Ian Dworkin

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ian Dworkin is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Dworkin has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Genetics, 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 17 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Ian Dworkin's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (17 papers). Ian Dworkin is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (17 papers). Ian Dworkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Ian Dworkin's co-authors include Greg Gibson, Douglas J. Emlen, Laura Corley Lavine, Ian A. Warren, Sudarshan Chari, Christopher H. Chandler, David W. Pfennig, Susan A. Foster, Cris C. Ledón-Rettig and Sonia E. Sultan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ian Dworkin

81 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Dworkin United States	29	1.7k	1.3k	816	655	488	84	3.5k
Ehab Abouheif Canada	28	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	827 1.0×	634 1.0×	295 0.6×	49	3.3k
Ricardo B. R. Azevedo United States	24	1.1k 0.7×	905 0.7×	776 1.0×	785 1.2×	243 0.5×	49	2.6k
Patrícia Beldade Netherlands	25	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	422 0.5×	396 0.6×	664 1.4×	56	2.4k
Richard F. Lyman United States	36	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	999 1.2×	617 0.9×	856 1.8×	51	4.0k
John True United States	23	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	266 0.4×	838 1.7×	39	3.5k
Virginie Courtier‐Orgogozo France	21	1.5k 0.9×	704 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	293 0.4×	419 0.9×	52	2.9k
Antónia Monteiro Singapore	39	2.7k 1.6×	2.7k 2.0×	1.3k 1.6×	461 0.7×	1.4k 2.8×	152	5.0k
Emilie C. Snell‐Rood United States	26	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	306 0.4×	1.0k 1.6×	313 0.6×	79	3.5k
Walter F. Eanes United States	34	1.7k 1.0×	854 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	820 1.3×	413 0.8×	71	3.1k
Vincent Debat France	25	770 0.5×	775 0.6×	252 0.3×	604 0.9×	182 0.4×	67	2.4k

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Scott, Andrew M., et al.. (2025). The genetic basis of natural variation in sociability. Evolution. 79(10). 1977–1995.

Stewart, Andrew D., et al.. (2024). Sexually discordant selection is associated with trait-specific morphological changes and a complex genomic response. Evolution. 78(8). 1426–1440. 3 indexed citations

Shams, Ieta, et al.. (2023). Genetic correlation between aggressive signals and fighting. Biology Letters. 19(4). 20220616–20220616. 2 indexed citations

Pitchers, William, et al.. (2023). Complexities of recapitulating polygenic effects in natural populations: replication of genetic effects on wing shape in artificially selected and wild-caught populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 224(3). 3 indexed citations

Dworkin, Ian, et al.. (2021). Evolution of sociability by artificial selection ^*. Evolution. 76(3). 541–553. 5 indexed citations

Siddiqui, Ali, et al.. (2021). Spatial heterogeneity in resources alters selective dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 75(7). 1792–1804. 2 indexed citations

Dworkin, Ian, et al.. (2020). Genetic and environmental canalization are not associated among altitudinally varying populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 74(8). 1755–1771. 5 indexed citations

Chandler, Christopher H., et al.. (2020). Sexual Selection Does Not Increase the Rate of Compensatory Adaptation to a Mutation Influencing a Secondary Sexual Trait in Drosophila melanogaster. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(5). 1541–1551. 2 indexed citations

Pitchers, William, et al.. (2019). A Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Study of Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 211(4). 1429–1447. 36 indexed citations

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Emlen, Douglas J., et al.. (2018). Sexual dimorphism and heightened conditional expression in a sexually selected weapon in the Asian rhinoceros beetle. Molecular Ecology. 27(24). 5049–5072. 27 indexed citations

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Chandler, Christopher H., Sudarshan Chari, David C. Tack, et al.. (2017). How well do you know your mutation? Complex effects of genetic background on expressivity, complementation, and ordering of allelic effects. PLoS Genetics. 13(11). e1007075–e1007075. 40 indexed citations

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Pitchers, William, Jason B. Wolf, Tom Tregenza, John Hunt, & Ian Dworkin. (2014). Evolutionary rates for multivariate traits: the role of selection and genetic variation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1649). 20130252–20130252. 35 indexed citations

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Warren, Ian A., J. Cristobal Vera, James H. Marden, et al.. (2014). Insights into the Development and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits Using De Novo Transcriptomes of Two Species of Horned Scarab Beetles. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e88364–e88364. 13 indexed citations

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Emlen, Douglas J., et al.. (2012). A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons. Science. 337(6096). 860–864. 347 indexed citations

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Stillwell, R. Craig, Ian Dworkin, Alexander W. Shingleton, & W. Anthony Frankino. (2011). Experimental Manipulation of Body Size to Estimate Morphological Scaling Relationships in <em>Drosophila</em>. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 17 indexed citations

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Hall, Megan, Ian Dworkin, Mark C. Ungerer, & Michael D. Purugganan. (2007). Genetics of microenvironmental canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(34). 13717–13722. 82 indexed citations

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Emlen, Douglas J., et al.. (2006). Insulin signaling and limb-patterning: candidate pathways for the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle ‘horns’. Heredity. 97(3). 179–191. 102 indexed citations

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Gibson, Greg & Ian Dworkin. (2004). Uncovering cryptic genetic variation. Nature Reviews Genetics. 5(9). 681–690. 407 indexed citations

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Pálsson, Arnar, et al.. (2004). Nucleotide Variation in the Egfr Locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 167(3). 1199–1212. 18 indexed citations

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Dworkin, Ian, et al.. (2003). Evidence that Egfr Contributes to Cryptic Genetic Variation for Photoreceptor Determination in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology. 13(21). 1888–1893. 78 indexed citations

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