Multi-locus DNA fingerprinting supports genetic monogamy in Florida scrub-jays

Hypervariable ‘minisatellite’ regions in human DNA

1985 • 3,789 citations

Demographic study of a wild house sparrow population by DNA fingerprinting

1987 • 841 citations

Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit

1992 • 730 citations

An evolutionary theory of the family.

1995 • 573 citations

The Evolution of Delayed Dispersal in Cooperative Breeders

1992 • 557 citations

The Florida Scrub Jay: Demography of a Cooperative-Breeding Bird

1986 • 550 citations

Sperm competition in birds

1987 • 474 citations

Helping Communal Breeding in Birds: Ecology and Evolution

1987 • 409 citations

Helpers liberate female fairy-wrens from constraints on extra-pair mate choice

1994 • 402 citations

Genetic parentage in the indigo bunting: a study using DNA fingerprinting

1990 • 387 citations

The Benefits-of-Philopatry Hypothesis for the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding: Variation in Territory Quality and Group Size Effects

1991 • 349 citations

Realized Reproductive Success of Polygynous Red-Winged Blackbirds Revealed by DNA Markers

1990 • 340 citations

Extra-pair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in wild zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, revealed by DNA fingerprinting

1990 • 282 citations

DNA fingerprinting in domestic animals using four different minisatellite probes

1988 • 272 citations

Female control of paternity

1993 • 271 citations

Extrapair Fertilizations and the Evolution of Colonial Breeding in Purple Martins

1990 • 250 citations

Promiscuity: an inbreeding avoidance mechanism in a socially monogamous species?

1990 • 247 citations

Circulating levels of luteinizing hormone and steroid hormones in relation to social status in the cooperatively breeding white‐browed sparrow weaver, Plocepasser mahali

1991 • 239 citations

Extra-pair paternity in monogamous tree swallows

1993 • 237 citations

Improved hybridization conditions for DNA ‘fingerprints’ probed with M13

1988 • 203 citations

Shared paternity revealed by genetic analysis in cooperatively breeding tropical wrens

1990 • 193 citations

Multiple maternity and paternity in single broods of apparently monogamous eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis)

1984 • 189 citations

Reproductive Endocrinology and Mechanisms of Breeding Inhibition in Cooperatively Breeding Florida Scrub Jays (Aphelocoma c. coerulescens)

1991 • 170 citations

Female control of extra-pair fertilization in tree swallows

1992 • 153 citations

Frequent copulation as a method of paternity assurance in the northern fulmar

1992 • 148 citations

Genetic evidence for monogamy in the cooperatively breeding red-cockaded woodpecker

1994 • 127 citations

Biochemical determination of parental uncertainty in white-fronted bee-eaters

1987 • 125 citations

Fertility of Eggs Produced on Territories of Vasectomized Red-Winged Blackbirds

1975 • 104 citations

Delayed breeding in the cooperatively breeding Florida scrub-jay ( Aphelocoma coerulescens ): inhibition or the absence of stimulation?

1996 • 103 citations

DNA fingerprinting reveals relation between tail ornaments and cuckoldry in barn swallows, Hirundo rustica

1991 • 101 citations

Dominance in the Florida Scrub Jay

1977 • 99 citations

Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

1996 • 88 citations

Extra-pair paternity uncommon in the cooperatively breeding bicolored wren

1996 • 82 citations

Intraspecific nest parasitism and extra-pair copulation in lesser snow geese

1989 • 81 citations

Forced copulation in captive mallards. I. Fertilization of eggs.

1980 • 76 citations

Actuarial Senescence and Demographic Heterogeneity in the Florida Scrub Jay

1996 • 70 citations

Genetic Variation and Parentage in a California Population of Acorn Woodpeckers

1985 • 67 citations

Sizing bands on autoradiograms: A study of precision for scoring DNA fingerprints

1991 • 65 citations

Genetic relatedness of communally breeding guira cuckoos

1994 • 62 citations

Reproductive Sharing in Different Types of Kin Associations

1996 • 60 citations

EXAMINATION OF POPULATION STRUCTURE IN RED-COCKADED WOODPECKERS USING DNA PROFILES

1993 • 54 citations

Genetic evidence of multiple parentage in broods of cliff swallows

1988 • 50 citations

Extra‐pair paternity in the shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis as determined by DNA fingerprinting

1992 • 50 citations

Shared paternity in the acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)

1985 • 42 citations