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Molly R. Morris

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Nationality
  
American

Institutions
  
Ohio University

Field
  
Behavioral ecology

Fields
  
Behavioral ecology

Spouse
  
Kevin de Queiroz

Institution
  
Ohio University

Education
  
Earlham College, Indiana University

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 and a PhD from Indiana University. 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. She joined the faculty at Ohio University in 1997, where she is now a professor.

Personal life

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

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. doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(89)80209-7. 
  • 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: 907–911. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0377. 
  • Just, Winfried; Morris, Molly R. (2003). "The Napoleon Complex: Why smaller males pick fights". Evolutionary Biology. 17: 509–522. doi:10.1023/b:evec.0000005629.54152.83. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 

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