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Biology and Biochemistry
New Zealand
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
82
Citations
25868
World Ranking
3666
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

David Penny is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their research encompasses several areas within social sciences and education, with a focus on gender diversity, mentoring, academic development, and higher education employability.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Higher Education and Employability

The subfields of study related to their research are:

  • Gender Studies
  • Social Psychology
  • Education

David Penny has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Charles Darwin as a scientist," 2024, New Zealand Science Review
  • "The continuity of mind, from great apes to humans," 2023, New Zealand Science Review
  • "A Fallen Line of Marble Drums," 2022, Electronic workshops in computing
  • "Female student participation in New Zealand universities: Forty years on," 2023, New Zealand Science Review (co-authored with Paul A. Stock)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Penny are:

  • Paul A. Stock
  • Ema Alter

Their publications have predominantly appeared in these venues:

  • New Zealand Science Review
  • Electronic workshops in computing

David Penny was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus.

    William Martin;Tamas Rujan;Erik Richly;Andrea Hansen

  • Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

    Peter J. Lockhart;Michael A. Steel;Michael D. Hendy;David Penny

  • The hemochromatosis gene product complexes with the transferrin receptor and lowers its affinity for ligand binding

    John N. Feder;David M. Penny;Alivelu Irrinki;Vince K. Lee

  • A Framework for the Quantitative Study of Evolutionary Trees

    Michael D. Hendy;David Penny

  • The modern molecular clock.

    Lindell Bromham;David Penny

  • Branch and bound algorithms to determine minimal evolutionary trees

    M.D. Hendy;David Penny

  • Mass survival of birds across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: molecular evidence.

    Alan Cooper;David Penny

  • Genome-scale phylogeny and the detection of systematic biases

    Matthew J. Phillips;Frederic Delsuc;David Penny

  • A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

  • Parsimony, Likelihood, and the Role of Models in Molecular Phylogenetics

    Mike Steel;David Penny

  • The Use of Tree Comparison Metrics

    David Penny;M. D. Hendy

  • Distributions of Tree Comparison Metrics—Some New Results

    Mike A. Steel;David Penny

  • Inferring Phylogenies.—Joseph Felsenstein. 2003. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

    David Penny

  • The path from the RNA world.

    Anthony M. Poole;Daniel C. Jeffares;David Penny

  • Relics from the RNA world.

    Daniel C. Jeffares;Anthony M. Poole;David Penny

  • Early Penguin Fossils, Plus Mitochondrial Genomes, Calibrate Avian Evolution

    Kerryn E. Slack;Craig M. Jones;Tatsuro Ando;G. L.(Abby) Harrison

  • Conserved sequence motifs, alignment, and secondary structure for the third domain of animal 12S rRNA.

    R E Hickson;C Simon;A Cooper;G S Spicer

  • The root of the mammalian tree inferred from whole mitochondrial genomes.

    Matthew J. Phillips;David Penny

  • The comparative method in evolutionary biology

    D. Penny

  • a Predominantly Eubacterial Ancestry of Yeast Nuclear Genes

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Peter J. Lockhart
Peter J. Lockhart Massey University
Scott William Roy
Scott William Roy San Francisco State University
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Vincent Moulton
Vincent Moulton University of East Anglia
Manuel Irimia
Manuel Irimia Pompeu Fabra University
Frédéric Delsuc
Frédéric Delsuc University of Montpellier
Keith Grimwood
Keith Grimwood Griffith University
Anthony W. D. Larkum
Anthony W. D. Larkum University of Sydney
Lindell Bromham
Lindell Bromham Australian National University

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