Epernicus: Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D.

Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D.

Position:
Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Zoology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

B.A., General Studies Plan II, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Past Advisors:

William D. Hamilton (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Richard. D. Alexander (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:

Communities:

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Nancy Moran's Publications (86)

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts.
Moran NA, McCutcheon JP, Nakabachi A

Annual review of genetics. 2008 Dec 1;42:165-190
Diverse phage-encoded toxins in a protective insect endosymbiont.
Degnan PH, Moran NA

Applied and environmental microbiology. 2008 Nov;74(21):6782-91
Evolutionary genetics of a defensive facultative symbiont of insects: exchange of toxin-encoding bacteriophage.
Degnan PH, Moran NA

Molecular ecology. 2008 Feb;17(3):916-29
Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids.
Oliver KM, Campos J, Moran NA, Hunter MS

Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 2008 Feb 7;275(1632):293-9
Extensive proliferation of transposable elements in heritable bacterial symbionts.
Plague GR, Dunbar HE, Tran PL, Moran NA

Journal of bacteriology. 2008 Jan;190(2):777-9
Parallel genomic evolution and metabolic interdependence in an ancient symbiosis.
McCutcheon JP, Moran NA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Dec 4;104(49):19392-7
A metagenomic survey of microbes in honey bee colony collapse disorder.
Cox-Foster DL, Conlan S, Holmes EC, Palacios G, Evans JD, Moran NA, Quan PL, Briese T, Hornig M, Geiser DM, Martinson V, vanEngelsdorp D, Kalkstein AL, Drysdale A, Hui J, Zhai J, Cui L, Hutchison SK, Simons JF, Egholm M, Pettis JS, Lipkin WI

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2007 Oct 12;318(5848):283-7
Aphid thermal tolerance is governed by a point mutation in bacterial symbionts.
Dunbar HE, Wilson AC, Ferguson NR, Moran NA

PLoS biology. 2007 May;5(5):e96
Symbiosis as an adaptive process and source of phenotypic complexity.
Moran NA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 May 15;104 Suppl 1:8627-33
Co-cladogenesis spanning three phyla: leafhoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and their dual bacterial symbionts.
Takiya DM, Tran PL, Dietrich CH, Moran NA

Molecular ecology. 2006 Nov;15(13):4175-91
Symbiosis.
Moran NA

Current biology : CB. 2006 Oct 24;16(20):R866-71
The 160-kilobase genome of the bacterial endosymbiont Carsonella.
Nakabachi A, Yamashita A, Toh H, Ishikawa H, Dunbar HE, Moran NA, Hattori M

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2006 Oct 13;314(5797):267
Heritable endosymbionts of Drosophila.
Mateos M, Castrezana SJ, Nankivell BJ, Estes AM, Markow TA, Moran NA

Genetics. 2006 Sep;174(1):363-76
Molecular interactions between bacterial symbionts and their hosts.
Dale C, Moran NA

Cell. 2006 Aug 11;126(3):453-65
Sexual acquisition of beneficial symbionts in aphids.
Moran NA, Dunbar HE

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Aug 22;103(34):12803-6
Metabolic complementarity and genomics of the dual bacterial symbiosis of sharpshooters.
Wu D, Daugherty SC, Van Aken SE, Pai GH, Watkins KL, Khouri H, Tallon LJ, Zaborsky JM, Dunbar HE, Tran PL, Moran NA, Eisen JA

PLoS biology. 2006 Jun;4(6):e188
Costs and benefits of a superinfection of facultative symbionts in aphids.
Oliver KM, Moran NA, Hunter MS

Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 2006 May 22;273(1591):1273-80
Costs and benefits of symbiont infection in aphids: variation among symbionts and across temperatures.
Russell JA, Moran NA

Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 2006 Mar 7;273(1586):603-10
A dual-genome microarray for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and its obligate bacterial symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola.
Wilson AC, Dunbar HE, Davis GK, Hunter WB, Stern DL, Moran NA

BMC genomics. 2006;7:50
Horizontal transfer of bacterial symbionts: heritability and fitness effects in a novel aphid host.
Russell JA, Moran NA

Applied and environmental microbiology. 2005 Dec;71(12):7987-94
Symbiosis and insect diversification: an ancient symbiont of sap-feeding insects from the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes.
Moran NA, Tran P, Gerardo NM

Applied and environmental microbiology. 2005 Dec;71(12):8802-10
The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes.
Moran NA, Degnan PH, Santos SR, Dunbar HE, Ochman H

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 Nov 22;102(47):16919-26
Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype.
Oliver KM, Moran NA, Hunter MS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 Sep 6;102(36):12795-800
Extremely rapid recovery of human cone circulating current at the extinction of bleaching exposures.
Kenkre JS, Moran NA, Lamb TD, Mahroo OA

The Journal of physiology. 2005 Aug 15;567(Pt 1):95-112
Evolutionary relationships of three new species of Enterobacteriaceae living as symbionts of aphids and other insects.
Moran NA, Russell JA, Koga R, Fukatsu T

Applied and environmental microbiology. 2005 Jun;71(6):3302-10

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Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D.

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Nancy Moran's Publications (86)