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, Neuroscience Program
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Recent Publications
Bell, S. E., Xie, Y. R., Maciejewski, M. F., Rubakhin, S. S., Romanova, E. V., Bell, A. M., & Sweedler, J. V. (Accepted/In press). Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior. Journal of Proteome Research. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00832
Barbasch, T. A., Abuwa, V. I., Carswell, B., & Bell, A. M. (2024). Managing the tradeoff between reproduction and survival requires flexibility in behaviour and gene regulation in three-spined stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2036), Article 20242296. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2296
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