Current Zoology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Zoology is 3. 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
The best of both worlds: cicada males change costly signals to achieve mates while females choose a mate based on both calling and courtship songs20
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents16
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard15
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis12
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia12
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai12
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys11
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)11
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Western Atlantic11
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females10
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets10
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China10
Delayed juvenile behavioral development and prolonged dependence are adaptations to desert life in the grey falcon9
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk9
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China9
Local mate competition model alone cannot predict the offspring sex ratio in large and dense populations of a haplodiploid arthropod9
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together9
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding9
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran9
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos8
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony8
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues8
Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats8
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Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes8
Positional behavior and canopy use of black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri in the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China8
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment7
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs7
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs7
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)7
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian7
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review7
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses7
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots6
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration6
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata6
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression6
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence6
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes6
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species6
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti6
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health6
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 noise5
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow5
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers5
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans5
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator5
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions5
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii5
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior5
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge5
Fortune may favor the flexible: Environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau5
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China5
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China4
The birth hour of mammals: insights from intra-specific variation in wild blue monkeys4
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake4
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species4
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog4
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming4
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
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis4
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)4
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs4
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin4
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish3
Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spiderErigone longipalpis3
Morphological traits explain the individual position within resource-consumer networks of a Neotropical marsupial3
Time and place affect the acoustic structure of frog advertisement calls3
Dietary drivers of gut microbiota diversity and function in wildlife of Wolong Nature Reserve: a metagenomic study3
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird3
Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the antLasius flavus3
Effects of captive-breeding conditions on metabolic and performance traits in an endangered, endemic cyprinidontiform fish3
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)3
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries3
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies3
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises3
The effects of prey lipid on female mating and reproduction of a wolf spider3
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size3
Rapid speciation of Chinese hypogean fishes driven by paleogeoclimatic and morphological adaptations3
The pronotum shape of scelimenine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) likely represents an exaptation for heterogeneous niche colonization3
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau3
The combined role of visual and olfactory cues in foraging by Cataglyphis ants in laboratory mazes3
Responses of a resident group to an outsider in the blue-breasted quail: a paradigm for studying social resettlement of dispersers3
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity3
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)3
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders3
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations3
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes3
Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas3
The influence of the post-autotomy regeneration of a sexual trait and mating tactics in a fiddler crab3
How incubation temperature affects hatchling performance in reptiles: an integrative insight based on plasticity in metabolic enzyme3
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) fledglings3
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids3
The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data3
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea3
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird3
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