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Overview

Michael A. Bell is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary fields of study lie within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Genetics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Paleontology.

Their research topics include genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, evolution and paleontology studies, and morphological variations and asymmetry. These topics reflect a broad and multidisciplinary approach within life sciences and environmental research.

Frequent co-authors of Michael A. Bell include:

  • David M. Kingsley
  • Kerry Reid
  • Krishna R. Veeramah
  • Garrett A. Roberts Kingman
  • Shannon D. Brady

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael A. Bell include:

  • "Threespine Stickleback: A Model System For Evolutionary Genomics" (2021), published in Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
  • "Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Fitness maps to a large-effect locus in introduced stickleback populations" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Freshwater Colonization, Adaptation, and Genomic Divergence in Threespine Stickleback" (2022), published in Integrative and Comparative Biology

Best Publications

  • The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback

    John D. Reynolds;M.A. Bell;S.A. Foster

  • Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

    Yingguang Frank Chan;Melissa E. Marks;Felicity C. Jones;Guadalupe Villarreal

  • Generation of antibody diversity in the immune response of BALB/c mice to influenza virus hemagglutinin

    David McKean;Konrad Huppi;Michael Bell;Louis Staudt

  • Parallel genetic basis for repeated evolution of armor loss in Alaskan threespine stickleback populations.

    William A. Cresko;Angel Amores;Catherine Wilson;Joy Murphy

  • Causes and consequences of recent freshwater invasions by saltwater animals.

    Carol Eunmi Lee;Michael A. Bell

  • TWELVE YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ARMOR EVOLUTION IN A THREESPINE STICKLEBACK POPULATION

    Michael A. Bell;Windsor E. Aguirre;Nathaniel J. Buck

  • The Evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback

    Michael A. Bell;Susan Adlai Foster

  • GLOBAL SURVEY OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCES IN THE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK: EVIDENCE FOR RECENT MIGRATIONS

    Guillermo Ortí;Michael A. Bell;Thomas E. Reimchen;Axel Meyer

  • Parallel genetic origins of pelvic reduction in vertebrates

    Michael D. Shapiro;Michael A. Bell;David M. Kingsley

  • Evolution of pelvic reduction in threespine stickleback fish : a test of competing hypotheses

    Michael A. Bell;Guillermo Ortí;Jeffrey A. Walker;Jeffrey P. Koenings

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

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

  • Net evolutionary trajectories of body shape evolution within a microgeographic radiation of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Jeffrey A. Walker;Michael A. Bell

  • Hybridization, transgressive segregation, genetic covariation, and adaptive radiation

    Michael A. Bell;Matthew P. Travis

  • Evolution of Phenotypic Diversity in Gasterosteus Aculeatus Superspecies on the Pacific Coast of North America

    Michael A. Bell

  • Fishes of the World.Fourth Edition.ByJoseph S Nelson.Hoboken (New Jersey): John Wiley & Sons.$125.00. xix + 601 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐471‐25031‐7. 2006.

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  • Lateral plate evolution in the threespine stickleback: getting nowhere fast.

    Michael A. Bell

  • Evolution toward a new adaptive optimum: phenotypic evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage.

    Gene Hunt;Michael A. Bell;Matthew P. Travis

  • Threespine Stickleback: A Model System For Evolutionary Genomics.

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  • Evolution Since Darwin: The First 150 Years

    M. A. Bell;D. J. Futuyma;W. F. Eanes;J. S. Levinton

  • Evolution and development of facial bone morphology in threespine sticklebacks

    Charles B. Kimmel;Bonnie Ullmann;Charline Walker;Catherine Wilson

  • LATERAL PLATE POLYMORPHISM AND ONTOGENY OF THE COMPLETE PLATE MORPH OF THREESPINE STICKLEBACKS (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)

    Michael A. Bell

  • Phenotypic Manipulation by the Cestode Parasite Schistocephalus solidus of Its Intermediate Host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the Threespine Stickleback

    Carl P. LoBue;Michael A. Bell

  • Evolutionary paleobiology of behavior and coevolution

    Michael A. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley Stanford University
David J. McKean
David J. McKean Mayo Clinic
Guillermo Ortí
Guillermo Ortí George Washington University
Peter J. Park
Peter J. Park Harvard University
Walter Gerhard
Walter Gerhard The Wistar Institute
Patrick C. Phillips
Patrick C. Phillips University of Oregon
Jiangning Song
Jiangning Song Monash University
Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel University of Oregon
David Baines
David Baines Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
John H. Postlethwait
John H. Postlethwait University of Oregon

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