Nancy A. Moran

62.5k total citations · 31 hit papers
296 papers, 43.0k citations indexed

About

Nancy A. Moran is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy A. Moran has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 43.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 265 papers in Insect Science, 121 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 97 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nancy A. Moran's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (191 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (122 papers) and Plant and animal studies (115 papers). Nancy A. Moran is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (191 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (122 papers) and Plant and animal studies (115 papers). Nancy A. Moran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Nancy A. Moran's co-authors include Philipp Engel, John P. McCutcheon, Waldan K. Kwong, Howard Ochman, Kerry M. Oliver, Jacob A. Russell, Martha S. Hunter, Vincent G. Martinson, Patrick H. Degnan and Atsushi Nakabachi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nancy A. Moran

295 papers receiving 42.1k citations

Hit Papers

The gut microbiota of insects – ... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2013 2008 2011 2003 1996 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function
    2013 1.8k citations Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  2. Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts
    2008 1.2k citations Nancy A. Moran, John P. McCutcheon et al. profile →
  3. Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria
    2011 1.0k citations John P. McCutcheon, Nancy A. Moran profile →
  4. Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps
    2003 993 citations Kerry M. Oliver, Nancy A. Moran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria.
    1996 763 citations Nancy A. Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. The Evolutionary Maintenance of Alternative Phenotypes
    1992 724 citations Nancy A. Moran profile →
  7. Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits
    2009 708 citations Kerry M. Oliver, Patrick H. Degnan et al. Annual Review of Entomology profile →
  8. Gut microbial communities of social bees
    2016 686 citations Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran profile →
  9. Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee
    2012 651 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes
    2001 589 citations Howard Ochman, Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  11. Microbial Minimalism
    2002 547 citations Nancy A. Moran profile →
  12. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
    2018 489 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  13. Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker
    2012 465 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  14. A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees
    2010 456 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
  15. Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling
    2017 452 citations Hao Zheng, J. Elijah Powell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids
    2010 447 citations Nancy A. Moran, T. Jarvik Science profile →
  17. GENETICS, PHYSIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GENUS BUCHNERA: Intracellular Symbionts of Aphids
    1995 400 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  18. Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera
    2014 396 citations J. Elijah Powell, Nancy A. Moran et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  19. Antibiotic exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and elevates mortality in honeybees
    2017 379 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. PLoS Biology profile →
  20. Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole
    2015 345 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  21. Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees
    2017 340 citations Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  22. The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects
    2013 337 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
  23. The role of the gut microbiome in health and disease of adult honey bee workers
    2018 336 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  24. Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees
    2012 334 citations Nancy A. Moran, J. Elijah Powell et al. profile →
  25. Immune system stimulation by the native gut microbiota of honey bees
    2017 312 citations Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →
  26. The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?
    2015 308 citations Nancy A. Moran, Daniel B. Sloan PLoS Biology profile →
  27. Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts
    2014 303 citations Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  28. Division of labor in honey bee gut microbiota for plant polysaccharide digestion
    2019 241 citations Hao Zheng, J. Elijah Powell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  29. Honey bees as models for gut microbiota research
    2018 222 citations Hao Zheng, Margaret I. Steele et al. profile →
  30. Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens
    2020 175 citations Sean P. Leonard, J. Elijah Powell et al. Science profile →
  31. The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease
    2023 83 citations Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nancy A. Moran United States 113 31.2k 14.1k 13.0k 9.0k 8.3k 296 43.0k
John H. Werren United States 73 16.9k 0.5× 5.6k 0.4× 5.7k 0.4× 3.1k 0.3× 2.8k 0.3× 226 21.9k
François Rousset France 63 6.1k 0.2× 9.2k 0.7× 26.3k 2.0× 5.1k 0.6× 7.6k 0.9× 178 41.7k
Takema Fukatsu Japan 71 14.1k 0.5× 3.6k 0.3× 3.0k 0.2× 3.7k 0.4× 1.9k 0.2× 288 16.8k
Jérôme Goudet Switzerland 46 3.2k 0.1× 10.0k 0.7× 26.0k 2.0× 10.0k 1.1× 7.0k 0.9× 124 39.3k
Peter E. Smouse United States 36 2.9k 0.1× 10.9k 0.8× 25.1k 1.9× 12.9k 1.4× 9.5k 1.1× 78 44.9k
Alan Filipski United States 11 3.5k 0.1× 4.9k 0.3× 6.4k 0.5× 12.6k 1.4× 16.4k 2.0× 14 41.5k
Julio Rozas Spain 34 4.0k 0.1× 6.1k 0.4× 14.2k 1.1× 6.7k 0.7× 10.8k 1.3× 96 31.2k
Paul D. N. Hebert Canada 107 11.7k 0.4× 19.8k 1.4× 23.9k 1.8× 6.0k 0.7× 25.4k 3.1× 571 68.4k
Angela E. Douglas United States 71 11.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.2× 2.5k 0.2× 3.9k 0.4× 3.2k 0.4× 221 17.3k
Rod Peakall Australia 54 2.6k 0.1× 12.0k 0.9× 18.2k 1.4× 13.1k 1.5× 7.8k 0.9× 184 34.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Song, Yulin, et al.. (2025). Effects of priority on strain-level composition of the honey bee gut community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(8). e0082825–e0082825. 2 indexed citations
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Moran, Nancy A., et al.. (2024). Intracellular defensive symbiont is culturable and capable of transovarial, vertical transmission. mBio. 15(6). e0325323–e0325323. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Zheng, Yiyuan Li, Vy Dang, et al.. (2022). The Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Novelties in a Leafhopper. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(9). 12 indexed citations
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Hammer, Tobin J., et al.. (2022). Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers. Molecular Ecology. 32(3). 724–740. 28 indexed citations
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Horak, Richard D., Sean P. Leonard, & Nancy A. Moran. (2020). Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1933). 20201184–20201184. 91 indexed citations
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Zheng, Hao, J. Elijah Powell, Margaret I. Steele, Carsten Dietrich, & Nancy A. Moran. (2017). Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4775–4780. 452 indexed citations breakdown →
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Steele, Margaret I., Waldan K. Kwong, Marvin Whiteley, & Nancy A. Moran. (2017). Diversification of Type VI Secretion System Toxins Reveals Ancient Antagonism among Bee Gut Microbes. mBio. 8(6). 94 indexed citations
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Moran, Nancy A. & Daniel B. Sloan. (2015). The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?. PLoS Biology. 13(12). e1002311–e1002311. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sloan, Daniel B. & Nancy A. Moran. (2012). Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies. Biology Letters. 8(6). 986–989. 132 indexed citations
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Moran, Nancy A. & T. Jarvik. (2010). Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids. Science. 328(5978). 624–627. 447 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oliver, Kerry M., Patrick H. Degnan, Gaelen R. Burke, & Nancy A. Moran. (2009). Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits. Annual Review of Entomology. 55(1). 247–266. 708 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harmon, Jason P., Nancy A. Moran, & Anthony R. Ives. (2009). Species Response to Environmental Change: Impacts of Food Web Interactions and Evolution. Science. 323(5919). 1347–1350. 175 indexed citations
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McCutcheon, John P., Bradon R. McDonald, & Nancy A. Moran. (2009). Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(36). 15394–15399. 300 indexed citations
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Oliver, Kerry M., et al.. (2007). Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 275(1632). 293–299. 275 indexed citations
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Nakabachi, Atsushi, Atsushi Yamashita, Hidehiro Toh, et al.. (2006). The 160-Kilobase Genome of the Bacterial Endosymbiont Carsonella. Science. 314(5797). 267–267. 402 indexed citations
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Oliver, Kerry M., Nancy A. Moran, & Martha S. Hunter. (2005). Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(36). 12795–12800. 463 indexed citations
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Moran, Nancy A., Patrick H. Degnan, Scott R. Santos, Helen E. Dunbar, & Howard Ochman. (2005). The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(47). 16919–16926. 241 indexed citations
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Moran, Nancy A., Phat Tran, & Nicole M. Gerardo. (2005). Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(12). 8802–8810. 293 indexed citations
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Abbot, Patrick, James H. Withgott, & Nancy A. Moran. (2001). Genetic conflict and conditional altruism in social aphid colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(21). 12068–12071. 79 indexed citations
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Aoki, Shigeyuki, Utako Kurosu, Nancy A. Moran, & Hajime Ishikawa. (1996). Secondary Monoecy of the Gall Aphid Thecabius populimonilis (Homoptera). 昆蟲. 64(2). 367–378. 1 indexed citations

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