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Alison M Bell

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Contact Information

515 Morrill Hall
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

Research Interests

Proximate causes and ultimate consequences of individual differences in behavior 

Education

BA University of Chicago
PhD University of California, Davis
Postdoc, University of Glasgow
Postdoc, University of California, Davis

Awards and Honors

Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar

Fellow, Animal Behavior Society

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Quest Award, Animal Behavior Society

New Investigator Award, Animal Behavior Society

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Lowell Getz Scholar, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Behrens, C., Maciejewski, M. F., Arredondo, E., Dalziel, A. C., Weir, L. K., & Bell, A. M. (2024). Divergence in Reproductive Behaviors Is Associated with the Evolutionary Loss of Parental Care. American Naturalist, 203(5), 590-603. https://doi.org/10.1086/729465

Bell, A. M. (2024). The evolution of decision-making mechanisms under competing demands. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39(2), 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.007

Dan, U., Maciejewski, M. F., Schwaiger, E., & Bell, A. M. (2024). Oxytocin influences parental care in male threespine stickleback across multiple time scales. Hormones and Behavior, 166, Article 105652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105652

Hellmann, J. K., Keagy, J., Carlson, E. R., Kempfer, S., & Bell, A. M. (2024). Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity of parental care behaviour in male three-spined stickleback fish across two generations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2014), Article 20232582. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2582

Hendry, A. P., Barrett, R. D. H., Bell, A. M., Bell, M. A., Bolnick, D. I., Gotanda, K. M., Haines, G. E., Lind, Å. J., Paccard, M., Peichel, C. L., Peterson, C. R., Poore, H. A., Massengill, R. L., Milligan-McClellan, K., Steinel, N. C., Sanderson, S., Walsh, M. R., Weber, J. N., & Derry, A. M. (2024). Designing eco-evolutionary experiments for restoration projects: Opportunities and constraints revealed during stickleback introductions. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), Article e11503. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11503

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