2026 Nancy A. Moran: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	134	299	284	185	175	327	67345
Ecology and Evolution	140	48	48	22	22	347	70355

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1997 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Nancy A. Moran is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, reflecting a focus on molecular and ecological interactions among insects and microbes.

The scientist's contributions to the subfields of Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology are notable. The research covers significant topics such as Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant and animal studies, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Recent published papers include:

Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens (2020, Science)
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease (2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Genetic innovations in animal-microbe symbioses (2021, Nature Reviews Genetics)
Oral or Topical Exposure to Glyphosate in Herbicide Formulation Impacts the Gut Microbiota and Survival Rates of Honey Bees (2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include Erick V. S. Motta, Sean P. Leonard, Jeffrey E. Barrick, J. Elijah Powell, and Yiyuan Li.

Key publication venues for Nancy A. Moran's work are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Microbiology Spectrum

Awards and recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2004, and a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function.

Philipp Engel;Nancy A. Moran

2671
Citations
A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

Diana L. Cox-Foster;Sean Conlan;Edward C. Holmes;Edward C. Holmes;Gustavo Palacios

2294
Citations
Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

Nancy A. Moran;John P. McCutcheon;Atsushi Nakabachi

1882
Citations
Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

1866
Citations
Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

John P. McCutcheon;Nancy A. Moran

1618
Citations
Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps

Kerry M. Oliver;Jacob A. Russell;Nancy A. Moran;Martha S. Hunter

1488
Citations
Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria.

Nancy A. Moran

1206
Citations
The Evolutionary Maintenance of Alternative Phenotypes

Nancy A. Moran

1051
Citations
Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

Kerry M. Oliver;Patrick H. Degnan;Gaelen R. Burke;Nancy A. Moran

1045
Citations
Gut microbial communities of social bees

Waldan K. Kwong;Nancy A. Moran

1000
Citations
Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

Philipp Engel;Vincent G. Martinson;Nancy A. Moran

979
Citations
Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes

Alex Mira;Howard Ochman;Nancy A. Moran

946
Citations
Microbial minimalism: genome reduction in bacterial pathogens

Nancy A Moran

901
Citations
The 160-Kilobase Genome of the Bacterial Endosymbiont Carsonella

Atsushi Nakabachi;Atsushi Yamashita;Hidehiro Toh;Hajime Ishikawa

765
Citations
Lateral transfer of genes from fungi underlies carotenoid production in aphids.

Nancy A. Moran;Tyler Jarvik

756
Citations
Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees

Erick V. S. Motta;Kasie Raymann;Nancy A. Moran

719
Citations
Genes Lost and Genes Found: Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Symbiosis

Howard Ochman;Nancy A. Moran

717
Citations
Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype

Kerry M. Oliver;Nancy A. Moran;Martha S. Hunter

710
Citations
A molecular clock in endosymbiotic bacteria is calibrated using the insect hosts

Nancy A. Moran;Mark A. Munson;Paul Baumann;Hajime Ishikawa

704
Citations
Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

Vincent G. Martinson;Jamie Moy;Nancy A. Moran;Nancy A. Moran

679
Citations
Molecular Interactions between Bacterial Symbionts and Their Hosts

Colin Dale;Nancy A. Moran

674
Citations
A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

Vincent G. Martinson;Bryan N. Danforth;Robert L. Minckley;Olav Rueppell

674
Citations
Symbiosis as an adaptive process and source of phenotypic complexity

Nancy A. Moran

639
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Baumann University of California, Davis

Linda Baumann University of Wisconsin–Madison

Howard Ochman The University of Texas at Austin

Daniel B. Sloan Colorado State University

Jeffrey E. Barrick The University of Texas at Austin

Therese A. Markow University of California, San Diego

Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service

Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University

Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University

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