OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression	128
On the use of the coefficient of variation to quantify and compare trait variation	84
Plasticity leaves a phenotypic signature during local adaptation	57
The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics	43
Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis	43
Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome	39
Application of a novel haplotype-based scan for local adaptation to study high-altitude adaptation in rhesus macaques	35
How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization inDrosophila melanogaster	34
Adaptation via pleiotropy and linkage: Association mapping reveals a complex genetic architecture within the sticklebackEdalocus	33
Selection on a small genomic region underpins differentiation in multiple color traits between two warbler species	33
Mutation load decreases with haplotype age in wild Soay sheep	31
Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation	29
Environmental variation mediates the evolution of anticipatory parental effects	29
Not so clonal asexuals: Unraveling the secret sex life ofArtemia parthenogenetica	27
Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclearDrosophilapanel	25
Metabolic rate, context-dependent selection, and the competition-colonization trade-off	25
Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene	25
Evolutionary mechanisms that determine which bacterial genes are carried on plasmids	25
Does genetic diversity protect host populations from parasites? A meta-analysis across natural and agricultural systems	24
Hybridization and introgression between toads with different sex chromosome systems	22
Regional differences in rapid evolution during severe drought	21
The geographic mosaic of arms race coevolution is closely matched to prey population structure	21
The contribution of ancient admixture to reproductive isolation between European sea bass lineages	20
Predicting the strength of urban-rural clines in a Mendelian polymorphism along a latitudinal gradient	19
Large-scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates	19

Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness	19
Loss of ecologically important genetic variation in late generation hybrids reveals links between adaptation and speciation	17
Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: Migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows	17
Ageing as “early-life inertia”: Disentangling life-history trade-offs along a lifetime of an individual	17
Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: Assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification	17
Age-specific survivorship and fecundity shape genetic diversity in marine fishes	17
Hormonal pleiotropy structures genetic covariance	17
Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort	16
Experimental evidence for stabilizing selection on virulence in a bacterial pathogen	16
Parent of origin gene expression in the bumblebee,Bombus terrestris, supports Haig's kinship theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting	15
Experimental evolution supports signatures of sexual selection in genomic divergence	15
Rapid local adaptation linked with phenotypic plasticity	15
How does the strength of selection influence genetic correlations?	15
A novel seed dispersal mode ofApostasia nipponicacould provide some clues to the early evolution of the seed dispersal system in Orchidaceae	15
Butterfly dichromatism primarily evolved via Darwin's, not Wallace's, model	15
The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation	15
Adaptive and maladaptive expression plasticity underlying herbicide resistance in an agricultural weed	14
Ecological speciation in European whitefish is driven by a large-gaped predator	14
Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: Evidence of virus by host species interactions	14
Widespread cryptic variation in genetic architecture between the sexes	13
Context dependence in the symbiosis betweenDictyostelium discoideumandParaburkholderia	13
A need for standardized reporting of introgression: Insights from studies across eukaryotes	13
Phenotypic integration in the carnivoran backbone and the evolution of functional differentiation in metameric structures	13
Surprising spatiotemporal stability of a multi-peak fitness landscape revealed by independent field experiments measuring hybrid fitness	12
The thermal environment at fertilization mediates adaptive potential in the sea	12
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life	12
Should females prefer old males?	11
Helpers compensate for age-related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
The immediate effects of polyploidization ofSpirodela polyrhizachange in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients	11
Morphology does not covary with predicted behavioral correlations of the domestication syndrome in dogs	11
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response	10
Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback	10
A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)	10
Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes	10
How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?	10
Association with a novel protective microbe facilitates host adaptation to a stressful environment	10
Pollution induces epigenetic effects that are stably transmitted across multiple generations	10