David Hembry

David Hembry

Assistant Professor
Biology Program
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
Office
ST 2230

Education

  • PhD in 2012, University of California, Berkeley

Research Area

Evolution of species interactions, plant-insect mutualisms, coevolution, phylogenetics, macroevolution, evolution of symbiosis and parasitism, species interaction networks, leafflower-leafflower moth associations.

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Evolution 
  • Animal Behavior
  • Vertebrate Zoology

Graduate

  • Evolution of Infectious Disease
  • Evolution of Species Interactions

Select Publications

Peláez JN, Gloss AD, Goldman-Huertas B, Kim B, Lapoint RT, Pimentel-Solorio G, Verster KI, Aguilar JM, Nelson Dittrich AC, Singhal M, Suzuki HC, Matsunaga T, Armstrong EE, Charbonneau JLM, Groen SC, Hembry DH, Ochoa CJ, O’Connor TK, Prost S, Zaaijer S, Nabity PD, Wang J, Rodas E, Liang I, Whiteman NK. 2023. Evolution of chemosensory and detoxification gene families across herbivorous Drosophilidae. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13: jkad133.

Hao K, Liu T-T, Hembry DH, Luo S-X. 2023. Trait matching in a multi-species geographic mosaic of leafflower plants, brood pollinators, and cheaters. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10228.

Dismukes W, Braga MP, Hembry DH, Heath TA, Landis MJ. 2022. Cophylogenetic methods to untangle the evolutionary history of ecological interactions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 53: 275-298.

Chheang P*, Hembry DH, Yao G, Luo S-X. 2022. Diversity and species-specificity of brood pollination of leafflower trees (Phyllanthaceae: Glochidion) by leafflower moths (Lepidoptera: Epicephala) in tropical Southeast Asia (Cambodia). Plant Diversity 44: 191-200. [* co-supervised master’s student]

Hembry DH, Weber MG. 2020. Ecological interactions and macroevolution: a new field with old roots. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 51: 215-243.

de Aguiar MAM, Newman EA, Pires MM, Yeakel JD, Burkle L, Gravel D, Guimarães PR Jr, O’Donnell J, Poisot T, Fortin M-J, Hembry DH. 2019. Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks. PeerJ 7: e7566.

Hembry DH, Raimundo RLG, Newman EA, Atkinson L*, Guo C*, Guimarães PR Jr, Gillespie RG. Does biological intimacy shape ecological network structure? A test using a brood pollination mutualism on continental and oceanic islands. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 1160-1171. [* undergraduate co-author]

Luo S-X, Yao G, Wang Z, Zhang D, Hembry DH. 2017. A novel, enigmatic basal leafflower moth lineage pollinating a derived leafflower host illustrates the dynamics of host-shifts, partner replacement, and apparent co-adaptation in intimate mutualisms. The American Naturalist 189: 422-435.

Hembry DH, Althoff DM. 2016. Diversification and coevolution in brood pollination mutualisms: windows into the role of biotic interactions in generating biological diversity. American Journal of Botany 103: 1783-1792.

Hembry DH, Yoder JB, Goodman KR. 2014. Coevolution and the diversification of life. The American Naturalist 184: 425-438.

Raimundo RLG, Gibert JP, Hembry DH, Guimarães PR Jr. 2014. Conflicting selection in the course of adaptive diversification: the interplay between mutualism and intraspecific competition. The American Naturalist 183: 363-375.

Hembry DH, Kawakita A, Gurr NE, Schmaedick MA, Baldwin BG, Gillespie RG. 2013. Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130361.

Hembry DH, Okamoto T, Gillespie RG. 2012. Repeated colonization of remote islands by specialized mutualists. Biology Letters 8: 258-261.