Evolutionary Biology articles for United Kingdom (UK)

Time frame: 1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026
Count: 159

Article ‘Count’ for Evolutionary Biology.

Journal Count Share
3 1.52
Preserving Tissue Integrity Under the Beam: High-Energy, Low-Dose Synchrotron CT for in situ Imaging of Bovine Intervertebral Discs 1.00
Enamel-like stiffness achieved by poorly oriented nanocrystals in the capping tissue of Mexican beaded lizard osteoderms 0.23
Gradients in lacunar morphology and cartilage mineralization reflect the mechanical function of the mouse femoral head epiphysis 0.29
4 1.08
Deciphering mechanical determinants of morphological evolution 0.11
Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains 0.07
Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage 0.07
Engineering yeast multicellular behaviors via synthetic adhesion and contact signaling 0.83
1 0.74
Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts 0.74
15 6.05
The phylogenetic origin of turtles 0.07
An open-source three-dimensional digital brain atlas of a migratory bird, the Eurasian blackcap 0.46
Hemiplasy helps explain high rates of apparent morphological convergence in neoavian birds 0.83
Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years 0.14
Phoronid genome supports a monophyletic Lophophorata 0.08
Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage 1.00
Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes 0.17
Carnivorous dinosaur lineages adopt different skull performances at gigantic size 1.00
A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification 0.25
No consistent size responses in radiolarians to the climatic changes and mass extinctions during the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition 0.25
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain 0.33
Is the deuterostome clade an artifact? 1.00
Tunicate metatranscriptomes reveal evidence of ancient co-divergence between viruses and their hosts 0.09
Divergence in neuronal signaling pathways despite conserved neuronal identity among Caenorhabditis species 0.25
Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs 0.13
1 1.00
Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs 1.00
1 0.08
Astronomically calibrated integrated stratigraphy of the Induan Stage (Early Triassic) and significance for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and aftermath 0.08
8 2.60
Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird 0.50
Testing a General Theory for Optimal Flowering Time in Deciduous Perennial Plants as a Function of Growing Season Length 0.25
Local Adaptation in Climate Tolerance at a Small Geographic Scale Contrasts With Broad Latitudinal Patterns 0.06
Genetic Differences in Plasticity Across Environmental Scales Determine Fitness Along an Ecological Gradient 0.42
Waterfowl Move Less in Heterogeneous and Human‐Populated Landscapes, With Implications for Spread of Avian Influenza Viruses 0.03
Not Extremely Plastic: Testing the Limits of Morphological Plasticity in Fungal Mycelia in Response to Soil Grazers 0.67
Locomotion Reveals Contrasting Responses in Body Mass-Scaling of Metabolic Rates Between Winged and Wingless Arthropods 0.60
Social Microbial Transmission in a Solitary Mammal 0.07
2 0.38
Divergent life-history strategies of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata) along a water pollution gradient 0.20
Male nuptial ornamentation of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata) responds to water pollution via phenotypic plasticity and microevolutionary change 0.18
1 0.09
A novel blood biomarker for plastic ingestion in fledgling Procellariiform seabirds 0.09
2 1.56
Dynamic body size evolution during speciation of predatory cichlid fishes in the Lake Malawi superradiation 0.67
Functional genomics analysis of developing zebrafish and human endoderm reveals highly conserved cis-regulatory modules acting during vertebrate organogenesis 0.89
1 0.50
Quantitative decoding of Ediacaran locomotory trace fossil morphologies: Evidence for the emergence of slender anterior-posterior body profiles 0.50
1 0.14
Elevated carotid body tonic activity contributes to ventilatory acclimatization and de‐acclimatization to high altitude at rest and during exercise 0.14
14 6.24
Higher-order interactions enhance the latitudinal tree diversity gradient 0.03
A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe 0.57
Sterilization and contraception increase lifespan across vertebrates 0.09
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes 0.67
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals 0.80
Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate 0.50
The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations 0.88
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps 0.16
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur 0.50
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan 0.64
Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles 0.04
Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur 0.17
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid 0.23
Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli 0.98
1 0.38
Seabird range contraction and dispersal under climate change 0.38
24 7.36
Asymmetric life-history trade-offs shape sex-biased longevity patterns 0.13
The genomic basis of adaptive leaf variation in the Galápagos giant daisies 0.02
Evolution of the reptile spine reveals independent trajectories to axial skeletal complexity in amniotes 1.00
Future scenarios for British biodiversity under climate and land-use change 0.84
Convergent evolutionary shifts in AGT targeting between mitochondria and peroxisomes across mammal transitions to herbivory 0.20
Subcellular proteomics reveals a blueprint for endosymbiont integration in trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei 0.23
Developmental underpinnings of morphological disparity in the avian bony palate 0.71
Ancestral neuronal receptors are bacterial accessory toxins 0.63
Fidelity in co-diversified symbiosis 0.06
Selective sweep probabilities in spatially expanding populations 0.70
Global metagenomics reveals plastid diversity and unexplored algal lineages 0.07
Changes in phenology mediate vertebrate population responses to temperature globally 0.17
Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon 1.00
Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller’s Ratchet 0.07
Unifying regulatory motifs in endocrine circuits 0.13
Chromatin profiling identifies putative dual roles for H3K27me3 in regulating cell type-specific genes and transposable elements in choanoflagellates 0.28
Homeostasis of glucose and lipid metabolism during physiological responses to a simulated hypoxic high altitude environment 0.05
A library of avian proteins improves palaeoproteomic taxonomic identification and reveals widespread intraspecies variability 0.13
Brain anatomy of the Cambrian fossil informs euarthropod phylogeny 0.25
Recent community warming of moths in Finland is driven by extinction in the north and colonisation in the south 0.07
Nanoscale cuticle mass density variations influenced by pigmentation in butterfly wing scales 0.11
Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs 0.05
Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse 0.44
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution 0.02
4 1.65
Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism 0.44
Identification of intestinal enteroendocrine cell subtypes and their associated hormones in zebrafish 0.23
Subcellular proteomics of the protist Paradiplonema papillatum reveals the digestive capacity of the cell membrane and the plasticity of peroxisomes across euglenozoans 0.11
Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids 0.88
2 2.00
System drift in the evolution of plant meristem development 1.00
Using TraDIS as a complementary approach to long term evolution for mapping adaptive mutations in Escherichia coli 1.00
1 0.25
Role of Hydrodynamics in the Synchronization of Chlamydomonas Flagella 0.25
22 8.26
Swartkrans Paranthropus and Sterkfontein Australopithecus from southern Africa had different locomotor repertoires 0.05
Early-life adversity shapes the relationship between growth and reproduction in free-ranging female rhesus macaques 0.07
High-quality surrounding landscapes mitigate avian extirpations from forest remnants 0.09
Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches 0.04
Mosaic phenotypic evolution underlies the adaptive success of water-surface colonization in Gerromorpha 0.04
Cooperation and the evolution of bacterial niche breadth 0.39
Multispecies analysis of social effects on same-sex sexual behavior challenges mistaken identity hypotheses in insects 0.75
The global island species–area relationship for plants 0.17
Identifying variation in dinosaur footprints and classifying problematic specimens via unbiased unsupervised machine learning 0.75
The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene 0.03
Host heterogeneity and unpredictability in parasite outbreaks 1.00
Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats 0.70
Climate change intensifies plant–pollinator mismatch and increases secondary extinction risk for plants in northern latitudes 0.17
Evolution of cross-tolerance to metals in yeast 0.10
Repeated polyploidization shapes divergence in floral morphology in Lithophragma bolanderi (Saxifragaceae) 0.13
Spatiotemporal distribution of the glycoprotein pherophorin II reveals stochastic geometry of the growing ECM of Volvox carteri 0.57
The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates 0.67
Genomics of Neotropical biodiversity indicators: Two butterfly radiations with rampant chromosomal rearrangements and hybridization 0.48
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity 0.90
Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size 0.10
Detecting environmentally dependent developmental plasticity in fossilized individuals 0.97
Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by temperature and the microbiome 0.10
30 12.64
Variation in body size growth trajectories between ecologically distinct mountain gorilla populations 0.13
Range of motion and myology support a digging function for the forelimbs of alvarezsauroid dinosaurs 0.71
Dispersal evolution in a population infected with a male-killing endosymbiont 0.33
Drivers and mechanisms of convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs 1.00
Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters in Pohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians 0.32
Inbreeding avoidance in the Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal 0.36
Cities as genetic refugia: rural selection maintains Mc1R pigmentation cline in squirrels despite an urban bottleneck 0.22
Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird 0.64
Genetic crosses using fluorescently labelled malaria parasites indicate advantages of outcrossing in Plasmodium falciparum 0.04
An aberrant stem tetrapod from the early Permian of Brazil 0.13
Decoupled diversity and disparity after faunistic turnover in caviomorph rodents 0.06
Evolution of aquatic snails’ defences resulted in clade-specific differences in egg toxicity, pigments and warning coloration 0.11
<atl>Tracing the origins of Antarctic periwinkles: an integrative morphological–molecular perspective on iLaevilacunaria/i evolution</atl> 0.09
Temporal dynamics of selection on early-life phenotypic plasticity in seasonal migration versus residence 0.75
United by chewing: Hunter-Schreger band-like pattern and wavy enamel in a fossil crocodile suggest functional convergence with mammals and dinosaurs 0.60
Evolutionary convergence and trophic diversity in hot vent and cold seep shrimps showcase a continuum of symbiosis 0.08
Early vertebrate biomineralization and eye structure determined by synchrotron X-ray analyses of Silurian jawless fish 0.70
Avian cranial evolution is influenced by shape interactions between hard and soft tissue traits 0.75
Internet images reveal bumblebee-mimicking hoverflies follow models in preferring blue flowers, but retain the typical hoverfly attraction to yellow 1.00
Building a predator: macroevolutionary patterns in the skull of abelisaurid dinosaurs 0.13
A machine learning approach to facilitate parasitic egg identification in a conspecific brood parasite 0.33
Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution 0.44
Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern toads 0.05
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 1.00
Cellular, bone-like tissue in the bucklers and thorns of the thornback ray Raja clavata (Batoidea, Chondrichthyes) 0.71
Unravelling the difference in craniofacial morphology of Yucatan miniature and standard pigs during postnatal ontogeny. 0.54
Smoothness analyses of trace fossils: expanding quantitative toolkits to unravel bilaterian movement ecology during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. 0.25
The impact of taxonomic change on the Amazonian palm flora. 0.13
Constraints in temperature adaptation reinforce differences in thermal niche between mesophilic and psychrotolerant Bacillus cereus group species. 1.00
Specialized bark-gnawing beetles reveal phragmotic defence and subcortical ecology in the Cretaceous. 0.06
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High risk of extinction across the flowering plant tree of life 0.80
An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants 0.23
Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation 0.03
Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos 0.10
A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration 0.02
Ancient alleles drive contemporary climate adaptation in an alpine plant 0.05
Global selection on insect antipredator coloration 0.11
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans 0.08
Evolution of thumbnails across Rodentia 0.14
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution 0.07
Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic 0.88
10 3.67
Pulsed volcanic sulfur emissions linked to the end-Triassic terrestrial crisis 0.24
The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ and the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals 0.10
Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi 0.86
Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history 0.56
Biomechanical simulations of hindlimb function in Alligator provide insights into postural shifts and body size evolution 0.44
Dynamics and emergence of metachronal waves in the ciliary band of a metazoan larva 0.89
Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds 0.02
A fossilized ventral ganglion reveals a chaetognath affinity for Cambrian nectocaridids 0.33
Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal 0.08
Artificial selection for adult predation survival affects life history and morphology in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) 0.14

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