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Overview

Andrew D. C. MacColl is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with significant contributions in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work is distributed across various subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Ecological Modeling.

They have focused extensively on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

MacColl's recent publications reflect an active engagement with current ecological and genetic research. Notable papers include:

  • Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience, 2024, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Relationships between immune gene expression and circulating cytokine levels in wild house mice, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Courtship behavior, nesting microhabitat, and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species pairs, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Prior exposure to long-day photoperiods alters immune responses and increases susceptibility to parasitic infection in stickleback, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They publish frequently in several scientific journals. Prominent publication venues include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

MacColl collaborates regularly with a core group of researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Laura Dean
  • Isabel S. Magalhaes
  • James R. Whiting
  • Daniele D'Agostino
  • Paul A. Hohenlohe

Best Publications

  • Predation, group size and mortality in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta.

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;D. Gaynor;G. M. McIlrath;A. D. C. Maccoll

  • Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection.

    Adam M. Siepielski;Michael B. Morrissey;Mathieu Buoro;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • The ecological causes of evolution.

    Andrew D.C. MacColl

  • Costs of cooperative behaviour in suricates (Suricata suricatta)

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;D. Gaynor;R. Kansky;A. D. C. MacColl

  • Population fluctuations, reproductive costs and life-history tactics in female soay sheep

    TH Clutton-Brock;IR Stevenson;P Marrow;AD Maccoll

  • Stability and Instability in Ungulate Populations: An Empirical Analysis

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;A. W. Illius;K. Wilson;K. Wilson;B. T. Grenfell

  • DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish.

    Kathleen T. Xie;Guliang Wang;Abbey C. Thompson;Julia I. Wucherpfennig

  • Local genetic structure in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): evidence from microsatellite DNA markers

    Stuart B. Piertney;Andrew D. C. Maccoll;Philip J. Bacon;John F. Dallas

  • Mate retention, harassment, and the evolution of ungulate leks

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;O. F. Price;A. D. C MacColl

  • Density-dependent variation in lifetime breeding success and natural and sexual selection in Soay rams.

    D W Coltman;J A Smith;D R Bancroft;Jill Pilkington

  • Helpers increase long-term but not short-term productivity in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits

    Ben J. Hatchwell;Andrew F. Russell;Andrew D.C. MacColl;Douglas J. Ross

  • Heritability of parental effort in a passerine bird.

    Andrew D. C. Maccoll;Ben J. Hatchwell

  • Reproduction and survival of suricates (Suricata suricatta) in the southern Kalahari

    T. H. Clutton‐Brock;A. Maccoll;P. Chadwick;D. Gaynor

  • Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience

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  • Sharing of caring: nestling provisioning behaviour of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus, parents and helpers

    Andrew D.C. MacColl;Ben J. Hatchwell

  • Parasite burdens differ between sympatric three‐spined stickleback species

    Andrew D. C. MacColl

  • Determinants of lifetime fitness in a cooperative breeder, the long‐tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

    Andrew D. C. Maccoll;Ben J. Hatchwell

  • What Are the Environmental Determinants of Phenotypic Selection? A Meta-analysis of Experimental Studies.

    Christina M Caruso;Ryan A Martin;Nina Sletvold;Michael B Morrissey

  • MATRILINEAL GENETIC STRUCTURE AND FEMALE-MEDIATED GENE FLOW IN RED GROUSE (LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS): AN ANALYSIS USING MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

    Stuart B. Piertney;Andrew D. C. MacColl;Philip J. Bacon;Paul A. Racey

  • Spatial distribution of genetic relatedness in a moorland population of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus)

    Stuart B. Piertney;Andrew D.C. MacCOLL;Xavier Lambin;Robert Moss

  • Temporal variation in fitness payoffs promotes cooperative breeding in long-tailed tits Aegithalos caudatus.

    Andrew D. C. MacColl;Ben J. Hatchwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Stuart B. Piertney
Stuart B. Piertney University of Aberdeen
Ben J. Hatchwell
Ben J. Hatchwell University of Sheffield
Xavier Lambin
Xavier Lambin University of Aberdeen
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of California, Berkeley
Sonya M. Clegg
Sonya M. Clegg University of Oxford
Nina Sletvold
Nina Sletvold Uppsala University
Theo C. M. Bakker
Theo C. M. Bakker University of Bonn
Joel G. Kingsolver
Joel G. Kingsolver University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert A. Moss
Robert A. Moss Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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