OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution Letters is 12. 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
Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)	23
Interpretation issues with “genomic vulnerability” arise from conceptual issues in local adaptation and maladaptation	23
Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue	22
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
Neural crest cell biology shapes lizard skull evolution across evolutionary time scales	21
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
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
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
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
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
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
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities	18
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
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
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
Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?	16
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
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
Early-season helping yields increasing returns to scale at the onset of eusociality	14
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
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
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
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
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