Systems5
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids5
Geographically Isolated Populations of Drosophila ananassae from the Indian Subcontinent and the Andaman Islands Show Evolutionary Divergence Within the ‘ananassae Species Complex’4
Vipers on the Scene: Assessing the Relationship Between Speciation and Climatic Niche Evolution in Venomous Snakes (Reptilia: Viperidae)4
Quadratic Trends: A Morphometric Tool Both Old and New4
Anatomical Correlates of Cursoriality are Compromised by Body Size and Propensity to Burrow in a Group of Small Mammals (Lagomorpha)4
Lineage Diversity and Craniofacial Disparity of Navajini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) in Deep River Channels of Tropical South America4
How Aestivation Evolved in Turtles: A Macroevolutionary and Morphological Approach4
Evolution of Reproductive Efficiency in Caenorhabditis elegans Under Obligatory Outcrossing3
Holomorphology, Space, and Time to Shed Light on the Evolution and Distributional Pattern of the Endemic Flowering Plants of Brazil3
The Evolution of Body Size in Terrestrial Tetrapods3
Antler Allometry, the Irish Elk and Gould Revisited3
Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines3
Island Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) Gain a ‘Head Start’ in Life: How Both Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution Underlie Skull Shape Differences3
Exceptional Genetic Differentiation at a Micro-geographic Scale in Apistogramma agassizii (Steindachner, 1875) from the Peruvian Amazon: Sympatric Speciation?3
Patterns of Performance Variation Between Animal Hybrids and their Parents: A Meta-analysis3
Ancestral State Reconstruction of Phenotypic Characters3
Effects of Environmental Variation in Structuring Population Genetic Variation in the False-Water Cobras (Xenodontinae: Hydrodynastes)3
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