Bart Kempenaers

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

Bart Kempenaers, Geert R. Verheyen, Marleen Van den Broeck et al. · Nature · 1992 · 728 citations

Infertility, Parental Care, Fertility +11

Extra-pair paternity in birds: explaining variation between species and populations

Marion Petrie, Bart Kempenaers · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1998 · 637 citations

Biology, Breeding Behavior, Molecular Ecology +10

Females increase offspring heterozygosity and fitness through extra-pair matings

Katharina Foerster, Kaspar Delhey, Arild Johnsen et al. · Nature · 2003 · 538 citations

Breeding Behavior, Fitness, Medicine +10

Artificial Night Lighting Affects Dawn Song, Extra-Pair Siring Success, and Lay Date in Songbirds

Bart Kempenaers, Pernilla Borgström, Peter Loës et al. · Current Biology · 2010 · 496 citations · Full text

Music, Light Regulation, Lay Date +2

Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus) : female choice, male characteristics, and offspring quality

Bart Kempenaers, Geert R. Verheyen, André A. Dhondi · Behavioral Ecology · 1997 · 395 citations · Full text