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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comments from the departing Editor126
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning121
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness120
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs94
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns86
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology85
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies78
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children74
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game73
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’70
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective69
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery69
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook67
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene65
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes64
Evolution of the cardiac dyad63
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica63
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture62
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language62
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group61
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model61
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species60
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion59
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions59
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?58
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )58
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition58
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations58
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison58
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact57
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species57
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review56
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system55
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals55
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies54
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon54
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective54
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes53
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change51
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems51
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure51
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands51
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity50
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead49
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis49
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events49
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory48
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality48
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family47
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia47
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition47
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions47
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution46
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression46
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals46
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome46
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups46
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees45
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components45
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation44
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual43
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions42
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists41
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making40
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes40
By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems39
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes39
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research39
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups39
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects39
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer39
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics39
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates38
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate38
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals38
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert38
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests37
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment37
Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates37
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence37
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations36
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species36
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions36
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 36
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies35
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization35
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes35
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene35
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?35
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis34
The effects of ENSO and the North American monsoon on mast seeding in two Rocky Mountain conifer species34
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation34
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis34
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa34
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations33
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities33
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions33
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull33
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study33
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection33
A metastable attractor model of self–other integration (MEAMSO) in rhythmic synchronization33
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems32
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle32
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans32
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function32
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals32
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets32
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today32
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making32
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language32
Colour vision in nocturnal insects31
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 331
Fishy culture in a changing world31
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change31
Understanding age and society using natural populations31
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods30
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics30
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art30
The history of episodic memory30
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species30
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena30
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research30
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?30
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback30
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )29
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity29
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method29
A non-invasive system to measure heart rate in hard-shelled sea turtles: potential for field applications29
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views29
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities29
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory28
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales28
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language28
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands28
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers28
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning28
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids27
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India27
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability27
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists27
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+27
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability27
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity27
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests26
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)26
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences26
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures26
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies26
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective26
Beak shape and nest material use in birds26
Cities in nature26
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)26
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline26
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization26
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions26
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations26
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis26
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space25
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world25
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account25
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells25
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species25
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change25
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa25
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
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum25
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition25
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology25
Interaction between sex-determining genes from two species: clues fromXenopushybrids25
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy25
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity25
Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms24
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle24
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa24
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups24
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep24
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales24
Neuroscience needs evolution23
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses23
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover23
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees23
Conserving avian vocal culture23
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence23
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes23
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium23
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys23
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms23
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
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation23
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song23
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients23
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development23
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based22
Correction to ‘The role of soil in regulation of climate’22
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia22
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics22
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size22
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides22
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea22
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes22
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory22
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality22
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?22
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies22
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations22
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )22
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction22
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century21
How cytoskeletal proteins regulate mitochondrial energetics in cell physiology and diseases21
Transposable elements promote the evolution of genome streamlining21
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus21
Operant control and call usage learning in African elephants21
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
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes21
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory21
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness21
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions21
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice21
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation21
Aggression, rank and power: why hens (and other animals) do not always peck according to their strength20
The dynamic connectome of speech control20
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers20
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology20
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore20
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology20
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter20
The life history of harvester ant colonies20
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics20
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture20
Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome20
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