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Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Letters 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders	56
Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival	55
Issue information	43
Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	33
Antagonistic pleiotropy and the evolution of extraordinary lifespans in eusocial organisms	31
Evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer in macrophage-associatedSalmonella	30
The community background alters the evolution of thermal performance	30
Divergence in evolutionary potential of life history traits among wild populations is predicted by differences in climatic conditions	29
Mating systems and recombination landscape strongly shape genetic diversity and selection in wheat relatives	28
Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay-dates and their consequences for population persistence	27
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity	27
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast	25
Quantifying the strength of viral fitness trade-offs between hosts: a meta-analysis of pleiotropic fitness effects	24
Range expansion can promote the evolution of plastic generalism in coarse-grained landscapes	24
Selection maintains a nonadaptive floral polyphenism	22
Pollinator sharing and hybridization in a pair of dioecious figs sheds light on the pathways to speciation	21
Emergence of phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic mechanisms	21
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider	20
Individual- and group-level sex ratios under local mate competition: consequences of infanticide and reproductive dominance	20
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections	20
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology	19
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets	19
Unraveling mate choice evolution through indirect genetic effects	19
The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations	19
The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation	18

Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes	18
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds	18
Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common dandelion	18
Predicting evolution in experimental range expansions of an aquatic model system	17
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission	17
Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit	17
Host–pathogen coevolution promotes the evolution of general, broad-spectrum resistance and reduces foreign pathogen spillover risk	17
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population	17
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas	16
Context dependence in the symbiosis betweenDictyostelium discoideumandParaburkholderia	16
Shared genetic architecture links energy metabolism, behavior and starvation resistance along a power-endurance axis	16
Limited sex differences in plastic responses suggest evolutionary conservatism of thermal reaction norms: A meta-analysis in insects	15
Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals	15
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies	15
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change	15
Experimental estimates of germline mutation rate in eukaryotes: a phylogenetic meta-analysis	15
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis	15
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation	14
Frequency dependence and the predictability of evolution in a changing environment	14
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation	14
Micro-evolutionary response of spring migration timing in a wild seabird	14
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	14
Which cues are sexy? The evolution of mate preference in sympatric species reveals the contrasted effect of adaptation and reproductive interference	13
Coprophagy rapidly matures juvenile gut microbiota in a precocial bird	13
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The ecology and quantitative genetics of seed and seedling traits in upland and lowland ecotypes of a perennial grass	11
Rapid and transient evolution of local adaptation to seasonal host fruits in an invasive pest fly	11
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth	11
Selection on the vascular-remodeling BMPER gene is associated with altitudinal adaptation in an insular lizard	11
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The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird	11
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification	11
Contemporary intergeneric hybridization and backcrossing among birds-of-paradise	10
Evolution and spread of multiadapted pathogens in a spatially heterogeneous environment	10
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	10
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird	10
Toward greater realism in inclusive fitness models: the case of caste fate conflict in insect societies	10
Insular environment-dependent introgression from an arid-grassland orchid to a wetland orchid on an oceanic island	9
Host body size, not host population size, predicts genome-wide effective population size of parasites	9
Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies	9
A century-long record of plant evolution reconstructed from a coastal marsh seed bank	9
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids	9
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird	9
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	9
Transcriptomic evidence for a trade-off between germline proliferation and immunity inDrosophila	9
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	8
Thermal tolerance and preference are both consistent with the clinal distribution of house fly proto-Y chromosomes	8
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	8

Intrinsic apoptosis is evolutionarily divergent among metazoans	8
Goldfish phenomics reveals commonalities and a lack of universality in the domestication process for ornamentation	8
Application of a novel haplotype-based scan for local adaptation to study high-altitude adaptation in rhesus macaques	8
Pollinator and habitat-mediated selection as potential contributors to ecological speciation in two closely related species	8
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	8
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada	8
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila	7
Issue information	7
Phenotypic integration in the carnivoran backbone and the evolution of functional differentiation in metameric structures	7
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?	7
Impact ofSalmonellagenome rearrangement on gene expression	7
Mammalian retinal specializations for high acuity vision evolve in response to both foraging strategies and morphological constraints	7
Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution	7
Association with a novel protective microbe facilitates host adaptation to a stressful environment	7
A male-biased sex ratio increases the opportunity for precopulatory sexual selection but does not change the Bateman gradient	7
Mosaic vaccination: How distributing different vaccines across a population could improve epidemic control	6
A biological circuit to anticipate trend	6
The interkingdom horizontal gene transfer in 44 early diverging fungi boosted their metabolic, adaptive, and immune capabilities	6
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei	6
The coevolutionary dynamics of cryptic female choice	6
Condition dependence and the paradox of missing plasticity costs	6
A reexamination of theoretical arguments that indirect selection on mate preference is likely to be weaker than direct selection	6
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive	6
Exceptions to the rule: When does resistance evolution not undermine antibiotic therapy in human bacterial infections?	6
The evolution of honest and dishonest signals of fighting ability	6
From genotype to phenotype: Genetic redundancy and the maintenance of an adaptive polymorphism in the context of high gene flow	6
Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change	6
Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism	6
Plasticity and associated epigenetic mechanisms play a role in thermal evolution during range expansion	6
Exploring polymorphism in a palatable prey: predation risk and frequency dependence in relation to distinct levels of conspicuousness	6
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations	5
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	5
Purifying and balancing selection on embryonic semi-lethal haplotypes in a wild mammal	5
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	5
The role of recognition error in the stability of green-beard genes	5
From scales to armor: Scale losses and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes	5
Neopolyploidy increases stress tolerance and reduces fitness plasticity across multiple urban pollutants: support for the “general-purpose” genotype hypothesis	5
Dominance between self-incompatibility alleles determines the mating system of Capsella allopolyploids	5
Tolerance-conferring defensive symbionts and the evolution of parasite virulence	5
Why did the Wolbachia transinfection cross the road? drift, deterministic dynamics, and disease control	4
Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclearDrosophilapanel	4
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis	4
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	4
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	4
The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care	4
Vertical transmission does not always lead to benign pathogen–host associations	4
Divergence and introgression among the virilis group of Drosophila	4
The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits	4
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism	4
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation	3
Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators	3
Correction to: Semen adaptation to microbes in an insect	3
Regional differences in rapid evolution during severe drought	3
The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation	3
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction	3
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite	3
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment	3
Plant-associate interactions and diversification across trophic levels	3
Testing the genomic overlap between intraspecific mating traits and interspecific mating barriers	3
Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	3
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?	3
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	3
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	3
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	3
Experimental evolution supports signatures of sexual selection in genomic divergence	3
Slower-X: reduced efficiency of selection in the early stages of X chromosome evolution	3
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation	3
Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: Evidence of virus by host species interactions	3