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Alison M Bell

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Contact Information

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

Professor

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

Recent Publications

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

Barbasch, T. A., Behrens, C., McLain, M., Arredondo, E., & Bell, A. M. (2023). A distinct neurogenomic response to a trade-off between social challenge and opportunity in male sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Biology Letters, 19(11), Article 20230253. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0253

Bell, A. M. (2023). Prairie Voles: Recovering from a broken heart. eLife, 12, Article e87550. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87550

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

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