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- Morales, M.A., D.G. Kirsch, and D.S. Sanchez. 2022. Lagged effects of herbivory impact host-choice but not nymphal survivorship in an ant-protected treehopper. Ecosphere 13: e4067. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4067
- Swire, S. E Pasipanodya, M.A. Morales, and E. Peacock-López. 2020. Complex dynamics in a minimal model of protection-based mutualism. Axioms 9: 26-44. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms9010026
- Morales M.A., and A.G. Zink. 2017. Mechanisms of aggregation in an ant-tended treehopper: Attraction to mutualists is balanced by conspecific competition. PLoS ONE 12: e0181429. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181429
- Ness, J.H., M.A. Morales, E. Kenison, E. Leduc, P. Leipzig-Scott, E. Rollinson, and B.J. Swimm. 2013. Reciprocally beneficial interactions between introduced plants and ants are induced by the presence of a third introduced species. Oikos. 122: 695-704. doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20212.x
- Morales, M.A. 2011. Model selection analysis of temporal variation in benefit for an ant-tended treehopper. Ecology. 92: 709-719. doi.org/10.1890/10-1154.1
- Chhatre, V., M.A. Morales, and P. Abbot. 2009. Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci in an ant-tended treehopper, Publilia concava. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1185-1188. doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02598.x
- Morales, M.A., J.L. Barone, and C.S. Henry. 2008. Acoustic alarm signaling facilitates predator protection of treehoppers by mutualist bodyguards. Proceeding of the Royal Society B 275: 1935-1941. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0410
- Morales, M.A., W. F. Morris, and W. G. Wilson. 2008. Allee dynamics generated by protection mutualisms can drive oscillations in trophic cascades. Theoretical Ecology 1: 77-88. doi.org/10.1007/s12080-007-0006-9
- Morales, M.A. and A.L.H. Beal*. 2006. The effects of host-plant quality and ant-tending for the treehopper Publilia concava. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 545-552. doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[545:EOHPQA]2.0.CO;2
- Morales, M.A., G. J. Dodge, and D.W. Inouye. 2005. A phenological mid-domain effect in flowering phenology. Oecologia 142: 83-89. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-004-1694-0
- Morales, M. A., D. W. Inouye, M. J. Leigh, and G. Lowe. 2003. Considering interactions: incorporating biotic interactions into viability assessment. in C. A. Brigham and M. W. Schwartz, editors. Population viability in plants, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 267-287. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09389-4_10
- Morales M. A. 2002. Ant-dependent oviposition in the membracid Publilia concava. Ecological Entomology 27: 247-250. doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00398.x
- Inouye, D. W., M. A. Morales, and G. J. Dodge. 2002. Variation in timing and abundance of flowering by Delphinium barbeyi Huth (Ranunculaceae): the roles of snowpack, frost, and La Niña, in the context of climate change. Oecologia 130: 543-550. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-001-0835-y
- Morales, M. A. 2000. Survivorship of an ant-tended membracid as a function of ant recruitment. Oikos 90: 469-476. doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900305.x
- Morales, M.A. 2000. Mechanisms and density-dependence of benefit in an ant-membracid mutualism. Ecology 81: 482-489. doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0482:MADDOB]2.0.CO;2
- Morales, M.A., and E.R. Heithaus. 1998. Food from seed dispersal mutualism shifts sex ratios in colonies of the ant, Aphaenogaster rudis. Ecology 79: 734-739. doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0734:FFSDMS]2.0.CO;2