Molly R. Morris

Molly R. Morris
NationalityAmerican
EducationEarlham College
Indiana University
SpouseKevin de Queiroz
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioral ecology
InstitutionsOhio University
ThesisMating behaviour in relation to sexual selection in the treefrogs Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla ebraccata. (1987)
Websiteohio.edu/people/morrism

Molly R. Morris is an American behavioral ecologist who has worked with treefrogs and swordtail fishes in the areas of alternative reproductive tactics and sexual selection.

Morris received a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College and a PhD from Indiana University.[1] As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, her work with Mike Ryan demonstrated equal fitnesses between alternative reproductive tactics in a species of swordtail fish.[2] She joined the faculty at Ohio University in 1997,[citation needed] where she is now a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. She is also the Associate Editor for the journal Behavior. Her publication credits include multiple papers on Animal behavior and Ecology[3]. Her current research relates to diabetes, as well as behavioral ecology, using the swordtail fish Xiphophorus as a model organism.[4]

Personal life

Morris is married to Kevin de Queiroz, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.[1]

Selected works

  • Gardner, Roy; Morris, Molly R. (1989). "The evolution of bluffing in animal contests: an ESS approach". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 137 (2): 235–243. Bibcode:1989JThBi.137..235G. doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(89)80209-7. hdl:10535/5208.
  • Morris, Molly R. (1998). "Female preference for trait symmetry in addition to trait size in swordtail fish". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 265 (1399): 907–911. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0377. PMC 1689052.
  • Just, Winfried; Morris, Molly R. (2003). "The Napoleon Complex: Why smaller males pick fights". Evolutionary Biology. 17 (5–6): 509–522. doi:10.1023/b:evec.0000005629.54152.83. S2CID 11965682.
  • Morris, Molly R.; Nicoletto, Paul F.; Hesselman, Elizabeth (2003). "A polymorphism in female preference for a polymorphic male trait in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus cortezi". Animal Behaviour. 65 (1): 45–52. doi:10.1006/anbe.2002.2042. S2CID 13334832.
  • Morris, Molly R.; Rios-Cardenas, Oscar; Scarlett Tudor, M. (2006). "Larger swordtail females prefer asymmetrical males". Biology Letters. 2 (1): 8–11. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0387. PMC 1617184. PMID 17148312.
  • Morris, Molly R.; Rios-Cardenas, Oscar; Lyons, Susan M; Scarlett Tudor, M.; Bono, Lisa M. (2012). "Fluctuating asymmetry indicates the optimization of growth rate over developmental stability". Functional Ecology. 26 (3): 723–731. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01983.x.
  • Morris, Molly. R.; Friebertshauser, R. J.; Rios-Cardenas, Oscar; Liotta, M. N.; Abbott, Jessica K. (2016). "The potential for disruptive selection on growth rates across genetically influenced alternative reproductive tactics". Evolutionary Ecology. 30 (3): 519–533. doi:10.1007/s10682-016-9823-x. S2CID 16340410.

References

  1. ^ a b "Molly R. Morris, Professor". Morris Lab. Ohio University. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  2. ^ Ryan, Michael J.; Pease, Craig M.; Morris, Molly R. (1992). "A Genetic Polymorphism in the Swordtail Xiphophorus nigrensis: Testing the Prediction of Equal Fitness" (PDF). American Naturalist. 139 (1): 21–31. doi:10.1086/285311. S2CID 83801328.
  3. ^ "Molly R. Morris". www.ohio.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  4. ^ "Molly Morris, PhD". www.ohio.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-03.


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