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Lane, S.J.*, C.M. Shishido*, A.L. Moran, B.W. Tobalske, and H.A.Woods. 2016.  No effects and no control of epibionts in two species of temperate pycnogonids. Biological Bulletin 230:165-73.  pdf


Phillips, N.E. and A.L. Moran.  2015.  Oxygen production from macrophytes decreases development time in benthic egg masses of a marine gastropod.  Hydrobiologia 757, 251-259.  pdf


Crickenberger, S.*, K. Walther, S. Marchant*, P.B. Marko, and A.L. Moran.  2015.  Population-dependent acclimatization of thermal tolerance of the rocky-shore barnacle Pollicipes elegans.  Invertebrate Biology 134: 291-302.  pdf


Marchant, S.*, A.L. Moran, and P.B. Marko.  2015.  Out-of-the-tropics or trans-tropical dispersal?  The origins of the disjunct distribution of the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes elegans.  Frontiers in Zoology 12:39. pdf


Marko, P.B., A.L. Moran, N.L. Kolotuchina, and N.I. Zaslavskaya.  2014.  Phylogenetics of the gastropod genus Nucella (Neogastropoda, Muricidae): species identities, timing of diversification, and correlated patterns of life-history evolution.  Journal of Molluscan Studies 80:341-353 pdf


Plough, L.V., A.L. Moran, and P.B. Marko.  2014.  Density drives polyandry and relatedness influences paternal success in the Pacific gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes elegans.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:81. pdf


Crickenberger, S.C.* and A.L. Moran.  2013.  Rapid range shift in an introduced tropical marine invertebrate.  PLoS One 8: e78008.  pdf


Moran, A.L., J.S. McAlister, and E.A.G. Whitehill*. 2013.  Eggs as energy: revisiting the scaling of egg size and energetic content among echinoderms.  Biological Bulletin 224: 184-191.  pdf


Marsh, A.G., A.L. Moran, and J.B. McClintock.  2013.  Scientific polar ice diving.  Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 39:83-86.  pdf


McAlister, J.S. and A.L. Moran.  2013.  Interactive effects of egg energy and exogenous food availability on the development and growth of larvae of tropical American sea urchins in the genus Echinometra.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 490: 155-167.  pdf


Walther, K., S. Crickenberger*, S. Marchant*, P.B. Marko, and A.L. Moran.  2013.  Thermal tolerance of larvae of Pollicipes elegans, a marine species with an antitropical distribution.  Marine Biology 160:2723-2732. pdf


McAlister, J.S. and A.L. Moran. 2012. Relationships among egg size, composition, and energy: a comparative study of geminate sea urchins. PLoS One 7:e41599 pdf


Whitehill, E.A.G.* and A.L. Moran. 2012. Comparative larval energetics of an ophiuroid and an echinoid echinoderm. Invertebrate Biology 131: 345-354. pdf


Moran, A.L. and H.A. Woods. 2012. Why might they be giants? Towards an understanding of polar gigantism. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 1995-2002pdf


Valdés, A., Moran, A.L., and H.A. Woods. 2011. Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom DOI:10.1017/S0025315411000348 pdf


Moran, A.L. and H.A. Woods.   2010.  Limits to diffusive oxygen transport: flow, form, and function in nudibranch egg masses from temperature and polar regions.  PLoS One 5:  1-8 pdf


McClintock, J., C.D. Amsler, A. L. Moran, H.A. Woods and B.J. Baker.   2010.  Introduction to the Symposium: Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 948–949 pdf


Valdés, A., Moran, A.L., and H.A. Woods.  2010. A new species of Armodoris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.  Polar Biology DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0889-6 pdf


Moran, A.L. and J.S. McAlister.  2009.  Egg size as a life history character of marine invertebrates:  is it all it’s cracked up to be?  Biological Bulletin 216:226-242 pdf


Marko, P.B. and A.L. Moran.  2009.  Out of sight, out of mind: high cryptic diversity obscures the identities and histories of geminate species in the marine bivalve subgenus AcarJournal of Biogeography  36:1861-1880. pdf


Woods, H.A., A.L. Moran, C.P. Arango, L. Mullen* and C. Shields*.  2009. Oxygen hypothesis of polar gigantism not supported by performance of Antarctic pycnogonids in hypoxia.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 1069–1075 pdf


Woods, H.A. and A.L. Moran.  2008a.  Temperature-oxygen interactions in Antarctic nudibranch egg masses.  Journal of Experimental Biology 211:798-804 pdf


Woods, H.A. and A.L. Moran.  2008b. Oxygen profiles in egg masses predicted from a diffusion-reaction model.  Journal of Experimental Biology 211:790-797 pdf


Moran, A.L. and Allen, J.D.* 2007. How does metabolic rate scale with egg size? An experimental test with sea urchin embryos. Biological Bulletin 212:143-150. pdf


Moran, A.L. and Woods, H.A. 2007. Oxygen in egg masses: interactive effects of temperature, age, and egg-mass morphology on oxygen supply to embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology 210:722-731. pdf


Podolsky, R.D. and Moran, A.L. 2006. Integrating function across marine life cycles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46:577-586. pdf   

      

Moran, A.L. and P.B. Marko. 2005.  A simple technique for physical marking of larvae of marine bivalves. Journal of Shellfish Research 24:567-571. pdf 


Moran, A.L. 2004. Egg size evolution in tropical American Arcid bivalves: the comparative method and the fossil record. Evolution 58:2718-2733. pdf


Marko, P.B., S.C. Lee*, A. Rice*, G. Harper*, T. Fitzhenry*, J. McAlister*, and A.L. Moran. 2004. Product mislabeling in a reef fish fishery. Nature 430:39-40. pdf    

           

Moran, A. L. and D.T. Manahan. 2004. Physiological recovery from prolonged starvation in larvae of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 306:17-36. pdf


Moran, A.L. 2004. The unusual prodissoconch and larval development of Barbatia bailyi. The Veliger 47:47-52. Moran 2004.pdf


Moran, A.L., and D.T. Manahan. 2003. Energy metabolism during larval development of green and white abalone, Haliotis fulgens and H. sorenseni. Biological  Bulletin 204: 270-277. pdf


Marko, P.B. and A.L. Moran. 2002. Correlated evolutionary divergence of a mitochondrial protein and egg size across the Isthmus of Panama . Evolution 56:1303- 1309. pdf 


Moran, A.L. and R.B. Emlet. 2001. Offspring size and hatchling performance of an intertidal gastropod under variable field conditions. Ecology 82:1597-1612. pdf 


Moran, A.L. 2000. Calcein as a marker for experimental field studies of newly-hatched gastropods. Marine Biology 137:893-898. pdf


Moran, A.L. 1999. Intracapsular feeding by embryos of the gastropod genus Littorina. Biological Bulletin 196:229-244. pdf


Moran, A.L. 1999. Juvenile invertebrates in the marine benthos: mortality, size and performance. American Zoologist 39:304-312. pdf


Moran, A.L. 1997. Spawning and larval development of the black turban snail Tegula funebralis (Prosobranchia, Trochidae). Marine Biology128:107-114. pdf    


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