OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Letters is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	84
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	76
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	60
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	47
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	41
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth	39
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	36
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	34
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales	32
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	30
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	27
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	26
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	23
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	23
Phylograms better fit neutrally evolving traits than chronograms	22
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	22
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	22
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	21
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	21
Neural crest cell biology shapes lizard skull evolution across evolutionary time scales	21
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	20
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	20
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics	20
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	20
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species	19

Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	19
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation	19
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	19
Relative testis size is associated with vagina length but not sperm storage traits in Galliformes	19
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	18
Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history	18
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies	18
Interacting host modifier systems control Wolbachia -induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	18
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean ( Phaseolus coccineus L.)	17
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	17
Joint test of historical vs. contemporary biogeography supports abundant center hypothesis shaping spatial patterns of self-fertilization	17
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation	17
Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types	17
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	16
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?	16
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change	16
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes	15
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes	15
Historical contingency limits adaptive diversification in a spatially structured environment	15
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity	15
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	15
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population	15
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus	14
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	14
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows	14
Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality	14
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	13
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	13
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	13
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	12
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia	12
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	12
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	12
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	12
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	12
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	12
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	12
Tempo and drivers of 3D eye size evolution in temperate butterflies	12
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	11
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	11
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Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	11
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	11
Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations	10
The hidden threat: genetic load dynamics in tetraploids and diploids	10
Increased adaptive potential in novel environments can be predicted from genetic variance in development time expressed in native environments	10
When does antimicrobial resistance increase bacterial fitness? Effects of dosing, social interactions, and frequency dependence on the benefits of AmpC β-lactamases in broth, biofilms, and a gu	10
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Not just mutations: inbreeding depression persists without genetic variation	10
Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes	9
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Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate	9
Infrared thermography is a useful tool in research on thermoregulation and evolution of heat tolerance	9
Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment	9
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious	9
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments	9
Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiome	9
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	8
Variation in the resource environment affects patterns of seasonal adaptation at phenotypic and genomic levels in Drosophila melanogaster	8
Sexual selection and speciation: a meta-analysis of comparative studies	8
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	8
Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone	8
Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice	8
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	8
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	8
Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated in Drosophila simulans	8
Strong selective environments determine evolutionary outcome in time-dependent fitness seascapes	8
Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation	8
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	7
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	7
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	7
Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	7
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	7
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	7
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	7
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	7
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	7
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	7
Impact of Salmonella genome rearrangement on gene expression	7
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	7
Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases	7
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	6
Pace of life predicts parasite resistance and fecundity tolerance, but not mortality tolerance, among Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata	6
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Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater	6
Environmental predictability drives different routes to adaptation	6
Causes and consequences of sex-chromosome turnovers in Diptera	6
How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals	6
A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change	6
Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology	6
Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits	6
Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution	6
The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	5
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Sex chromosome turnover in hybridizing stickleback lineages	5
Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba	5
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems	5
Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Urbanization correlates with genetic and plastic variation of Impatiens capensis flower morphology	5
Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances	5
Horizontal gene transfer, segregation loss, and the speed of microbial adaptation	5
An early-life survival and reproductive trade-off shapes selection on body size	5