| Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry GD Ruxton, WL Allen, TN Sherratt, MP Speed Oxford University Press, 2019 | 2211 | 2019 |
| The biology of color IC Cuthill, WL Allen, K Arbuckle, B Caspers, G Chaplin, ME Hauber, ... Science 357 (6350), 2017 | 617 | 2017 |
| The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success I Capellini, J Baker, WL Allen, SE Street, C Venditti Ecology letters 18 (10), 1099-1107, 2015 | 191 | 2015 |
| Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles WL Allen, SE Street, I Capellini Ecology letters 20 (2), 222-230, 2017 | 158 | 2017 |
| Why the leopard got its spots: relating pattern development to ecology in felids WL Allen, IC Cuthill, NE Scott-Samuel, R Baddeley Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1710), 1373-1380, 2011 | 155 | 2011 |
| The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes WL Allen, R Baddeley, NE Scott-Samuel, IC Cuthill Behavioral Ecology 24 (5), 1237-1250, 2013 | 138 | 2013 |
| Is male rhesus macaque red color ornamentation attractive to females? C Dubuc, WL Allen, D Maestripieri, JP Higham Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 68, 1215-1224, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
| Character displacement of Cercopithecini primate visual signals WL Allen, M Stevens, JP Higham Nature communications 5 (1), 4266, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| A quantitative test of the predicted relationship between countershading and lighting environment WL Allen, R Baddeley, IC Cuthill, NE Scott-Samuel The American Naturalist 180 (6), 762-776, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Interspecific visual signalling in animals and plants: a functional classification T Caro, WL Allen Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372 …, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Sexually selected skin colour is heritable and related to fecundity in a non-human primate C Dubuc, S Winters, WL Allen, LJN Brent, J Cascio, D Maestripieri, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1794), 20141602, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| Experimental evidence that primate trichromacy is well suited for detecting primate social colour signals C Hiramatsu, AD Melin, WL Allen, C Dubuc, JP Higham Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1856), 20162458, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Assessing the potential information content of multicomponent visual signals: a machine learning approach WL Allen, JP Higham Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1802), 20142284, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Who cares? Experimental attention biases provide new insights into a mammalian sexual signal C Dubuc, WL Allen, J Cascio, DS Lee, D Maestripieri, M Petersdorf, ... Behavioral ecology 27 (1), 68-74, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| A synthesis of deimatic behaviour E Drinkwater, WL Allen, JA Endler, RT Hanlon, G Holmes, NT Homziak, ... Biological Reviews 97 (6), 2237-2267, 2022 | 34 | 2022 |
| Sexually selected lip colour indicates male group-holding status in the mating season in a multi-level primate society CC Grueter, P Zhu, WL Allen, JP Higham, B Ren, M Li Royal Society open science 2 (12), 150490, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Ecological, behavioral, and phylogenetic influences on the evolution of dorsal color pattern in geckos WL Allen, N Moreno, T Gamble, Y Chiari Evolution 74 (6), 1033-1047, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Extraneous color affects female macaques’ gaze preference for photographs of male conspecifics KD Hughes, JP Higham, WL Allen, AJ Elliot, BY Hayden Evolution and Human Behavior 36 (1), 25-31, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| Analyzing visual signals as visual scenes WL ALLEN, JP HIGHAM American journal of primatology 75 (7), 664-682, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| The structure of species discrimination signals across a primate radiation S Winters, WL Allen, JP Higham Elife 9, e47428, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
James HighamProfessor of Biological Anthropology, New York UniversityVerified email at nyu.edu
