Publications

*co-first author

†Undergraduate co-author

1. Taylor DS, Allotey AA, Fanelli RE, Satyanarayana SB, Bettadapura SS, Wyatt CR†, Landen JG, Nelson AC, Schmitt EE, Bruns DR, Bedford NL (2025). Diurnal Regulation of Urinary Behavior and Gene Expression in Aged Mice. bioRxiv, 2025-03. [Preprint]. In Revision at Journal of Gerontology.

2. Landen JG, Vandendoren M, Killmer S†, Bedford NL, Nelson AC (2024). Huddling substates in mice facilitate dynamic changes in body temperature and are modulated by Shank3b and Trpm8 mutation. Communications Biology, 7(1), 1186.

3. Rogers JF, Vandendoren M, Prather JF, Landen JG, Bedford NL, Nelson AC (2024). Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105667.

4. Kautt AF, Chen J, Lewarch CL, Hu CK, Turner K, Lassance JM, Baier F, Bedford NL, Bendesky A, Hoekstra HE (2024). Evolution of gene expression across brain regions in behaviorally divergent deer mice and their hybrids. Molecular Ecology, e17270.

5. Vandendoren M, Rogers JF, Landen JG, Killmer S†, Alimiri B, Pohlman C†, Tattersall GJ, Bedford NL, Nelson AC (2024). Oxytocin neurons signal state-dependent transitions to thermogenesis and behavioral arousal in social and non-social settings. bioRxiv, 2024-10. [Preprint]. In Revision at eLife.

6. Bedford NL*, Weber JN*, Tong W, Baier F, Kam A†, Greenberg RA†, Hoekstra HE (2022). Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice. Evolution Letters, 6(4): 330-340.

7. Hu CK, York RA, Metz HC, Bedford NL, Fraser HB, Hoekstra HE (2022). Cis-regulatory changes in locomotor genes are associated with the evolution of burrowing behavior. Cell Reports, 38(7): 110360.

8. Bedford NL, Gable JT, Hu CK, Wooldridge TB, Sokolov NA†, Lassance JM, Hoekstra HE (2021). Automated tracking reveals the social networks of beach mice and their burrows. bioRxiv, 2021-08. [Preprint].

9. Metz HC*, Bedford NL*, Pan L†, Hoekstra HE (2017). Evolution and genetics of precocious burrowing behavior in Peromyscus mice. Current Biology, 27(24): 3837-3845.e3.

10. Bay RA, Arnegard ME, Conte GL, Best J, Bedford NL, McCann SR, Dubin ME, Chan YF, Jones FC, Kingsley DM, Schluter D, Peichel CL (2017). Genetic coupling of female mate choice with polygenic ecological divergence facilitates stickleback speciation. Current Biology, 27(21): 3344-3349.e4

11. Bedford NL and Hoekstra HE (2015). The Natural History of Model Organisms: Peromyscus mice as a model for studying natural variation. eLife, 4, e06813.

12. Arnegard ME, McGee MD, Matthews B, Marchinko KB, Conte GL, Kabir S, Bedford N, Bergek S, Chan YF, Jones FC, Kingsley DM, Peichel, CL Schluter D (2014). Genetics of ecological divergence during speciation. Nature, 511(7509): 307–311.

Complete list of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/nicole.bedford.2/bibliography/public/