| Public versus personal information for mate copying in an invertebrate F Mery, SAM Varela, É Danchin, S Blanchet, D Parejo, I Coolen, ... Current Biology 19 (9), 730-734, 2009 | 291 | 2009 |
| Does predation select for or against avian coloniality? A comparative analysis SAM Varela, E Danchin, RH Wagner Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20 (4), 1490-1503, 2007 | 91 | 2007 |
| Medicinal use of fauna by a traditional community in the Brazilian Amazonia FB Barros, SAM Varela, HM Pereira, L Vicente Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine 8 (1), 37, 2012 | 88 | 2012 |
| The role of mate‐choice copying in speciation and hybridization SAM Varela, M Matos, I Schlupp Biological Reviews 93 (2), 1304-1322, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| The correlated evolution of social competence and social cognition SAM Varela, MC Teles, RF Oliveira Functional Ecology, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Developmental effects of oxytocin neurons on social affiliation and processing of social information AR Nunes, M Gliksberg, SAM Varela, M Teles, E Wircer, J Blechman, ... Journal of Neuroscience 41 (42), 8742-8760, 2021 | 48 | 2021 |
| Sex‐biased dispersal, kin selection and the evolution of sexual conflict GS Faria, SAM Varela, A Gardner Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28 (10), 1901-1910, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Incomplete species recognition entails few costs in spider mites, despite first-male precedence SH Clemente, LR Rodrigues, R Ponce, SAM Varela, S Magalhães Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 70 (8), 1161-1170, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Short telomeres drive pessimistic judgement bias in zebrafish F Espigares, D Abad-Tortosa, SAM Varela, MG Ferreira, RF Oliveira Biology Letters 17 (3), 20200745, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Negative public information in mate choice copying helps the spread of a novel trait M Santos, M Matos, SAM Varela The American Naturalist 184 (5), 658-672, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| Male spider mites use chemical cues, but not the female mating interval, to choose between mates LR Rodrigues, ART Figueiredo, SAM Varela, I Olivieri, S Magalhães Experimental and Applied Acarology 71 (1), 1-13, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish ID Akinrinade, SAM Varela, RF Oliveira Animal Cognition 26 (4), 1307-1318, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
| Despite reproductive interference, the net outcome of reproductive interactions among spider mite species is not necessarily costly SH Clemente, I Santos, R Ponce, LR Rodrigues, SAM Varela, ... Behavioral Ecology 29 (2), 321-327, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Sexual selection modulates genetic conflicts and patterns of genomic imprinting GS Faria, SAM Varela, A Gardner Evolution 71 (3), 526-540, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Mate-choice copying: A fitness-enhancing behavior that evolves by indirect selection M Santos, M Sapage, M Matos, SAM Varela Evolution 71 (6), 1456-1464, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Social learning by mate‐choice copying increases dispersal and reduces local adaptation M Sapage, SAM Varela, H Kokko Functional Ecology 35 (3), 705-716, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| The social evolution of sleep: sex differences, intragenomic conflicts and clinical pathologies GS Faria, SAM Varela, A Gardner Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1894), 20182188, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Phenotypic architecture of sociality and its associated genetic polymorphisms in zebrafish C Gonçalves, K Kareklas, MC Teles, SAM Varela, J Costa, RB Leite, ... Genes, Brain and Behavior 21 (5), e12809, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Are in vitro and in silico approaches used appropriately for animal-based major depressive disorder research? C Carvalho, SAM Varela, TA Marques, A Knight, L Vicente Plos one 15 (6), e0233954, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| The role of intrasexual competition on the evolution of male-male courtship display: a systematic review I Órfão, C Carvalho, I Rodrigues, L Ascensão, M Pedaccini, L Vicente, ... PeerJ 10, e14638, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
Rui OliveiraProfessor of Behavioral Neuroscience at ISPA University Institute for Psychological Social & LifeVerified email at ispa.pt
