Integrative and Comparative Biology

Article	Citations
The Metamorphosing Professor: Adapting Teaching to Fulfill the Promise of Biology Education	73
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2024	46
Integrating DNA-Based Prey Occurrence Probability into Stable Isotope Mixing Models	39
An Animal Model of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Exposure to Light and Sound in the Preterm Infant	39
Mind the Gap: A Review of Disjunctions in Coastal Marine Species	36
Hydric Environment and Chemical Composition Shape Non-avian Reptile Eggshell Absorption	36
Estimating Wingbeat Frequency of Hummingbirds Using a No-Labeling Learning Computer Vision Approach	36
Climate-Change Impacts on Cephalopods: A Meta-Analysis	35
Collective Neuromechanics in Sea Stars	34
Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna Elephants	33
Exploring the Unknown: How Can We Improve Single-cell RNAseq Cell Type Annotations in Non-model Organisms?	32
Beyond the Hexagon: Meso-structures in the Bee’s Honeycomb for Bio-Inspired Design	29
Rare and Opportunistic Use of Torpor in Mammals—An Echo from the Past?	27
Exoskeletal Trade-off between Claws and Carapace in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Decapod Crustaceans	27
The Shape of Water: Physiological Adaptations to Habitat Aridity in the Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)	27
Maternal Responses in the Face of Infection Risk	26
Correction to: Proteomic Signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility in Mexican Free-tailed Bats and Their Application to Viral Surveillance	24
Effect of Network Structure and Adaptive Foraging on Pollination Services of Species-Rich Plant-Pollinator Communities	24
Innovative techniques to investigate comparative biomaterials across disciplines and length scales	23
Comparing Functional Immune Responses in Three Aquatic Turtle Species	22
The Variability and Malleability of Frog Call-Timing Mechanisms are Neglected in Traditional Call-Timing Models	21
A Mitochondrial Perspective on the Demands of Reproduction	21
Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses	21
Asymmetric Segregation of Maternal mRNAs and Germline-related Determinants in Cephalochordate Embryos: Implications for the Evolution of Early Patterning Events in Chordates	21
Temperature and Turgor “Limitation” and Environmental “Control” in Xylem Biology and Dendrochronology	21

Physiological Basis of Convergent Evolution in Animal Communication Systems	21
From Individual Calcifiers to Ecosystem Dynamics: Ocean Acidification Effects on Urchins and Abalone	20
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2023	20
The Versatility of Simplicity: Structures of Cardiocephaloides longicollis Used for Different Purposes during Cercarial Transmission	19
A Perspective on the Role of Motivated Thinking in Research on Black Representation in Science	18
Developmental Plasticity in Anurans: Meta-analysis Reveals Effects of Larval Environments on Size at Metamorphosis And Timing of Metamorphosis	17
Scaling of Jumping Performance in Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)	17
Sleep Posture Influences Metabolic Rate and Vigilance in the Common Whitethroat (Curruca Communis)	17
Practical Guidance and Workflows for Identifying Fast Evolving Non-Coding Genomic Elements Using PhyloAcc	17
Trait Loss in Evolution: What Cavefish Have Taught Us about Mechanisms Underlying Eye Regression	17
Sex Without Sexes: Can the Cost of Finding a Mate Explain Diversity in Fungal Mating Systems?	17
Early Development of Locomotion in the Term Piglet Model: Does Size Matter?	17
Induced Power Scaling Alone Cannot Explain Griffenfly Gigantism	17
Common Interests Without Common Expertise: Reflections on Early-career Experiences in Cross-Disciplinary Research	17
Oxygenation-Controlled Collective Dynamics in Aquatic Worm Blobs	16
Chronic Stress Decreases Lactation Performance	16
On the Physiology of High-altitude Flight and Altitudinal Migration in Birds	16
Equipment Repositories for Accessibility: A Model for Improving Access in Field Science	16
Building, Maintaining, and (re-)Deploying Genetic Toolkits during Convergent Evolution	15
How Hot is too Hot? Metabolic Responses to Temperature Across Life Stages of a Small Ectotherm	15
Host–Microbiome Interactions as Moderators of Host Quality and Biodiversity–Disease Relationships	15
Uncovering Mechanistic Determinants of Host Phenotypes Using Microbial Systems Biology	15
Overcoming Waves of Challenges: Experiences of BIPOC Shark Scientists in the Global South	15
The role of epigenetics and non-genetic inheritance in plant–pollinator interactions: A perspective	15
Foraging Under Fire: A Robotic Flower System Incorporating Multimodal Signaling and Aversive Stimuli	14
Starting a Dialogue: Understanding the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Related to Fisheries Management of a Black Fishing Community in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	14
Freshwater Salinization Leads to Sluggish, Bloated Frogs and Small, Cramped Embryos but Adaptive Countergradient Variation in Eggs	14
Steep Decline in the Rare Flat Abalone, Haliotis walallensis, Following Fishing Exploitation and a Marine Heat Wave: The Next Neoextinction?	14
Suction Feeding Turned on Its Head: A Functional Novelty Facilitates Lower Jaw Protrusion	14
Muscle-Driven Predictive Physics Simulations of Quadrupedal Locomotion in the Horse	14
Food hoarding, anxiety, and stress in a mammalian hibernator	14
Non-Bilaterians as Model Systems for Tissue Mechanics	13
The Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices	13
Limited Cranial Shifts in City-Dwelling Rodents after a Century of Urbanization	13
Knowing Your Field Community: Elevating the Human Dimension in Ecological Research and Teaching	13
Editor-in-Chief's Note—Thank you to Reviewers	13
SICB 2026 Annual Meeting Abstracts	13
Every Hue Has Its Fan Club: Diverse Patterns of Color-Dependent Flower Visitation across Lepidoptera	13
Does Urbanization Alter Purifying Selection? A Case Study in the Burrowing Owl	13
Mudskippers Modulate their Locomotor Kinematics when Moving on Deformable and Inclined Substrates	12
Does Phenotypic Integration Promote Convergent Evolution?	12
Microbiomes in Animal Ecology: Advances, Assumptions, and Opportunities	12
Communication via Biotremors in the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): Part I- Biotremor Production and Response to Substrate-Borne Vibrations	12
The Development and Expansion of in vivo Germline Editing Technologies in Arthropods: Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT Control) and Beyond	12
What about Females? Urban Female Song Sparrows Elevate Aggressive Signaling Compared to Rural	11
The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model	11
Microbiome Comparison and Pathogen Identification for Three Migrating Passerines Captured During Spring Season in Jordan Using 16S rRNA Sequencing	11
Roles and Future Opportunities for Genomic Architecture in Understanding Repeated Evolution	11
The Yin and Yang of Self-Regulation in Developing Vertebrates. An Energetics Perspective	11
Digestive Enzyme Activities in Mussel Mytilus californianus Endure Acute Heat Exposure in Air	11

Water Availability and Temperature as Modifiers of Evaporative Water Loss in Tropical Frogs	11
Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists	11
Application of Microbiome Feedback Theory to Animals: Can Parasites Drive Coexistence in Ungulate Communities?	11
Analysis of Odor-Tracking Performance of Silk Moth Using a Sensory–Motor Intervention System	11
An Exploratory Look at Functional Responses to a Second Antigen Injection in a Freshwater Turtle	11
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited	11
The Spring-Mass Model and Other Reductionist Models of Bipedal Locomotion on Inclines	11
“The PO-Driven Model”: A Basic Science Pipeline for the Bioeconomy with Solutions Inspired by Convergent Evolution for Connecting Parallel Research Ideas	11
Invasive Spotted Lanternflies (Lycorma delicatula) Are Larger in More Urban Areas	11
Cnidarian Circadian Clocks Model How Animals Find Predictability in a Complex World	10
Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants	10
Sex and Biology: Broader Impacts Beyond the Binary	10
The Microbiome as a Maternal Effect: A Systematic Review on Vertical Transmission of Microbiota	10
Best Practices of Bioinspired Design: Key Themes and Challenges	10
Multi-Joint Analysis of Pose Viability Supports the Possibility of Salamander-Like Hindlimb Configurations in the Permian TetrapodEryops megacephalus	10
Mechanosensory Control of Locomotion in Animals and Robots: Moving Forward	10
High Wing-Loading Correlates with Dive Performance in Birds, Suggesting a Strategy to Reduce Buoyancy	10
The Young and the Resilient: Investigating Coral Thermal Resilience in Early Life Stages	10
What Women Want: Lessons Learned from Grant Applications	10
Complementary Roles for Differential Gene Expression and Differential Exon Use in the Heat Shock Response of an Intertidal Copepod	10
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) and Wild Bee Resource Competition: How Big Is This Problem?	10
Interspecific Asymmetries in Behavioral Plasticity Drive Seasonal Patterns of Temporal Niche Partitioning in an Island Carnivore Community	10
Preferred body temperatures are increasing in 3 anguimorph lizards with passive thermoregulation	10
The Aquatic Microbial Environment Shapes the Tadpole Microbiome and Antipredator Behavior	9
Pheromone Perception in Fish: Mechanisms and Modulation by Internal Status	9
A Guide for Successful Research Collaborations between Zoos and Universities	9
Remaining safe conducting Field work While Black (FWB), and Tips for PIs, Universities, and Employers of Black Individuals	9
Motherhood and Academia: Tradeoffs	9
Correction to: Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Awarded at the SICB Meeting in January 2022	8
Loss of collagen gene expression in the notochord of the tailless tunicate Molgula occulta	8
Katydids Shift to Higher-Stability Gaits when Climbing Inclined Substrates	8
Methods for Artificial Incubation of Passerine Eggs	8
Investigating Best Practices for Applying a Quantitative Tooth Complexity Metric to Fishes	8
Rhagovelia Uses Interfacial Run-and-Tumble Locomotion to Improve Food Capture in Flowing Environments	8
Cnidarian Eyes as a Meta-Model to Explore Evolutionary Repeatability Over Deep Time	8
The Causes and Consequences of Public Misunderstanding of Shark Conservation	8
Interrogating Metabolic Plasticity in Marine Organisms: A Framework for Best Practices Using Metabolomic and Lipidomic Approaches	8
Time-Series Sequences for Evolutionary Inferences	8
Applying 3D Models of Giant Salamanders to Explore Form–Function Relationships in Early Digit-Bearing Tetrapods	8
Scaling Relationships among the Mass of Eggshell, Albumen, and Yolk in Six Precocial Birds	8
Thermomechanical and Morphological Properties of Loligo vulgaris Squid Sucker Ring Teeth	8
Towards a Grading Model That Supports Learning in Biology Courses	8
CRISPR/Cas9 Protocols for Disrupting Gene Function in the Non-vertebrate Chordate Ciona	7
Testing the Adaptive Sterilization Hypothesis in Mice Inoculated with Chlamydia muridarum	7
Locomotor Challenges of Waterfall-Climbing Gobies during Transitions between Media	7
The Bioinspiration Feedback Loop: An Interdisciplinary Exchange of Processes and Progress Between Biologists and Engineers	7
Reproductive Steroid Hormone Patterns in Baleen of Two Pregnant Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)	7
Patterns of Phenotypic Evolution Associated with Marine/Freshwater Transitions in Fishes	7
Viewing Fragmentation through the Disease Triangle: Implications for Pathogen Pressure on Seeds	7
In Hot Water: Current Thermal Threshold Methods Unlikely to Predict Invasive Species Shifts in NW Atlantic	7
How Damage, Recovery, and Repair Alter the Fitness Impacts of Thermal Stress	7
Independent Transitions to Freshwater Environments Promote Phenotypic Divergence, Not Convergence, in Stingrays	7
Time-dependent Changes in Shrimp Armor and Escape Kinematics under Ocean Acidification and Warming	7
Introduction to the 2024 Chordate Origins, Evolution, and Development SICB Symposium	7
An Adaptable Flying Fish Robotic Model for Aero- and Hydrodynamic Experimentation	7
Diverse Tongue Base Retraction Strategies Drive Bolus Propulsion during Mammalian Swallowing	7
The Effect of Venipuncture Site on Hematology of Bats: Implications for Comparative Analyses	7
The Silverjaw Minnow, Ericymba buccata: An Extraordinary Lateral Line System and its Contribution to Prey Detection	7
Insect Flight Energetics and the Evolution of Size, Form, and Function	6
Do We All Walk the Walk? A Comparison of Walking Behaviors across Tetrapods	6
Characterizing Primary Immune Responses Against Three Antigens in a Reptile	6
Integrating Spatial Analyses of Genomic and Physiological Data to Understand Avian Responses to Environmental Change	6
Zooming in on Bonnetheads: Quantifying Impacts of Maturity on Denticle Morphology	6
Mechanistic Hypotheses for Proprioceptive Sensing Within the Avian Lumbosacral Spinal Cord	6
Leeches Predate on Fast-Escaping and Entangling Blackworms by Spiral Entombment	6
Biotic Interactions and the Future of Fishes on Coral Reefs: The Importance of Trait-Based Approaches	6
Under the Sea: Investigation of Telson Morphology and Cryptic Diversity within Eucopia sculpticauda, a Deep-Sea Lophogastrid from the Gulf of Mexico (Peracarida: Lophogastrida)	6
Best Practices to Promote Field Science Safety	6
Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary views on phenotypic integration through hormonal pleiotropy	6
Genetic Insight into Tiger Sharks ( Galeocerdo cuvier ) and Whiprays ( Brevitrygon sp.) in Sri Lanka	6
Correction to: Amphibians Exhibit Extremely High Hydric Costs of Respiration	6
Biomechanics of Insect Flight Stability and Perturbation Response	6
What Can Frogs Teach Us about Resilience? Adaptive Renewal in Amphibian and Academic Ecosystems	6
DNA Metabarcoding Across Disciplines: Sequencing Our Way to Greater Understanding Across Scales of Biological Organization	6
Repeated Hyposalinity Pulses Immediately and Persistently Impair the Sea Urchin Adhesive System	6
Ontogenetic Plasticity in Shoaling Behavior in a Forage Fish under Warming	6
Cephalopod-omics: Emerging Fields and Technologies in Cephalopod Biology	6
The Evolution of Offspring Size: A Metabolic Scaling Perspective	6
Females with Increased Costs Maintain Reproductive Output: A Field Experiment in a Common Songbird	6
Correction To: Large Diversity in Nitrogen- and Sulfur-Containing Compatible Solute Profiles in Polar And Temperate Diatoms	6

Daily Torpor in Birds and Mammals: Past, Present, and Future of the Field	6
Into the spongy-verse: structural differences between leaf and flower mesophyll	6
Impacts of Quaternary Climatic Changes on the Diversification of Riverine Cichlids in the Lower Congo River	6
Mechanosensory Feedback in Lamprey Swimming Models and Applications in the Field of Spinal Cord Regeneration	6