Current Zoology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Zoology is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The best of both worlds: cicada males change costly signals to achieve mates while females choose a mate based on both calling and courtship songs21
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai17
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)15
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys13
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis12
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard12
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Western Atlantic12
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents12
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia12
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding11
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China11
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets11
Delayed juvenile behavioral development and prolonged dependence are adaptations to desert life in the grey falcon10
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China10
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos9
Impact of dam-induced hydrological fluctuations on the behavior of the endangered scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus): implications for river regulation strategies and conservation9
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together9
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony9
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk9
Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity affects embryonic development but not female reproduction in a lizard from desert steppes9
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes9
Local mate competition model alone cannot predict the offspring sex ratio in large and dense populations of a haplodiploid arthropod9
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females9
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran9
Positional behavior and canopy use of black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri in the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China8
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review8
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian8
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment8
Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats8
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses8
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues7
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs7
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes7
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species7
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)7
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration7
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots7
Elevational patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Mediterranean lizard7
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti7
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs7
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence7
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata7
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression7
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis6
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise6
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior6
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator6
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge6
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow6
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health6
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau5
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming5
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)5
The birth hour of mammals: insights from intra-specific variation in wild blue monkeys5
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird5
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii5
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions5
Fortune may favor the flexible: environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs5
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China5
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis5
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans5
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species4
Cariprazine modulates affective and social behaviors through ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons4
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog4
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)4
Integrating habitat and population dynamics to uncover dispersal-driven persistence in a reintroduced Crested Ibis metapopulation4
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries4
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin4
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea4
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake4
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads4
The Yarkand hare epidermal growth factor receptor improves the survival and antioxidant capacity of HeLa cells under stress4
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird4
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies4
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)4
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau4
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs4
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders4
Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit4
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises4
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity4
The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data4
Effects of manipulative prolonged temperature increase on the greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton) in semi-natural enclosures3
Responses of a resident group to an outsider in the blue-breasted quail: a paradigm for studying social resettlement of dispersers3
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes3
Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spiderErigone longipalpis3
Rapid speciation of Chinese hypogean fishes driven by paleogeoclimatic and morphological adaptations3
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird3
Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator3
Anuran communities increase aggregations of conspecific calls in response to aircraft noise3
Sexual size monomorphism may evolve in lizards with a body size maximizing reproductive performance for both sexes3
The combined role of visual and olfactory cues in foraging by Cataglyphis ants in laboratory mazes3
Erratum: The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks3
Time and place affect the acoustic structure of frog advertisement calls3
Apennine–Pyrenees disjunct distribution: an unusual biogeographic pattern revealed in flea beetles of the Longitarsus candidulus species-group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)3
The pronotum shape of scelimenine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) likely represents an exaptation for heterogeneous niche colonization3
Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the antLasius flavus3
The effects of prey lipid on female mating and reproduction of a wolf spider3
Dietary drivers of gut microbiota diversity and function in wildlife of Wolong Nature Reserve: a metagenomic study3
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) fledglings3
Structural characteristics of the epidermis in marine and freshwater finless porpoises adapted to distinct osmotic environments3
The fecal shield is a double-edged sword for larvae of a leaf beetle3
Climatic niche breadths of the Atlantic Forest snakes do not increase with increasing latitude3
Comparative foraging behavior of 3 heron species in small standing-water ecosystems in the arid zone of Oman3
How incubation temperature affects hatchling performance in reptiles: an integrative insight based on plasticity in metabolic enzyme3
The influence of the post-autotomy regeneration of a sexual trait and mating tactics in a fiddler crab3
Morphological traits explain the individual position within resource-consumer networks of a Neotropical marsupial3
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids3
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish3
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations3
Seasonal life stage changes contribute to gut bacterial community profiles of high-altitude birds3
Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas3
Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions3
Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals3
Network analysis reveals context-dependent structural complexity of social calls in serrate-legged small treefrogs3
Stochastic processes shape the functional and phylogenetic structure of bird assemblages at the mine area in southwest China3
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size3
Submissive behavior is affected by territory structure in a social fish3
Effects of captive-breeding conditions on metabolic and performance traits in an endangered, endemic cyprinidontiform fish3
Balancing selection shapes population differentiation of major histocompatibility complex genes in wild golden snub-nosed monkeys2
Correction to: Functional reproductive morphology of the snapping shrimp genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Alpheidae)2
Metabolic and microbial changes in light-vented bulbul during recent northward range expansion2
Dead trees as an indicator in tourism risk monitoring at primate ecotourism sites2
Complementary interactions between indirect and direct fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird2
Functional reproductive morphology of the snapping shrimp genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Alpheidae)2
Declining metabolic scaling parallels an ontogenetic change from elongate to deep-bodied shapes in juvenile Brown trout2
Corrigendum to: IDH knockdown alters foraging behavior in the termite Odontotermes formosanus in different social contexts2
Dog temperament is correlated with body weight and climate in country of origin2
Predictors of dominance rank and agonistic interactions in captive Livingstone’s fruit bats2
Temporal stability and directional change in a color cline of a marine snail from NW Spain2
Claw coloration in the fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis has no correlation with male quality2
Sex recognition does not modulate aggression toward nest intruders in a paper wasp2
Extensive parental care experience of male seahorses increases their future mating attractiveness2
Heightened condition dependent expression of structural coloration in the faces, but not wings, of male and female flies2
Ecology and social behavior of the social vole Microtus socialis: A generalized review2
Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal2
Wing morphology covaries with migration distance in a highly aerial insectivorous songbird2
How we look: European wild mouflon and feral domestic sheep hybrids2
Utilizing thermal imaging drones to investigate sleeping site selection in an arboreal primate2
Inheritance of social dominance is associated with global sperm DNA methylation in inbred male mice2
Mate choice is affected by parasite infestation rate of the choosing individual as well as of potential mating partners2
Infanticide in golden snub-nosed monkeys with multilevel society2
Erratum to: Born to sing! Song development in a singing primate2
Immune stress and diet influence reproductive fitness in male tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)2
Conspecific nest-raiding directs more at dominant breeders in the azure-winged magpie2
Reproductive behavior and early immature morphology of Portschinskia magnifica: implications for evolutionary biology in bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae)2
A comparative study of prey-handling behavior of the Chiwen keelback snake (Rhabdophis chiwen) feeding on earthworms and firefly larvae2
Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis reveals seasonal dietary variability and niche partitioning among bushpigs/red river hogs and warthogs2
The variability of juvenile dispersal in an opportunistic raptor2
Mitogenomics clarifies the position of the Nearctic magpies (Pica hudsonia and Pica nuttalli) within the Holarctic magpie radiation2
Inter-sexual multimodal communication during mating in wild geladas: the leading role of females2
Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion:Necrodesbeetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)1
Correction to: Spatiotemporal behavior of predators and prey in an arid environment of Central Asia1
The Slithering Dead: Does locomotor performance affect post-capture death feigning in dice snakes (Natrix tessellata, Laurenti 1768)?1
Early life food intake modulates effects of diet restriction on lifespan and fecundity in later life in a predatory mite (Acari: Phytoseiidae)1
Unexpected complex horizontal gene transfer in teleost fish1
Paternal predatory risk alters parental behavior and offspring phenotypes in biparental Brandt’s voles1
High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China1
Egg rejection based on egg size recognition as a specific strategy against parasitic cuckoos1
Impacts of brood parasitism by shiny cowbird Molothrus bonariensis on the breeding success of a small host, the black-backed water tyrant Fluvicola albiventer1
Geographical variation in nest defense among cinereous tit populations in China1
Social buffer or avoidance depends on the similarity of stress between queen ants1
Each coin has 2 sides: a positive role of alien Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Grey, 1843) snails in reducing the infection of native lymnaeids with trematodes1
Repellent effect of synanthropic house mouse urine odor on small forest mammals1
Revaluation of the genetic diversity–area relationship by integrating nucleotide and haplotype diversity1
Outbreeding management offers the promise of genetic rescue for an endangered lizard1
DNA metabarcoding analysis of the North China and Amur Leopards’ feeding habits1
Using a behavior random permutation model to identify displacement grooming in ungulates1
Phylogeography of the desert scorpion illuminates a route out of Central Asia1
Changes in call properties of Boana pulchella (Anura, Hylidae) in response to different noise conditions1
Natal and breeding dispersal patterns in a patchy population of the western yellow wagtail1
Intraspecific variation in microhabitat selection in reintroduced Chinese giant salamanders1
Adoptions of unrelated infants in wild Taihangshan macaques (Macaca mulatta tcheliensis), Jiyuan, north China1
Sparrowhawk imitation or convergent alarm signal? A new hypothesis for bubbling call of cuckoos with empirical testing1
Morphology-based classification of the flying capacities of aquatic insects: A first attempt1
Nest-founding paper wasps aggregate in ‘social leks’ and decrease aggression during partner selection1
Feeding mediated web-building plasticity in a cobweb spider1
Egg shape in an obligate brood parasite stabilizes temperature variation during incubation1
Natural parasites in conjunction with behavioral and color traits explain male agonistic behaviors in a lizard1
Elusive workers are more likely to differentiate into replacement reproductives than aggressive workers in a lower termite1
Seasonal dietary shifts in an invasive snail Pomacea canaliculata revealed by 18S rRNA mtabarcoding1
Parental ecological history can differentially modulate parental age effects on offspring physiological traits inDrosophila1
Coping with drought? The hidden microhabitat selection and underground movements of amphisbaenians under summer drought conditions1
Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids1
Drivers of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of waterbirds in urban wetlands1
Strength of parrot flight feathers is a function of position on the wing1
Relatedness dynamics and sex-biased dispersal in a seasonal cycle of corn mice from intensively managed agroecosystems1
Ecological and behavioral dimensions of coexistence in two understory babblers in Subtropical China1
A diagnosis model of parental care: How parents optimize their provisioning strategy in brood reduction?1
Anthropogenic noise interacts with the predation risk assessment in a free-ranging bird1
Captive chimpanzee shares food with baboons1
Conspecific cues mediate habitat selection and reproductive performance in a haplodiploid spider mite1
Sharing roosts but not ectoparasites: high host-specificity in bat flies and wing mites of Miniopterus schreibersii and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Mammalia: Chiroptera)1
Is the speed of adjusting to environmental change condition dependent? An experiment with house mice (Mus musculus)1
Lower marine productivity increases agonistic interactions between sea lions and fur seals in Northern Pacific Patagonia1
Rain-harvesting behavior in free-ranging prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis)1
Juvenile survival curves in a solitary ground squirrel with a prolonged hibernation: effects of individual characteristics, environment, and maternal investment1
Social networks of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia)1
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