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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites444
Lipocalins300
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates246
Australian magpies194
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past185
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex151
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes151
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand146
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation144
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test142
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches138
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise135
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise130
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on127
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons121
Anthropocene at altitude109
How to know whales, and ourselves109
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits108
My bird108
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!107
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters107
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin107
Fungal endophytes105
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos101
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy100
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes93
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends90
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species89
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators89
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum89
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease88
North Atlantic tipping point ahead87
Lost knowledge83
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements82
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes81
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self80
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe79
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent79
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish78
Gonzalo Giribet77
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy77
The enteric nervous system77
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila74
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse74
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery73
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants71
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex70
Rolling back public health70
Erin Saupe70
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe70
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up69
MICOS68
Ancient Australia68
Daniel J.C. Kronauer68
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward68
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa67
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing67
Iberian ribbed newts66
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals65
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom65
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction65
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation64
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly63
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation63
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice63
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes62
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts62
Object learning: Ball games for flies62
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus62
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history62
Cephalopod behaviour62
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs61
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys61
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha60
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor60
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis60
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes60
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila59
Animal medication59
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction58
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection57
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly57
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance57
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods57
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning56
Real-time processes in the development of action planning56
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain56
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks56
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator56
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin55
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List54
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations54
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos54
The geologic history of primary productivity53
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion53
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry53
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings53
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts52
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor52
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition52
Yeast domestication52
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding51
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap51
Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism51
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum51
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets51
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root51
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean51
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs50
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees50
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition50
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons49
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature48
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?48
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle48
Q & A48
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content48
Mistletoes48
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL48
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research48
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia47
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges47
The biomechanics of turgor pressure47
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health47
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea46
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition46
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice46
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior46
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock46
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance46
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation46
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos46
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants46
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation45
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph45
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks45
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons45
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self44
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees44
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?44
Male alternative reproductive tactics44
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape44
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness44
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae44
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion44
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size43
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores43
KANK proteins43
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom43
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily43
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus43
From Jakarta to the jungle43
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila43
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons43
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila42
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes42
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae42
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life42
Mediterranean movements42
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose42
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus42
Sharks and how to save them41
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors41
Bird genitalia41
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance41
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive41
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs41
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces41
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects41
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis41
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans41
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex41
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates41
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers41
Wetland worries41
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition41
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis40
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport40
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression40
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry40
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres40
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities40
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods40
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish40
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations40
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China40
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore40
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus40
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction40
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation40
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration40
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex39
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs39
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic39
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation39
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod39
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion39
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits39
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation39
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair39
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”39
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey39
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks39
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period38
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input38
Is our retina really upside down?38
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees38
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits38
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones38
Neural population dynamics of human working memory38
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird38
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird38
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii38
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning38
Fungi in peril38
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila38
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females38
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs38
Ecological niche modelling38
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate38
Jingfeng Zhou37
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response37
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders37
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms37
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid37
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes37
Evolution: Structure and surprises in the diversification of golden algae37
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch37
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues37
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling37
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation37
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila37
On the highway to climate hell37
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin37
Mitotic kinase oscillation governs the latching of cell cycle switches37
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex37
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem37
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses37
Fertilization and evolution: AI-powered search finds a missing link in sperm–egg interaction36
Ripple band phase precession of place cell firing during replay36
Balanced synapse-to-synapse short-term plasticity ensures constant transmitter release36
Sensing of sound pressure gradients by C. elegans drives phonotaxis behavior36
Optogenetics reveals paradoxical network stabilizations in hippocampal CA1 and CA336
Retraction Notice to: The mTORC1/S6K1 Pathway Regulates Glutamine Metabolism through the eIF4B- Dependent Control of c-Myc Translation36
A conserved pressure-driven mechanism for regulating cytosolic osmolarity36
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants36
Biological clocks: Hungry on time36
Hydrogen metabolism: A eukaryote taps into the electron sink35
Kevin J. Verstrepen35
Mitosis: Augmin-based bridges keep kinetochores in line35
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