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David W. Pfennig is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's main research topics explore areas such as Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Significant recent publications include:

  • Character displacement, 2020, Current Biology
  • Condition-dependent expression of trophic polyphenism: effects of individual size and competitive ability, 2021, Evolutionary Ecology Research
  • Evolutionary rescue via transgenerational plasticity: Evidence and implications for conservation, 2021, Evolution & Development
  • Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Identification of candidate loci for adaptive phenotypic plasticity in natural populations of spadefoot toads, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas A. Levis
  • Karin S. Pfennig
  • Emily A. Harmon
  • Ian M. Ehrenreich
  • Andrew J. Isdaner

The scientist has published extensively in several venues. Most of their work has appeared in UNC Libraries, with smaller numbers of publications in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, and Current Biology.

Best Publications

  • Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

    David W. Pfennig;Matthew A. Wund;Emilie C. Snell-Rood;Tami Cruickshank

  • The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

    Armin P. Moczek;Sonia Sultan;Susan Foster;Ian Dworkin

  • Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

    Courtney J Murren;Josh R. Auld;Hilary S Callahan;Cameron K Ghalambor

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Evaluating 'Plasticity-First' Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

    Nicholas A. Levis;David W. Pfennig

  • CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT: ECOLOGICAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RESPONSES TO A COMMON EVOLUTIONARY PROBLEM

    Karin S. Pfennig;David W. Pfennig

  • INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL SELECTION AS A CAUSE OF COPE'S RULE OF PHYLETIC SIZE INCREASE

    Joel G. Kingsolver;David W. Pfennig

  • POLYPHENISM IN SPADEFOOT TOAD TADPOLES AS A LOCALLY ADJUSTED EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY

    David W. Pfennig

  • Patterns and Power of Phenotypic Selection in Nature

    Joel G. Kingsolver;David W. Pfennig

  • The evolution and ontogeny of nestmate recognition in social wasps

    G. J. Gamboa;H. K. Reeve;D. W. Pfennig

  • The adaptive significance of an environmentally-cued developmental switch in an anuran tadpole.

    David Pfennig

  • Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry

    David W. Pfennig;William R. Harcombe;Karin S. Pfennig

  • Character displacement and the origins of diversity.

    David W. Pfennig;Karin S. Pfennig

  • Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity

    David W. Pfennig;Karin S. Pfennig

  • Kin recognition and cannibalism in spadefoot toad tadpoles

    David W. Pfennig;Hudson K. Reeve;Paul W. Sherman

  • Genetic assimilation: a review of its potential proximate causes and evolutionary consequences

    Ian M. Ehrenreich;David W. Pfennig

  • Evolution's Wedge

    David Pfennig;Karin Pfennig

  • Proximate and functional causes of polyphenism in an anuran tadpole

    D. W. Pfennig

  • Kinship and Cannibalism

    David W. Pfennig

  • CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN POLYPHENIC TADPOLES

    David W. Pfennig;Peter J. Murphy

  • Imperfect mimicry and the limits of natural selection.

    David W. Kikuchi;David W. Pfennig

Frequent Co-Authors

Hudson K. Reeve
Hudson K. Reeve Cornell University
Joel G. Kingsolver
Joel G. Kingsolver University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul W. Sherman
Paul W. Sherman Cornell University
Armin P. Moczek
Armin P. Moczek Indiana University
Carl D. Schlichting
Carl D. Schlichting University of Connecticut
Maria R. Servedio
Maria R. Servedio University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cameron K. Ghalambor
Cameron K. Ghalambor Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sonia E. Sultan
Sonia E. Sultan Wesleyan University
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Nancy Tyler Burley
Nancy Tyler Burley University of California, Irvine

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