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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy and time optimization during exit from torpor in vertebrate endotherms	43
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	21
Ammonia excretion by the fish gill: discoveries and ideas that shaped our current understanding	16
Significance of variation in basal metabolic rate in laboratory mice for translational experiments	14
Similar hibernation physiology in bats across broad geographic ranges	13
Regulation of energy metabolism by non-coding RNAs in livestock species: a review	13
Cellular mechanisms of ion and acid-base regulation in teleost gill ionocytes	13
Metabolic scaling: individual versus intraspecific scaling of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)	13
Mammalian birth versus arousal from hibernation: thyroid hormones, common regulators of metabolic transition?	13
Early onset of urea synthesis and ammonia detoxification pathways in three terrestrially developing frogs	11
Multiple ultradian rhythms of metabolism, body temperature and activity in Djungarian hamsters	10
The effect of salt dosing for chytrid mitigation on tadpoles of a threatened frog, Litoria aurea	9
Structure and function of the larval teleost fish gill	9
Changes in gill neuroepithelial cells and morphology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to hypoxia and simulated ocean acidification	9
The rete mirabile: a possible control site for swimbladder function	9
Mitogen-activated protein kinases contribute to temperature-induced cardiac remodelling in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	8
Body fat and circulating leptin levels in the captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)	8
Functional interactions between coat structure and colour in the determination of solar heat load on arid living kangaroos in summer: balancing crypsis and thermoregulation	8
Management of inorganic elements by overwintering physiology of cold hardy larvae of European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis, Hbn.)	8
Development of metabolic inflammation during pre-hibernation fattening in 13-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)	7
Seasonal patterns of body temperature in response to experimental photoperiod variation in a non-hibernating ground squirrel	7
Nutritional state variations in a tropical seabird throughout its breeding season	7
Hypoxic incubation at 50% of atmospheric levels shifts the cardiovascular response to acute hypoxia in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis	7
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	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
Ion uptake in naturally acidic water	7
Evolution of innate immunity: lessons from mammalian models shaping our current view of insect immunity	7
Sulfakinins influence lipid composition and insulin-like peptides level in oenocytes of Zophobas atratus beetles	6
Oxygen consumption and acid secretion in isolated gas gland cells of the European eel Anguilla anguilla	6
An exposé of Frappellian Motion	6
Prejuveniles of Mugil liza (Actinopterygii; Fam. Mugilidae) show digestive and metabolic flexibility upon different postprandial times and refeeding	6
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
Influence of stimulation frequency on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cathepsin-B production in healthy young adults	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
Silencing of ultradian rhythms and metabolic depression during spontaneous daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters	6
Changes in CO2 sensitivity during entrance into, and arousal from hibernation in Ictidomys tridecemlineatus	6
Arginine vasotocin affects motivation to call, but not calling plasticity, in Cope’s gray treefrog Hyla chrysoscelis	6
Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena	6
100 years Journal of Comparative Physiology	5
Effects of structural remodelling on gill physiology	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
Causes and consequences of gas bubble trauma on fish gill function	5
Critical temperatures and aerobic metabolism in post-larvae of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)	5
Steroid hormone-dependent changes in trehalose physiology in the silkworm, Bombyx mori	5
Effects of low temperature on growth and metabolism of larval green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) across early ontogeny	5
Gill surface area allometry does not constrain the body mass scaling of maximum oxygen uptake rate in the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus	5
A thermodynamic-based approach to model the entry into metabolic depression by mammals and birds	5
Morphologic and physiologic characteristics of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in southeastern Florida, USA	5
Biomineralisation and metal sequestration in a crustacean ectoparasite infecting the gills of a freshwater fish	5
Electrophysiological evidence for the right atrioventricular pacemaker ring in the reptile heart	5
Aerobic and anaerobic metabolic scaling in the burrowing freshwater crayfish Parastacus pugnax	5
Fur removal promotes an earlier expression of involution-related genes in mammary gland of lactating mice	5
Interactive effects of food deprivation state and hypoxia on the respiratory responses of postprandial rock crabs, Cancer irroratus	5
An atlas of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase availability in the model teleost, the rainbow trout	4
State dependence of arousal from torpor in brown long-eared bats (Plecotus auritus)	4
The roles of plasma accessible and cytosolic carbonic anhydrases in bicarbonate (HCO3−) excretion in Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)	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
Developmental, physiologic and phylogenetic perspectives on the expression and regulation of myosin heavy chains in mammalian skeletal muscles	4
The implications of exercise in Drosophila melanogaster: insights into Akt/p38 MAPK/Nrf2 pathway associated with Hsp70 regulation in redox balance maintenance	4
Thermal sensitivity of respiration and ROS emission of muscle mitochondria in deer mice	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
How the green crab Carcinus maenas copes physiologically with a range of salinities	4
Correction to: Mitochondrial volume density and evidence for its role in adaptive divergence in response to thermal tolerance in threespine stickleback	4
Involvement of sodium–glucose cotransporter-1 activities in maintaining oscillatory Cl− currents from mouse submandibular acinar cells	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
Metabolic differentiation of brushtail possum populations resistant and susceptible to plant toxins revealed via differential gene expression	4
Male blue wildebeest increase activity during the rut, but not at the expense of rest	4
Magnesium transport in the aglomerular kidney of the Gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta)	4