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Andrew MacColl

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

B.Sc. Ecological Science, University of Edinburgh, 1990. Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, 1998. Research assistant, University of Cambridge 1990 -1994. Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Edinburgh, 1999. Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Sheffield, 2000 - 2003. Royal Society Travelling Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2004. NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, 糖心原创, 2005 - 2008. Lecturer, 糖心原创, 2005 - 2013. Associate Professor, 糖心原创, 2013 - 2019. Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, 2019 - present.

Expertise Summary

Population ecology of vertebrates.

Ecology of freshwater fish, especially stickleback.

Fish parasitology.

Fieldwork.

Population genomics.

Teaching Summary

I teach a second year residential 'Biodiversity Field Course' which goes to the area around Dovedale in the English Peak District each September. Students learn basic ecological surveying and… read more

Research Summary

The main theme of our research is to understand the role of ecology in driving natural selection and how this can produce the divergent evolution between populations that accumulates into speciation.… read more

Selected Publications

  • SIEPIELSKI, ADAM M., MORRISSEY, MICHAEL B., BUORO, MATHIEU, CARLSON, STEPHANIE M., CARUSO, CHRISTINA M., CLEGG, SONYA M., COULSON, TIM, DIBATTISTA, JOSEPH, GOTANDA, KIYOKO M., FRANCIS, CLINTON D., HEREFORD, JOE, KINGSOLVER, JOEL G., AUGUSTINE, KATE E., KRUUK, LOESKE E. B., MARTIN, RYAN A., SHELDON, BEN C., SLETVOLD, NINA, SVENSSON, ERIK I., WADE, MICHAEL J. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. SCIENCE. 355(6328), 959-+
  • MAGALHAES IS, D'AGOSTINO D, HOHENLOHE PA and MACCOLL AD, 2016. Molecular ecology. 25(17), 4319-36
  • ROBERTSON, SHAUN, BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2016. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES. 16(3), 701-713
  • EL NAGAR A and MACCOLL AD, 2016. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 283(1836),

I teach a second year residential 'Biodiversity Field Course' which goes to the area around Dovedale in the English Peak District each September. Students learn basic ecological surveying and identification skills, as well as how to handle biodiversity data.

I also teach a third year 'Evolutionary Ecology' course in the autumn term. The content focuses on how evolution is driven by the ecology of organisms, especially interactions within and between species (competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism).

Current Research

The main theme of our research is to understand the role of ecology in driving natural selection and how this can produce the divergent evolution between populations that accumulates into speciation. Our approach is based on the integration of theory, observation and experiment. We are interested in the relative importance of different selective agents in directing evolution. In general little is known about whether evolution is driven mainly by the abiotic environment or by ecological interactions such as competition, predation and parasitism. Classical ecology has focussed on the part played by competition between organisms in determining individual success (and hence evolution). Other ecological interactions have received less attention. Parasitism in particular has been poorly studied as a driver of evolution in host populations. Three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) are a good model species because they are common, widely distributed and easy to keep in the lab. A great deal is known about their natural history and genetics (their genome has been sequenced). They are particularly interesting because they exhibit a great deal of phenotypic and genetic diversity between populations. We have worked on stickleback in many global locations, including Alaska, British Columbia and Iceland, but we focus in particular on an adaptive radiation of stickleback in lochs on the Scottish island of North Uist. The fish exhibit striking variation between populations within a very small area, largely as a result of underlying differences in water chemistry and associated ecology.

  • DEAN, LAURA L., DUNSTAN, HANNAH R., REDDISH, AMELIA and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2021. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 11(4), 1741-1755
  • MAGALHAES, IS, WHITING, JR, D'AGOSTINO, D, HOHENLOHE, PA, MAHMUD, M, BELL, MA, SKULASON, S and MACCOLL, ADC, 2021. Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 5, 251-261
  • WHITING, JR, MAHMUD, M, BRADLEY, JE and MACCOLL, ADC, 2020. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 287, 20201017
  • XIE, K.T. ET AL., 2019. Science. 363, 81-84
  • HAENEL, Q. ET AL., 2019. Evolution Letters. 28-42
  • DEAN, L.L. ET AL., 2019. Scientific Reports. 9, 2395
  • GOERTZ, SARAH, DE MENEZES, ALEXANDRE B, BIRTLES, RICHARD J, FENN, JONATHAN, LOWE, ANN E, MACCOLL, ANDREW D C, POULIN, BENOIT, YOUNG, STUART, BRADLEY, JANETTE E and TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER H, 2019. PloS one. 14(9), e0222501
  • SINGKAM, A.R and MACCOLL, A.D.C, 2019. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 20(1-3), 265-298
  • TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER H., YOUNG, STUART, FENN, JONATHAN, LAMB, ANGELA L., LOWE, ANN E., POULIN, BENOIT, MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C. and BRADLEY, JANETTE E., 2019. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY. 33(8), 1425-1435
  • DEAN LL, MAGALHAES IS, FOOTE A, D'AGOSTINO D, MCGOWAN S and MACCOLL ADC, 2019. Molecular biology and evolution. 36(11), 2481-2497
  • WHITING JR, MAGALHAES IS, SINGKAM AR, ROBERTSON S, D'AGOSTINO D, BRADLEY JE and MACCOLL ADC, 2018. Molecular ecology. 27(15), 3174-3191
  • SIEPIELSKI, ADAM M, MORRISSEY, MICHAEL B, BUORO, MATHIEU, CARLSON, STEPHANIE M, CARUSO, CHRISTINA M, CLEGG, SONYA M, COULSON, TIM, DIBATTISTA, JOSEPH, GOTANDA, KIYOKO M, FRANCIS, CLINTON D, HEREFORD, JOE, KINGSOLVER, JOEL G, AUGUSTINE, KATE E, KRUUK, LOESKE E B, MARTIN, RYAN A, SHELDON, BEN C, SLETVOLD, NINA, SVENSSON, ERIK I, WADE, MICHAEL J and MACCOLL, ANDREW D C, 2018. Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection". Science (New York, N.Y.). 359(6374),
  • SINGKAM, A.R and MACCOLL, A.D.C, 2018. Journal of Fish Biology. 93(2), 272-281
  • HEWARD, C.J, HOODLESS, A.N, CONWAY, G.J, FULLER, R.J and MACCOLL, A.D.C, 2018. Journal of Ornithology. 159(4), 955-965
  • SIEPIELSKI, ADAM M., MORRISSEY, MICHAEL B., BUORO, MATHIEU, CARLSON, STEPHANIE M., CARUSO, CHRISTINA M., CLEGG, SONYA M., COULSON, TIM, DIBATTISTA, JOSEPH, GOTANDA, KIYOKO M., FRANCIS, CLINTON D., HEREFORD, JOE, KINGSOLVER, JOEL G., AUGUSTINE, KATE E., KRUUK, LOESKE E. B., MARTIN, RYAN A., SHELDON, BEN C., SLETVOLD, NINA, SVENSSON, ERIK I., WADE, MICHAEL J. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. SCIENCE. 355(6328), 959-+
  • ROBERTSON, SHAUN, BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 7,
  • YOUNG, REBECCA E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. PARASITOLOGY. 144(4), 436-449
  • ROBERTSON, SHAUN, BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. No evidence of local adaptation of immune responses to Gyrodactylus in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY. 60, 275-281
  • CARUSO, CM, MARTIN, RA, SLETVOLD, N, MORRISSEY, MB, WADE, MJ, AUGUSTINE, KE, CARLSON, SM, SIEPIELSKI, AM, MACCOLL ADC and KINGSOLVER, JG, 2017. American Naturalist. 190(3), 363-376
  • MAHMUD, MUAYAD A., BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2017. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY. 31(11), 2138-2146
  • ROBERTSON, SHAUN, BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2016. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES. 16(3), 701-713
  • RAHN AK, E脽ER E, REHER S, IHLOW F, MACCOLL AD and BAKKER TC, 2016. Zoology (Jena, Germany). 119(4), 395-402
  • MAGALHAES IS, D'AGOSTINO D, HOHENLOHE PA and MACCOLL AD, 2016. Molecular ecology. 25(17), 4319-36
  • RAHN AK, KRASSMANN J, TSOBANIDIS K, MACCOLL AD and BAKKER TC, 2016. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases. 44, 261-71
  • EL NAGAR A and MACCOLL AD, 2016. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 283(1836),
  • ROBERTSON, SHAUN, BRADLEY, JANETTE E. and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2016. Parallelism and divergence in immune responses: a comparison of expression levels in two lakes EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH. 17(2), 263-278
  • WILFRED, PAULO and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2016. TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE. 9(3),
  • WILFRED, PAULO and MACCOLL, ANDREW, 2015. LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EXTENT OF WILDLIFE POACHING FOR BUSHMEAT IN A GAME RESERVE, WESTERN TANZANIA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSERVATION SCIENCE. 6(1), 99-110
  • ROBERTSON S, BRADLEY JE and MACCOLL AD, 2015. Molecular ecology resources. 16(3), 701-13
  • MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., FEU, CHRISTOPHER R. and WAIN, STEPHEN P., 2014. IBIS. 156(3), 561-575
  • WILFRED, PAULO and MACCOLL, ANDREW, 2014. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 52(4), 543-551
  • WILFRED, P and MACCOLL, A, 2014. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH. 60(2), 371-376
  • MACCOLL AD and AUCOTT B, 2014. Ecology and evolution. 4(18), 3509-13
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C., STEVENSON, I.R. and RICHARDSON, D.S., 2013. Melanocortin-1-receptor (MC1R) variation is not associated with parasite burdens in a neotropical bird, the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. (In Press.)
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C., EL NAGAR, A. and DE ROIJ, J., 2013. Journal of Animal Ecology. 82(3), 642-652
  • DE ROIJ, JOB and MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2012. PARASITOLOGY. 139(11), 1478-1491
  • MACCOLL, ANDREW D. C., 2012. The story of O: reply to Moya-Larano TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 27(3), 140-140
  • DE ROIJ, J., HARRIS, P.D. and MACCOLL, D.C., 2011. Functional Ecology. 25(1), 217-226
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C., 2011. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 26(10), 514-522
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and CHAPMAN, S.J., 2011. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104, 877-885.
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and CHAPMAN, S.M., 2010. Functional Ecology. 24(4), 847-856
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C., 2009. Ecography. 32(1), 153-160
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C., 2009. Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society. 96(2), 425-433
  • PIERTNEY, S.B., LAMBIN, X., MACCOLL, A.D.C., LOCK, K., BACON, P.J., DALLAS, J.F., LECKIE, F., MOUGEOT, F., RACEY, P.A., REDPATH, S. and MOSS, R., 2008. Molecular Ecology. 17(10), 2544-2551
  • RUCKSTUHL, K.E., MANICA, A., MACCOLL, A.D.C., PILKINGTON, J.G. and CLUTTON-BROCK, T.H., 2006. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 59(5), 694-703
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and HATCHWELL, B.J., 2004. Journal of Animal Ecology. 73(6), 1137-1148
  • HATCHWELL, B.J., RUSSELL, A.F., MACCOLL, A.D.C., ROSS, D.J., FOWLIE, M.K. and MCGOWAN, A., 2004. Behavioral Ecology. 15(1), 1-10
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and HATCHWELL, B.J., 2003. Evolution. 57(9), 2191-2195
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and STEVENSON, I.R., 2003. Condor. 105(4), 821-824
  • MACCOLL, ADC and HATCHWELL, BJ, 2003. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 66, 955-964
  • MACCOLL, A.D.C. and HATCHWELL, B.J., 2002. American Naturalist. 160(2), 186-194
  • MACCOLL, A. D. C., PIERTNEY, S. B., MOSS, R. and LAMBIN, X., 2000. Oikos. VOL 90(PART 2), 261-270
  • PIERTNEY, S. B., MACCOLL, A. D.C, BACON, P. J., RACEY, P. A., LAMBIN, X. and DALLAS, J. F., 2000. Evolution. VOL 54(PART 1), 279-289
  • PIERTNEY, S. B., MACCOLL, A. D. C., LAMBIN, X., MOSS, R. and DALLAS, J. F., 1999. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. VOL 68(NUMBER 1/2), 317-331
  • CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H., MACCOLL, A., CHADWICK, P., GAYNOR, D., KANSKY, R. and SKINNER, J. D., 1999. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. VOL 37(NUMBER 1), 69-80
  • COLTMAN, D.W., SMITH, J.A., BANCROFT, D.R., PILKINGTON, J., MACCOLL, A.D.C., CLUTTON-BROCK,T.H. and PEMBERTON, J.M., 1999. American Naturalist. 154(6), 730-746
  • PIERTNEY, S. B., MACCOLL, A. D. C., BACON, P. J. and DALLAS, J. F., 1998. Molecular Ecology. VOL 7(NUMBER 12), 1645-1654
  • CLUTTON-BROCK, TH, GAYNOR, D, KANSKY, R, MACCOLL, ADC, MCILRATH, G, CHADWICK, P, BROTHERTON, PNM, O'RIAIN, JM, MANSER, M and SKINNER, JD, 1998. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 265(1392), 185-190
  • CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H., ILLIUS, A. W., WILSON, K., GRENFELL, B. T., MACCOLL, A. D. C. and ALBON, S. D., 1997. American Naturalist. VOL 149(NUMBER 2), 195-219
  • CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H., STEVENSON, I. R., MARROW, P., MACCOLL, A. D., HOUSTON, A. I. and MCNAMARA, J. M., 1996. Journal of Animal Ecology. VOL 65(NUMBER 6), 675-689
  • BANCROFT, D. R., PEMBERTON, J. M., ALBON, S. D., ROBERTSON, A., MACCOLL, A.D.C., SMITH, J.A., STEVENSON, I.R. and CLUTTON-BROCK, T.H, 1995. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. VOL 347(ISSUE 1321), 263
  • CLUTTON-BROCK,T.H., PRICE,O.F. and MACCOLL,A.D.C., 1992. Behavioral Ecology. 3(3), 234-242

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