OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 9. 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
The community background alters the evolution of thermal performance	30
Evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer in macrophage-associatedSalmonella	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
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
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
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
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
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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Issue information	12
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
Issue information	11
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
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
Insular environment-dependent introgression from an arid-grassland orchid to a wetland orchid on an oceanic island	9