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Overview

Corrie S. Moreau is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The main topics of Moreau's research focus on insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, animal behavior and reproduction, insect and pesticide research, species distribution and climate change, and education in animal and plant sciences.

Frequent publication venues for Moreau's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Diversity, Nature Communications, and Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moreau cover topics such as insect-microbe interactions and ecological methods. Notable publications include:

  • "Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Symbioses among ants and microbes" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "Estimating species relative abundances from museum records" (2021) published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Wolbachia Across Social Insects: Patterns and Implications" (2020) published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • "Localization of Bacterial Communities within Gut Compartments across Cephalotes Turtle Ants" (2021) published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Moreau frequently collaborates with several researchers including Manuela O. Ramalho, Christophe Duplais, Jacob A. Russell, Leland C. Graber, and Scott Powell.

Best Publications

  • Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms

    Corrie S. Moreau;Corrie S. Moreau;Charles D. Bell;Charles D. Bell;Roger Vila;Roger Vila;S. Bruce Archibald;S. Bruce Archibald

  • Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

    Jacob A. Russell;Corrie S. Moreau;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas;Mikiko Fujiwara

  • Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants.

    Corrie S. Moreau;Charles D. Bell

  • Inferring phylogenies from RAD sequence data.

    Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Richard H. Ree;Corrie S. Moreau

  • Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species.

    Kirk E. Anderson;Jacob A. Russell;Corrie S. Moreau;Stefanie Kautz

  • Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome.

    Yi Hu;Jon G. Sanders;Jon G. Sanders;Piotr Łukasik;Catherine L. D’Amelio

  • A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, butterflies, and beyond: broad molecular surveys and a systematic review.

    Jacob A. Russell;Colin F. Funaro;Ysabel M. Giraldo;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas

  • Specialization and geographic isolation among Wolbachia symbionts from ants and lycaenid butterflies.

    Jacob A. Russell;Jacob A. Russell;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas;Corrie S. Moreau;Laura Baldo

  • Unraveling the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

    Corrie S. Moreau

  • Surveying the Microbiome of Ants: Comparing 454 Pyrosequencing with Traditional Methods To Uncover Bacterial Diversity

    Stefanie Kautz;Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Jacob A. Russell;Corrie S. Moreau

  • DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure

    Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Jon G. Sanders;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens

  • Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability

    Yi Hu;Piotr Łukasik;Corrie S. Moreau;Jacob A. Russell

  • Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants.

    Benjamin D. Blanchard;Benjamin D. Blanchard;Corrie S. Moreau

  • Ant-plant interactions evolved through increasing interdependence.

    Matthew P. Nelsen;Richard H. Ree;Corrie S. Moreau

  • Evolution of the indoor biome

    Laura J. Martin;Rachel I. Adams;Ashley Bateman;Holly M. Bik

  • The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants.

    Piotr Łukasik;Justin A. Newton;Jon G. Sanders;Yi Hu

  • Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria

    Colin F. Funaro;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Corrie S. Moreau;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas

  • Bacterial Infections across the Ants: Frequency and Prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia

    Stefanie Kautz;Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Corrie S. Moreau

  • The Dynamic Discipline of Species Delimitation: Progress Toward Effectively Recognizing Species Boundaries in Natural Populations

    Steven D. Leavitt;Corrie S. Moreau;H. Thorsten Lumbsch

  • Origins of Aminergic Regulation of Behavior in Complex Insect Social Systems.

    J. Frances Kamhi;Sara Arganda;Sara Arganda;Corrie S. Moreau;James F. A. Traniello

  • Entomological Collections in the Age of Big Data

    Andrew Edward Z. Short;Torsten Dikow;Corrie S. Moreau

  • Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae)

    S. Bruce Archibald;Stefan P. Cover;Corrie S. Moreau

  • DNA preservation: a test of commonly used preservatives for insects

    Corrie S. Moreau;Brian D. Wray;Jesse E. Czekanski-Moir;Jesse E. Czekanski-Moir;Benjamin E. R. Rubin;Benjamin E. R. Rubin

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Rauscher
Thomas Rauscher University of Basel
Michael Wiescher
Michael Wiescher University of Notre Dame
Isabel S. Gonçalves
Isabel S. Gonçalves University of Aveiro
C. Rubbia
C. Rubbia European Organization for Nuclear Research
Arnaud Ferrari
Arnaud Ferrari Uppsala University

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