Preprints/In review
Peros M., Chang A., Martashvili A., Alvarado S.G. Facial and body coloration are linked to social rank in the African cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni. bioRxiv (In review, Behavioral Ecology)
Iya F. Hackett M., Fang W., Alvarado S.G. Sex-specific phenotypic plasticity in an African cichlid fish across lighting intensity. (In review, Journal of Fish Biology)
Bergey B., Philips L., Tajerian M., Alvarado S.G. Changes in Motivational Beliefs and Science Identity During an AI-Assisted Reading of Primary Scientific Literature (In review, Integrative Organismal Biology) (URL)
Alsoudy A., Alvarado S.G. Genome-Wide Characterization and RNA-Editing Landscape of the HSP70 Gene Family in Octopus vulgaris
2026
Chang A., Kim D.E., Kronisch T., Malayev D., Lajbner Z., Miller J., Alvarado S.G. Environmental control of morphological color changes in the Bigfin Reed Squid, Sepioteuthis lessoniana. Frontiers in Marine Science 2026
Chang A., Peroš M., Martashvili A., Taherkhani S., Magee W., Claros A., Dijkstra P.D., Alvarado S.G. Visual Environment Shapes the Social Dynamics of Coloration and Competition in an African Cichlid fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 2026 (URL) (PDF)
2025
Fang W., Blakkan D., Lee G., Bashier R. , Fernald R.D. , Alvarado S.G. DNA methylation of the endothelin receptor B makes blue fish yellow. Nature Communications (URL)(PDF)
Alvarado S.G., Chang A., Tajerian M. Convergent evolution and the epigenome. Epigenomes. (URL)(PDF)
Moore T., Bright W., Bell W., Alvarado S., Dijkstra P. Background color affects body coloration, sexual maturation, growth, and mortality rate in an African cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology (URL)(PDF)
Peros M., Vij L., Anavian E., Almeida K, Iya F., Siegman A., Fang W., Alvarado S.G. Male bluegill vary in color and behavior relative to their position in a lek. Frontiers in Ethology November (URL)(PDF)
2024
Martashvili A., Vij L., Jedwab S., Kuighadush A., Alvarado S.G. Effects of social position on subsequent courtship and mating activity in an African cichlid. Hydrobiologia November (URL)(PDF)
Tajerian, M., Alvarado S.G. Pain Research and Treatment: Policy Implications. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Volume 11, Issue 1 (URL)(PDF)
2023
Friedman D., Wexler J., Alvarado S.G. Experimental Entomology in the Age of Video. Journal of Visual Experimentation. (URL)(PDF)
2020
Alvarado S. Molecular Plasticity in Animal Pigmentation: Emerging Processes Underlying Color Changes. Integrative Comparative Biology. 2020, Pages 1531–1543 (URL)(PDF)
2019
Tajerian M., Alvarado S., and Clark J.D. Differential Olfactory Bulb Methylation and Hydroxymethylation are Linked to Odor Location Memory Bias in Injured Mice. Molecular Pain, 2019. (URL)(PDF)
2016
Massart R., Dymov S., Millecamps M., Suderman M., Gregoire S., Koenigs K., Alvarado S., Tajerian M., Stone L.S. & Szyf M. Overlapping signatures of chronic pain in the DNA methylation landscape of prefrontal cortex and peripheral T cells. Scientific Reports, 2016. (URL)(PDF)
2015
Alvarado S., Tajerian M., Suderman M., Machnes Z., Pierfelice S., Millecamps M., Stone L.S., and Szyf M. An epigenetic hypothesis for the genomic memory of pain. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 2015, (URL)(PDF)
Alvarado S., Rajakumar R., Abouheif E., Szyf M. Epigenetic variation in the Egfr gene generates quantitative variation in a complex trait in ants. Nature Communications. 2015 (URL)(PDF)
Alvarado S., Mak T., Liu S., Storey K.B., Szyf M. Dynamic changes in global and gene-specific DNA methylation during hibernation in adult thirteen-lined ground squirrels, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2015(URL)(PDF)
Alvarado S., Lenkov K., Williams B., Fernald R.D.. Social Crowding during Development Causes Changes in GnRH1 DNA Methylation. PLoSOne 2015. (URL)(PDF)
2014
Alvarado S., Fernald R.D., Storey K.B., and Szyf M.. The Dynamic Nature of DNA Methylation: A Role in Response to Social and Seasonal Variation. Integrative and Comparative Biology May 10, 2014. (URL)(PDF)
2013
Alvarado S., Wyglinski J., Suderman M., Andrews S.A., Szyf M. Methylated DNA Binding Domain Protein 2 (MBD2) Coordinately Silences Gene Expression through Activation of the MicroRNA hsa-mir-496 Promoter in Breast Cancer Cell Line. PLoSONE 2013. (URL)(PDF)
Tajerian M., Alvarado S., Millecamps M, Vachon P., Crosby C., Bushnell C., Szyf M., and Stone L.S.. Peripheral nerve injury is associated with chronic, reversible changes in global DNA methylation in the mouse prefrontal cortex. PLoSONE 2013. (URL)(PDF)
Alvarado S., Tajerian M., Millecamps M., Suderman M., Stone L.S., and Szyf M.. Peripheral nerve injury is accompanied by chronic transcriptome-wide changes in the mouse prefrontal cortex. Molecular Pain April 18, 2013. (URL)(PDF)
2011
Tajerian M, Alvarado S., Millecamps M., Dashwood T., Anderson K., Haglund L., Ouellet J., Szyf M., and Stone L. DNA methylation of SPARC and chronic low back pain. Molecular Pain 2011. (URL)(PDF)