| Cooperation facilitates the colonization of harsh environments CK Cornwallis, CA Botero, DR Rubenstein, PA Downing, SA West, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (3), 0057, 2017 | 134 | 2017 |
| Predictable evolution towards larger brains in birds colonizing oceanic islands F Sayol, PA Downing, AN Iwaniuk, J Maspons, D Sol Nature communications 9 (1), 2820, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
| Sex, long life and the evolutionary transition to cooperative breeding in birds PA Downing, CK Cornwallis, AS Griffin Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1816), 20151663, 2015 | 63 | 2015 |
| Group formation and the evolutionary pathway to complex sociality in birds PA Downing, AS Griffin, CK Cornwallis Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (3), 479-486, 2020 | 37 | 2020 |
| The costs and benefits of paternal care in fish: A meta-analysis RL Goldberg, PA Downing, AS Griffin, J Green Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, 20201759, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Hard-working helpers contribute to long breeder lifespans in cooperative birds PA Downing, AS Griffin, CK Cornwallis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
| The benefits of help in cooperative birds: nonexistent or difficult to detect? PA Downing, AS Griffin, CK Cornwallis American Naturalist 195 (6), 1085-1091, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| Sex differences in helping effort reveal the effect of future reproduction on cooperative behaviour in birds PA Downing, AS Griffin, CK Cornwallis Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 (1885), 20181164, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| Mixed-species associations can arise without heterospecific attraction DR Farine, CP Downing, PA Downing Behavioral Ecology 25 (3), 574-581, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| How to make a sterile helper PA Downing, CK Cornwallis, AS Griffin BioEssays 39 (1), e201600136, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Evolution of vector transmitted parasites by host switching revealed through sequencing of Haemoproteus parasite mitochondrial genomes A Ciloglu, VA Ellis, M Duc, PA Downing, A Inci, S Bensch Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 153, 106947, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| Genetic sex determination and sex-specific lifespan in tetrapods–evidence of a toxic Y effect Z Sultanova, PA Downing, P Carazo bioRxiv, 2020.03. 09.983700, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| Genetic sex determination, sex chromosome size and sex‐specific lifespans across tetrapods Z Sultanova, PA Downing, P Carazo Journal of evolutionary biology 36 (2), 480-494, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Keywords to success: a practical guide to maximise the visibility and impact of academic papers P Pottier, M Lagisz, S Burke, SM Drobniak, PA Downing, EL Macartney, ... bioRxiv, 2023.10. 02.559861, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michener’s group-size paradox in cooperatively breeding birds PA Downing Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37 (3), 353-359, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Comparative analyses of cooperative breeding in birds P Downing University of Oxford, 2016 | | 2016 |
