Publications

A.W. Shingleton, W. A. Frankino, T. Flatt, H.F. Nijhout, and D.J. Emlen. 2007. Size and shape: the developmental regulation of static allometry in insects. BioEssays 29:536-548. download PDF

Frankino, W. A., D.S. Stern, and P.M. Brakefield. Internal and external constraints in the evolution of a forewing-hindwing allometry. (in press, Evolution)

P.M. Brakefield and W. A. Frankino. Polyphenisms in Lepidoptera: Multidisciplinary approaches to studies of evolution. in: Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects. Ananthakrishnan, TN and D. W. Whitman (Eds.). Oxford University Press. (in press)

Frankino, W. A., D.S. Stern, and P.M. Brakefield. 2005. Developmental constraints and natural selection in the evolution of allometries. Science 307:718-720. download PDF popular press release Faculty of 1000

Wolf, J. B., C. E. Allen, and W. A. Frankino. 2004. Multivariate phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace. Pp 366-389 in: The Evolutionary Biology of Complex Phenotypes. M. Pigliucci and K. Preston, eds. Oxford University Press.

Frankino, W. A., R. A. Raff. 2004. Evolutionary importance and pattern of phenotypic plasticity: Insights gained from development. Pp 64-81 in: Phenotypic Plasticity, Functional and Conceptual Approaches. T. J. DeWitt and S. M. Scheiner, eds. Oxford University Press.

Frankino, W. A., and D. Pfennig. 2001. Condition-dependent expression of trophic polyphenism: effects of individual size and competitive ability. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3:939-951. download PDF

Wolf, J. B., W. A. Frankino, A. F. Agrawal, E. D. Brodie III, A. J. Moore. 2001 Developmental interactions and the constituents of quantitative variation. Evolution 55:232-245. download PDF

Sinervo, B., D. Miles, D. DeNardo, W. A. Frankino, and M. Klukowski. 2000. Testosterone, endurance, and Darwinian fitness: Natural and sexual selection on the physiological bases of alternative male behaviors in side-blotched lizards. Hormones and Behavior 38: 222-233. download PDF

Miles, D., B. Sinervo, and W. A. Frankino. 2000. Reproductive burden of eggs decreases endurance and lowers survival in free ranging lizards. Evolution 54:1386-1395. download PDF

Frankino, W. A. and S. A. Juliano. 1999. Costs of reproduction and geographic variation in the reproductive tactics of the mosquito Aedes triseriatus. Oecologia 120:59-68. download PDF

Pfennig, D., and W. A. Frankino. 1997. Kin mediated morphogensis in facultatively cannibalistic tadpoles. Evolution 51:1993-1999. download PDF

Frankino, W. A. and S. K. Sakaluk. 1994. Post copulatory mate guarding delays promiscuous mating by female decorated crickets. Animal Behaviour 48:1979-1481. download PDF