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Susan Alberts' Publications (as of 11 December 2009)
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
Archie EA, Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, 2007. Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants. Molecular Ecology 16: 4138-4148. DownloadVan 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) I: Variations in the strenth of social bonds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:183-195. DownloadSilk 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.
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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
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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.