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