OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Differential Changes in Circulating Steroid Hormones in Hibernating Brown Bears: Preliminary Conclusions and Caveats	147
Back to the Womb: A Perinatal Perspective on Mammalian Hibernation	19
Variation in Melanin Content of Lizard Livers: Hybrids Turning to the Dark Side	16
Adaptation to Urban Heat Islands Enhances Thermal Performance Following Development under Chronic Thermal Stress but Not Benign Conditions in the Terrestrial Isopod Oniscus asellus	15
Heritability and Parental Effects in Telomere Length in a Color Polymorphic Long-Lived Bird	13
Could Chronic Hypothermia in a Human Affect the Clock System?	12
The Rate of Cooling during Torpor Entry Drives Torpor Patterns in a Small Marsupial	12
Front Matter	12
Announcement: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Is Changing Its Name to Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology	11
Allometric Scaling of Anaerobic Capacity Estimated from a Unique Field-Based Data Set of Fish Swimming	10
Physiological Ecology of Winter Hibernation by the High-Altitude Frog Nanorana parkeri	9
Acute-Phase Immune Response Involves Fever, Sickness Behavior, and an Elevated Metabolic Rate in the Subterranean RodentCtenomys talarum	9
Environmental Drivers of Growth and Oxidative Status during Early Life in a Long-Lived Antarctic Seabird, the Adélie Penguin	9
Temperature Effects on DNA Damage during Hibernation	9
IGF-1 Levels Increase during an Immune but Not an Oxidative Challenge in an Avian Model, the Japanese Quail	9
Front Cover	8
A Summer Heat Wave Reduced Activity, Heart Rate, and Autumn Body Mass in a Cold-Adapted Ungulate	8
Understanding Patterns of Life History Trait Covariation in an Untapped Resource, the Lab Mouse	7
Body Mass and Tail Girth Predict Hibernation Expression in Captive Dwarf Lemurs	7
Cascading Effects of Conspecific Aggression on Oxidative Status and Telomere Length in Zebra Finches	7
Front Matter	7
Quantification of Urinary Sex Steroids in the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)	7
Chronic Thermal Acclimation Effects on Critical Thermal Maxima (CT_max) and Oxidative Stress Differences in White Epaxial Muscle between Surface and Cave Morphotypes of the Mexican Cavefish	6
A Mesocosm Experiment in Ecological Physiology: The Modulation of Energy Budget in a Hibernating Marsupial under Chronic Caloric Restriction	6
Front Cover	6

Repeatability of Voluntary Thermal Maximum and Covariance with Water Loss Reveal Potential for Adaptation to Changing Climates	6
For the Love of Snakes: Discovering Snakes in Wild Places Review	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Front Cover	6
Body Temperature Patterns and Energy Balance Hormones in Free-Living Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) from Different Latitudes	5
Universality of Torpor Expression in Bats	5
Osmoregulatory Performance among Prickly Sculpin (Cottus asper) Living in Contrasting Osmotic Habitats	5
Front Cover	5
House Sparrows Vary Seasonally in Their Ability to Transmit West Nile Virus	5
The Mystery of Energy Compensation	4
No Evidence for Constitutive Innate Immune Senescence in a Longitudinal Study of a Wild Bird	4
Environmental Stress and the Morphology of Daphnia pulex	4
Infection Causes Trade-Offs between Development and Growth in Larval Amphibians	4
Altricial Bird Early-Stage Embryos Express the Molecular “Machinery” to Respond to and Modulate Maternal Thyroid Hormone Cues	4
Corticosterone Alters Body Weight, but Not Metabolites, during Chronic Stress	4
Small Alpine Marsupials Regulate Evaporative Water Loss, Suggesting a Thermoregulatory Role Rather than a Water Conservation Role	4
Front Cover	3
Metabolic Rates and Thermal Thresholds of Embryonic Flatback Turtles (Natator depressus) from the North West Shelf of Australia	3
Physiological Health and Survival of Captive-Reared and Released Juvenile Blanding’s Turtles	3
Intergenerational Costs of Oxidative Stress: Reduced Fitness in Daughters of Mothers That Experienced High Levels of Oxidative Damage during Reproduction	3
Mitochondrial Enzyme Activities and Body Condition of Naturally Infected Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)	3
Shifts in the Thermal Dependence of Locomotor Performance across an Altitudinal Gradient in Native Populations of Xenopus laevis	3
Ventilatory Sensitivity to Ambient CO₂ at Different Hibernation Temperatures in Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)	3
Body Composition and Energy Savings by Hibernation: Lessons from the South American Marsupial Dromiciops gliroides	3
Front Matter	3
Building Bridges from Genome to Physiology Using Machine Learning and Drosophila Experimental Evolution	3
DNA Methylation and Counterdirectional Pigmentation Change following Immune Challenge in a Small Ectotherm	3
Commentary on the Biphasic Ontogenetic Metabolic Scaling of the American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)	3
Flexible Employment of Torpor in Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis): An Adaptation to Unpredictable Climate?	3
Cold and Hungry: Heterothermy Is Associated with Low Leptin Levels in a Bulk Grazer during a Drought	3
Torpor Does Not Influence Spatial Memory in Hibernating Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus [Callospermophilus] lateralis)	2
Role of Nitric Oxide in the Cardiovascular System of South American Rattlesnakes (Crotalus durissus)	2
Dive Performance and Aquatic Thermoregulation of the World’s Smallest Mammalian Diver, the American Water Shrew (Sorex palustris)	2
Hemolymph Glycemia as an Environmental Stress Biomarker in the Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)	2
No Evidence for Long-Term Carryover Effects in a Wild Salmonid Fish	2
Mitigating Apoptotic and Inflammatory Signaling via Global Caspase Inhibition in Hibernating Ground Squirrels, Spermophilus lateralis	2
Opportunities Lost? Evolutionary Causes and Ecological Consequences of the Absence of Trehalose Digestion in Birds	2
Sex-Specific Effects of Blood Serotonin on Reproductive Effort in a Small Passerine	2
Variation of Rodents’ Body Temperature across Elevation in Alps	2
Clade-Specific Allometries in Avian Basal Metabolic Rate Demand a Broader Theory of Allometry	2
Nestling Altricial Rodents and Lagomorphs Are Not Ectotherms	2
Front Cover	2
A Modern Overview of Crustacean Biogeography: Evolution and Biogeography Review	2
Divergence in Thermal Physiology Could Contribute to Vertical Segregation in Intertidal Ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis	2
Rapid Physiological Plasticity in Response to Cold Acclimation for Nonnative Italian Wall Lizards (Podarcis siculus) from New York	2
Warm Acclimation Increases Mitochondrial Efficiency in Fish: A Compensatory Mechanism to Reduce the Demand for Oxygen	2