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D-Index
48
Citations
12722
World Ranking
4147
National Ranking
1441

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Armin P. Moczek is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has a focused research trajectory within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several subfields including Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both organismal and molecular levels of biological inquiry.

The main topics covered in their publications reveal an emphasis on ecological and behavioral aspects of insects and arachnids, insect-plant interactions and their control mechanisms, animal behavior and reproduction, as well as neurobiology and insect physiology. Additionally, their research addresses plant and animal studies more generally, with a notable focus on insect symbiosis and bacterial influences and the utilization and effects of insects.

Moczek has contributed to several journals and publication venues. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Evolution & Development
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their recent papers illustrate a range of themes and collaborative work. Some of the notable recent publications are:

  • "Bridging the explanatory gaps: What can we learn from a biological agency perspective?" (2021) published in BioEssays
  • "(My Microbiome) Would Walk 10,000 miles: Maintenance and Turnover of Microbial Communities in Introduced Dung Beetles" (2020) published in Microbial Ecology
  • "Nutrition-responsive gene expression and the developmental evolution of insect polyphenism" (2020) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Rapid differentiation of plasticity in life history and morphology during invasive range expansion and concurrent local adaptation in the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus" (2020) published in Evolution
  • "The transcription factor Zfh1 acts as a wing-morph switch in planthoppers" (2022) published in Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include Patrick T. Rohner, Yonggang Hu, Anna L. M. Macagno, Joshua A. Jones, and Erica M. Nadolski, reflecting established collaborative relationships across different research projects.

Awards received by Moczek include being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.

    Kevin N. Laland;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Marcus W. Feldman;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny

  • Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

    David W. Pfennig;Matthew A. Wund;Emilie C. Snell-Rood;Tami Cruickshank

  • Does evolutionary theory need a rethink

    Kevin Laland;Tobias Uller;Marc Feldman;Kim Sterelny

  • The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

    Armin P. Moczek;Sonia Sultan;Susan Foster;Ian Dworkin

  • Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle, Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favour alternative phenotypes?

    Armin P. Moczek;Armin P. Moczek;Douglas J. Emlen

  • Proximate determination of male horn dimorphism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    A.P. Moczek;D.J. Emlen

  • Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

    Emilie C. Snell-Rood;James David Van Dyken;Tami Cruickshank;Michael J. Wade

  • On the origins of novelty in development and evolution.

    Armin P. Moczek

  • Genome of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), a globally significant invasive species, reveals key functional and evolutionary innovations at the beetle–plant interface

    Duane D. McKenna;Erin D. Scully;Yannick Pauchet;Kelli Hoover

  • Developmental Bias and Evolution: A Regulatory Network Perspective.

    Tobias Uller;Armin P Moczek;Richard A Watson;Paul M Brakefield

  • Horn polyphenism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus: larval diet quality and plasticity in parental investment determine adult body size and male horn morphology

    Armin Philipp Moczek

  • Differential recruitment of limb patterning genes during development and diversification of beetle horns

    Armin P. Moczek;Debra J. Rose

  • Phenotypic plasticity and diversity in insects.

    Armin P. Moczek

  • Food availability controls the onset of metamorphosis in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    Majid Shafiei;Armin P. Moczek;H. Frederik Nijhout

  • Diversification of doublesex function underlies morph-, sex-, and species-specific development of beetle horns

    Teiya Kijimoto;Armin P. Moczek;Justen Andrews

  • Trade‐offs during the Development of Primary and Secondary Sexual Traits in a Horned Beetle

    Armin P. Moczek;H. Frederik Nijhout

  • Rapid evolution of a polyphenic threshold

    Armin P. Moczek;Armin P. Moczek;H. Frederik Nijhout

  • Developmental mechanisms of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle.

    Armin P. Moczek;Armin P. Moczek;H. Frederik Nijhout

  • Diverse developmental mechanisms contribute to different levels of diversity in horned beetles.

    Armin P. Moczek;Lisa M. Nagy

  • Threshold evolution in exotic populations of a polyphenic beetle

    Armin P. Moczek;John Hunt;Douglas J. Emlen;Leigh W. Simmons

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Frederik Nijhout
H. Frederik Nijhout Duke University
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Kevin N. Laland
Kevin N. Laland University of St Andrews
David W. Pfennig
David W. Pfennig University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Douglas J. Emlen
Douglas J. Emlen University of Montana
Kim Sterelny
Kim Sterelny Australian National University
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine

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