Nancy Moran Publications Yale University

pre-1990

Moran NA. 1989. A 48-million-year-old aphid-host plant association and complex life cycle: biogeographic evidence. Science 245: 173-175. doi: 10.1126/science.245.4914.173
Moran NA. 1988. The evolution of host alternation in aphids: evidence that specialization is a dead end. The American Naturalist 132: 681-706.
Moran NA, Whitham TG. 1988. Evolutionary reduction of complex life cycles: loss of host alternation in Pemphigus (Homoptera: Aphididae). Evolution 42: 717-728.
Moran NA, Whitham TG. 1988. Population fluctuations in complex life cycles: an example from Pemphigus aphids. Ecology 69: 1214-1218.
Moran NA. 1987. Evolutionary determinants of host plant specificity in Uroleucon. Pages 29-38 in Population Structure, Genetics, and Taxonomy of Aphids and Thysanoptera, edited by J. Holman, J. Pelikan, A. F. G. Dixon, and L. Weisman. SPB Publishing, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Moran NA. 1986. Morphological adaptation to host plants in Uroleucon (Homoptera: Aphididae). Evolution 40: 1044-1058.
Moran NA. 1986. Benefits of host plant specificity in Uroleucon (Homoptera: Aphididae). Ecology 67, 108-115.
Stenseth NC, Kirkendall LR, Moran NA. 1985. On the evolution of pseudogamy. Evolution 39: 294-307.
Moran NA. 1984. The genus Uroleucon in Michigan: key, host records, descriptions of three new species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 57: 596-616.
Moran NA. 1984. Reproductive performance of a specialist herbivore, Uroleucon nigrotibium, on its host and on a non-host. Oikos 42: 171-175.
Moran NA. 1983. Seasonal shifts in host usage in Uroleucon gravicorne (Homoptera: Aphididae) and implications for the evolution of host alternation in aphids. Ecological Entomology 8: 371-382. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1983.tb00517.x
Moran NA. 1981. Intraspecific variation in herbivore performance and host quality: a field study of Uroleucon caligatum (Homptera: Aphididae) and its Solidago (Asteraceae) hosts. Ecological Entomology 6: 301-306. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1981.tb00617.x
Hamilton, W. D., P. A. Henderson, and N. A. Moran. 1980. Fluctuations of environment and coevolved antagonist polymorphism as factors in the maintenance of sex. Pages 363-382 in Natural Selection and Social Behavior: recent research and new theory, edited by R. D. Alexander and D. W. Tinkle. Chiron Press, NY.
Moran NA, Hamilton WD. 1980. Low nutritive quality as defense against herbivores. Journal of Theoretical Biology 86: 247-254.
Burley N, Moran NA. 1979. Significance of age and reproductive experience in the mate preferences of feral pigeons, Columba livia. Animal Behaviour 27: 686-698.