David W. Pfennig

13.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
144 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

David W. Pfennig is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. Pfennig has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 72 papers in Genetics and 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David W. Pfennig's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (97 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (54 papers). David W. Pfennig is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (97 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (54 papers). David W. Pfennig collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. David W. Pfennig's co-authors include Karin S. Pfennig, Joel G. Kingsolver, Nicholas A. Levis, Ryan A. Martin, H. Kern Reeve, Armin P. Moczek, David W. Kikuchi, Carl D. Schlichting, Emilie C. Snell‐Rood and Amber M. Rice and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David W. Pfennig

142 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

2010 845 citations David W. Pfennig et al. profile →
The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

2011 423 citations David W. Pfennig et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

2015 415 citations Joel G. Kingsolver, David W. Pfennig et al. profile →
Evaluating ‘Plasticity-First’ Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

2016 322 citations Nicholas A. Levis, David W. Pfennig profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David W. Pfennig

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Genetic Variants Underlying Plasticity in Natural Populations of Spadefoot Toads: Environmental Assessment versus Phenotypic Response 2024 ·Genes ·(unknown), Nicholas A. Levis, Ian M. Ehrenreich, David W. Pfennig	1
2	Assessment and the regulation of adaptive phenotypic plasticity 2024 ·Development ·(unknown), Karin S. Pfennig, David W. Pfennig	1
3	A maladaptive parental effect: offspring survival decreases with maternal over-condition in an amphibian 2023 ·Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David W. Pfennig, Karin S. Pfennig	1
4	Frog hatchlings use early environmental cues to produce an anticipatory resource-use phenotype 2023 ·Biology Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), David W. Pfennig	4
5	Disentangling the developmental origins of a novel phenotype: enhancement versus reversal of environmentally induced gene expression 2022 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Nicholas A. Levis, Daniel J. McKay, David W. Pfennig	4
6	Evolutionary rescue via transgenerational plasticity: Evidence and implications for conservation 2021 ·Evolution & Development ·(unknown), David W. Pfennig	19
7	Transcriptomic bases of a polyphenism 2021 ·Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution ·Nicholas A. Levis, (unknown), (unknown), Ian M. Ehrenreich, Daniel J. McKay, David W. Pfennig	7
8	Carryover effects and the evolution of polyphenism 2020 ·Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ·(unknown), Ryan A. Martin, David W. Pfennig	11
9	Microevolutionary change in mimicry? Potential erosion of rattling behaviour among nonvenomous snakes on islands lacking rattlesnakes 2020 ·Ethology Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), Amanda M. Sparkman, David W. Pfennig	4
10	Identification of candidate loci for adaptive phenotypic plasticity in natural populations of spadefoot toads 2020 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Nicholas A. Levis, (unknown), David W. Pfennig, Martha O. Burford Reiskind	14
11	Character displacement 2020 ·Current Biology ·David W. Pfennig, Karin S. Pfennig	7
12	Genome ofSpea multiplicata, a Rapidly Developing, Phenotypically Plastic, and Desert-Adapted Spadefoot Toad 2019 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown), Nicholas A. Levis, (unknown), David W. Pfennig, Karin S. Pfennig, Ian M. Ehrenreich	21
13	Evaluating the utility of camera traps in field studies of predation 2019 ·PeerJ ·(unknown), (unknown), David Salazar‐Valenzuela, David W. Kikuchi, Juan M. Guayasamin, David W. Pfennig	21
14	Plasticity-led evolution: evaluating the key prediction of frequency-dependent adaptation 2019 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Nicholas A. Levis, David W. Pfennig	40
15	Male sexual signal predicts phenotypic plasticity in offspring: implications for the evolution of plasticity and local adaptation 2019 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), David W. Pfennig, (unknown), Karin S. Pfennig	15
16	Competition and the origins of novelty: experimental evolution of niche-width expansion in a virus 2012 ·Biology Letters ·Lisa M. Bono, (unknown), David W. Pfennig, Christina L. Burch	49
17	Does character displacement initiate speciation? Evidence of reduced gene flow between populations experiencing divergent selection 2010 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Amber M. Rice, David W. Pfennig	38
18	Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry 2008 ·Nature ·George R. Harper, David W. Pfennig	51
19	INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL SELECTION AS A CAUSE OF COPE'S RULE OF PHYLETIC SIZE INCREASE 2004 ·Evolution ·Joel G. Kingsolver, David W. Pfennig	278
20	Kinship affects morphogenesis in cannibalistic salamanders 1993 ·Nature ·David W. Pfennig, James P. Collins	99

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