OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systems and Environmen is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy and time optimization during exit from torpor in vertebrate endotherms	46
Born in the cold: contrasted thermal exchanges and maintenance costs in juvenile and adult snow buntings on their breeding and wintering grounds	32
Investigating nitrogen movement in North Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias suckleyi), with focus on UT, Rhp2, and Rhbg mRNA abundance	23
Significance of variation in basal metabolic rate in laboratory mice for translational experiments	16
Regulation of energy metabolism by non-coding RNAs in livestock species: a review	15
Cellular mechanisms of ion and acid-base regulation in teleost gill ionocytes	14
Mammalian birth versus arousal from hibernation: thyroid hormones, common regulators of metabolic transition?	13
Ammonia excretion by the fish gill: discoveries and ideas that shaped our current understanding	13
Adaptation under constant light or dark: a challenge to the pineal	11
Early onset of urea synthesis and ammonia detoxification pathways in three terrestrially developing frogs	11
Similar hibernation physiology in bats across broad geographic ranges	11
Cardiac mitochondria function in embryonic and 1-year old American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis, is not altered by hypoxic incubation or an acute anoxic challenge	10
Functional interactions between coat structure and colour in the determination of solar heat load on arid living kangaroos in summer: balancing crypsis and thermoregulation	10
Multiple ultradian rhythms of metabolism, body temperature and activity in Djungarian hamsters	10
Mitochondrial proteomic adaptations to daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)	10
The effect of salt dosing for chytrid mitigation on tadpoles of a threatened frog, Litoria aurea	10
Management of inorganic elements by overwintering physiology of cold hardy larvae of European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis, Hbn.)	9
Changes in gill neuroepithelial cells and morphology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to hypoxia and simulated ocean acidification	9
Hematology of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico: reference intervals of healthy turtles and intra-population comparisons	8
Structure and function of the larval teleost fish gill	8
The effects of dissolved organic carbon and model compounds (DOC analogues) on diffusive water flux, oxygen consumption, nitrogenous waste excretion rates and gill transepithelial potential in Pacific	8
The rete mirabile: a possible control site for swimbladder function	8
Body fat and circulating leptin levels in the captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)	8
Evolution of innate immunity: lessons from mammalian models shaping our current view of insect immunity	7
Nutritional state variations in a tropical seabird throughout its breeding season	7

Seasonal patterns of body temperature in response to experimental photoperiod variation in a non-hibernating ground squirrel	7
Ion uptake in naturally acidic water	7
Hypoxic incubation at 50% of atmospheric levels shifts the cardiovascular response to acute hypoxia in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis	7
Developing rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) lose branchial plasma accessible carbonic anhydrase expression with hatch and the transition to pH-sensitive, adult hemoglobin polymorphs	7
Sulfakinins influence lipid composition and insulin-like peptides level in oenocytes of Zophobas atratus beetles	7
Mitogen-activated protein kinases contribute to temperature-induced cardiac remodelling in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	7
Control of high-speed jumps in muscle and spring actuated systems: a comparative study of take-off energetics in bush-crickets (Mecopoda elongata) and locusts (Schistocerca gregaria)	6
A 108-h total sleep deprivation did not impair fur seal performance in delayed matching to sample task	6
Prejuveniles of Mugil liza (Actinopterygii; Fam. Mugilidae) show digestive and metabolic flexibility upon different postprandial times and refeeding	6
An exposé of Frappellian Motion	6
Influence of stimulation frequency on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cathepsin-B production in healthy young adults	6
Arginine vasotocin affects motivation to call, but not calling plasticity, in Cope’s gray treefrog Hyla chrysoscelis	6
Oxygen consumption and acid secretion in isolated gas gland cells of the European eel Anguilla anguilla	6
Silencing of ultradian rhythms and metabolic depression during spontaneous daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters	6
Disaccharidases and alanyl aminopeptidase activities in intestine of a marine estuarine-dependent fish: differential responses to dopamine and histamine in juveniles of Mugil liza (Actiopterygii: Mugi	6
Changes in CO2 sensitivity during entrance into, and arousal from hibernation in Ictidomys tridecemlineatus	6
Adaptation of AMPK-mTOR-signal pathways and lipid metabolism in response to low- and high-level rapeseed meal diet in Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)	6
Fur removal promotes an earlier expression of involution-related genes in mammary gland of lactating mice	5
Morphologic and physiologic characteristics of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in southeastern Florida, USA	5
Effects of structural remodelling on gill physiology	5
Life in the slow lane: low rates of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in the heterothermic and heterometabolic tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus	5
The implications of exercise in Drosophila melanogaster: insights into Akt/p38 MAPK/Nrf2 pathway associated with Hsp70 regulation in redox balance maintenance	5
Electrophysiological evidence for the right atrioventricular pacemaker ring in the reptile heart	5
Critical temperatures and aerobic metabolism in post-larvae of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)	5
A thermodynamic-based approach to model the entry into metabolic depression by mammals and birds	5
Effects of low temperature on growth and metabolism of larval green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) across early ontogeny	5
Interactive effects of food deprivation state and hypoxia on the respiratory responses of postprandial rock crabs, Cancer irroratus	5
Biomineralisation and metal sequestration in a crustacean ectoparasite infecting the gills of a freshwater fish	5
Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena	5
Causes and consequences of gas bubble trauma on fish gill function	5
100 years Journal of Comparative Physiology	5
Steroid hormone-dependent changes in trehalose physiology in the silkworm, Bombyx mori	5
De novo transcriptome assembly of the midgut glands of herbivorous land crabs, Chiromantes haematocheir, and identification of laccase genes involved in lignin degradation	5
Male blue wildebeest increase activity during the rut, but not at the expense of rest	4
Developmental, physiologic and phylogenetic perspectives on the expression and regulation of myosin heavy chains in mammalian skeletal muscles	4
Correction to: Mitochondrial volume density and evidence for its role in adaptive divergence in response to thermal tolerance in threespine stickleback	4
Prolonged 5-week and 12-week chronic stress differentially modulates CNS expression of pro- and anti-neuroinflammatory biomarkers, brain monoamines and affective behavior in adult zebrafish	4
Do extreme postprandial levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ammonia in the digestive tract equilibrate with the bloodstream in the freshwater rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)?	4
Metabolic differentiation of brushtail possum populations resistant and susceptible to plant toxins revealed via differential gene expression	4
State dependence of arousal from torpor in brown long-eared bats (Plecotus auritus)	4
Involvement of sodium–glucose cotransporter-1 activities in maintaining oscillatory Cl− currents from mouse submandibular acinar cells	4
Mitochondrial respiration in rats during hypothermia resulting from central drug administration	4
Age-related changes in the gut melatonin levels and its possible role in the regulation of feeding and digestibility, with the development of the gut from fingerling to adult stages of carp, Catla cat	4
The high-altitude bird chronicles: lessons from field work with Frapps	4
Gill surface area allometry does not constrain the body mass scaling of maximum oxygen uptake rate in the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus	4
An atlas of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase availability in the model teleost, the rainbow trout	4
The roles of plasma accessible and cytosolic carbonic anhydrases in bicarbonate (HCO3−) excretion in Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)	4
Thermal sensitivity of respiration and ROS emission of muscle mitochondria in deer mice	4
How the green crab Carcinus maenas copes physiologically with a range of salinities	4