Niclas Kolm

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Niclas Kolm is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niclas Kolm has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 39 papers in Social Psychology and 36 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Niclas Kolm's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (78 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (19 papers). Niclas Kolm is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (78 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (19 papers). Niclas Kolm collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Canada. Niclas Kolm's co-authors include Alexander Kotrschal, Alejandro González‐Voyer, Brent C. Emerson, Svante Winberg, Séverine D. Buechel, Alexei A. Maklakov, John L. Fitzpatrick, Alberto Corral‐López, Simone Immler and Wouter van der Bijl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Niclas Kolm

114 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

2013 350 citations Alexander Kotrschal, Simone Immler et al. profile →

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Niclas Kolm

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Alexander Kotrschal Sweden

F. Helen Rodd Canada

Culum Brown Australia

Gábor Herczeg Hungary

Ryan L. Earley United States

Angelo Bisazza Italy

Gil G. Rosenthal United States

Gregory F. Grether United States

Victoria A. Braithwaite United Kingdom

Janette W. Boughman United States

Alexander Kotrschal Sweden

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kolm, Niclas, et al.. (2025). Transient cognitive impacts of oxygen deprivation caused by catch-and-release angling. Biology Letters. 21(1). 20240527–20240527.

Triki, Zegni, et al.. (2024). Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish. Behavioral Ecology. 35(3). arae026–arae026. 11 indexed citations

Garamszegi, László Zsolt & Niclas Kolm. (2024). The reduction in relative brain size in the domesticated dog is not an evolutionary singularity among the canids. Biology Letters. 20(8). 20240336–20240336. 2 indexed citations

Thornton, Alex, et al.. (2023). Genetic and context-specific effects on individual inhibitory control performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(12). 1796–1810. 5 indexed citations

Corral‐López, Alberto, Natasha I. Bloch, Wouter van der Bijl, et al.. (2023). Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic architecture underlies schooling behaviour in a live-bearing fish. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(1). 98–110. 3 indexed citations

Triki, Zegni, et al.. (2022). Brain morphology correlates of learning and cognitive flexibility in a fish species ( Poecilia reticulata ). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1978). 20220844–20220844. 15 indexed citations

Triki, Zegni, et al.. (2021). Artificial mosaic brain evolution of relative telencephalon size improves inhibitory control abilities in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ). Evolution. 76(1). 128–138. 15 indexed citations

Vega‐Trejo, Regina, et al.. (2020). Artificial selection for schooling behaviour and its effects on associative learning abilities. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(Pt 23). 6 indexed citations

Kolm, Niclas, Hans Temrin, Ádám Miklósi, Enikő Kubinyi, & László Zsolt Garamszegi. (2020). The link between selection for function and human-directed play behaviour in dogs. Biology Letters. 16(9). 20200366–20200366. 7 indexed citations

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Kotrschal, Alexander, James E. Herbert‐Read, Natasha I. Bloch, et al.. (2020). Rapid evolution of coordinated and collective movement in response to artificial selection. Science Advances. 6(49). 21 indexed citations

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Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Hans Temrin, Enikő Kubinyi, Ádám Miklósi, & Niclas Kolm. (2019). The role of common ancestry and gene flow in the evolution of human‐directed play behaviour in dogs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(3). 318–328. 6 indexed citations

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Kotrschal, Alexander, et al.. (2019). Artificial selection on brain size leads to matching changes in overall number of neurons. Evolution. 73(9). 2003–2012. 47 indexed citations

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Herczeg, Gábor, et al.. (2018). Brain size predicts behavioural plasticity in guppies ( Poecilia reticulata ): An experiment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(3). 218–226. 14 indexed citations

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Corral‐López, Alberto, Alexander Kotrschal, & Niclas Kolm. (2018). Selection for relative brain size affects context-dependent male preferences, but not discrimination, of female body size in guppies. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221(Pt 12). 12 indexed citations

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Buechel, Séverine D., Annika Boussard, Alexander Kotrschal, Wouter van der Bijl, & Niclas Kolm. (2018). Brain size affects performance in a reversal-learning test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1871). 20172031–20172031. 96 indexed citations

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Tsuboi, Masahito, Wouter van der Bijl, Bjørn Tore Kopperud, et al.. (2018). Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(9). 1492–1500. 109 indexed citations

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Wright, Alison E., Iulia Darolti, Natasha I. Bloch, et al.. (2017). Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14251–14251. 98 indexed citations

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Bijl, Wouter van der, et al.. (2015). Brain size affects the behavioural response to predators in female guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1812). 20151132–20151132. 66 indexed citations

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Maklakov, Alexei A., Simone Immler, Alejandro González‐Voyer, Johanna Rönn, & Niclas Kolm. (2011). Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments. Biology Letters. 7(5). 730–732. 127 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, John L., Robert Montgomerie, Julie K. Desjardins, et al.. (2009). Female promiscuity promotes the evolution of faster sperm in cichlid fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(4). 1128–1132. 211 indexed citations

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