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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?706
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators348
My bird226
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise216
Lost knowledge211
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species199
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent167
Anthropocene at altitude164
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin152
How to survive in the desert149
Lucy Aplin141
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone134
How to know whales, and ourselves126
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters125
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL122
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes120
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex118
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites118
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons113
Australian magpies111
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs110
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos107
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts107
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe104
North Atlantic tipping point ahead101
Iberian ribbed newts99
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on95
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!94
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches94
The biomechanics of turgor pressure92
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin90
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos89
Mistletoes89
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise89
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse88
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past86
Colors85
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?82
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity81
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks81
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice80
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition80
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery79
Ancient Australia78
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry77
Gonzalo Giribet76
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates73
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle73
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation72
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets72
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion72
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex70
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand70
Erin Saupe70
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe70
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self69
Rolling back public health69
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus68
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up67
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward67
Cephalopod behaviour67
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum67
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test67
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly67
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons66
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction66
Real-time processes in the development of action planning66
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi65
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods65
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation65
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy65
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation64
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean64
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor64
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts63
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes63
Lipocalins62
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa62
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation61
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals61
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction61
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone61
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes60
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly60
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition59
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance59
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy59
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea59
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans59
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum59
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia59
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits58
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease58
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health58
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock58
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing57
Daniel J.C. Kronauer57
MICOS57
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys56
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila56
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator56
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish56
Yeast domestication56
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila55
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements55
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor55
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs55
Human gaze is systematically offset from the center of cone topography55
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice54
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom54
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis54
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition53
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding52
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants52
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection52
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root52
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap52
Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic52
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research51
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants51
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content51
Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation51
The geologic history of primary productivity50
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations50
Animal medication50
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph50
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List50
Conservation genetics49
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings48
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha48
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks48
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges48
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees48
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning48
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod47
Neuroscience: Turbulent times for brain information processing47
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex47
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors47
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs47
Bird migration: Clock and compass facilitate hemisphere switching47
Historical body temperature records as a population-level ‘thermometer’ of physical activity in the United States47
Plant biology: Environmental extremes induce a jump in peach fitness47
Wetland worries47
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation47
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?46
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus46
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey46
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers46
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae46
Visual processing: Systematic variation in light–dark bias across visual space46
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates46
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion45
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair45
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance45
Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation45
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons45
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes44
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs44
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks44
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish44
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs43
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore43
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape43
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling43
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila43
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex42
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans42
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis42
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex42
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size42
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic42
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive42
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition42
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations42
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation42
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus42
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression42
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees42
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae41
Bird genitalia41
Sharks and how to save them41
Fungi in peril41
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces41
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning41
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation41
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation41
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period41
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily41
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life41
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones41
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis41
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate41
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self40
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport40
Mediterranean movements40
Morphospace40
An ammonium transporter is a non-canonical olfactory receptor for ammonia40
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores40
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females40
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion40
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses40
Male alternative reproductive tactics40
From Jakarta to the jungle40
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation40
Is our retina really upside down?40
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms40
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila39
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects39
Neural population dynamics of human working memory39
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird39
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China39
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities39
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period39
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres39
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees39
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose39
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila38
Retrofusion of intralumenal MVB membranes parallels viral infection and coexists with exosome release38
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird38
Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding38
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability38
KANK proteins38
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”38
Ecological niche modelling38
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes38
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid38
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila38
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits38
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii38
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus37
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry37
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues37
Alteration in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons underlies a form of Pavlovian conditioning in the Drosophila brain37
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input37
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem37
Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic6037
Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds37
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits37
Rain harvesting by plants37
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch37
Jingfeng Zhou37
Åke Lindström37
Noradrenaline: Can we now directly measure in humans?36
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders36
Categorical representation of abstract spatial magnitudes in the executive telencephalon of crows36
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants36
Powerful peatlands36
On the highway to climate hell36
Regulation of outer kinetochore assembly during meiosis I and II by CENP-A and KNL-2/M18BP1 in C. elegans oocytes36
Velocity as an overlooked driver in the echolocation behavior of aerial hawking vespertilionid bats36
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