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titleboxALEXA E. BELY titlebox

professor pictureAssistant Professor

email:abely@umd.edu
phone:
301.405.0225 (office)
301.405.0453 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:0220 Bio-Psych
graduate programs: Biology, BEES
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

Recent Publications


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.

Bely, A. E. and G. A. Wray (2001). Evolution of regeneration and fission in annelids: insights from engrailed- and orthodenticle- class gene expression. Development 128:2781-2791.

Huang, F. Z., A. E. Bely and D. A. Weisblat (2001). Stochastic WNT-signaling between non-equivalent cells regulates adhesion but not fate in the 2-cell leech embryo. Current Biology 11:1-7.

Bely, A. E. (1999). Decoupling of fission and regenerative capabilities in an asexual oligochaete. Hydrobiologia 406:243-251.