Assistant Professor in Ecology & Evolution at UChicago. Evolutionary genomics and behavior in fishes. (she/her)
https://rachelmoranlab.com
Rachel Moran
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She also did all of the illustrations herself!
New paper led by @taylorblack.bsky.social shows AVT modulates aggression in darter lineages with nest site territoriality and paternal care but elicits no behavioral response in a species that secondarily lost territoriality and care www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Polymorphisms are fun to study, here is a butterfly one. Negative freq.dependence works to maintain things but where does it come from? Temporal variation works but not always! @koraklein.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social looked into this in detail.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
www.sciencedirect.com
The repeated evolution of parental care is often accompanied by shifts in the neural circuits and hormonal pathways that regulate motivation and aggre…
Abstract. Many species of Colias butterflies show a female-limited colour polymorphism where the dominant Alba allele leads to white wings, faster developm
The barnacles are on the loose! Check out my preprint with @stsmall.bsky.social, @johnwares.bsky.social, Erin Jezuit, and Andy Kern:
The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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