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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions173
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison161
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands117
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies98
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition94
Evolution of the cardiac dyad94
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon86
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene77
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives76
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs74
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )72
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies70
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery65
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness63
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening61
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities60
Comments from the departing Editor60
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review59
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure57
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective56
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions56
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change56
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?55
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals55
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook54
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems53
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion52
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model51
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’51
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture50
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children48
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations48
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system47
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology46
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead46
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change45
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands45
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language44
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective44
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis44
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species44
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diver43
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact43
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes43
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica42
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia42
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes41
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making41
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate41
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists41
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution41
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression40
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees40
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert40
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms40
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual39
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family39
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome39
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment38
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions38
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests38
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates37
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics37
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene37
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes37
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations37
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases37
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation36
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals36
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions36
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects36
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence36
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory36
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups36
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research33
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions33
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus synd33
The history of episodic memory32
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle32
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality32
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today32
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )32
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies32
Understanding age and society using natural populations32
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection32
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups32
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species31
Fishy culture in a changing world31
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 331
Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception31
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions31
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets31
Sequences and animal intelligence31
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems31
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views30
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity30
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making30
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods30
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation30
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function30
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification30
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language30
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes30
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis29
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?29
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities29
Colour vision in nocturnal insects29
The coevolution of cognition and sociality29
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback29
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull29
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics29
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study29
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?28
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations28
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans28
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems28
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis28
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction28
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change28
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals28
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization28
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research28
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests27
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem27
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)27
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)27
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis27
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands27
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences27
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline27
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies26
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability26
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability26
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning26
Science of the gaps26
Joining the dots: maternal cytomegalovirus, HIV and the placenta26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
Cities in nature26
Beak shape and nest material use in birds26
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution26
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+26
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer26
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists26
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space25
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method25
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions25
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India25
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations25
Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation25
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology25
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence25
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory25
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures25
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity25
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids25
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language25
Conserving avian vocal culture24
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective24
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa24
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change24
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond24
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size24
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells24
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity24
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum24
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude23
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
Selection shapes diverse animal minds23
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador23
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms23
Origins of life: the possible and the actual23
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease23
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity23
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition22
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep22
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward22
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle22
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts22
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales22
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions22
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa22
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world22
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development21
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides21
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients21
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account21
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes21
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes21
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities21
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses21
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys21
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?21
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality21
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based21
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea21
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species21
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees21
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage21
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory20
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.20
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations20
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics20
The evolutionary functions of consciousness20
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology19
A glossary for the cross-disciplinary study of numerals19
The life history of harvester ant colonies19
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers19
Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres19
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter19
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions19
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness19
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?19
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore19
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals19
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory19
Depression’s double hit: immune dysfunction and viral reactivation19
The uteroplacental circulation at high altitude: adaptation and maladaptation19
Planetary system evolution and the extended biosphere: we humans are products of Earth’s biosphere; we have become its co-creators; can we be its regulators?19
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering19
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration19
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity19
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes19
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus19
Bones, shells and baselines—how the past can inform modern marine management, protection and restoration19
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics19
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been19
Aggression, rank and power: why hens (and other animals) do not always peck according to their strength19
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