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Alison Bell

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Integrative Biology

Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

Alison Bell is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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evolutionary biology animal behavior behavioral ecology behavioral sciences evolutionary ecology biology ethology social behavior behavioural genetics ecology and evolutionary biology behavioral plasticity sociobiology adaptation genetics behavioral neuroscience fitness evolutionary psychology parental care interspecific behavioral interaction human behavior predation risk animal behaviour reproductive biology predator-prey interactions evolutionary significance ecology evolution behavioral syndromes animal cognition heredity sexual selection developmental science sociogenomics transgenerational effect brain mechanisms behavioural process natural selection reproductive success breeding behavior behavioral research developmental psychology transgenerational plasticity biological evolution developmental system molecular ecology paternal care fish biology behavioral neuroendocrinology personality psychology comparative endocrinology individual variation brain gene expression lifespan development molecular adaptation evolutionary theory reproduction response evolutionary genetics comparative physiology threespine sticklebacks social challenge personality development foraging behavior characteristic consistent individual differences behavior analysis behavioral measurements physiological plasticity evolutionary developmental biology ontogeny gasterosteus aculeatus maternal experience aggressive behaviour predation pressure behavioural plasticity threespine stickleback sex‐specific plasticity parental effects genetic foundation psychology biosocial perspective

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An Evolutionary Loss of Parental Care in Stickleback is Associated With Differences in the Activity, but Not the Number, of Neuropeptidergic Neurons in the Preoptic Area. Brain Behavior and Evolution (2025)

Meghan F. MaciejewskiEva K. FischerAlison M. Bell

animal behaviorbehavioral ecologyneuroecologybiologysociobiologybehavioral neurosciencecoevolutionethologyevolutionary lossoxytocin neuronsnervous systembrain mechanismscomparative physiologyparental careneuroscienceevolutionary biologyneurons

An Evolutionary Shift to Prioritizing Mating Over Care is Associated With Consistently High Androgen Levels in Male Threespine Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Meghan F. MaciejewskiAlison M. Bell

paternal carereproductive endocrinologyreproductive hormonesreproductive successabstract steroid hormonesbehavioral ecologyendocrinologyliquid chromatography-mass spectrometrybiologysociobiologycoevolutionreproductive sciencebreeding behaviorreproductive biologycomparative endocrinologyevolutionary biology

Collective Behavior Diverges Independently of the Benthic-Limnetic Axis in Stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2025)

Kevin M NeumannLucas EckertDamaris MirandaAndrew KempAlison M Bell

ecology evolutioninterspecific behavioral interactionadaptationbehavioral ecologycollective behaviorbiologyevolutionary ecologyevolutionary processespopulation biologycollective behavior divergesecology and evolutionary biologybiotic interactionsecologyevolutionary biology

Discrete Genetic Modules Underlie Divergent Reproductive Strategies in Three-Spined Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Colby BehrensMegan E TuckerKatie JulkowskiAlison M Bell

paternal caregenetic variationfitnesscomplex behavioral traitsbehavioral traitsevolutionary theorybiological evolutionecology evolutionsexual selectionbehavioral ecologybiologyevolutionary significanceevolutionary applicationsevolutionary biologyadaptationgeneticsbreeding behaviorevolutionary ecologypopulation genetics

Evidence of Parental Care as a Novel Reproductive Isolating Mechanism. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Colby BehrensMeghan F. MaciejewskiAlexandra SumarliGina LucasGerman Lagunas-RoblesKieran SamukAlison M. Bell

animal behaviorpaternal carereproductive successbehavioural geneticsbehavioral ecologybiologyevolutionary biologysociobiologyreproduction responseevolutionary ecologybreeding behaviorreproductive biologyevolutionary significancereproductive isolating mechanismparental carepopulation genetics

Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes With Divergent Breeding Behavior. Journal of Proteome Research (2025)

Sara E. BellYuxuan Richard XieMeghan F. MaciejewskiStanislav S. RubakhinElena V. RomanovaAlison M. BellJonathan V. Sweedler

peptidesreproductive hormonessingle-cell peptide profilingmass spectrometryneuroendocrine mechanismsproteomicsreproductive endocrinologyendocrinologyproteome researchreproductive biologycomparative endocrinologyprotein mass spectrometrybiomarkerspeptide sciencebiologyhypothalamic peptidedevelopmental biologypeptide mass fingerprintingreproductive sciencemetabolomicsleiden clustering

Strong but Diffuse Genetic Divergence Underlies Differentiation in an Incipient Species of Marine Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

phylogeneticsmarine genomicsincipient speciesconservation geneticsmarine sticklebackheredityadaptationpopulation geneticsmolecular evolutionary ecologygeneticsgenetic variationbiologymolecular ecologymarine biologyevolutionary geneticsevolutionary significancemolecular evolutionevolutionary biology

The Brain in Motion Natural Neuroscience Nachum Ulanovsky Mit Press, 2025. 302 Pp.. Science (2025)

Alison M. Bell

cognitive neurosciencebehavioural processneural mechanismsneural processescomputational neuroscienceperception-action loopsensorimotor transformationsneurodynamicspp .. behaviorsmovement disordersmotor controlanimal cognitionbrain mechanismscognitive scienceneurosciencebehavioral neuroscience

The Evolutionary Loss of Paternal Care is Associated With Shifts in Female Life‐History Traits. Ecology and Evolution (2025)

Colby BehrensSarah YoungEric ArredondoAnne C. DalzielLaura K. WeirAlison M. Bell

paternal careecology evolutionsexual selectionadaptationbehavioral ecologybiologysociobiologyfitnesscoevolutionevolutionary ecologylife historyevolutionary significanceevolutionary lossfemale life‐history traitsecology and evolutionary biologyparental careevolutionary biology

Designing Eco‐Evolutionary Experiments for Restoration Projects: Opportunities and Constraints Revealed During Stickleback Introductions. Ecology and Evolution (2024)

Andrew P. HendryRowan D. H. BarrettAlison M. BellMichael A. BellDaniel I. BolnickKiyoko M. GotandaGrant E. HainesÅsa J. LindMichelle PackerCatherine L. PeichelChristopher R. PetersonHilary A. PooreRobert L. MassengillKathryn Milligan‐McClellanNatalie C. SteinelSarah SandersonMatthew R. WalshJesse N. WeberAlison M. Derry

ecology evolutionrestoration projectsrestoration locationnatural restorationaquatic ecosystemsrestoration lakesecological applicationsevolutionary ecologyaquatic conservationhabitat reconstructionecology and evolutionary biologyrestoration ecologyecologyevolutionary biology

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Alison Bell

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Integrative Biology

Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

Alison Bell is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Honors

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Alison Bell

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Meghan F. MaciejewskiEva K. FischerAlison M. Bell

An Evolutionary Shift to Prioritizing Mating Over Care is Associated With Consistently High Androgen Levels in Male Threespine Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Meghan F. MaciejewskiAlison M. Bell

Collective Behavior Diverges Independently of the Benthic-Limnetic Axis in Stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2025)

Kevin M NeumannLucas EckertDamaris MirandaAndrew KempAlison M Bell

Discrete Genetic Modules Underlie Divergent Reproductive Strategies in Three-Spined Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Colby BehrensMegan E TuckerKatie JulkowskiAlison M Bell

Evidence of Parental Care as a Novel Reproductive Isolating Mechanism. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

Colby BehrensMeghan F. MaciejewskiAlexandra SumarliGina LucasGerman Lagunas-RoblesKieran SamukAlison M. Bell

Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes With Divergent Breeding Behavior. Journal of Proteome Research (2025)

Sara E. BellYuxuan Richard XieMeghan F. MaciejewskiStanislav S. RubakhinElena V. RomanovaAlison M. BellJonathan V. Sweedler

Strong but Diffuse Genetic Divergence Underlies Differentiation in an Incipient Species of Marine Stickleback. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

The Brain in Motion Natural Neuroscience Nachum Ulanovsky Mit Press, 2025. 302 Pp.. Science (2025)

Alison M. Bell

The Evolutionary Loss of Paternal Care is Associated With Shifts in Female Life‐History Traits. Ecology and Evolution (2025)

Colby BehrensSarah YoungEric ArredondoAnne C. DalzielLaura K. WeirAlison M. Bell

Designing Eco‐Evolutionary Experiments for Restoration Projects: Opportunities and Constraints Revealed During Stickleback Introductions. Ecology and Evolution (2024)

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