| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2006 | 12,505 |
| 2 | The evolution of mate choice and mating biases | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2003 | 733 |
| 3 | Prevalence of different modes of parental care in birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2006 | 595 |
| 4 | Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 580 |
| 5 | Unifying and Testing Models of Sexual Selection | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2006 | 454 |
| 6 | SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS OFFERS NEW INSIGHTS INTO GENE FLOW IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH RAT, RATTUS FUSCIPES | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 447 |
| 7 | High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young | Nature | 2004 | 426 |
| 8 | What is genetic quality? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 388 |
| 9 | How is female mate choice affected by male competition? | Biological Reviews | 2005 | 371 |
| 10 | Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland | Journal of Ecology | 2008 | 357 |
| 11 | Radiation of the Australian flora: what can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present–day communities? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 348 |
| 12 | A review of hypotheses for the functions of avian duetting | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2004 | 326 |
| 13 | The genetic basis of a plant–insect coevolutionary key innovation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 325 |
| 14 | PATRISTIC: a program for calculating patristic distances and graphically comparing the components of genetic change | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2006 | 309 |
| 15 | The distribution and genetic structure of Escherichia coli in Australian vertebrates: host and geographic effects | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2003 | 303 |
| 16 | Life history determines genetic structure and evolutionary potential of host–parasite interactions | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 302 |
| 17 | The Chemistry of Sexual Deception in an Orchid-Wasp Pollination System | Science | 2003 | 298 |
| 18 | Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young | Nature | 2003 | 295 |
| 19 | The h index and career assessment by numbers | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 295 |
| 20 | Estimating foliage nitrogen concentration from HYMAP data using continuum removal analysis | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 285 |
| 21 | Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics | Journal of Biogeography | 2010 | 277 |
| 22 | Protein content of diets dictates the daily energy intake of a free-ranging primate | Behavioral Ecology | 2009 | 266 |
| 23 | The comparative method in conservation biology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 255 |
| 24 | Assigning Escherichia coli strains to phylogenetic groups: multi‐locus sequence typing versus the PCR triplex method | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 253 |
| 25 | The Influence of Plant Secondary Metabolites on the Nutritional Ecology of Herbivorous Terrestrial Vertebrates | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2005 | 236 |
| 26 | ECOLOGY, LIFE-HISTORY, AND BEHAVIOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN SCINCID GENUS EGERNIA, WITH COMMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SOCIALITY IN LIZARDS | Herpetological Monographs | 2003 | 234 |
| 27 | Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 232 |
| 28 | Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled? | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 208 |
| 29 | Chloroplast simple sequence repeats (cpSSRs): technical resources and recommendations for expanding cpSSR discovery and applications to a wide array of plant species | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2009 | 202 |
| 30 | Evidence for adaptive male mate choice in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2006 | 200 |
| 31 | Relationships fade with time: a meta-analysis of temporal trends in publication in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2002 | 193 |
| 32 | Reduced Egg Investment Can Conceal Helper Effects in Cooperatively Breeding Birds | Science | 2007 | 191 |
| 33 | Publication bias in ecology and evolution: an empirical assessment using the ‘trim and fill’ method | Biological Reviews | 2002 | 188 |
| 34 | Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Independent Losses of Flight among Ratites | Systematic Biology | 2010 | 185 |
| 35 | The Prehistory of Potyviruses: Their Initial Radiation Was during the Dawn of Agriculture | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 182 |
| 36 | Communicating about danger: urgency alarm calling in a bird | Animal Behaviour | 2005 | 181 |
| 37 | The comparative method in conservation biology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 177 |
| 38 | Fighting success and attractiveness as predictors of male mating success in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus: the effectiveness of no-choice tests | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2005 | 172 |
| 39 | A heterogeneity test for fine‐scale genetic structure | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 164 |
| 40 | Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2005 | 163 |
| 41 | Assessing endemism at multiple spatial scales, with an example from the Australian vascular flora | Journal of Biogeography | 2003 | 161 |
| 42 | Bemisia argentifolii is a race of B. tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae): the molecular genetic differentiation of B. tabaci populations around the world | Bulletin of Entomological Research | 2005 | 161 |
| 43 | Divorce, dispersal and incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2003 | 158 |
| 44 | Tree use by koalas in a chemically complex landscape | Nature | 2005 | 158 |
| 45 | Extreme Reversed Sexual Dichromatism in a Bird Without Sex Role Reversal | Science | 2005 | 153 |
| 46 | The Indirect Benefits of Mating with Attractive Males Outweigh the Direct Costs | PLoS Biology | 2005 | 152 |
| 47 | Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 149 |
| 48 | Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography | Journal of Biogeography | 2005 | 145 |
| 49 | Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2008 | 144 |
| 50 | Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 142 |
