Current Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Biology is 14. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites429
Lipocalins290
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates238
Australian magpies188
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin178
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL146
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past144
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes143
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex139
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons134
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand132
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks130
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation126
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test124
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph118
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches113
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise108
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise107
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea105
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on105
Anthropocene at altitude104
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons104
How to know whales, and ourselves103
My bird98
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits97
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin96
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters94
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity89
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!89
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry88
Fungal endophytes88
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos86
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy85
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes83
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends83
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species80
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators78
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease78
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum78
North Atlantic tipping point ahead78
Lost knowledge77
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements76
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self76
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes76
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets76
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent73
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos73
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap72
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe72
The enteric nervous system70
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish70
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy69
Animal medication69
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts67
Yeast domestication67
Gonzalo Giribet67
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila66
Erin Saupe66
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex65
Ancient Australia64
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe64
Rolling back public health64
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward64
MICOS64
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up64
Daniel J.C. Kronauer63
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing63
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos62
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition62
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa62
Iberian ribbed newts62
The biomechanics of turgor pressure61
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation61
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals60
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction60
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia60
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion60
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root59
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom59
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation58
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha58
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection58
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi57
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice57
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly57
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation57
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health56
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods55
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum55
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction54
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock54
Cephalopod behaviour54
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus54
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes53
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts53
Object learning: Ball games for flies53
Real-time processes in the development of action planning53
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history53
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly52
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila52
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content52
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance52
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean52
Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism52
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?51
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges51
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs51
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor50
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator50
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys50
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations50
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants50
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition49
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes49
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs49
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice49
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research48
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees48
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse48
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants48
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor47
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition47
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis47
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle47
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings47
Mistletoes47
The geologic history of primary productivity46
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior46
Fungi in peril46
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks46
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List46
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding46
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness46
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning46
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery46
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation46
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self46
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees45
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?45
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion45
Male alternative reproductive tactics45
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects45
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae45
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance44
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis44
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs44
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs44
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition44
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii44
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period44
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic43
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces43
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres43
KANK proteins43
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons43
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores43
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila43
From Jakarta to the jungle43
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration43
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input43
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex42
Bird genitalia42
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors42
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates42
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs42
Is our retina really upside down?42
Wetland worries42
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive42
Sharks and how to save them42
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation41
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans41
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus41
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila41
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers41
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape41
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms41
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid41
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom40
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China40
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae40
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird40
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size40
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore40
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose40
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily40
Mediterranean movements40
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus40
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird39
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression39
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod39
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes39
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life39
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila39
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis39
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation39
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks39
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus39
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila39
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods39
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction39
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes39
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate39
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport38
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning38
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation38
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones38
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion38
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations38
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females38
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex38
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees38
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex38
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair38
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period38
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish38
Neural population dynamics of human working memory38
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities38
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling38
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey38
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem37
Ecological niche modelling37
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits37
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses37
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry37
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits37
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”37
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation37
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders37
Retraction notice to: A lungless frog discovered on Borneo36
On the highway to climate hell36
Evolution: Structure and surprises in the diversification of golden algae36
Retraction Notice to: The mTORC1/S6K1 Pathway Regulates Glutamine Metabolism through the eIF4B- Dependent Control of c-Myc Translation36
Biological clocks: Hungry on time36
Adjustable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape36
Hippocampal signals modify orbitofrontal representations to learn new paths36
Bet-hedging: Bacterial ribosome dynamics during growth transitions36
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response36
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch36
Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores36
Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean36
Elevated sleep quota in a stress-resilient Drosophila species36
Mitosis: Augmin-based bridges keep kinetochores in line36
Dan Tracey36
Jewel Plummer Cobb: A trailblazing life of impact36
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Jingfeng Zhou36
Speciation: Sexual selection also plays a role in plants36
Concerns about ancient DNA sequences reported from a Late Pleistocene individual from Southeast Asia36
Rain harvesting by plants36
Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei relies on an orphan kinesin that dynamically crosslinks microtubules36
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