Evolution Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 10. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders55
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies40
Limited host availability disrupts the genetic correlation between virulence and transmission39
Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in Dictyostelium discoideum social amoebas36
Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation34
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth32
Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity30
Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids26
High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification25
Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada24
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)23
Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila23
Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales22
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation22
Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism21
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue21
Correction to: Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species21
Pollinators and herbivores interactively shape selection on strawberry defence and attraction21
A biological circuit to anticipate trend21
Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei21
A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive21
When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?20
Correction to: A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider20
Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies19
Characterizing the evolution of defense in a tripartite marine symbiosis using adaptive dynamics19
Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species18
Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa18
Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation17
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation17
Interacting host modifier systems controlWolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite17
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment17
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities16
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation15
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Should females prefer old males?15
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Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types15
The genomic signature of wild-to-crop introgression during the domestication of scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineusL.)15
Using singleton densities to detect recent selection inBos taurus14
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?14
Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?14
A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes14
Genetic mechanisms of axial patterning in Apeltes quadracus14
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?14
Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change14
Hosts, microbiomes, and the evolution of critical windows14
Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes13
The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population13
A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider12
Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds12
Fluctuating selection facilitates the discovery of broadly effective but difficult to reach adaptive outcomes in yeast12
Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets12
The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity12
Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections11
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Recurrent selection and reduction in recombination shape the genomic landscape of divergence across multiple population pairs of Green-backed Tit11
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis11
Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation11
Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population11
Competitors alter selection on alpine plants exposed to experimental climate change11
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene11
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes10
Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia10
Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?10
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth10
Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird10
Senescence evolution under the catastrophic accumulation of deleterious mutations10
Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird10
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