Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comments from the departing Editor129
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns125
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning125
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology95
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies88
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children87
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’84
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes77
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language74
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica73
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals72
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact71
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture70
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands68
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective68
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery66
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene65
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group64
Evolution of the cardiac dyad64
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model63
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies63
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon63
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook62
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure62
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition61
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity61
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions60
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion60
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?59
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations59
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison59
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species58
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system56
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game55
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )55
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species55
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective54
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events54
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems53
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness53
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change53
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis52
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review51
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes50
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead50
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions49
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition49
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs49
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia49
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual48
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment48
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species48
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome47
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression47
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution47
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics46
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects46
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups46
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components46
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation45
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees44
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists43
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests42
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes42
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer41
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 41
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes41
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence41
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions41
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert41
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research40
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality40
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates39
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization39
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making38
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory38
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms38
By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems38
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions37
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals37
Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates37
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate37
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups37
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies36
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene36
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions36
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals36
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes36
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations36
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family36
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity35
A metastable attractor model of self–other integration (MEAMSO) in rhythmic synchronization35
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?35
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification35
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis35
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study35
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation35
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis34
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection34
The effects of ENSO and the North American monsoon on mast seeding in two Rocky Mountain conifer species34
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities34
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations33
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function33
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making33
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today33
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle33
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems33
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals33
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change32
Fishy culture in a changing world32
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans32
Understanding age and society using natural populations32
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language32
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback31
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 331
The history of episodic memory31
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species31
Colour vision in nocturnal insects31
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics31
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views31
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )31
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull30
Sequences and animal intelligence30
The coevolution of cognition and sociality30
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction30
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets30
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena30
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa30
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?30
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research30
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers29
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities29
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands29
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art29
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language28
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids28
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning28
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability28
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory28
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+28
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity27
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)27
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence27
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences27
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India27
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization27
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline27
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis27
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability27
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists27
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer27
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions27
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective27
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales26
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures26
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa26
Beak shape and nest material use in birds26
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?26
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations26
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology26
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests26
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space26
Cities in nature26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)25
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum25
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy25
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account25
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies25
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition25
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells25
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change25
Interaction between sex-determining genes from two species: clues fromXenopushybrids25
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?25
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease25
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts25
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales24
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction24
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development24
Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms24
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle24
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity24
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity24
Conserving avian vocal culture24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?24
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species24
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients23
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms23
Selection shapes diverse animal minds23
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based23
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea23
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover23
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes23
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys23
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa23
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees23
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond23
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions23
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?23
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides23
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium23
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality22
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes22
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )22
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses22
Neuroscience needs evolution22
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world22
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations22
Operant control and call usage learning in African elephants22
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward22
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep22
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics22
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia22
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies22
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century21
The life history of harvester ant colonies21
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics21
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory21
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals21
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been21
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus21
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter21
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate21
Transposable elements promote the evolution of genome streamlining21
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions21
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes21
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants21
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation20
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers20
Circadian rhythms and the use of transfer learning for critically endangered crested argus Rheinardia ocellata in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: the implications for 20
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture20
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering20
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?20
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