Alexandra Bely

Alexandra Bely

Biology

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office Phone: 301.405.0225
Lab: 301.405.0239
Fax: 301.314.9358
Office Address: 0220 Bio-Psych

Graduate Program Affiliations

  • BISI - Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • BISI - Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)

Research Interests

Evolution of regeneration; invertebrate asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution.

Recent Publications

  • Bely, A. E. and K. G. Nyberg (in press, 2010) Evolution of animal regeneration: re-emergence of a field. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
  • Sikes, J. M. and A. E. Bely (2008) Radical modification of the A-P axis and the evolution of asexual reproduction in Convolutriloba acoels. Evolution & Development 10: 619-631.
  • Bely, A. E. (2006). Distribution of segment regeneration ability in the Annelida. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46(4): 508-518.
  • Bely, A. E. and D. A. Weisblat (2006). Lessons from leeches: a call for DNA barcoding in the lab. Evolution & Development. 8(6): 491-501.
  • Siddall, M. E., A. E. Bely, and E. Borda (2006). Hirudinida" In Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida (Rouse, G. and F. Pleijel, eds). Science Publishers: Enfield, NH. Pp. 393-429.
  • Bely, A. E. and G. A. Wray (2004). Molecular phylogeny of naidid worms (Annelida: Clitellata) based on cytochrome oxidase I. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 50-63.

Education

Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999.
regeneration; evolution; asexual reproduction; development; invertebrate; animal body plan evolution; evolutionary developmental biology