Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
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
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
External Links
Recent Publications
Bell, A. M. (2023). Prairie Voles: Recovering from a broken heart. eLife, 12, Article e87550. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87550
Bell, A. M. (Accepted/In press). The evolution of decision-making mechanisms under competing demands. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.007
Neumann, K. M., & Bell, A. M. (2023). Social network differences and phenotypic divergence between stickleback ecotypes. Behavioral Ecology, Article arad009. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad009
Afseth, C., Shim, A., Anderson, S., Bell, A. M., & Hellmann, J. K. (2022). Vertical transmission of horizontally acquired social information in sticklebacks: Implications for transgenerational plasticity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1979), Article 20220571. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0571
Bensky, M. K., & Bell, A. M. (2022). A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks. American Naturalist, 200(6), 846-856. https://doi.org/10.1086/721765