Publications
Isbelle M. Vea, Austin S. Wilcox, W. Anthony Frankino, and Alexander W. Shingleton (2023). Genetic Variation in Sexual Size Dimorphism Is Associated with Variation in Sex-Specific Plasticity in Drosophila. The American Naturalist 202:368-381. https://doi.org/10.1086/725420
Austin S. Wilcox, Isbelle M. Vea, W. Anthony Frankino, and Alexander W. Shingleton (2023). Genetic variation of morphological scaling in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 130: 302–311. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00603-y
W. Anthony Frankino, Eric Bakota, Ian Dworkin, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Jason B. Wolf, and Alexander W. Shingleton (2019). Individual Cryptic Scaling Relationships & the Evolution of Animal Form. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59 (5): 1411–1428. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz135
Shingleton, A.W. and W.A. Frankino. 2018 The (ongoing) problem of relative growth. Current Opinion in Insect Science 25:9-19. Download PDF
Dreyer, A.P., O. Saleh Ziabari, E.M. Swanson, A. Chawla, W.A. Frankino, A.W. Shingleton. 2016 Cryptic individual scaling relationships and the evolution of morphological scaling. Evolution 70:1703-1716. Download PDF
Mirth, C.K., W. A. Frankino and A.W. Shingleton. 2016. Allometry and Size Control. invited submission. Current Opinion in Insect Science 13:93-98. Download PDF
Stillwell, R.C., A.W. Shingleton, I. Dworkin and W.A. 2016. Frankino. Tipping the scales: Evolution of the allometric slope independent of average trait size. Evolution 70:433-444. Download PDF
Steven J. Lane, W. Anthony Frankino, Michelle M. Elekonich and Stephen P. Roberts. 2014. The effects of age and lifetime flight behavior on flight capacity in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:1437-1443. DOI:10.1242/jeb.095646 Download PDF (includes press spotlight)
Myers, E. M., E. L. Joyce, T. Harwell, A. Lamb and W. A. Frankino. Ecologically and developmentally imposed multi-generational costs of hybridization in sibling Drosophila species. PLoS One. link
Shingleton, A.W. and W. A. Frankino. 2013. New perspectives on the evolution of exaggerated traits. BioEssays 35:100-107. Download PDF
Myers, E. and W. A. Frankino. 2012. Time in a bottle: The evolutionary fate of Species Discrimination in Sibling Drosophila Species. PLoS One 7(2) e0031759. Download PDF
Stillwell, R. C., I. M. Dworkin, A. W. Shingleton, W. Anthony Frankino. 2011. Experimental manipulation of body size to estimate morphological scaling relationships in Drosophila. Journal of Visualized Experiments (56) e3162. link
Frankino, W. A., A. Shingleton, D. Emlen. 2009. Experimental approaches to studying the evolution of morphological allometries: The shape of things to come. in: Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications, T. Garland and M. Rose, eds. University of California Press.
P.M. Brakefield and W. A. Frankino. 2009. Polyphenisms in Lepidoptera: Multidisciplinary approaches to studies of evolution and development. in: Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects: Mechanisms and Consequences. Ananthakrishnan, TN and D. W. Whitman (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
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
W. A. Frankino, D.S. Stern, and P.M. Brakefield. 2007. Internal and external constraints in the evolution of a forewing-hindwing allometry. Evolution 61:2958-2970. Download PDF
W. A. Frankino, 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
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. Download PDF
W. A. Frankino, 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. Download PDF
W. A. Frankino, 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
W. A. Frankino 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
W. A. Frankino and S. K. Sakaluk. 1994. Post copulatory mate guarding delays promiscuous mating by female decorated crickets. Animal Behaviour 48:1979-1481. Download PDF