I am an evolutionary biologist with a broad interest in understanding how animals evolve and adapt to rapidly changing environments, particularly in response to human driven environmental changes. By combining phenotypic and genomic approaches, I aim to illuminate the past, present, and future impacts of human activity on evolutionary trajectories and biodiversity.
Keywords
Biodiversity Monitoring, Genomics, Evolution, Anthropocene, Speciation
Researchinterest
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Naturalis, where I am developing molecular methods for pollinator monitoring as part of the ANTENNA project.
Previously, I have worked on a variety of topics including; speciation in field crickets, urban adaptation in amphibians and the genomic basis of migratory behaviour in Salmonids.
These projects have allowed me to build strong expertise in a range of molecular tools and bioinformatics, which I now want to apply in multidisciplinary projects that bridges evolutionary biology and applied conservation.
Currenttopics
A selection of the topics I am working on currently.
ANTENNA Making Technology Work for Monitoring Pollinators
Keypublications
- Moran, P. A., Colgan, T. J., Phillips, K. P., Coughlan, J., McGinnity, P., & Reed, T. E. (2024). Whole‐Genome Resequencing Reveals Polygenic Signatures of Directional and Balancing Selection on Alternative Migratory Life Histories. Molecular ecology, 33(23), e17538.
- Moran, P. A., Bosse, M., Mariën, J., & Halfwerk, W. (2024). Genomic footprints of (pre) colonialism: Population declines in urban and forest túngara frogs coincident with historical human activity. Molecular Ecology, 33(4), e17258.
- Cronin, A.D*, Smit, J.A*, Munoz, M.I*, Poirier, A, Moran, P.A * , Jerem, P * , Halfwerk, W * . (2022). A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. (* equal first authors)
- Moran, P. A., Hunt, J., Mitchell, C., Ritchie, M. G., & Bailey, N. W. (2020). Sexual selection and population divergence III: Interspecific and intraspecific variation in mating signals. Journal of evolutionary biology, 33(7): 990-1005.
- Moran, P. A., Hunt, J., Mitchell, C., Ritchie, M. G., & Bailey, N. W. (2019). Behavioural mechanisms of sexual isolation involving multiple modalities and their inheritance. Journal of evolutionary biology, 32(3), 243-258. Moran, P. A., Pascoal, S., Cezard, T., Risse, J. E., Ritchie, M. G., & Bailey, N. W. (2018). Opposing patterns of intraspecific and interspecific differentiation in sex chromosomes and autosomes. Molecular ecology, 27(19), 3905-3924.
- Bailey, N. W., Moran, P. A., & Hennig, R. M. (2017). Divergent mechanisms of acoustic mate recognition between closely related field cricket species (Teleogryllus spp.). Animal Behaviour, 130, 17-25.
- Moran, P. A., Ritchie, M. G., & Bailey, N. W. (2017). A rare exception to Haldane’s rule: Are X chromosomes key to hybrid incompatibilities? Heredity, 118(6), 554.