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Altmann J, Gesquiere L, Galbany J, Onyango PO, Alberts SC. Accepted. The life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Archie EA, Maldonado JE, Henry T, Moss CJ, Poole JH, Pearson VR, Murray S, Alberts SC, Fleischer RC. In press. Major histocompatibility complex variation and evolution at a single expressed DQA locus in two genera of elephants. Immunogenetics.

Archie EA, Fitzpatrick CL, Moss CJ, Alberts SC. The population genetics of the Amboseli and Kilimanjaro elephants. To appear in: Amboseli Elephants: A Long-term Perspective on a Long-lived Mammal (ed. C. Moss, H. Croze & P. Lee). University of Chicago Press.

Archie EA, Moss CJ, Alberts SC. Friends and relations: kinship and the nature of female elephant social relationships. To appear in: Amboseli Elephants: A Long-term Perspective on a Long-lived Mammal (ed. C. Moss, H. Croze & P. Lee). University of Chicago Press.

Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Moss CJ, Alberts SC. Genetic paternity analysis of the Amboseli elephant population. To appear in: Amboseli Elephants: A Long-term Perspective on a Long-lived Mammal (ed. C. Moss, H. Croze & P. Lee). University of Chicago Press.

Beehner JC, Gesquiere L, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL, Alberts SC, Altmann J. Testosterone related to age and life history stage in male baboons and geladas. Hormones and Behaviour 56:472-480.

Chiyo PI, and Alberts SC. Commentary: An assessment of the threat to Grevy's zebra from hybridization. Animal Conservation 12:514-515.

Tung J, Primus A, Bouley A, Severson TF, Alberts SC, Wray GA. 2009. Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates. Nature 460:388-391.

Nguyen N, Van Horn RC, Alberts SC, Altmann J. 2009. "Friendships" between new mothers and adult males: adaptive benefits and determinants in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 63:1331-1344. Download

Hollister-Smith JA, Alberts SC, Rasmussen LEL. 2008. Do male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) signal musth via urine dribbling? Animal Behaviour 76: 1829-1841. Download

Gesquiere LR, Khan M, Shek L, Wango EO, Alberts SC, Altmann J. 2008. Coping with a challenging environment: seasonal variation in glucocorticoids in female baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Hormones and Behavior 54: 410-416. Download

Onyango PO, Gesquiere LR, Wango EO, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2008. Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: mother's dominance rank at conception predicts stress hormone levels in sub-adult males. Hormones and Behavior 54: 319-324. Download

Archie EA, Maldonado JE, Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Moss CJ, Fleischer RC, Alberts SC, 2008. Fine scale population genetic structure in a fission fusion society. Molecular Ecology 17: 2666-2679. Download

Nguyen N, Gesquiere L, Wango EO, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2008. Late pregnancy glucocorticoid levels predict responsiveness in wild baboon mothers (Papio cynocephalus). Animal Behavior 75: 1747-1756. Download

Tung, J, Charpentier MJE, Garfield D, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2008. Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population. Molecular Ecology 17: 1998-2011. Download

Charpentier MJE, Tung J, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2008. Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. Molecular Ecology 17: 2026-2040. Download

Van Horn RC, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2008. Can't get there from here: inferring kinship from pairwise genetic relatedness. Animal Behavior 75: 1173-1180. Download

Charpentier MJE, Van Horn RC, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2008. Paternal effects on offspring fitness in a multi-male primate society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105(6): 1988-1992. Download

Loisel DA, Alberts SC, Ober C, 2008. Functional significance of MHC variation in mate choice, reproductive outcome, and disease risk. Pages 95-108 in: Evolution in Health and Disease, 2nd edition, SC Stearns and J Koella (eds.), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Download Text Download References

Van Horn RC, Buchan JC, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2007. Divided destinies: Group choice by female savannah baboons during group fission. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 1823-1837. Download

Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Archie EA, Vance EA, Georgiadis NJ, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2007. Age, musth and paternity success in wild African elephants, Loxodonta africana. Animal Behaviour 74: 287-296.Download

Charpentier MJE, Widdig A, Alberts SC, 2007. Inbreeding depression in nonhuman primates: A historical review of methods used and empirical data. American Journal of Primatology Online Advance Publication 07 May 2007. Download

Tung J, Rudolph J, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2007. Parallel effects of genetic variation in ACE activity in baboons and humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134: 1-8. Download

Gesquiere LR, Wango EO, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2007. Mechanisms of sexual selection: Sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons. Hormones and Behavior 51: 114-125. Download

Loisel DA, Rockman MV, Wray GA, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2006. Ancient polymorphism and functional variation in the primate MHC-DQA1 5' cis-regulatory region. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 16331-16336. Download

Alberts SC, Buchan JC, Altmann J, 2006. Sexual selection in wild baboons: from mating opportunities to paternity success. Animal Behavior 72: 1177- 1196. Download

Silk JB, Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2006. Social relationships among adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus) II: Variation in the quality and stability of social bonds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:197-204. Download

Beehner JC, Onderdonk D, Alberts SC , Altmann J, 2006. The ecology of reproductive failure in wild baboons. Behavioral Ecology 17: 741-750. Download

Alberts SC and Altmann J, 2006. The evolutionary past and the research future: environmental variation and life history flexibility in a primate lineage. Pages 277-303: L. Swedell and S. Leigh (eds): Reproductive Fitness in Baboons: Behavioral, Ecological and Life History Perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Download

Beehner JC, Nguyen N, Alberts SC , Altmann J, 2006. The endocrinology of pregnancy and fetal loss in wild baboons. Hormones and Behavior 49:688-699. Download

Archie EA, Morrison TA, Foley CA, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2006. Dominance rank relationships among wild female African elephants, Loxodonta africana. Animal Behaviour 71: 117-127. Download

Archie EA, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2006. The ties that bind: Genetic relatedness predicts the fission and fusion of social groups in wild African elephants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 273: 513-522. Published in the FirstCite Early Online edition, 6 Dec 2005. Download

Gesquiere LR, Altmann J, Khan MZ, Couret J, Yu JC, Endres CS, Lynch JW, Ogola P, Fox EA, Alberts SC, Wango E. 2005. Coming of age: steroid hormones of wild immature baboons, Papio cynocephalus. American Journal of Primatology 67:83-100. Download

Alberts SC, Hollister-Smith J, Mututua RS, Sayialel SN, Muruthi PM, Warutere JK, Altmann J, 2005. Seasonality and long-term change in a savannah environment. In: D. K. Brockman and C. P. van Schaik (eds): Seasonality in Primates: Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates. Pages 157-196. Cambridge University Press. Download

Buchan JC, Archie EA, Van Horn RC, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2005. Locus effects and sources of error in non-invasive genotyping. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:680-683. Download

Morrison TA, Chiyo PI, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2005. Measures of dung bolus size for known age African elephants: implications for age estimation. Journal of Zoology, London 266: 89-94. Download

Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2005. Growth rates in a wild primate population: ecological influences and maternal effects. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 57: 490-501. Download

Altmann J, Lynch JW, Nguyen N, Alberts SC, Gesquiere LR, 2004. Life history correlates of steroid concentrations in wild peripartum baboons. American Journal of Primatology 64: 95-106. Download

Silk JB, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2004. Patterns of coalition formation by adult female baboons in Amboseli, Kenya. Animal Behaviour 67: 573-582. Download

Silk JB, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2003. Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. Science 302: 1231-1234. Download

Buchan J, Alberts SC, Silk JB, Altmann J, 2003. True paternal care in a multi-male primate society.  Nature 425: 179-181. Download article. Download News&Views by Sherman and Neff.

Archie EA, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2003. Characterization of tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana africana). Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 244-246. Download

Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2003. Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in baboons. American Journal of Human Biology 15: 401-409. Download

Hahn NE, Proulx D, Muruthi PM, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2003. Gastrointestinal parasites in free-ranging Kenyan baboons (Papio cynocephalus and P. anubis). International Journal of Primatology 24: 271-279.

Alberts SC, Watts H, Altmann J, 2003.  Queuing and queue jumping: long term patterns of reproductive skew among male savannah baboons.  Animal Behaviour 65: 821 840. Download

Smith K, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2003. Wild female baboons bias their social behaviour towards paternal half-sisters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 503-510. Download

Alberts SC and Altmann J,   2003.  Matrix models for primate life history analysis.  In: Primate Life Histories and Socioecology,  P. Kappeler and M. Pereira (eds), pp. 66-102. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Altmann J, Alberts SC, 2003. Intraspecific variability in fertility and offpsring survival in a non-human primate: behavioral control of ecological and social sources. In: K. W. Wachter and R.A. Bulatao (eds): Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in a Biodemographic Perspective. pp. 140-169. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press.

Zinner D, Alberts SC, Nunn CL, Altmann J, 2002. Significance of primate sexual swellings. Nature 420:142-143. Download

Storz JF, Beaumont MA, Alberts SC, 2002. Genetic evidence for long-term population decline in a savannah-dwelling primate: inferences from a hierarchical Bayesian model. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1981-1990. Download

Altmann J, Alberts SC, Altmann S, Roy SB, 2002.  Dramatic change in local climate patterns in the Amboseli basin, Kenya.  African Journal of Ecology 40:248-251. Download

Bronikowski A, Alberts SC, Altmann J, Packer C, Carey KD, Tatar M, 2002.  The aging baboon: Comparative demography in a nonhuman primate.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99(14):9591–9595. Download

Semple S, McComb K, Alberts SC, Altmann J, 2002.  Sources of variation in the copulation calls of female yellow baboons.  American Journal of Primatology 56:43-56. Download

Storz JF, Ramakrishnan U, Alberts SC, 2002.  Genetic effective size of a wild primate population: influence of current and historical demography.  Evolution 56:817-829. Download

Storz JF, Ramakrishnan U, Alberts SC, 2001.  Determinants of effective population size for loci with different modes of inheritance.  Journal of Heredity 92:497-502. Download

Alberts SC and Altmann J, 2001.  Immigration and hybridization patterns of yellow and anubis baboons in Amboseli, Kenya.  American Journal of Primatology 53:139-154. Download

Bayes MK, Smith KL, Alberts SC, Cheesman DJ, Altmann J, Bruford MW, 2000.  Fecal DNA genotyping in the savannah baboon: history, problems and data.  Conservation Genetics 1:173-176. Download

Smith KL, Alberts SC,  Bayes MK, Bruford MW, Altmann J, Ober C,  2000.  Cross-species amplification, non-invasive genotyping, and non-Mendelian inheritance of human STRPs in savannah baboons.  American Journal of Primatology 51: 219-227. Download

Alberts SC,  1999.  Paternal kin discrimination in wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:1501-1506. Download

Alberts SC,  1999.  Thirteen Mhc-DQA1 alleles from two populations of baboons.  Immunogenetics 49:  825-827. Download

Sapolsky R , Alberts SC, Altmann J, 1997. Hypercortisolism associated with social subordinance or social isolation among wild baboons.  Archives of General Psychiatry  54: 1137-1143. Download

Altmann J, Alberts SC, Haines SA, Dubach J, Muruthi P, Coote T, Geffen E, Cheesman DJ, Mututua RS, Saiyalel SN, Wayne RK, Lacy RC, and Bruford MW,  1996.  Behavior predicts genetic structure in a wild primate group. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 93:5797-5801. Download

Alberts SC, Altmann J, Wilson M,   1996.  Mate guarding constrains foraging activity of male baboons.  Animal Behaviour. 51:1269-1277. Download

Alberts SC and Altmann J,  1995.  Preparation and activation: determinants of reproductive  maturity in male baboons.   Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 36: 397-406.

Alberts SC and Altmann J,  1995. Balancing costs and opportunities: dispersal in male baboons.  American Naturalist   145:279-306. Download

Alberts SC,  1994.  Vigilance in young baboons: effects of habitat, age, sex and maternal rank on glance rate.  Animal Behaviour 47: 749-755.

Alberts SC and Ober C,  1993.  Genetic variability in the major histocompatibility complex:  a review of non-pathogen-mediated selective mechanisms.  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36: 71-90.

Alberts SC, Sapolsky RM, and Altmann J,  1992.  Behavioral, endocrine, and immunological correlates of immigration by an aggressive male into a natural primate group.  Hormones and Behavior 26: 167-178.

Altmann J, Alberts SC, and Sapolsky RM,  1992.  Endocrine and developmental correlates of unilateral cryptorchidism in a wild baboon.  American Journal of Primatology 26: 309-314.

Altmann J and Alberts SC,  1987.  Body mass and growth rates in a wild primate population.  Oecologia 72: 15-20.

Alberts SC,  1987.  Parental care in captive siamangs (Hylobates syndactylus).  Zoo Biology  6: 401-406.