| Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit B Kempenaers, GR Verheyen, MV den Broeck, T Burke, CV Broeckhoven, ... Nature 357 (6378), 494-496, 1992 | 986 | 1992 |
| Extra-pair paternity in birds: explaining variation between species and populations M Petrie, B Kempenaers Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13 (2), 52-58, 1998 | 810 | 1998 |
| Artificial night lighting affects dawn song, extra-pair siring success, and lay date in songbirds B Kempenaers, P Borgström, P Loës, E Schlicht, M Valcu Current biology 20 (19), 1735-1739, 2010 | 633 | 2010 |
| Females increase offspring heterozygosity and fitness through extra-pair matings K Foerster, K Delhey, A Johnsen, JT Lifjeld, B Kempenaers Nature 425 (6959), 714-717, 2003 | 630 | 2003 |
| Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus) : female choice, male characteristics, and offspring quality B Kempenaers, GR Verheyen, AA Dhondi Behavioral Ecology 8 (5), 481-492, 1997 | 503 | 1997 |
| Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies K Van Oers, G de Jong, AJ van Noordwijk, B Kempenaers, PJ Drent Behaviour, 1185-1206, 2005 | 497 | 2005 |
| Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling H Kokko, RA Johnstone Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2002 | 435 | 2002 |
| Intrafamilial conflict and parental investment: a synthesis GA Parker, NJ Royle, IR Hartley Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2002 | 429 | 2002 |
| The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration J Dale, CJ Dey, K Delhey, B Kempenaers, M Valcu Nature 527 (7578), 367-370, 2015 | 427 | 2015 |
| Evolutionary transitions in parental care and live bearing in vertebrates JD Reynolds, NB Goodwin, RP Freckleton Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2002 | 370 | 2002 |
| Mate choice and genetic quality: a review of the heterozygosity theory B Kempenaers Advances in the Study of Behavior 37, 189-278, 2007 | 342 | 2007 |
| Drd4 gene polymorphisms are associated with personality variation in a passerine bird AE Fidler, K van Oers, PJ Drent, S Kuhn, JC Mueller, B Kempenaers Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1619), 1685-1691, 2007 | 297 | 2007 |
| Adaptive sleep loss in polygynous pectoral sandpipers JA Lesku, NC Rattenborg, M Valcu, AL Vyssotski, S Kuhn, F Kuemmeth, ... Science 337 (6102), 1654-1658, 2012 | 294 | 2012 |
| Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds D Blomqvist, M Andersson, C Küpper, IC Cuthill, J Kis, RB Lanctot, ... Nature 419 (6907), 613-615, 2002 | 278 | 2002 |
| The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome N Backström, W Forstmeier, H Schielzeth, H Mellenius, K Nam, E Bolund, ... Genome research 20 (4), 485-495, 2010 | 277 | 2010 |
| Extrapair paternity and egg hatchability in tree swallows: evidence for the genetic compatibility hypothesis? B Kempenaers, B Congdon, P Boag, RJ Robertson Behavioral Ecology 10 (3), 304-311, 1999 | 252 | 1999 |
| Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality‐related differences in behavioural plasticity KJ Mathot, J Wright, B Kempenaers, NJ Dingemanse Oikos 121 (7), 1009-1020, 2012 | 245 | 2012 |
| Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome VN Laine, TI Gossmann, KM Schachtschneider, CJ Garroway, O Madsen, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 10474, 2016 | 244 | 2016 |
| A novel song parameter correlates with extra-pair paternity and reflects male longevity W Forstmeier, B Kempenaers, A Meyer, B Leisler Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 243 | 2002 |
| Density-dependent clutch size caused by habitat heterogeneity AA Dhondt, B Kempenaers, F Adriaensen Journal of Animal Ecology, 643-648, 1992 | 242 | 1992 |
