I.  Experimental Studies of Evolution
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  • Reznick, D. N. and H. Bryga.  1987.  Life history evolution in guppies: (Poecilia reticulata):  1.  Phenotypic and Genetic Changes in an Introduction Experiment.  Evolution 41:1370-1385. 
  • Reznick, D. N., H. Bryga, and J. Endler.  1990.   Experimentally induced lifehistory in a natural population.  Nature 346:357-359. 
  • Reznick, D. N., F. H. Shaw, F. H. Rodd, and R. G. Shaw.  1997. Evaluation of the rate of evolution in natural populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Science 275:1934-1937.
  • Reznick, D. N. and C. Ghalambor.  2004.   Selection in nature: Experimental manipulations of     natural populations.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 456-462.
  • Ghalambor, C. K., K. L. Hoke, E. W. Ruell, E. K. Fischer, D. N. Reznick and K. A. Hughes.      2015.  Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene     expression in nature.  Nature 525: 372-375.
  • Gordon, S. P., D. N. Reznick, J. D. Arendt, A. Roughton*, M. N. Onteveros Hernandez*,     P. Bentzen and A. Lopez-Sepulcre.  2015.  Selection analysis on the rapid evolution of a     secondary sexual trait.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 282:     DOI:10.1098/rspb.2015.1244.
  • Gordon, S. P., A. Lopez-Sepulcre, D. Rumbo, and D. Reznick. 2017.  Rapid changes in the     sex linkage of male coloration in introduced guppy populations.  American Naturalist     189: 196-200.  https://doi.org/10.1086/689864
  • Kemp, D. J., Bastic, F-K and D. N. Reznick. 2018.  Predictable adaptive trajectories of     sexual     coloration in the wild: evidence from replicate experimental guppy poplations.      Evolution 72: 2462-2477.
  • Westrick, S. E., E. D. Broder, D. N. Reznick, C. K. Ghalambor and L. Angeloni.  2019.      Rapid     evolution and behavioral plasticity following introduction to an environment with     reduced predation risk.  Ethology 125: 232-240.
  • Reznick, D. N., C. A. Handelsman, R. D. Bassar, C. K. Ghalambor, J. Arendt, T.     Coulson, T.     Potter, E. W. Ruell, J. Torres-Dowdall, P. Bentzen and J. Travis.  2019.  Eco-    evolutionary feedbacks predict the time course of rapid life history evolution.  American     Naturalist 194: 671-692.    DOI: 10.1086/705380

II.  Life History Evolution and Adaptation in Guppies

  • Reznick, D. N.  1980.  Life history evolution in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  Doctoral dissertation, the University of Pennsylvania, 215 pp.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1981. "Grandfather effects":  the genetics of interpopulation differences in offspring size in the mosquito fish Gambusia affinis.  Evolution 35:941953.
  • Reznick, D. N. and J. E. Endler.  1982.  The impact of predation on life history evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 36:160177.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1982.  Genetic determination of offspring size in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  American Naturalist 120:181188. 
  • Reznick, D. N.  1982.  The impact of predation of life history evolution in Trinidadian guppies:  the genetic components of observed life history differences.  Evolution 36:12361250.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1983.  The structure of guppy life histories:  the tradeoff between growth and reproduction.  Ecology 64:862873. 
  • Reznick, D. N. and B. Braun.  1987.  Fat cycling in the mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis):  is fat storage a reproductive adaptation?  Oecologia 73:401413.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1989.  Life history evolution in guppies:  2.  Repeatability of field phenotypes and multivariate analyses of life history patterns.  Evolution 42:12851297.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1990.  Plasticity in age and size at maturity in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata):  An experimental evaluation of alternative models of development.  J. Evol. Biol. 3:185203. 
  • Rodd, H. and D. N. Reznick.  1991.  Life history evolution in guppies:  3. The impact of prawn predation on guppy life histories.  Oikos 62:1319.
  • Reznick, D. N. and A. P. Yang.  1993.  The influence of fluctuating resource availability on female life histories in Poecilia reticulata:  patterns of allocation and plasticity.  Ecology 74:2011-2019. 
  • Reznick, D. N., H. F. Rodd and M. Cardenas.  1996.  Life history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata:  Poeciliidae).  4.  Convergence in life history phenotypes.  American Naturalist 147:319-338.
  • Reznick, D. N. and H. Bryga.  1996.  Life history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): Poeciliidae):  5.  Genetic basis of parallelism in life histories.  American Naturalist 147:339-359.
  • Reznick, D. N., M. J. Butler IV, F. H. Rodd, and P. Ross.  1996.  Life history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  6. Differential mortality as a mechanism for natural selection.  Evolution     50:1651-1660.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1996.  Life history evolution in guppies:  a model system for the empirical study of adaptation.  Netherlands Journal of Zoology 46(3-4):1-19.
  • Rodd, F. H. and D. N. Reznick.  1997. Variation in the demography of natural populations  of guppies: the importance of predation and life histories.  Ecology 78:405-418.
  • Rodd, F. H., D. N. Reznick and M. B. Sokolowski.  1997.  Phenotypic plasticity in the life history traits of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata):  responses to social environment.  Ecology 78:419-433.
  • Hughes, KA, L. Du*, F. H. Rodd and D. N. Reznick.  1999. Familiarity leads to female mate preference for novel males in the guppy Poecilia reticulata.  Animal Behavior 58: 907-916.
  • Reznick, D., M. J. Butler IV, and H. Rodd.  2001.  Life history evolution in guppies 7: The comparative ecology of high and low predation environments.  American Naturalist 157: 126-140.
  • Grether, G. F., D. F. Millie, M. J. Bryant, D. N. Reznick and W. Mayea.  2001.  Rainforest canopy cover, resource availability, and life history evolution in guppies.  Ecology 82: 1546-1559.
  • Bronikowski, AM; Clark, ME; Rodd, FH; Reznick, DN.  2002.  Population-dynamic consequences of predator-induced life history variation in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) Ecology 83:2194-2204.
  • Ghalambor, C. K., J. A. Walker, and D. N. Reznick.  2003.  Multi-trait selection, adaptation, and     constraints on the evolution of burst swimming performance.  Integrative and      Comparative Biology 43: 431-438.
  • Arendt, J. D. and Reznick, D. N. 2005.  Evolution of growth rate in female guppies (Poecilia     reticulata): predator regime or resource level? Proceedings of the Royal Society of     London B 272: 333-337.​ Faculty of 1000
  • Ghalambor, C. K., D. N. Reznick and J. A. Walker.  2004.  Constraints on adaptive evolution:     The functional tradeoff between reproduction and fast-start swimming performance in the     Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  American Naturalist 164: 38-50.
  • Walker JA, Ghalambor CK, Griset OL*, McKenny D* and Reznick, D. N.  2005.  Do faster starts increase the probability of evading predators? 2004.  Functional Ecology 19 (5): 808-815.​
  • Olendorf, R.  F. Helen Rodd, David Punzalan, Anne E. Houde, Carla Hurt, David N. Reznick &     Kimberly A. Hughes.  Frequency-dependent survival in natural guppy populations. Nature 441: 633-636. Faculty of 1000. Featured as an “evolution gem” by Nature, December, 2008.
  • Kemp, D. J., D. N. Reznick and G. F. Grether.  2009.  Ornamental evolution in  Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulate): insights from sensory processing-based analyses of entire colour patterns. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 734-747.
  • Huizinga, M. Ghalambor, C. K. and Reznick, D. N.  2009. The genetic and environmental basis of adaptive differences in shoaling behaviour among populations of Trindadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata.  J. of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1860-1866. Faculty of 1000
  • Kemp, D. J., Reznick, D. N., Grether, G. F. and Endler, J. A. 2009.   Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 276: 4335-4343.
  • Jorgensen, C., S. K. Auer and D. N. Reznick.  2011.  A model for optimal offspring size in fish, including live-bearing and parental effects.  American Naturalist 177: E119-E135.
  • Zandona, E., S. Auer, S. Kilham, J. Howard, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, M. O’Connor, R. D. Bassar, A. Osorio, C. Pringle and D. N. Reznick.  2011.  Diet quality and prey selectivity correlate with life histories and predation regime in Trinidadian guppies. Functional Ecology 25: 964-973.
  • Gordon, S. A. Lopez-Sepulcre and D. N. Reznick.  2012.  Predation-associated differences in sex-linkage of wild guppy coloration.  Evolution 66: 912-918. Faculty of 1000
  • Dowdall, J. Torres, C. A. Handelsman, E. W. Ruell, S. K. Auer, D. N. Reznick and C. K. Ghalambor.  2012.  Fine-scale local adaptation in life histories along a continuous environmental gradient in Trindadian guppies.  Functional Ecology 26: 616-627.
  • El-Sabaawi, R. W., E. Zandona, T. J. Kohler, M. C. Marshall, J. M. Moslemi, J. Travis, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, R. Ferriere, C. M. Pringle, S. A. Thomas, D. N. Reznick and A. S.     Flecker.  2012.  Widespread intraspecific organismal stoichiometry among populations of     the Trinidadian guppy.  Functional Ecology 26: 666-676.
  • Reznick, D. N.,  R. D. Bassar, J. Travis and H. F. Rodd.  2012.  Life history evolution in guppies VIII: The demographics of density regulation in guppies (Poecilia reticulate).      Evolution 66: 2903-2915.
  • Auer, S. K., A. Lopez-Sepulcre, T. Heatherly, T. J. Kohler, R. D. Bassar, S. A. Thomas     and D.     N. Reznick.  2012.  Life histories have a history: effects of past and present conditions on adult somatic growth rates in wild Trinidadian guppies.  J. Animal     Ecology 81: 818-826​ *Elton prize winner, British Ecological Society
  • Torres-Dowdall, J., C. A. Handelsman, D. N. Reznick and C. K. Ghalambor.  2012. Local adaptation and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Evolution 66: 3432-3443.
  • Bassar, R. D., A. Lopez-Sepulcre, D. N. Reznick and J. Travis.  2013.  Experimental evidence     for density-dependent regulation and selection on Trinidadian guppy life histories. American Naturalist 181: 25-38.
  • Lopez-Sepulcre, A., S. P. Gordon, I. G. Paterson, P. Bentzen and D. N. Reznick.  2013. Beyond lifetime reproductive success: the posthumous reproductive dynamics of male Trinidadian guppies.  Proc. Roy. Soc. B 280, article number 2013116 DOI:10.1098/rspd.do013.1116.
  • Handelsman, C. A., E. D. Broder, C. M. Dalton, E. W. Ruell, C. A. Myrick, D. N. Reznick and C. K. Ghalambor.  2013.  Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in metabolism and rate of growth: rapid adaptation to a novel environment.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: 975-988
  • Fitzpatrick, S. W., J. Torres-Dowdall, D. N. Reznick, C. K. Ghalambor and W. C. Funk. 2014. Parallelism isn’t perfect: Could disease and flooding drive a life-history anomaly in Trinidadian guppies?  American Naturalist 183: 290-300.
  • Arendt, J. D., D. N. Reznick and A. Lopez-Sepulcre.  2014.  Replicated origin of female-biased adult sex ratio in introduced populations of the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 68: 2343-2356.
  • Fraser, B. A., A. Kunster, D. N. Reznick, C.  Dreyer and D. Weigel.  2015.  Population     genomics of natural and experimental populations of guppies.  Molecular Ecology 24:     389-408.
  • Zandona, E., S. K. Auer, S. S. Kilham and D. N. Reznick.  2015.  Contrasting population     and diet influences on gut length of an omnivorous tropical fish, the Trinidadian guppy     (Poecilia reticulate).  Plos 1: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0136079.
  • Dial, T. R., D. N. Reznick and E. L. Brainerd.  2016.   Effects of neonatal size on maturity and escape performance in the Trinidadian guppy.  Functional Ecology 30: 943-952.
  • Fizpatrick, S. W., J. C. Gerberich, L. M. Angeloni, L. L. Bailey, E. D. Broder, J. Torres-Dowdall, C. A. Handelsman, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, D. N. Reznick, C. K. Ghalambor, and W. C. Funk. 2016.  Gene flow from an adaptively divergent source causes genetic rescue, not     outbreeding depression, in two wild populations of Trinidadian guppies.  Evolutionary Applications 9: 879-891.
  • Bassar, R. D., D. Z. Childs, M. Rees, S. Tuljapurkar, D. N. Reznick and T. Coulson.  2016. The effects of asymmetric competition on the life history of Trinidadian guppies.  Ecology     Letters 19: 268-278.
  • Banet, A. I., J. C. Svendsen, K. J. Eng and D. N. Reznick. 2016. Linking reproduction, locomotion, and habitat use in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  Oecologia 181: 87-96.
  • Gordon, S. P., A. P. Hendry and D. N. Reznick.  2017.  Predator-induced contemporary evolution, phenotypic plasticity, and the evolution of reaction norms in guppies.  Copeia     105: 514-522.  DOI: 10.1643/CE-16-522.
  • Auer, S. K., C. A. Dick, N. B. Metcalfe and D. N. Reznick.  2018.  Metabolic rate     evolves rapidly and in parallel with the pace of life history.  Nature Communications 9:     14. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02514-z.
  • Dick, C., D. N. Reznick and C. Y. Hayashi. 2018. Sex-biased expression between guppies varying in the presence of ornamental coloration.  PeerJ6, e5782.     doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5782
  • Dick, C., J. Hinh, C. Y. Hayashi and D. N. Reznick.  2018.  Convergent evolution of coloration in experimental introductions of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  Ecology and     Evolution 8: 8999-9006.
  • De Bona, S., M. Bruneaux,  A. E. G. Lee, D. Reznick, P. Bentzen, A. Lopez-Sepulcre. 2019. Spatio-temporal dynamics of density-dependent dispersal during a population colonization.  Ecology Letters.  DOI: 10.1111/ele.13205.
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III.  Eco-Evo Dynamics

  • Bassar, R. D., M. Marshall, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, R. Zandona, S. K. Auer, J. Travis, C. M. Pringle, A. S. Flecker, S. A. Thomas, D. F. Fraser and D. N. Reznick.  2010.  Local adaptation in Trinidadian Guppies alters ecosystem processes.  P. N. A. S. 107:3616-3621. *Hynes Award for Young Investigators, Society for Freshwater Science *Runner up Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research-ESA
  • Turcotte, M. M., D. N. Reznick and J. D. Hare.  2011.  Experimental assessment of the     impact     of rapid evolution on population dynamics.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 13:         113-131.
  • Turcotte, M. M., D. N. Reznick and J. D. Hare.  2011.  The impact of rapid evolution on         population dynamics in the wild: experimental test of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Ecology Letters 14: 1084-1092. Faculty of 1000
  • El-Sabaawi, R. W., T. J. Kohler, E. Zandona, J. Travis, M. C. Marshall, S. A. Thomas, D. N.     Reznick, M. Walsh, J. F. Gilliam, C. Pringle and A. S. Flecker.  2012.  Environmental     and organismal predictors of intraspecific variation in stoichiometry of a neotropical     freshwater fish.  PLOS ONE 7: Article Number e32713.
  • Bassar, R. D., R. Ferriere, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, M. Marshall, J. Travis, C. Pringle and D. N. Reznick. 2012.  Direct and indirect ecosystem effects of evolutionary adaptation in the     Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  American Naturalist 180: 167-185.
  • Kohler, T. J., T. N. Heatherly, R. W. El-Sabaawi, E. Zandona, M. C. Marshall, A. S.     Flecker,     C. M. Pringle, D. N. Reznick and S. A. Thomas.  2012.   Flow, nutrients, and     light     availability influence neotropical epilithon biomass and stoichiometry.  Freshwater     Science 31: 1019-1034.
  • Marshall, M.,  A. J. Binderup, E. Zandona, S. Goutte, R. D. Bassar, R. W. El-Sabaawi, S.          Thomas, A. S. Flecker, S. S. Kilham, D. N. Reznick, C. M. Pringle.  2012.  Effects of     consumer interactions on benthic resources and ecosystem processes in a     Neotrophical     stream.  Plos     One 7, Article Number e45230 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.oo45230.
  • Turcotte, M. M., D. Reznick and D. J. Hare.  2013.  Experimental test of an eco-        evolutionary     dynamic loop between evolution and population density in the green peach     aphid.  American Naturalist 181: S46-s57.
  • Reznick, D. N.  2013.  A critical look at reciprocity in ecology and evolution:     introduction to     the symposium.  American Naturalist 181: S1-S8.
  • Travis, J., D. N. Reznick, R. D. Bassar, A.  Lopez-Sepulcre, R. Ferriere and T. Coulson.      2014.      Do eco-evo feedbacks help us understand nature? Answers from studies of the     Trinidadian guppy.  Advances in Ecological Research 50: 1-40.
  • Bassar, R. D., T. Heatherly, M. C. Marshall, S. A. Thomas, A. S. Flecker and D. N.     Reznick.  2015.  Population size-structure-dependent fitness and ecosystem consequences     in Trinidadian guppies.  J. Animal Ecology 84: 955-968.
  • El-Sabaawi, R. W., R. D. Bassar, C. Rakowski, M. C. Marshall, B. L. Bryan, S. N.     Thomas,     C. Pringle, D. N. Reznick and A. S. Flecker.  2015.  Intraspecific phenotypic     differences in fish affect ecosystem processes as much as bottom-up factors.  Oikos 124:     1181-1191.
  • Collins, S. M., S. A. Thomas, T. Heatherly, K. L. MacNeill, A. O. H. C. Leduc, A. Lopez-    Sepulcre, B. A. Lamphere, R. W. El-Sabaawi, D. N. Reznick, C. M. Pringle and A. S.    Flecker.  2016.  Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical     streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach. Ecology 97:3154-3166.
  • Bassar, R. D., T. Simon, W. Roberts, J. Travis, D. N. Reznick.  2017. The evolution of     coexistence:     Reciprocal adaptation promotes the assembly of a simple community.      Evolution 71: 373-385.  https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13086
  • Bassar, R. D., B. L. Bryan, M. C. Marshall, C. M. Pringle, D. N. Reznick and J. Travis.      2017.      Local adaptation of fish consumers alters primary production through changes in     algal     community composition and diversity.  Oikos 126: 594-603.     https://doi.org /10.1111/         oik.03965
  • Zandona, E., C. M. Dalton, R. W. El-Sabaawi, J. L. Howard, M. C. Marshall, SS. Kilham, D.     N. Reznick, J. Travis, T. J. Kohler and A. S. Flecker.  2017.  Population variation in the     trophic niche of the Trinidadian guppy from different predation regimes.  Scientific     Reports 7: 5770, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06163-6
  • Simon, T, N., R. D. Bassar, A. J. Binderup, A. S. Flecker, M. C. Freeman, J. F. Gilliam,        M. C. Marshall, S. A. Thomas, J. Travis, D. N. Reznick and C. M. Pringle. 2017.  Local     adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters stream ecosystem structure at landscape scales     despite high environmental variabilitiy.  Copeia 105: 504-513.  DOI: 10.1643/CE-16-517
  • Simon, Troy N., A. J. Binderup, A. S. Flecker, J. F. Gilliam, M. C. Marchall, S. A.     Thomas, J. Travis, D. N. Reznick and C. M. Pringle.  2019.  Landscape patterns in top-    down control of decomposition: omnivory disrupts a tropical detrital-based trophic     cascade.  Ecology 100: e02723.  DOI/10.1002/ecy.2723.​

IV.  Evolution of Placentas

  • Reznick, D. N. and D. B. Miles.  1989.  A review of life history patterns in Poeciliid fishes.  In:  Ecology and Evolution of Livebearing Fishes (Poeciliidae), (G. K. Meffe and F. F. Snelson, eds.)  Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 125148. 
  • Reznick, D. N., D. B. Miles and S. Winslow.  1992.  Life history of Poecilia picta (Poeciliidae) from Trinidad.  Copeia 1992:782790.
  • Reznick, D. N., A. Meyer and D. Frear.  1993.  Life history of Brachyraphis rhabdophora (Pisces: Poeciliidae).  Copeia 1993:103111.
  • Reznick, D., H. Callahan* and R. Llauredo.  1996.  Maternal effects on offspring quality in Poeciliid fishes.  American Zoologist 36:147-156.
  • Kolluru, G. R. and D. N. Reznick.  1996.  Genetic and social control of male maturation in Phallichthys quadripunctatus (Pisces:  Poeciliidae).  J. Evol. Biol. 9:695-715.
  • Arias, Ai-Li and D. N. Reznick.  2000.  Life history of Phalloceros caudimaculatus: A novel variation on the theme of livebearing in the family Poeciliidae.  Copeia 2000: 792-798.
  • Reznick, D. N., M. Mateos, and M. S. Springer.  2002.  Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis.  Science 298: 1018-1020.
  • Lawton, B. R., L. Sevigny, C. Oergfell*, D. N. Reznick, R. J. O’Neill and M. J. O’Neill.  2005.  Allelic expression of IGF2 in live-bearing, matrotrophic fish.  Development, Genes and Evolution 214: 207-212.
  • Pires, M. N., K. McBride*, D. N. Reznick.  2007.  Interpopulation Variation in Life-History     Traits of Poeciliopsis prolifica: Implications for the Study of Placental Evolution.  J. Exp.     Zoology 307A: 113-125
  • Reznick, D., M. Bryant.  2007.  Comparative Long-Term Mark-Recapture Studies of Guppies     (Poecilia reticulata):  Differences Among High and Low Predation Localities in Growth     and Survival.  Annals Zoologica Fennici 44: 152-160.
  • Reznick, D. N., R. Meredith and B. B. Collette.  2007.  Independent evolution of complex life     history adaptations in two families of fishes, live-bearing halfbeaks (Zenarchopteridae,     Beloniformes) an Poeciliidae (Cyprinodontiformes).  Evolution 61: 2570-2583.
  • Reznick, D. N., T. Hrbek, S. Caura* , J. De Greef, D. Roff.  2007.  Life History of Xenodexia     ctenolepis: Implications for life history evolution in the family Poeciliidae.  Biological J.     of the Linnean Society 92: 77-85.
  • M. J. O’Neill, B. R. Lawton, M. Mateos, D. M. Liscinsky, G. C. Ferreri, T. Hrbek, R. W.     Meredith, D. N. Reznick, R. J. O’Neill.  2007.  Ancient and continuing Darwinian     selection on Insulin-like growth factor II in placental fishes.  PNAS 104: 12104-12109.
  • Zuniga-Vega, J. J., D. N. Reznick and J. B. Johnson.  2007.  Habitat predicts reproductive     superfetation and body shape in the livebearing fish Poeciliopsis turrubarensis. Oikos 116: 995-1005.
  • Banet, A. I. and D. N. Reznick.   2008.  Do Placental Species Abort Offspring?  Testing an     Assumption of the Trexler-DeAngelis Model.  Functional Ecology 22: 323-331.
  • Turcotte, M. M., M. N. Pires, R. C. Vrijenhoek and D. N. Reznick.  2008.  Pre- and post-fertilization maternal provisioning in livebearing fish species and their hybrids (Poeciliidae: Poeciliopsis).  Functional Ecology 22: 1118-1124.
  • Pires, M. N., J. Arendt and D. N. Reznick.  2010.  The evolution of placentas and     superfetation     in the fish genus Poecilia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: subgenera         Micropoecilia and Acanthocephalus).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 784-796.
  • Meredith, R. W., M. N. Pires, D. N. Reznick and M. S. Springer.  2010.  Molecular     phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of the placenta in Poecilia (Micropoecilia)         (Poeciliidae: Cyprindontiformes).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 631-639.
  • Banet, A. I., A. J. Au and D. N. Reznick. 2010.   Is mom in charge? Implications of     resource provisioning on the evolution of the placenta.  Evolution 64: 3172-3182.
  • Meredith, R. W., M. N. Pires, D. N. Reznick and M. S. Springer.  2011.  Molecular     phylogenetic relationships and the coevolution of placentotrophy and superfetation in     Poecilia (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59:148-157.
  • Pollux, B. J. A. and D. N. Reznick. 2011.   Matrotrophy limits a female’s ability to     adaptively adjust offspring size and fecundity in fluctuating environments.  Functional         Ecology 25: 747-756.
  • Pires, M. N., R. D. Bassar, K. E. McBride, J. U. Regus, T. Garland and D. N. Reznick.          2011.  Why do placentas evolve? An evaluation of the life-history facilitation hypothesis         in the fish genus Poeciliopsis.  Functional Ecology 25: 757-768.
  • Panhuis, T. M., G. Broitman-Maduro, J. Uhrig, M. Maduro, and D. N. Reznick.  2011.    Analysis of expressed sequence tags from the placenta of the live-bearing fish Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae).  J. of Heredity 102: 352-361.
  • Regus, J. U., J. B. Johnson, S. A. Webb and D. N. Reznick.  2013.  Comparative life histories of fish in the genus Phallichthys (Pisces: Poeciliidae). J. of Fish Biology 83: 144-155
  • Bassar, R. D., S.Auer and D. N. Reznick.  2014.  Why do placentas evolve?  A test of the life history facilitation hypothesis in two clades in the genus Poeciliopsis representing two independent origins of placentas. Functional Ecology 28: 999-1010.
  • Pollux, B. J. A., R. W. Meredith, M. S. Springer and D. N. Reznick.  2014.  The evolution of the placenta drives a shift in sexual selection in livebearing fish.  Nature 513: 233-236.
  • Cohen, S. N.*, J. U. Regus, Y. Reynoso, T. Mastro* and D. N. Reznick.  2015. Comparative life histories of fishes in the subgenus Limia (Pisces: Poeciliidae).  J. of     Fish Biology     87: 100-114.
  • Riesch, R., D. N. Reznick, M. Plath and I. Schlupp.  2016.  Sex-specific and local life-history adaptation in surface- and care-dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia Mexicana).  Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 22968.  Doi:10.1038/srep22968.
  • Reznick, D. N., A. I. Furness, R. W. Meredith and M. Springer. 2017.  The origin and                 biogeographic diversification of fishes in the family Poecliidae.  Plos One 12: Article number: e0172546. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172546
  • Morrison, K. R., V. Ngo, R. A. Cardullo and D. N. Reznick.  2017.  How fish eggs are     preadapted for the evolution of matrotrophy.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of     London, Series B 284: 20171342.  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1342.
  • Jue, N. K., R. J. Foley, D. N. Reznick, R. J. O’Neill and M. J. O’Neill.  2018. Tissue-    specific transcriptome for Poeciliopsis prolifica reveals evidence for genetic adaptation     related to the evolution of a placental fish.  G3-Genes Genomes Genetics 8: 2181-2192.
  • Pires, M. N. and D. N. Reznick.  2018. Life-history evolution in the fish genus Poecilia     (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes: subgenus Pamphorichthys): an evolutionary origin of     extensive matrotrophy decoupled from superfetation.  Biological Journal of the Linnean     Society 125: 547-560.
  • Hagmayer, A., A. Furness, D. N. Reznick and B. J. A. Pollux.  2018.  Maternal size and body condition predict the amount of post-fertilization maternal provisioning in matrotrophic fish.  Ecology and Evolution 8: 773-790.
  • Goldberg, D. L., A. J. Landy, J. Travis, M. S. Springer and D. N. Reznick.  2019. In love     and     war: the morphometric and phylogenetic basis of ornamentation, and the evolution of     male display behavior, in the livebearer genus Poecilia.  Evolution 73: 360-377.
  • Furness, A. I., B. J. A. Pollux, R. W. Meredith, M. S. Springer and D. N. Reznick.  2019.      How conflict shapes evolution in Poeciliid fishes.  Nature Communications 10: Article     No. 3335.  Doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11307-5
  • Hagmayer, A., A. I. Furness, D. N. Reznick, M. Dekker and B. Pollux. 2020.  Predation     risk     shapes the degree of placentation in natural populations of live-bearing fish.  Ecology     Letters 23: 831-840.  Doi: 10.1111/ele.13487

V.   Evolution of Senescence

  • Reznick, D. N.  1993.  New model systems for studying the evolutionary biology of aging. Genetica 91:79-88.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1997.  Life history evolution in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata):  Guppies as a model for studying the evolutionary biology of aging.  Experimental Gerontology 32/3:245-258.
  • Reznick, D. N., G. Buckwalter, J. Groff, and D. Elder.  2001.  The evolution of senescence in natural populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata): A comparative approach. Exp. Gerontol. 36: 791-812.
  • Reznick, D., C. Ghalambor, and L. Nunney.  2002.  The evolution of senescence in fish. Mechanisms of Aging and Development 123: 773-789.
  • Reznick, D. N., Bryant, M., Roff D. A., Ghalambor, G. and Ghalambor, D. E.  2004. Effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies.  Nature 431: 1095-1099. Faculty of 1000. Featured as an “Emerging Research Front Paper” by Thomson Reuters. ScienceWatch – October 2008
  • Bryant, M. and D. N. Reznick.  2004.  Comparative Studies of Senescence in Natural Populations     of Guppies.  American Naturalist 163: 55-68.
  • Reznick, D. N.  2005.  The genetic basis of aging: An evolutionary biologist’s perspective.      2005.  Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. 2005: pp.pe.7 [DOI: 10.1126/Sageke.2005.11.pe7].
  • Reznick, D. N., M. J. Bryant, and D. Holmes.  2006.  The evolution of senescence and post-reproductive lifespan in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  PLOS-Biology 4: 136-143 Faculty of 1000 

VI. Synthetic Review

  • Reznick, D. N.  1985.  Costs of reproduction:  an evaluation of the empirical evidence.  Oikos.  44:257267.
  • Reznick, D. N., E. Perry and J. Travis.  1986.  Measuring the cost of reproduction:  a comment on papers by Bell (1984a, b). Evolution 40:13381344.
  • Dunham, A. E., D. Miles and D. Reznick.  1989.  Life history patterns of squamate reptiles.  In:  Biology of the Reptilia, Vol 16, Ecology B. (C. Gans and R. B. Huey, eds.)  New York: Alan R. Liss Inc., pp. 441-552.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1991.  Maternal effects in fish life histories.  In:  The Unity of Evolutionary Biology, ( E. Dudley, ed.).  Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.  Discorides Press, Portland, Oregon, pp. 780-793.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1992.  Measuring the costs of reproduction.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:4245.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1992.  Measuring reproductive costs:  response to Partridge.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:134 (letter).
  • Reznick, D. N.  1993.  Norms of reaction in fishes.  In:  Proceedings of the Conference on the Management and Exploitation of Evolving Resources, (T. K. Stokes and R. Law, eds).  SpringerVerlag, New York, pp. 72-90.  
  • Reznick, D. N. and J. Travis.  1996. The empirical study of adaptation in natural populations.   In:  Adaptation, (M. R. Rose and G. V. Lauder, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 243-290.
  • Travis, J. and D. N. Reznick.  1996.  Experimental approaches to the study of evolution.  In:  State of Experimental Ecology:  Questions, Levels and Approaches, (J. Bernardo and W. J. Resetarits, Jr., eds).  Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Reznick, D. N and C.  Ghalambor.  1999.  Evolutionary biology - Sex and death.  Science 286:2458-2459.
  • Reznick, D. N., L. Nunney and A. Tessier.  2000.  Big houses, big cars, superfleas and the costs of reproduction.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 421-425.
  • Reznick, D. N.  Natural selection - introduction.  2001.  Encylopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, London.
  • Reznick, D. N. and J. Travis.  An introduction to the concept of adaptation and its empirical foundations. In Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies, (C. Fox, D. Roff, and D. Fairbairn, eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • Halama, K. J. and D. N. Reznick.  Adaptation, optimality, and the meaning of phenotypic variation in natural populations.  In Adaptation and Optimality, (S. H. Orzack and E. Sober, eds.).  Cambridge University Press.
  • Reznick, D. N. and C. Ghalambor.  The population ecology of contemporary adaptation: What empirical studies reveal about the conditions that promote adaptive evolution. Genetica 112/113: 183-198.
  • Reznick, D. N., M. J. Bryant, and F. Bashey. 2002.   r- and K-selection revisited: The role of                density, resources, and environmental fluctuations in life-history evolution.  Ecology 83:1509-1520.
  • Reznick, D. N., L. Nunney, and H. Rodd.  2004.  Empirical evidence for rapid evolution.  In Evolutionary Conservation Biology, (D. Couvet, U. Diekman, and R. Ferrier, eds). Cambridge University Press.
  • Doughty, P. and D. N. Reznick.  2004.  Patterns and analysis of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in animals. Pp. 126-150 in Phenotypic Plasticity: Functional and Conceptual Approaches, (T. J.DeWitt and S. M. Scheiner, eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • Reznick, D. N. and C. Ghalambor.  2005.  Can commercial fishing cause evolution?  Answers        from guppies.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 791-801.
  • Ghalambor, C. K., J. K. McKay, S. P. Carroll, and D. N. Reznick.  2007.  Adaptive versus non-    adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for adaptation to new environments.       Functional Ecology 21: 394-407.
  • Carroll, S. P., A. P. Hendry, D. N. Reznick and C. W. Fox.  2007.  Evolution on ecological time-    scales.  Functional Ecology 21: 387-393.
  • Reznick, D. N., C. K. Ghalambor, K. Crooks.  2008.  Understanding the Evolutionary     Consequences of Predator Removal in Natural Communities: Experimental Studies of     Evolution in Guppies as a Model System.  Molecular Ecology 17: 97-107.
  • Arendt, J.,  Reznick, D. N.  2008.  Convergence and parallelism reconsidered: What have we learned about the genetics of adaptation.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution  23:26-32.
  • Arendt, J. and D. N. Reznick.  2008.   Moving beyond phylogenetic assumptions about evolutionary convergence:  response to Leander.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 483-484.
  • Reznick, D. N. and R. E. Ricklefs.  2009.  Darwin’s bridge between microevolution and  macroevolution.  Nature 457: 837-842.
  • Langerhans, R. B. and D. Reznick  2009.  Ecology and evolution of swimming performance in     fishes: predicting evolution with biomechanics.  Pp. 200-248 in Fish locomotion:     an     etho-ecological perspective.  P. Domenici, B. G. Kapoor, eds.  Enfield, Science     Publishers.  
  • Irschick, D. and D. N. Reznick.  2009.  Field experiments and experimental evolution: a practical guide. Pp. 173-193 in  Experimental Evolution.  Theodore Garland and Michael Rose, eds.  U. of California Press.
  • Travis, J. and D. Reznick.  2009.  Adaptation.  In Evolution – The first four billion years.      M. Ruse and J. Travis, eds.  Harvard University Press.
  • Pollux, B. J. A., Pires, M. N., Banet, A. I, and Reznick, D. N.  2009.  Evolution of     placentas in the fish family Poeciliidae: An empirical study of macroevolution.  Annual  Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 40: 271-289.
  • Bassar, R. D., A. Lopez-Sepulcre, M. R. Walsh, M. M. Turcotte, M. Torres-Mejia, and D. N. Reznick.  2010.  Bridging the gap between ecology and evolution: Integrating density regulation and life history evolution.  Year In Evolutionary Biology, NYAS 1206: 17-34.
  • Reznick, D. N.  2011.  Guppies and the empirical study of adaptation.  Pp. 205-232 in In     the     Light of Evolution:  essays from the laboratory and field, J. B. Losos, ed.   Roberts     and Company, Greenwood Village, CO
  • Reznick D. N.  2012.  Evolution of life histories.  In Princeton Guide to Evolution, J. Losos ed.     Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ
  • Furness, A. I., K. R. Morrison, T. J. Orr, J. D. Arendt and D. N. Reznick.  2015.      Reproductive     mode and the shifting arenas of evolutionary conflict.  Annals of the New     York Academy of Sciences 1360 – The Year in Evolutionary Biology: 75-100.
  • Reznick, D. N.  Experimental studies of life history evolution in guppies.  2016.  Pp.  343-351         Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Tim Coulson, Editor.  Elsevier, London.
  • Reznick, D. N.  2016.  Hard and soft selection revisited: how evolution by natural selection     works     in the real world.  J. of Heredity 107: S3-S14.
  • Reznick, D. N., J. Losos and J. Travis.  2019.  From low to high gear: there has been a     paradigm shift in our understanding of evolution.  Ecology Letters 22: 233-244.
  • Reznick, D. N. and J. Travis.  2019.  Experimental studies of evolution and eco-evo     dynamics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and  Systematics 50: 335-354.

VII. Miscellany

  • Reznick, D. N., O. J. Sexton, and C. Mantis.  1981.  Initial prey preferences in the lizard Sceloporus malachiticus.  Copeia 1981:681686. 
  • Reznick, D. N. and O. J. Sexton.  1986.  Temporal variation in fecundity in Sceloporus malachiticus.  J. of Herpetology 20:457459. 
  • Reznick, D. N., E. O. Lindbeck and H. Bryga.  1989.  Slower growth results in larger otoliths:  an experimental test with guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Can. J. Fish. Aquatic Sci. 46:108112.
  • Reznick, D. N., R. I. Baxter and J. A. Endler.  1994.  Long-term studies of tropical streamfish communities:  the use of field notes and museum collections to reconstruct communities of the past.  American Zoologist 34:452-462.
  • Reznick, D. N.  1994.  Contributions to "Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management".  Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.  Definition of Oviparity, Ovoviviparity, viviparity, Microevolutionary Tradeoff.
  • Sato, A., F. Figueroa, C. O'Huigin, D. N. Reznick and J. Klein.  1995.  Identification of major histocompatibility complex genes in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.  Immunogenetics 43:28-49.
  • Morey, S and D. Reznick.  2000.  A comparative analysis of plasticity in larval development in three species of spadefoot toads.  Ecology 81:1736-1749.
  • Morey, S. and D. Reznick.  2001.  Effects of larval density on postmetamorphic spadefoot toads (Scaphiopus hammondii).  Ecology 82: 510-522
  • Leips, J., C. T. Baril, F. H. Rodd, D. N. Reznick, F. Bashey, G. J. Visser, and J. Travis. 2001.  The suitability of calcein to mark poeciliid fish and a new method of detection.  Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 130:501-507.
  • Morey, S. and D. N. Reznick.  2004.  The Relationship Between Habitat Permanence and             Larval     Development in California Spadefoot Toads: Field and Laboratory Comparisons             of Developmental Plasticity.  Oikos 104: 172-190.
  • Reznick, DN, E. Schultz, S. Morey and D. Roff.  On the virtue of being the first born: the influence of date of birth on fitness in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.  Oikos 114: 135-147.
  • Walsh, M. and D. N. Reznick.  2008.  Interactions between the direct and indirect effects of      predators determine life history evolution in a killifish.  PNAS 105: 594-599.
  • Walsh, M. R. and D. N. Reznick.  2009.  Phenotypic diversification across an environmental    gradient: A role for predators and resource availability on the evolution of  life histories. Evolution 63: 3201-3213.
  • Walsh, M. R. and D. N. Reznick.  2010.  Influence of the indirect effects of guppies on     life     history evolution in Rivulus hartii.  Evolution 64: 1583-1593.    
  • Walsh, M. R., D. F. Fraser, R. D. Bassar and D. N. Reznick.  2011.  The direct and     indirect effects of guppies: implications for life history evolution in Rivulus hartii. Functional Ecology 25: 227-237. *Runner up for the Haldane Prize for Young Investigators
  • Walsh, M. R. and D. N. Reznick.  2011,  Experimentally induced life-history evolution in     a killifish in response to the introduction of guppies.  Evolution 65: 1021-1036.
  • Furness, A. I., M. R. Walsh and D. N. Reznick.  2012.  Convergence of life history phenotypes     in a Trinidadian killifish (Rivulus hartii).  Evolution 66: 1240-1254.
  • Furness, A. I. and D. N. Reznick.  2014.  The comparative ecology of a killifish (Rivulus hartii) across aquatic communities differing in predation intensity.  Evolutionary Ecology     Research 16: 249-265.
  • Furness, A. I., K. Lee and D. N. Reznick.  2015.  Adaptation in a variable environment: phenotypic plasticity and bet-hedging during egg diapause and hatching in annual killfish.     Evolution 69: 1461-1475.
  • Furness, A. I., D. N. Reznick, M. S. Springer, and R. W. Meredith.  2015.  Convergent     evolution of alternative developmental trajectories associated with diapause in African     and South American killifish.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences     282, DOI: 10.1098/rspd.doiv.2189.    
  • Furness, A. I., D. N. Reznick and J. C. Avise.  2016.  Ecological, evolutionary and human-    mediated determinants of species richness in Caribbean Poeciliid fishes. J.     Biogeography     43: 1349-1359.
  • Furness, A., D. N. Reznick, A. Tatarenkov and J. C. Avise.  2018.  The evolution of     diapause in Rivulus (Laimosemion).  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 773- 790.​