Dr Amy Ellison
Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Affiliations
Contact info
- Name
- Dr Amy Ellison
- Position
- Lecturer in Biological Sciences
- a.ellison@bangor.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44(0)1248 388437
- Location
- School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
A continuous feast of bramble: Rubus fruticosus agg. is a key cross-seasonal dietary resource for a fallow deer population
Gresham, A., Pillay, K., Healey, J., Eichhorn, M., Ellison, A., Lowe, A., Creer, S., Cordes, L. & Shannon, G., 10 Feb 2025, In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 6, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A neglected fish stressor: mechanical disturbance during transportation impacts susceptibility to disease in a globally important ornamental fish
Masud, N., Ellison, A. & Cable, J., Apr 2019, In: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 134, p. 25-32Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Artificial light and cloud cover interact to disrupt celestial migrations at night
Burke, L., Davies, T. W., Wilcockson, D., Jenkins, S. & Ellison, A., Sept 2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 943, 173790.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bacillus indicus and Bacillus subtilis as alternative health and colouration promoters to synthetic astaxanthin in cyprinid aquaculture species.
Baumgärtner, S., Creer, S., Jones, C., James, J. & Ellison, A., 15 Jan 2024, In: Aquaculture. 578, 740016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Best of both worlds? Association between outcrossing and parasite loads in a selfing fish
Ellison, A., Cable, J. & Consuegra, S., Oct 2011, In: Evolution. 65, 10, p. 3021-3026Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Choosy males could help explain androdioecy in a selfing fish
Ellison, A., Jones, J., Inchley, C. & Consuegra, S., 1 Jun 2013, In: American Naturalist. 181, 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chytrid fungus infection in zebrafish demonstrates that the pathogen can parasitize non-amphibian vertebrate hosts
Liew, N., Moya, M. J. M., Wierzbicki, C. J., Hollinshead, M., Dillon, M. J., Thornton, C. R., Ellison, A., Cable, J., Fisher, M. C. & Mostowy, S., 20 Apr 2017, In: Nature Communications. 8, 15048.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Circadian dynamics of the teleost skin immune-microbiome interface
Ellison, A., Wilcockson, D. & Cable, J., 16 Nov 2021, In: Microbiome. 9, 1, 18 p., 222.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparative transcriptomics reveal conserved impacts of rearing density on immune response of two important aquaculture species
Ellison, A., Uren Webster, T. M., Rodriguez-Barreto, D., Garcia de Leaniz, C., Consuegra, S., Orozco-terWengel, P. & Cable, J., Sept 2020, In: Fish and Shellfish Immunology. 104, p. 192-201Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conservation and divergence in the frog immunome: pyrosequencing and de novo assembly of immune tissue transcriptomes
Savage, A. E., Kiemnec-Tyburczy, K. M., Ellison, A. R., Fleischer, R. C. & Zamudio, K. R., 1 Jun 2014, In: Gene. 542, 2, p. 98-108Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cost of a deprived environment – increased intraspecific aggression and susceptibility to pathogen infections
Masud, N., Ellison, A., Pope, E. & Cable, J., 22 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 223, 20Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Crayfish plague affects juvenile survival and adult behaviour of invasive signal crayfish
Thomas, J. R., Robinson, C., Mrugała, A., Ellison, A., Matthews, E., Griffiths, S., Consuegra, S. & Cable, J., May 2020, In: Parasitology. 147, 6, p. 706-714Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Daily patterns in parasite processes: diel variation in fish louse transcriptomes
Hunt, R., Cable, J. & Ellison, A., Jul 2022, In: International Journal for Parasitology. 52, 8, p. 509-518 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Depletion of MHC supertype during domestication can compromise immunocompetence
Smallbone, W., Ellison, A., Poulton, S., van Oosterhout, C. & Cable, J., Feb 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 3, p. 736-746Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental DNA metabarcoding for fish diversity assessment in a macrotidal estuary: A comparison with established fish survey methods
Gibson, T., Carvalho, G., Ellison, A., Gargiulo, E., Hatton-Ellis, T., Handley, L. L., Mariani, S., Collins, R. A., Sellers, G., Distaso, M., Zampieri, C. & Creer, S., 1 Nov 2023, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 294, 108522.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental DNA reveals ecologically relevant spatial and temporal variation in fish assemblages between estuaries and seasons
Gibson, T., Baillie, C., Collins, R. A., Wangensteen, O. S., Corrigan, L., Ellison, A., Heddell-Cowie, M., Westoby, H., Byatt, B., Lawson-Handley, L., Soto, A. Z., Creer, S., Genner, M. J. & Mariani, S., 1 Aug 2024, In: Ecological Indicators. 165, 112215.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental diel variation, parasite loads, and local population structuring of a mixed‐mating mangrove fish
Ellison, A., Wright, P., Taylor, D. S., Cooper, C., Regan, K., Currie, S. & Consuegra, S., 19 Jun 2012, In: Ecology and Evolution. 2, 7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Epigenetic regulation of sex ratios may explain natural variation in self-fertilization rates
Ellison, A., Rodriguez Lopez, C. M., Moran, P., Breen, J., Swain, M., Megias, M., Hegarty, M., Wilkinson, M., Pawluk, R. & Consuegra, S., 22 Nov 2015, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282, 1819, 20151900.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fighting a Losing Battle: Vigorous Immune Response Countered by Pathogen Suppression of Host Defenses in the Chytridiomycosis-Susceptible Frog Atelopus zeteki
Ellison, A. R., Savage, A. E., DiRenzo, G. V., Langhammer, P., Lips, K. R. & Zamudio, K. R., 1 Jul 2014, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 4, 7, p. 1275-1289Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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First in vivo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis transcriptomes reveal mechanisms of host exploitation, host-specific gene expression, and expressed genotype shifts
Ellison, A. R., DiRenzo, G. V., McDonald, C. A., Lips, K. R. & Zamudio, K. R., 1 Jan 2017, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 7, 1, p. 269-278Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gene expression varies within and between enzootic and epizootic lineages of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in the Americas
McDonald, C. A., Ellison, A., Toledo, L. F., James, T. Y. & Zamudio, K. R., Jan 2020, In: Fungal Biology. 124, 1, p. 34-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Genetic assimilation of ancestral plasticity during parallel adaptation to Zinc contamination in Silene uniflora
Wood, D., Holmberg, J., Osborne, O., Helmstetter, A. J., Dunning, L. T., Ellison, A., Smith, R. J., Lighten, J. & Papadopulos, A. S. T., Mar 2023, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7, 3, p. 414-423 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology
Cable, J., Barber, I., Boag, B., Ellison, A. R., Morgan, E. R., Murray, K., Pascoe, E. L., Sait, S. M., Wilson, A. J. & Booth, M., 13 Mar 2017, In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 372, 1719, 20160088.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Host allometry influences the evolution of parasite host-generalism: theory and meta-analysis
Walker, J. G., Hurford, A., Cable, J., Ellison, A. R., Price, S. J. & Cressler, C. E., 5 May 2017, In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 372, 1719Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Inbred and furious: negative association between aggression and genetic diversity in highly inbred fish
Ellison, A., Garcia de Leaniz, C. & Consuegra, S., Apr 2013, In: Molecular Ecology. 22, 8, p. 2292-2300Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review