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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites790
Lipocalins406
Iberian ribbed newts263
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates228
Australian magpies219
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin184
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL174
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts167
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past141
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand138
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks137
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation135
Yeast domestication128
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction126
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning125
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom122
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly122
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test117
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph108
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs108
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise104
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches104
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea103
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise103
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on99
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons99
Anthropocene at altitude94
How to know whales, and ourselves92
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection92
My bird92
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator88
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin87
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits87
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters86
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?84
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone83
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity81
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition79
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!79
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants78
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone77
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry77
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants76
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings76
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts76
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor76
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis74
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding74
Fungal endophytes73
The geologic history of primary productivity73
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos72
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly72
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy71
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List70
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa69
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi69
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior68
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila67
Animal medication67
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance66
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends66
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes66
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice65
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals64
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia64
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy64
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species64
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos63
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum63
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators63
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease62
North Atlantic tipping point ahead62
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle62
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations62
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes61
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements61
Lost knowledge61
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse60
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self60
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets60
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction60
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition59
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos59
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent58
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe57
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap57
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish57
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes57
The biomechanics of turgor pressure56
The enteric nervous system56
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe55
Gonzalo Giribet55
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex55
Erin Saupe55
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up54
Rolling back public health54
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice53
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus53
Ancient Australia53
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward53
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition52
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum52
Daniel J.C. Kronauer52
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha52
MICOS52
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor51
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys51
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation51
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods51
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing51
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs50
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges50
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health50
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery50
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation49
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion49
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation49
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean49
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes49
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock49
Real-time processes in the development of action planning49
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees49
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research48
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex48
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila48
Mistletoes48
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content48
Cephalopod behaviour48
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root47
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons46
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones46
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self46
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks46
Fungi in peril46
Male alternative reproductive tactics46
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation46
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness46
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period46
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae45
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input45
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs45
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees45
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression45
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?45
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion45
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus45
From Jakarta to the jungle44
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance44
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration44
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic44
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres44
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis44
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod44
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores44
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition44
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem43
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus43
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila43
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations43
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits43
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid43
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae43
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces42
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods42
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily42
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers42
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects42
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate42
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila42
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors42
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation42
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation42
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus42
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport42
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish41
Sharks and how to save them41
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs41
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning41
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair41
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females41
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore41
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape41
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird41
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive40
KANK proteins40
Is our retina really upside down?40
Bird genitalia40
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex40
Wetland worries40
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates40
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks40
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”39
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex39
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans39
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii39
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits39
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life39
Ecological niche modelling39
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms39
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction39
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila39
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis39
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex38
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size38
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey38
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities38
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes38
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird38
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling38
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons38
Neural population dynamics of human working memory38
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila38
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom38
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China38
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation37
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs37
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose37
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion37
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders37
Targeted memory reactivation to augment treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder37
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period37
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses37
Mediterranean movements37
Regulation of outer kinetochore assembly during meiosis I and II by CENP-A and KNL-2/M18BP1 in C. elegans oocytes37
On the highway to climate hell37
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees37
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes37
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry37
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation37
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants37
Jingfeng Zhou37
Ghrelin36
Jewel Plummer Cobb: A trailblazing life of impact36
Speciation: Sexual selection also plays a role in plants36
Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats36
ELF3 coordinates temperature and photoperiodic control of seasonal growth in hybrid aspen36
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores36
Primate brain: A unique connection between dorsal and ventral visual cortex36
Retraction Notice to: The mTORC1/S6K1 Pathway Regulates Glutamine Metabolism through the eIF4B- Dependent Control of c-Myc Translation36
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants36
Fertilization and evolution: AI-powered search finds a missing link in sperm–egg interaction36
Velocity as an overlooked driver in the echolocation behavior of aerial hawking vespertilionid bats36
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch36
Mass mortality of diadematoid sea urchins in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean36
Retraction notice to: A lungless frog discovered on Borneo36
Biological clocks: Hungry on time36
Balanced synapse-to-synapse short-term plasticity ensures constant transmitter release36
Evolution: Structure and surprises in the diversification of golden algae36
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance36
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