Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions177
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals131
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition118
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives115
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness112
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions94
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language91
Mitonuclear dynamics in unisexual vertebrates88
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook85
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species77
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture72
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children70
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology69
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective67
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diver64
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening64
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica64
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes64
Comments from the departing Editor63
Evolution of the cardiac dyad63
Distinct Anthropocene biosphere recorded by the rise of green algae and chrysophytes in varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Ontario, Canada)61
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands61
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies60
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )58
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change58
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery55
Preface54
Pragmatic comprehension and inferential ability: interplay with executive functions and Theory of Mind54
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands54
Tracking the spatial and longitudinal dynamics of mixed infections of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis, inclusive of Schistosoma mattheei , in t54
The relation between children’s shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot’s instructions53
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review52
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion52
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison52
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure51
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities51
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies50
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?49
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact49
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system49
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems48
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change46
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead44
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective44
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making44
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model44
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment43
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists43
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution43
Social structure as a form of collective intelligence: a new framework42
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups42
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory42
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests41
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms41
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research41
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family41
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases40
Pragmatics partially segregated from Theory of Mind: evidence from resting-state functional connectivity40
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene40
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality40
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression40
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions40
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual39
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia39
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees39
Vaccines against antimicrobial resistance39
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics38
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals38
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome38
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes38
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate37
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations37
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert37
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates37
Thermal variability during development facilitates enduring physiological tolerance37
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions37
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects36
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus synd36
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation36
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions36
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes35
The integrative biology of marmoset monkey vocal learning35
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )34
Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception34
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle34
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today34
The history of episodic memory34
Sequences and animal intelligence34
The social origins of vocal sequences in songbirds and human infants33
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems33
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics33
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes33
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification33
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes33
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa32
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis32
Fishy culture in a changing world32
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities32
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?32
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations32
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views32
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems31
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function31
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making31
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?31
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species31
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull31
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets31
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans31
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection31
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation31
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis30
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction30
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language30
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods30
Colour vision in nocturnal insects30
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals30
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research30
Long-term field survey reveals salinity as key determinant of estuarine host infection by a non-native castrating parasite30
Understanding age and society using natural populations30
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 329
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity29
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study29
Shedding of OsHV-1 from infected Pacific oysters depends on viral variant29
The coevolution of cognition and sociality29
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change29
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions29
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning28
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences28
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art28
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability28
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands28
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations28
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline28
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)28
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution27
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem27
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory27
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective27
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+27
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids27
Science of the gaps27
Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation27
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence26
Clinical morbidity of single or mixed schistosome species infection in two communities of southern Malawi26
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)26
Affective Theory of Mind and linguistic intimacy in irony production: a developmental perspective26
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space26
The timing and magnitude of historical exploitation in the ocean26
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization26
Joining the dots: maternal cytomegalovirus, HIV and the placenta25
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities25
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method25
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
Exploring the transformative potential of multi-trophic strategies to enhance coral restoration and mitigate disease25
Stochastic within-host dynamics and climate-sensitive traits generate predictable patterns of variation in disease outcomes25
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales25
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?25
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability25
Beak shape and nest material use in birds25
Cities in nature25
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis25
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing25
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures25
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells24
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups24
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?24
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development24
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests24
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond24
Public health challenge of hybridization in urogenital schistosomiasis: New insights and one health perspectives from Malawi24
Selection shapes diverse animal minds24
Modelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolution24
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond24
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology24
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change24
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy24
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle24
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms24
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts23
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation23
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity23
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions23
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum23
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude23
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep23
Unpredictability and adaptive responses to dietary variability in Japanese quail23
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea23
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size22
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account22
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage22
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients22
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador22
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?22
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?22
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees22
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based22
Origins of life: the possible and the actual22
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics21
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation21
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century21
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter21
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales21
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world21
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition21
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward21
The life history of harvester ant colonies21
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes21
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers21
Neonatal auditory input affects vocal development in harbour seals21
A glossary for the cross-disciplinary study of numerals21
Conserving avian vocal culture21
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease21
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes21
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics21
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals21
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants21
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies21
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia21
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality21
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity21
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities21
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue21
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions20
The evolutionary functions of consciousness20
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore20
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory20
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology20
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?20
Ten years of using the APACS test: a multistudy cross-diagnostic analysis of pragmatic profiles and their relationship with Theory of Mind20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations20
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness20
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity20
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration20
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory20
Circadian rhythms and the use of transfer learning for critically endangered crested argus Rheinardia ocellata in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: the i20
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus20
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering20
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