Molly R. Morris

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Molly R. Morris
NationalityAmerican
Education Earlham College
Indiana University Bloomington
Spouse Kevin de Queiroz
Scientific career
Fields Behavioral ecology
Institutions Ohio University
Thesis Mating behaviour in relation to sexual selection in the treefrogs Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla ebraccata.  (1987)
Website ohio.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.

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Morris received a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College in 1978 and a PhD from Indiana University Bloomington in 1987. [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

References

  1. 1 2 "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.