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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic114
"A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years113
Measuring the state of aquatic environments using eDNA—upscaling spatial resolution of biotic indices111
Variation in nest-building behaviour in birds: a multi-species approach104
Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny103
Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants89
A model for colour preference behaviour of spring migrant aphids87
Reproductive inequality among males in the genusPan86
Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques86
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases81
Preface to 'Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems'79
Comments from the departing Editor71
The web of conflict-related interactions in Colombia: exploring causal linkages between ecological and social variables by the qualitative loop analysis70
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition68
The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity66
Unravelling the functional and phylogenetic dimensions of novel ecosystem assemblages65
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact65
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )64
Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet64
How should we bend the curve of biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future?63
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery63
Rewilding psychology61
Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation60
Sex differences in cooperative coalitions: a mammalian perspective59
The role of binocular vision in the control and development of visually guided upper limb movements59
Do you hear what I see? How do early blind individuals experience object motion?58
The extended analogy of extraembryonic development in insects and amniotes58
Crystal structures of ‘ALternative Isoinformational ENgineered’ DNA in B-form57
Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution56
Cultural specialization as a double-edged sword: division into specialized guilds might promote cultural complexity at the cost of higher susceptibility to cultural loss56
Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure55
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes54
Walking humans and running mice: perception and neural encoding of optic flow during self-motion54
Understanding the factors regulating host–microbiome interactions using Caenorhabditis elegans53
Transient mutation bias increases the predictability of evolution on an empirical genotype–phenotype landscape53
Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell properties implicate Ca 2+ -homeostasis in clinical arrhythmia associated with combined heterozygous RY53
How does genetic architecture affect eco-evolutionary dynamics? A theoretical perspective52
Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories52
A songbird adjusts its heart rate and body temperature in response to season and fluctuating daily conditions52
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation52
Rethinking the role of language in embodied cognition51
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system51
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads51
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language50
Success probability of high-affinity DNA aptamer generation by genetic alphabet expansion50
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns50
Amphibian infection tolerance to chytridiomycosis50
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?49
Skill building in freediving as an example of embodied culture49
Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour48
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders47
Can nesting behaviour allow reptiles to adapt to climate change?47
From dearth to excess: the rise of obesity in an ultra-processed food system47
Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds47
Self-motion perception and sequential decision-making: where are we heading?47
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology46
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group46
Mechanistic models to meet the challenge of climate change in plant–pathogen systems46
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning46
Elements of episodic memory: insights from artificial agents44
Allosteric inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus MenD by 1,4-dihydroxy naphthoic acid: a feedback inhibition mechanism of the menaquinone biosynthesis pathway44
How do fluctuating ecological dynamics impact the evolution of hosts and parasites?44
Nutrients and flow shape the cyclic dominance games between Escherichia coli strains43
Interdisciplinary approaches to predicting evolutionary biology43
The evolutionarily stable strategy, animal contests, parasitoids, pest control and sociality43
Identifying the social context of single- and mixed-species group formation in large African herbivores43
Reactivity and mechanism in chemical and synthetic biology42
Mitigating the impacts of street lighting on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning42
The influence of social and spatial processes on the epidemiology of environmentally transmitted pathogens in wildlife: implications for management42
Spatial variation in species' roles in host–helminth networks42
The economic superorganism in the complexity of evolution41
Correction to: Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue (2022) by Carmel et al.40
The impacts of climate change, energy policy and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People40
Impacts of artificial light at night on the early life history of two ecosystem engineers39
Your turn, my turn. Neural synchrony in mother–infant proto-conversation39
Selective selfishness in alarm calling behaviour by some members of wintering mixed-species groups of crested tits and willow tits38
Epistasis decreases with increasing antibiotic pressure but not temperature38
Understanding 3D vision as a policy network38
Inspecting the interaction between human immunodeficiency virus and the immune system through genetic turnover38
Familiar size affects perception differently in virtual reality and the real world38
Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief) history of empirical study of the arts37
Parent–infant affect synchrony during social and solo play37
A new mammal from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for eutherian evolution36
Signals of belonging: emergence of signalling norms as facilitators of trust and parochial cooperation36
Self-tuition as an essential design feature of the brain36
Shaping new norms for AI36
Strongyloides : omics to worm-free populations36
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs35
Estimating the relationship between fitness and metabolic rate: which rate should we use?35
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon35
Photosynthesis and other factors affecting the establishment and maintenance of cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis35
Convergent copy number increase of genes associated with freshwater colonization in fishes34
Pollinator selection against toxic nectar as a key facilitator of a plant invasion34
Testing for fitness epistasis in a transplant experiment identifies a candidate adaptive locus inTimemastick insects34
Relationship among vegetation structure and mixed-species flocks composition along the latitudinal gradient of the subtropical montane forest of the Yungas, Argentina34
The constructive nature of memories in insects: bumblebees as a case study33
Interactions between neural representations of the social and spatial environment33
The early rise and spread of evolutionary game theory: perspectives based on recollections of early workers33
Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: crossing the species gap33
Variation in communicative complexity in relation to social structure and organization in non-human primates33
Lamin A precursor localizes to the Z-disc of sarcomeres in the heart and is dynamically regulated in muscle cell differentiation33
Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modelling perspective33
Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial–social interface33
Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans32
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook32
Recent progress on methods for estimating and updating large phylogenies32
Functional biogeography of parasite traits: hypotheses and evidence31
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems31
Conscious awareness is necessary to assess trust and mimic facial expressions, while pupils impact trust unconsciously31
Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles31
Three-dimensional visualization of the cardiac ryanodine receptor clusters and the molecular-scale fraying of dyads31
Reactive oxygen species: role in obesity and mitochondrial energy efficiency31
Single individual structural variant detection uncovers widespread hemizygosity in molluscs31
The transmission dynamics of Strongyloides stercoralis and the impact of mass drug administration30
The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod30
Compartmentalized cAMP signalling and control of cardiac rhythm30
Outbreaks in care homes may lead to substantial disease burden if not mitigated30
Experimental evolution of the megaplasmid pMPPla107 in Pseudomonas stutzeri enables identification of genes contributing to sensitivity to an inhibitory agent30
Correction: ‘Evaluation of Kato-Katz and multiplex quantitative polymerase chain reaction performance for clinical helminth infections in Thailand using a latent class analysis’ (2023), by Rotejanapra30
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes30
Towards an integrated understanding of dietary phenotypes30
Real-time monitoring of COVID-19 dynamics using automated trend fitting and anomaly detection30
Endocrine–circadian interactions in birds: implications when nights are no longer dark30
Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease29
Social learning in swarm robotics29
From inter-group conflict to inter-group cooperation: insights from social insects29
Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds29
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity29
Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects29
Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality29
Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania29
Cereal weevils' antimicrobial peptides: at the crosstalk between development, endosymbiosis and immune response29
Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human–environment interactions in the uplands of northern Vietnam29
Order and change in art: towards an active inference account of aesthetic experience29
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies28
The content and structure of reputation domains across human societies: a view from the evolutionary social sciences28
Landscape configuration can flip species–area relationships in dynamic meta-food-webs28
Need for shared internal mound conditions by fungus-growing Macrotermes does not predict their species distributions, in current or future climates28
The experimental emergence of convention in a non-human primate28
Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration–exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects28
The role of cognition in nesting28
Diversity and its causes: Lewontin on racism, biological determinism and the adaptationist programme28
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure28
Anthropogenic disturbance affects calling and collective behaviour in corvid roosts28
Overlooked and misunderstood: can glutathione conjugates be clues to understanding plant glutathione transferases?27
Into the wild—a field study on the evolutionary and ecological importance of thermal plasticity in ectotherms across temperate and tropical regions27
The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past27
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness27
Navigating the normativity of behaviour settings: an observational case study27
Evolutionary relationships between metabolism and behaviour require genetic correlations27
The contributions of Nettie Stevens to the field of sex chromosome biology27
Peer audience effects on children's vocal masculinity and femininity27
The role of animal hosts in shaping gut microbiome variation27
Environmental variation and biotic interactions limit adaptation at ecological margins: lessons from rainforestDrosophilaand European butterflies27
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic26
The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach26
Alternative mammalian strategies leading towards gastrulation: losing polar trophoblast (Rauber's layer) or gaining an epiblast cavity26
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children26
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies26
Evolution of the cardiac dyad26
Kidnapping intergroup young: an alternative strategy to maintain group size in the group-living pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor)26
Was Cinderella just a fairy tale? Survival differences between stepchildren and their half-siblings26
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis26
Correction to: ‘Cardiac deficiency of P21-activated kinase 1 promotes atrial arrhythmogenesis in mice following adrenergic challenge’25
Fat-free mass and resting metabolic rate are determinants of energy intake: implications for a theory of appetite control25
Epigenetic inheritance and evolution: a historian's perspective25
Evolving the capacity for socially guided vocal learning in songbirds: a preliminary study25
Vocal plasticity in harbour seal pups25
Shaping birth: variation in the birth canal and the importance of inclusive obstetric care24
Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?24
When norm change hurts24
Gestures can help children learn mathematics: how researchers can work with teachers to make gesture studies applicable to classrooms24
Recent advances in biomedical, biosensor and clinical measurement devices for use in humans and the potential application of these technologies for the study of physiology and disease in wild animals24
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions24
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species24
Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size24
Incremental induction of NMDAR-STP and NMDAR-LTP in the CA1 area of ventral hippocampal slices relies on graded activation of discrete NMDA receptors24
Sex chromosome degeneration, turnover, and sex-biased expression of sex-linked transcripts in African clawed frogs ( Xenopus )24
The cultural evolution of cultural evolution24
Transcriptomic analysis of PADI4 target genes during multi-lineage differentiation of embryonic stem cells24
Gene surfing of underdominant alleles promotes formation of hybrid zones24
Correction to: ‘A practice-led assessment of landscape restoration potential in a biodiversity hotspot’ (2022) by Wills et al.24
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture24
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison23
Correction to ‘A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals’23
Cis -regulatory landscapes in the evolution and development of the mammalian skull23
ARR17 controls dioecy in Populus by repressing B-class MADS-box gene expression23
A classification scheme for mixed-species bird flocks23
The evolution of passive dispersal versus habitat selection have differing emergent consequences in metacommunities23
Fossils improve extinction-rate estimates under state-dependent diversification models23
Correction to: ‘Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review’23
Connecting human behaviour, meaning and nature23
Realizing the potential of restoration science23
Metabolic scaling as an emergent outcome of variation in metabolic rate23
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies23
Leveraging graphical model techniques to study evolution on phylogenetic networks23
Neutral phylogenetic models and their role in tree-based biodiversity measures23
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’23
Digging into bivalve miRNAomes: between conservation and innovation23
Engagement and adherence trade-offs for SARS-CoV-2 contact tracing23
Recurrent allopolyploidization, Y-chromosome introgression and the evolution of sexual systems in the plant genus Mercurialis23
Nurturing future leaders for nature: the example of the UK's National Education Nature Park23
Reading Yule in light of the history and present of macroevolution23
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex22
Behavioural regulation of mineral salt intake in honeybees: a self-selection approach22
The role of soils on pollination and seed dispersal22
The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity22
Dosage compensation evolution in plants: theories, controversies and mechanisms22
Flexible signalling strategies by victims mediate post-conflict interactions in bonobos22
The role of soils in the regulation of air quality22
The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants22
Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations22
Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication22
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference22
Honesty and dishonesty in gossip strategies: a fitness interdependence analysis22
Groundfish biodiversity change in northeastern Pacific waters under projected warming and deoxygenation21
Acoustic similarity of flight calls corresponds with the composition and structure of mixed-species flocks of migrating birds: evidence from a three-dimensional microphone array21
The mammalian skull: development, structure and function21
An ecological approach to measuring synchronization abilities across the animal kingdom21
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective21
Rhythm in dyadic interactions21
Impacts of limits to adaptation on population and community persistence in a changing environment21
Towards a toolkit for global insect biodiversity monitoring21
Evolutionarily stable preferences21
Journey of the mouse primitive endoderm: from specification to maturation21
Quantifying and estimating ecological network diversity based on incomplete sampling data21
Negative density dependence characterizes mutualistic interactions between birds and fruiting plants across latitudes21
Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour21
The role of soils in the regulation of ocean acidification21
Molecular patterns and processes in evolving sociality: lessons from insects21
Artificial light at night (ALAN) causes shifts in soil communities and functions21
EnteroBase: hierarchical clustering of 100 000s of bacterial genomes into species/subspecies and populations21
The amphibian immune system21
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration21
Continental-scale patterns in diel flight timing of high-altitude migratory insects21
Does eating less or exercising more to reduce energy availability produce distinct metabolic responses?21
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities21
Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgements21
From lab to life: challenges and perspectives of fNIRS for haemodynamic-based neurofeedback in real-world environments20
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity20
Measuring dominance certainty and assessing its impact on individual and societal health in a nonhuman primate model: a network approach20
Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management20
Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus20
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands20
Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene20
Even violins can cry: specifically vocal emotional behaviours also drive the perception of emotions in non-vocal music20
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game20
Economic factors underlying biodiversity loss20
Monitoring recovery of tree diversity during tropical forest restoration: lessons from long-term trajectories of natural regeneration20
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