Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 15. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018144
Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions122
The importance of intrinsic postzygotic barriers throughout the speciation process114
A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought91
How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis91
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics90
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species85
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates82
Life in fluctuating environments81
TheDrosophilaseminal proteome and its role in postcopulatory sexual selection78
Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera78
Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers76
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions76
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?74
Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe74
The study of host–microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection74
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals73
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies71
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters70
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review67
Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 201864
Microbiome-mediated plasticity directs host evolution along several distinct time scales64
Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology63
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach62
The role of soil in regulation of climate61
The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning61
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals61
Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants61
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads61
Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome60
Compartmentalization drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation60
Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing59
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules58
The chemical brain hypothesis for the origin of nervous systems58
Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?57
Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England: the first wave56
Continuous decisions55
Spatial chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling involving plastid–nuclear complexes and stromules53
Conceptual developments in sperm competition: a very brief synopsis52
Linking mitochondrial and chloroplast retrograde signalling in plants52
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality51
A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes50
Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes50
Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK50
Novel control strategies for mosquito-borne diseases49
The future of zoonotic risk prediction48
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders48
Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations48
WolbachiastrainwAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population ofAedes aegypti48
The adaptive origins of uniquely human sociality47
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects47
Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome47
What makes a megaplasmid?46
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems45
Origins of eukaryotic excitability45
The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition45
The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water45
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology44
Age-related decline in executive function as a hallmark of cognitive ageing in primates: an overview of cognitive and neurobiological studies44
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation44
Individual vocal recognition across taxa: a review of the literature and a look into the future43
Rules of collective migration: from the wildebeest to the neural crest43
Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges43
The cultural evolutionary trade-off of ritualistic synchrony42
Mathematical models for cell migration: a non-local perspective42
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes42
Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution41
Vocal production learning in mammals revisited41
Spring enhancement and summer reduction in carbon uptake during the 2018 drought in northwestern Europe41
Understanding and combating misperceived polarization41
Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation41
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex41
Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses41
Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours41
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities41
Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the ‘extended speciation continuum'40
Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition40
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies40
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice39
Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap39
Unlocking the power of fatty acids as dietary tracers and metabolic signals in fishes and aquatic invertebrates39
Individual variation and interactions explain food web responses to global warming39
The impact of school reopening on the spread of COVID-19 in England38
How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?38
In the beginning: egg–microbe interactions and consequences for animal hosts38
Sperm competition and fertilization mode in fishes38
Genome communication in plants mediated by organelle–n­ucleus-located proteins38
Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts38
Behavioural and physiological plasticity in social hierarchies38
A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘sexomics38
The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants38
The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants37
Unconscious mental imagery37
Rude mechanicals in brain haemodynamics: non-neural actors that influence blood flow37
The critical importance of experimentation in biomarker-based trophic ecology37
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses37
More than just summed neuronal activity: how multiple cell types shape the BOLD response36
Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations36
Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution36
Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank36
Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change36
Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 201835
The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture35
Photosynthetic signalling during high light stress and recovery: targets and dynamics35
Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations35
Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems35
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)35
Multi-omic detection ofMycobacterium lepraein archaeological human dental calculus35
Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 201835
Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow35
Ancient RNA virus epidemics through the lens of recent adaptation in human genomes34
The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences34
Shifting sociality during primate ageing34
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity34
The thermodynamics of thinking: connections between neural activity, energy metabolism and blood flow34
Collective minds: social network topology shapes collective cognition34
The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning34
Seminal fluid and accessory male investment in sperm competition34
Small RNAs and chromatin in the multigenerational epigenetic landscape ofCaenorhabditis elegans34
Control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes using gene drives34
A data-driven method for reconstructing and modelling social interactions in moving animal groups34
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species33
Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution33
The role of the microbiome in host evolution33
Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition32
Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates32
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology32
As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness31
Why do imagery and perception look and feel so different?31
Sex chromosome evolution among amniotes: is the origin of sex chromosomes non-random?31
The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2measurements31
Exploring surveillance data biases when estimating the reproduction number: with insights into subpopulation transmission of COVID-19 in England31
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with waning immunity in the UK population31
Genome-wide patterns of divergence and introgression after secondary contact betweenPungitiussticklebacks31
The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty30
Elementary nervous systems30
A spatial model of COVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread, peak timing and the impact of seasonality30
The timing of genetic degeneration of sex chromosomes30
A review on trade-offs at the warm and cold ends of geographical distributions30
Multi-locus interactions and the build-up of reproductive isolation30
Role of soil in the regulation of human and plant pathogens: soils' contributions to people30
The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed30
The role of ritual behaviour in anxiety reduction: an investigation of Marathi religious practices in Mauritius30
Costs of reproduction and ageing in the human female29
Neuroscience needs evolution29
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses29
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence29
The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence29
Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient29
Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation29
Chloroplast-associated molecular patterns as concept for fine-tuned operational retrograde signalling29
The plastid transcription machinery and its coordination with the expression of nuclear genome: Plastid-Encoded Polymerase, Nuclear-Encoded Polymerase and the Genomes Uncoupled 1-mediated retrograde c29
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity: emerging parallels between tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis29
Sperm and alternative reproductive tactics: a review of existing theory and empirical data29
Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?29
Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens29
Modern models of trophic meta-communities28
Prospects for probiotics in social bees28
Analysis of floodplain forest sensitivity to drought28
Why do plasmids manipulate the expression of bacterial phenotypes?28
The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies28
Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers28
The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting28
Bio-sensing technologies in aquaculture: how remote monitoring can bring us closer to our farm animals28
Anthropogenic hybridization at sea: three evolutionary questions relevant to invasive species management28
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic27
Postzygotic reproductive isolation established in the endosperm: mechanisms, drivers and relevance27
Housing microbial symbionts: evolutionary origins and diversification of symbiotic organs in animals27
Multi-scale analysis and modelling of collective migration in biological systems27
Social hierarchies and social networks in humans27
Potential effects of nectar microbes on pollinator health27
Did pre-Columbian populations of the Amazonian biome reach carrying capacity during the Late Holocene?27
Costs dictate strategic investment in dominance interactions26
Unique fatty acid desaturase capacities uncovered in Hediste diversicolor illustrate the roles of aquatic invertebrates in trophic upgrading26
Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using 14 C dates26
The optimal timing of teaching and learning across the life course26
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?26
Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta26
Lessons from an unusual vertebrate sex-determining gene26
Differential attraction in mosquito–human interactions and implications for disease control26
Microbiota–host interactions shape ageing dynamics26
Fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods in a changing environment: a transcriptomic approach26
Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review26
Spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations: a possible role inHydraand all living systems26
Non-stomatal processes reduce gross primary productivity in temperate forest ecosystems during severe edaphic drought25
When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song25
Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration25
The role of soils in the disposition, sequestration and decontamination of environmental contaminants25
Three decades of sperm competition in birds25
Regional variation in neurovascular coupling and why we still lack a Rosetta Stone25
On the completion of speciation25
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization25
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference25
On folding morphogenesis, a mechanical problem25
Mesoderm patterning by a dynamic gradient of retinoic acid signalling25
The impact of occasional drought periods on vegetation spread and greenhouse gas exchange in rewetted fens25
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration25
Shut and re-open: the role of schools in the spread of COVID-19 in Europe24
CRISPR-Cas is associated with fewer antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial pathogens24
Going with the flow: insights fromCaenorhabditis eleganszygote polarization24
The genomes uncoupled -dependent signalling pathway coordinates plastid biogenesis with the synthesis of anthocyanins24
Collective dynamics of sperm cells24
Molecular regulation of lifespan extension in fertile ant workers24
Dominance in humans24
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change24
Gossip and reputation in everyday life24
Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology24
Retrograde signals from endosymbiotic organelles: a common control principle in eukaryotic cells24
Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?24
Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks23
Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’23
Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions23
Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia23
Future trends in measuring physiology in free-living animals23
An assessment of temporal variability in mast seeding of North American Pinaceae23
Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue23
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering23
Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic23
A brief history of masting research23
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song23
Approaching prehistoric demography: proxies, scales and scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts23
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies23
The transcription factor ANAC017 is a key regulator of mitochondrial proteotoxic stress responses in plants23
TheDrosophilamicropyle as a system to study how epithelia build complex extracellular structures23
Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection23
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture23
Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective23
Association mapping of colour variation in a butterfly provides evidence that a supergene locks together a cluster of adaptive loci23
Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?23
The evolution of strong reproductive isolation between sympatric intertidal snails23
Reputation and punishment sustain cooperation in the optional public goods game23
The territories of governance : unpacking the ontologies and geophilosophies of fixed to flexible ocean management, and beyond22
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer22
Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox22
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion22
Dynamic heterogeneity influences the leader–follower dynamics during epithelial wound closure22
A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century22
Optimal integration between host physiology and functions of the gut microbiome22
Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants22
Active perception during angiogenesis: filopodia speed up Notch selection of tip cells in silico and in vivo 22
Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge22
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover22
Mitochondrial retrograde signalling in neurological disease22
The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines22
Within-ejaculate sperm competition22
Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape22
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species22
The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests22
Fifty years of sperm competition: the structure of a scientific revolution22
Preventing postnatal depression: a causal mediation analysis of a 20-year preconception cohort22
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