Nancy A. Moran

Nancy A. Moran (born Dallas, Texas) is an American evolutionary biologist, Yale professor, and co-founder of the The Yale Microbial Diversity Institute.^[1][2]

She graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1976, and from University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in zoology in 1982. She was a research professor at the University of Arizona from 1986-2010. Her research has focused on the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum and its bacterial symbionts.^[3]

Awards

• 1997 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2010 International Prize for Biology

Works

• Moran, N. A.; Degnan, P. H.; Santos, S. R.; Dunbar, H. E.; Ochman, H. (2005). "Inaugural Article: The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (47): 16919. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507029102.  edit
• Hamilton, W. D., Henderson, P. A. & Moran, N. A. (1980) Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory, eds. Alexander, R. D. & Tinkle, D. W. (Chiron Press, New York), pp. 363–382.
• Moran, N. A. (1989). "A 48-Million-Year-Old Aphid--Host Plant Association and Complex Life Cycle: Biogeographic Evidence". Science 245 (4914): 173–175. doi:10.1126/science.245.4914.173. PMID 17787877.  edit
• Munson, M. A.; Baumann, P.; Clark, M. A.; Baumann, L.; Moran, N. A.; Voegtlin, D. J.; Campbell, B. C. (1991). "Evidence for the establishment of aphid-eubacterium endosymbiosis in an ancestor of four aphid families". Journal of bacteriology 173 (20): 6321–6324. PMC 208962. PMID 1917864. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=208962.  edit
• Moran, N. A. (1996). "Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 93 (7): 2873–2878. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.7.2873. PMC 39726. PMID 8610134. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=39726.  edit
• Oliver, K. M.; Russell, J. A.; Moran, N. A.; Hunter, M. S. (2003). "Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (4): 1803. doi:10.1073/pnas.0335320100.  edit
• Oliver, K. M.; Moran, N. A.; Hunter, M. S. (2005). "Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (36): 12795. doi:10.1073/pnas.0506131102.  edit
• Dale, C.; Plague, G. R.; Wang, B.; Ochman, H.; Moran, N. A. (2002). "Type III secretion systems and the evolution of mutualistic endosymbiosis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (19): 12397. doi:10.1073/pnas.182213299.  edit
• Daubin, V.; Moran, N. A.; Ochman, H. (2003). "Phylogenetics and the Cohesion of Bacterial Genomes". Science 301 (5634): 829–832. doi:10.1126/science.1086568. PMID 12907801.  edit

References

1. ^ Zagorski, N. (2005). "Profile of Nancy A. Moran". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (47): 16916–16918. doi:10.1073/pnas.0508498102. PMC 1288003. PMID 16286644. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1288003.  edit
2. ^ "Moran Lab • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology • Yale University". http://www.yale.edu/moran/Home.html. Retrieved 2011-07-28. 
3. ^ "Carrots Share Trait With Tiny Pea Aphid", The New York Times, HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 3, 2010

External links

• "Nancy A. Moran", Scientific Commons

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