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Delaunay A, Baniel A, Dezeure J, Carter AJ, Cowlishaw G, Charpentier MJ, Huchard E. Transition to siblinghood in a wild chacma baboon population. Anim Behav 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Dezeure J, Burtschell L, Baniel A, Carter AJ, Godelle B, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons. Am Nat 2023; 201:106-124. [PMID: 36524939 DOI: 10.1086/722082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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AbstractAnimal reproductive phenology varies from strongly seasonal to nonseasonal, sometimes among closely related or sympatric species. While the extent of reproductive seasonality is often attributed to environmental seasonality, this fails to explain many cases of nonseasonal breeding in seasonal environments. We investigated the evolutionary determinants of nonseasonal breeding in a wild primate, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), living in a seasonal environment with high climatic unpredictability. We tested three hypotheses proposing that nonseasonal breeding has evolved in response to (1) climatic unpredictability, (2) reproductive competition between females favoring birth asynchrony, and (3) individual, rank-dependent variations in optimal reproductive timing. We found strong support for an effect of reproductive asynchrony modulated by rank: (i) birth synchrony is costly to subordinate females, lengthening their interbirth intervals; (ii) females alter their reproductive timings (fertility periods and conceptions) in relation to previous conceptions in the group; and (iii) the reported effect of birth synchrony on interbirth intervals weakens the intensity of reproductive seasonality at the population level. This study emphasizes the importance of sociality in mediating the evolution of reproductive phenology in group-living organisms, a result of broad significance for understanding key demographic parameters driving population responses to increasing climatic fluctuations.
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Schneider-Crease IA, Feder JA, Baniel A, McCann C, Haile AA, Abebe B, Fitzgerald L, Gomery MA, Simberloff RA, Petrie ZL, Gabriel S, Dorny P, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A. Urinary neopterin reflects immunological variation associated with age, helminth parasitism, and the microbiome in a wild primate. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21307. [PMID: 36494454 PMCID: PMC9734142 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25298-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Neopterin, a product of activated white blood cells, is a marker of nonspecific inflammation that can capture variation in immune investment or disease-related immune activity and can be collected noninvasively in urine. Mounting studies in wildlife point to lifetime patterns in neopterin related to immune development, aging, and certain diseases, but rarely are studies able to assess whether neopterin can capture multiple concurrent dimensions of health and disease in a single system. We assessed the relationship between urinary neopterin stored on filter paper and multiple metrics of health and disease in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada), primates endemic to the Ethiopian highlands. We tested whether neopterin captures age-related variation in inflammation arising from developing immunity in infancy and chronic inflammation in old age, inflammation related to intramuscular tapeworm infection, helminth-induced anti-inflammatory immunomodulation, and perturbations in the gastrointestinal microbiome. We found that neopterin had a U-shaped relationship with age, no association with larval tapeworm infection, a negative relationship with metrics related to gastrointestinal helminth infection, and a negative relationship with microbial diversity. Together with growing research on neopterin and specific diseases, our results demonstrate that urinary neopterin can be a powerful tool for assessing multiple dimensions of health and disease in wildlife.
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- India A. Schneider-Crease
- grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA ,grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- grid.36425.360000 0001 2216 9681Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA
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- grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA ,grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- grid.269823.40000 0001 2164 6888Department of Mammals, Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY USA ,grid.452706.20000 0004 7667 1687New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY USA
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- African Wildlife Foundation, Simien Mountains Landscape Conservation and Management Project, Debark, Ethiopia
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- grid.259956.40000 0001 2195 6763Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH USA
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- grid.411461.70000 0001 2315 1184Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
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- grid.5342.00000 0001 2069 7798Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- grid.11505.300000 0001 2153 5088Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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- grid.253559.d0000 0001 2292 8158Department of Anthropology, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA USA ,grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.253559.d0000 0001 2292 8158Department of Anthropology, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA USA ,grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA ,grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA ,grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA ,grid.215654.10000 0001 2151 2636School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- grid.36425.360000 0001 2216 9681Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA
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Sen S, Carrera SC, Heistermann M, Potter CB, Baniel A, DeLacey PM, Petrullo L, Lu A, Beehner JC. Social correlates of androgen levels and dispersal age in juvenile male geladas. Horm Behav 2022; 146:105264. [PMID: 36155910 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Androgens offer a window into the timing of important male life history events such as maturation. However, when males are the dispersing sex, piecing together normative androgen profiles across development is challenging because dispersing males are difficult to track. Here, we examined the conditions that may be associated with male androgen status (via fecal androgen metabolites, fAMs) and age at dispersal in wild male geladas (Theropithecus gelada). Gelada male life histories are highly variable - dispersal may occur before sexual maturation, dispersal itself can be immediate or drawn out, and, due to their multi-leveled society, social conditions affecting dispersal can vary for juveniles living in different reproductive units within the same band. Using longitudinal data from known natal males, we examined how androgen levels and age at dispersal were associated with: (1) access to maternal resources (i.e., maternal rank, birth of a younger sibling, experiencing maternal loss), and (2) access to male peers (i.e., number of similar-aged males in their unit). We found that androgens were significantly lower in males with high-ranking mothers (in males >2.5 years of age; infant androgens were unrelated) and that having more male peers in their social group and larger groups overall predicted an earlier age at dispersal. Moreover, dispersal in geladas was not preceded or followed by a surge in androgen levels. Taken together, results suggest that social environments can cause individual variation in androgens and dispersal age. Whether this variation leads to differences in male fitness in later life remains to be determined.
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- Sharmi Sen
- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
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- Endocrinology Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
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Abdallah M, Azevedo-Scudeller L, Hiolle M, Lesur C, Baniel A, Delaplace G. Review on mechanisms leading to fouling and stability issues related to heat treatment of casein-based RTD beverages. Food and Bioproducts Processing 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2022.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Baniel A, Petrullo L, Mercer A, Reitsema L, Sams S, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A. Maternal effects on early-life gut microbiota maturation in a wild nonhuman primate. Curr Biol 2022; 32:4508-4520.e6. [PMID: 36099914 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Revised: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Early-life microbial colonization is an important process shaping host physiology,1-3 immunity,4-6 and long-term health outcomes7-10 in humans. However, our understanding of this dynamic process remains poorly investigated in wild animals,11-13 where developmental mechanisms can be better understood within ecological and evolutionarily relevant contexts.11,12 Using one of the largest developmental datasets on a wild primate-the gelada (Theropithecus gelada)-we used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to characterize gut microbiota maturation during the first 3 years of life and assessed the role of maternal effects in shaping offspring microbiota assembly. In contrast to recent data on chimpanzees, postnatal microbial colonization in geladas was highly similar to humans:14 microbial alpha diversity increased rapidly following birth, followed by gradual changes in composition until weaning. Dietary changes associated with weaning (from milk- to plant-based diet) were the main drivers of shifts in taxonomic composition and microbial predicted functional pathways. Maternal effects were also an important factor influencing the offspring gut microbiota. During nursing (<12 months), offspring of experienced (multi-time) mothers exhibited faster functional microbial maturation, likely reflecting the general faster developmental pace of infants born to these mothers. Following weaning (>18 months), the composition of the juvenile microbiota tended to be more similar to the maternal microbiota than to the microbiota of other adult females, highlighting that maternal effects may persist even after nursing cessation.15,16 Together, our findings highlight the dynamic nature of early-life gut colonization and the role of maternal effects in shaping this trajectory in a wild primate.
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- Alice Baniel
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Okanogan Ln., Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Jackson St., Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Okanogan Ln., Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, S University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, N University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Okanogan Ln., Seattle, WA 98195, USA; School for Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Circle Rd., Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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Kappeler PM, Huchard E, Baniel A, Canteloup C, Charpentier MJE, Cheng L, Davidian E, Duboscq J, Fichtel C, Hemelrijk CK, Höner OP, Koren L, Micheletta J, Prox L, Saccà T, Seex L, Smit N, Surbeck M, van de Waal E, Girard-Buttoz C. Sex and dominance: How to assess and interpret intersexual dominance relationships in mammalian societies. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.918773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The causes and consequences of being in a particular dominance position have been illuminated in various animal species, and new methods to assess dominance relationships and to describe the structure of dominance hierarchies have been developed in recent years. Most research has focused on same-sex relationships, however, so that intersexual dominance relationships and hierarchies including both sexes have remained much less studied. In particular, different methods continue to be employed to rank males and females along a dominance hierarchy, and sex biases in dominance are still widely regarded as simple byproducts of sexual size dimorphism. However, males and females regularly compete over similar resources when living in the same group, and sexual conflict takes a variety of forms across societies. These processes affect the fitness of both sexes, and are mitigated by intersexual hierarchies. In this study, we draw on data from free-ranging populations of nine species of mammals that vary in the degree to which members of one sex dominate members of the other sex to explore the consequences of using different criteria and procedures for describing intra- and intersexual dominance relationships in these societies. Our analyses confirmed a continuum in patterns of intersexual dominance, from strictly male-dominated species to strictly female-dominated species. All indices of the degree of female dominance were well correlated with each other. The rank order among same-sex individuals was highly correlated between the intra- and intersexual hierarchies, and such correlation was not affected by the degree of female dominance. The relative prevalence of aggression and submission was sensitive to variation in the degree of female dominance across species, with more submissive signals and fewer aggressive acts being used in societies where female dominance prevails. Thus, this study provides important insights and key methodological tools to study intersexual dominance relationships in mammals.
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Petrullo L, Baniel A, Jorgensen MJ, Sams S, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A. The early life microbiota mediates maternal effects on offspring growth in a nonhuman primate. iScience 2022; 25:103948. [PMID: 35265817 PMCID: PMC8898918 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Maternal parity can impact offspring growth, but the mechanisms driving this effect are unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that vertically transmitted microbiota may be one potential mechanism. We analyzed 118 fecal and milk samples from mother-offspring vervet monkey dyads across the first 6 months of life. Despite poorer milk production, offspring born to low parity females grew larger than their counterparts. These offspring exhibited reduced alpha diversity in the first days of life, stronger seeding of maternal milk microbiota, Bacteroides fragilis dominance, and a greater abundance of glycan utilization pathways. Moreover, the attainment of greater body mass by 6 months of age was mediated by reduced early life alpha diversity and B. fragilis dominance. This work demonstrates that the establishment of a specialized, milk-oriented gut microbiota promotes infant growth and suggests an evolutionarily conserved developmental role of B. fragilis in primates.
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- Lauren Petrullo
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA,Corresponding author
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Section on Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Paragon Genomics, Hayward, CA 94545, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA,Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Collet J, Pettorelli N, Baniel A, Carter AJ, Huchard E, King AJ, Lee AEG, Marshall HH, Cowlishaw G. Immigrant males’ knowledge influences baboon troop movements to reduce home range overlap and mating competition. Behav Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mechanistic models suggest that individuals’ memories could shape home range patterns and dynamics, and how neighbors share space. In social species, such dynamics of home range overlap may be affected by the pre-dispersal memories of immigrants. We tested this “immigrant knowledge hypothesis” in a wild population of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). We predicted that overlap dynamics with a given neighboring troop’s home range should reflect males’ adaptive interests in overlap when the alpha male had immigrated from this neighboring troop but less so when the alpha male originated from elsewhere. We used data collected between 2005 and 2013 on two neighboring troops in Namibia, comprising GPS records of daily ranges, male natal origins, daily females’ reproductive status, and a satellite index of vegetation growth. We found support for our prediction in line with male reproductive strategies but not in line with foraging conditions. In periods with a higher relative number of fertile females over adult males in the focal troop, male baboons would benefit from reducing overlap with their neighbors to mitigate the costs of between-troop mating competition. This was indeed observed but only when the alpha male of the focal troop was an immigrant from that neighboring troop, and not with alpha males of other origins, presumably due to their different knowledge of the neighboring troop. Our findings highlight the role of reproductive competition in the range dynamics of social groups, and suggest that spatial segregation between groups could increase through the combination of dispersal and memory.
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- Julien Collet
- Zoology Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK
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- Centre for Integrated Research in Life and Health Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK
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Feder JA, Beehner JC, Baniel A, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A. OUP accepted manuscript. Behav Ecol 2022; 33:654-664. [PMID: 35600996 PMCID: PMC9113362 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Female reproductive maturation is a critical life-history milestone, initiating an individual's reproductive career. Studies in social mammals have often focused on how variables related to nutrition influence maturation age in females. However, parallel investigations have identified conspicuous male-mediated effects in which female maturation is sensitive to the presence and relatedness of males. Here, we evaluated whether the more "classic" socioecological variables (i.e., maternal rank, group size) predict maturation age in wild geladas-a primate species with known male-mediated effects on maturation and a grassy diet that is not expected to generate intense female competition. Females delayed maturation in the presence of their fathers and quickly matured when unrelated, dominant males arrived. Controlling for these male effects, however, higher-ranking daughters matured at earlier ages than lower-ranking daughters, suggesting an effect of within-group contest competition. However, contrary to predictions related to within-group scramble competition, females matured earliest in larger groups. We attribute this result to either: 1) a shift to "faster" development in response to the high infant mortality risk posed by larger groups; or 2) accelerated maturation triggered by brief, unobserved male visits. While earlier ages at maturation were indeed associated with earlier ages at first birth, these benefits were occasionally offset by male takeovers, which can delay successful reproduction via spontaneous abortion. In sum, rank-related effects on reproduction can still occur even when socioecological theory would predict otherwise, and males (and the risks they pose) may prompt female maturation even outside of successful takeovers.
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- Jacob A Feder
- Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Circle Rd, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Address Correspondence to J. A. Feder. E-mail: ; A. Lu. E-mail:
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, S. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Church St, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Church St, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Circle Rd, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Circle Rd, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Baniel A, Oestreicher-Kedem Y, Peled A, Bar-Ilan E, Geller S, Sprecher E, Baum S. Laryngeal mucous membrane pemphigoid serves as a prognostic factor for poor response to treatment with rituximab. Clin Exp Dermatol 2021; 46:915-919. [PMID: 33811681 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) is an autoimmune blistering, scarring and occasionally mutilating disease that may progress to blindness or airway obstruction. Over the past few years, rituximab (RTX) has emerged as a potential therapeutic solution for MMP; however, the literature regarding its efficacy in the treatment of severe MMP is sparse. We studied four patients with recalcitrant MMP who were treated with RTX. Three of these had recalcitrant laryngeal disease; two were unresponsive to RTX, while the third patient achieved complete remission (CR) but relapsed twice. The fourth patient, who had oral and ocular disease, also achieved CR. In addition, we reviewed 143 cases of MMP treated with RTX reported in the literature to date. Of these, 120 had late observation endpoints, of whom 81 (67.5%) achieved CR, 24 (20%) received partial remission and 15 (12.5%) had no remission. Based on this study, the presence of laryngeal MMP seems to predict refractoriness to RTX treatment. In conclusion, we found that RTX can ameliorate the MMP course and that laryngeal involvement, which is known to be a prognostic factor for severe MMP, may also predict poor response to RTX.
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- A Baniel
- Division of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Division of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Division of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Division of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Division of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Department of Dermatology, Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Dezeure J, Baniel A, Carter A, Cowlishaw G, Godelle B, Huchard E. Birth timing generates reproductive trade-offs in a non-seasonal breeding primate. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20210286. [PMID: 33975480 PMCID: PMC8113908 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The evolutionary benefits of reproductive seasonality are often measured by a single-fitness component, namely offspring survival. Yet different fitness components may be maximized by different birth timings. This may generate fitness trade-offs that could be critical to understanding variation in reproductive timing across individuals, populations and species. Here, we use long-term demographic and behavioural data from wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in a seasonal environment to test the adaptive significance of seasonal variation in birth frequencies. We identify two distinct optimal birth timings in the annual cycle, located four-month apart, which maximize offspring survival or minimize maternal interbirth intervals (IBIs), by respectively matching the annual food peak with late or early weaning. Observed births are the most frequent between these optima, supporting an adaptive trade-off between current and future reproduction. Furthermore, infants born closer to the optimal timing favouring maternal IBIs (instead of offspring survival) throw more tantrums, a typical manifestation of mother-offspring conflict. Maternal trade-offs over birth timing, which extend into mother-offspring conflict after birth, may commonly occur in long-lived species where development from birth to independence spans multiple seasons. Our findings therefore open new avenues to understanding the evolution of breeding phenology in long-lived animals, including humans.
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- Jules Dezeure
- Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), UMR 5554, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), UMR 5554, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), UMR 5554, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Petrullo L, Baniel A, Sweeny AR. Establishing a virtual network in mammalian microbiome research. Evol Anthropol 2021; 30:105-107. [PMID: 33647163 DOI: 10.1002/evan.21889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Lauren Petrullo
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Baniel A, Amato KR, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Mercer A, Perlman RF, Petrullo L, Reitsema L, Sams S, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N. Seasonal shifts in the gut microbiome indicate plastic responses to diet in wild geladas. Microbiome 2021; 9:26. [PMID: 33485388 PMCID: PMC7828014 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00977-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Adaptive shifts in gut microbiome composition are one route by which animals adapt to seasonal changes in food availability and diet. However, outside of dietary shifts, other potential environmental drivers of gut microbial composition have rarely been investigated, particularly in organisms living in their natural environments. RESULTS Here, we generated the largest wild nonhuman primate gut microbiome dataset to date to identify the environmental drivers of gut microbial diversity and function in 758 samples collected from wild Ethiopian geladas (Theropithecus gelada). Because geladas live in a cold, high-altitude environment and have a low-quality grass-based diet, they face extreme thermoregulatory and energetic constraints. We tested how proxies of food availability (rainfall) and thermoregulatory stress (temperature) predicted gut microbiome composition of geladas. The gelada gut microbiome composition covaried with rainfall and temperature in a pattern that suggests distinct responses to dietary and thermoregulatory challenges. Microbial changes were driven by differences in the main components of the diet across seasons: in rainier periods, the gut was dominated by cellulolytic/fermentative bacteria that specialized in digesting grass, while during dry periods the gut was dominated by bacteria that break down starches found in underground plant parts. Temperature had a comparatively smaller, but detectable, effect on the gut microbiome. During cold and dry periods, bacterial genes involved in energy, amino acid, and lipid metabolism increased, suggesting a stimulation of fermentation activity in the gut when thermoregulatory and nutritional stress co-occurred, and potentially helping geladas to maintain energy balance during challenging periods. CONCLUSION Together, these results shed light on the extent to which gut microbiota plasticity provides dietary and metabolic flexibility to the host, and might be a key factor to thriving in changing environments. On a longer evolutionary timescale, such metabolic flexibility provided by the gut microbiome may have also allowed members of Theropithecus to adopt a specialized diet, and colonize new high-altitude grassland habitats in East Africa. Video abstract.
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- Alice Baniel
- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
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- Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Dezeure J, Dagorrette J, Baniel A, Carter AJ, Cowlishaw G, Marshall HH, Martina C, Raby CL, Huchard E. Developmental transitions in body color in chacma baboon infants: Implications to estimate age and developmental pace. Am J Phys Anthropol 2020; 174:89-102. [PMID: 32845027 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVES In many primates, one of the most noticeable morphological developmental traits is the transition from natal fur and skin color to adult coloration. Studying the chronology and average age at such color transitions can be an easy and noninvasive method to (a) estimate the age of infants whose dates of birth were not observed, and (b) detect interindividual differences in the pace of development for infants with known birth dates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a combination of photographs and field observations from 73 infant chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) of known ages, we (a) scored the skin color of six different body parts from pink to gray, as well as the color of the fur from black to gray; (b) validated our method of age estimation using photographic and field observations on an independent subset of 22 infants with known date of birth; and (c) investigated ecological, social, and individual determinants of age-related variation in skin and fur color. RESULTS Our results show that transitions in skin color can be used to age infant chacma baboons less than 7 months old with accuracy (median number of days between actual and estimated age = 10, range = 0-86). We also reveal that food availability during the mother's pregnancy, but not during lactation, affects infant color-for-age and therefore acts as a predictor of developmental pace. DISCUSSION This study highlights the potential of monitoring within- and between-infant variation in color to estimate age when age is unknown, and developmental pace when age is known.
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- Jules Dezeure
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
- Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Liverpool, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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Carter AJ, Baniel A, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses. R Soc Open Sci 2020; 7:192206. [PMID: 32269818 PMCID: PMC7137963 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.192206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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What do animals know of death? What can animals' responses to death tell us about the evolution of species' minds, and the origins of humans' awareness of death and dying? A recent surge in interest in comparative thanatology may provide beginnings of answers to these questions. Here, we add to the comparative thanatology literature by reporting 12 cases of group members' responses to infants' deaths, including 1 miscarriage and 2 stillbirths, recorded over 13 years in wild Namibian chacma baboons. Wild baboons' responses to dead infants were similar to other primates: in general, the mother of the infant carried the infants' corpse for varying lengths of time (less than 1 h to 10 days) and tended to groom the corpses frequently, though, as in other studies, considerable individual differences were observed. However, we have not yet observed any corpse carriage of very long duration (i.e. greater than 20 days), which, though rare, occurs in other Old World monkeys and chimpanzees. We hypothesize this is due to the costs of carrying the corpse over the greater daily distances travelled by the Tsaobis baboons. Additionally, in contrast to other case reports, we observed male friends' 'protection' of the infant corpse on three occasions. We discuss the implications of these reports for current questions in the field.
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- Alecia J. Carter
- ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
- Department of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- The Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, UK
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- ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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Slutsky Bank E, Baniel A, Shehadeh W, Gat A, Matz H, Ishii N, Hashimoto T, Sprecher E, Zeeli T. Bullous pemphigoid distributed above the injury level in a paraplegic patient. Clin Exp Dermatol 2020; 45:531-533. [PMID: 31944365 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- E Slutsky Bank
- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Pathology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Dermatology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Departments of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Webb CE, Baniel A, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Friend or foe: reconciliation between males and females in wild chacma baboons. Anim Behav 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Baniel A, Delaunay A, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Oestrous females avoid mating in front of adult male bystanders in wild chacma baboons. R Soc Open Sci 2019; 6:181009. [PMID: 30800354 PMCID: PMC6366197 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In social species, female mating strategies can be constrained by both male and female groupmates through sexual conflict and reproductive competition, respectively. This study tests if females adjust their sexual behaviour according to the presence of male and female bystanders in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) and assesses their relative importance. Our results show that oestrous females initiate fewer copulations in the presence of adult male bystanders, irrespective of whether they are mate-guarded or not. This inhibitory effect probably reflects a response to indirect sexual coercion by males, whose close proximity may dissuade females to initiate copulations with rival males to avoid punishment and/or aggressive mating interference. By contrast, females initiate more matings with their mate-guard in the presence of higher-ranking female bystanders, which may reflect an attempt to secure bodyguard services from their mate when they feel threatened. These results emphasize the importance of intra- and intersexual conflicts in shaping female sexual behaviour in this promiscuous society.
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- Alice Baniel
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Baniel A, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Jealous females? Female competition and reproductive suppression in a wild promiscuous primate. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 285:20181332. [PMID: 30185648 PMCID: PMC6158522 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Female-female competition over paternal care has rarely been investigated in promiscuous mammals, where discreet forms of male care have recently been reported despite low paternity certainty. We investigated female competition over paternal care in a wild promiscuous primate, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), where pregnant and lactating females establish strong social bonds (friendships) with males that provide care to their offspring. We tested whether pregnant and lactating females interfere with the sexual activity of their male friend to prevent new conceptions that might lead to the subsequent dilution of his paternal care. We found that pregnant and lactating females were more aggressive towards oestrous females when they had recently conceived themselves, and when the oestrous female was mate-guarded by, and showed greater sexual activity with, their male friend. This aggression also reduced the likelihood of conception of the targeted female. These findings indicate that females can aggressively prevent further conceptions with their offspring's carer through reproductive suppression. Competition over access to paternal care may play an important and underestimated role in shaping female social relationships and reproductive strategies in promiscuous mammalian societies.
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- Alice Baniel
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Baniel A, Ziv L, Bonen H, Ben-Moshe Livne Z, Peled A, Mohamad J, Sarig O, Rechavi G, Sprecher E. 772 Development of a zebrafish model for CARD14-associated human disorders. J Invest Dermatol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.03.782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Baniel A, Cowlishaw G, Huchard E. Male Violence and Sexual Intimidation in a Wild Primate Society. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2163-2168.e3. [PMID: 28690113 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sexual violence occurring in the context of long-term heterosexual relationships, such as sexual intimidation, is widespread across human populations [1-3]. However, its evolutionary origins remain speculative because few studies have investigated the existence of comparable forms of sexual coercion in animals [4, 5], in which repeated male aggression toward a female provides the aggressor with delayed mating benefits [6]. Here, we test whether male aggression toward females functions as sexual coercion in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). We found support for all three main predictions of the sexual coercion hypothesis [7]: male aggression (1) is greatest against cycling females, (2) is costly and represents the main source of injuries for cycling females, and (3) increases male mating success with their victims in the future. Detailed analysis of chronological sequences between aggression and matings ruled out other coercive mechanisms, such as short-term harassment and punishment, by showing that aggression and matings are temporally decoupled. This decoupling may explain why some forms of sexual violence have been largely overlooked in well-studied animal populations despite their likely impact on the fitness of both sexes. Finally, we found no support for alternative hypotheses such as a female preference for aggressive males [8, 9]. This new, detailed study of the forms and intensity of sexual intimidation in a wild primate suggests that it may be widespread across mammalian societies, with important implications for understanding the evolution of mate choice and sexual conflict in mammals, as well as the origins of human sexual violence.
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- Alice Baniel
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, 21 allée de Brienne, 31015 Cedex 6, Toulouse, France; Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Y Hilerowicz
- Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Pathology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Boulier A, Schwarz J, Lespesailles E, Baniel A, Tomé D, Blais A. Combination of micellar casein with calcium and vitamins D2 and K2 improves bone status of ovariectomized mice. Osteoporos Int 2016; 27:3103-12. [PMID: 27222105 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-016-3638-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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UNLABELLED Nutritional approaches may help to preserve bone quality. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the efficiency of an innovative bone health product (BHP) including micellar casein rich in calcium, vitamin D2 and vitamin K2, to improve bone mineral density. INTRODUCTION The aim of postmenopausal osteoporosis treatment is to decrease bone resorption and/or increase bone formation. Because of the slow bone turnover, osteoporosis prevention and therapies are long-lasting, implying great costs and poor compliance. Even if the effects of nutrition on bone are not as marked as that of pharmaceutical agents, it can be of great help. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the efficiency of an innovative bone health product (BHP) containing micellar casein rich in calcium, vitamin D2 and vitamin K2, for the improvement of bone mineral density (BMD). METHODS An ovariectomized mice model was used to study the effect of different concentrations of the ingredient on BMD and microarchitectural parameters. Blood concentrations of C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (CTX), N-terminal propeptide of type 1 procollagene (PINP), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), osteocalcin (OC) and RANKL were also measured to evaluate bone remodelling, To evaluate the efficiency of the product to modulate osteoblast and osteoclast growth and differentiation, primary murine bone cells were used. RESULTS In vivo studies showed that BMD and microarchitectural parameters were dose-dependently improved after ingestion of the supplement for 3 months. We also report increased osteoblast activity as shown by increased OC activity and decreased osteoclastogenesis as shown by reduced CTX activity. In vitro studies support that BHPs stimulate osteoblast differentiation and mineralization and inhibit osteoclast resorption activity. CONCLUSION Our results show that, when chronically ingested, BHPs improve BMD of ovariectomized mice. This work supports that providing an ingredient including micellar casein rich in calcium, vitamin D2 and vitamin K2 is more efficient than the control diet to maintain bone quality.
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- A Boulier
- Ingredia SA, 51 Av. Lobbedez, 62033, Arras Cedex, France
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- Ingredia SA, 51 Av. Lobbedez, 62033, Arras Cedex, France
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- University Orléans, I3MTO, EA 4708, 45032, Orléans, France
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- Ingredia SA, 51 Av. Lobbedez, 62033, Arras Cedex, France
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- UMR Physiologie de la Nutrition et du Comportement Alimentaire, AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, 75005, Paris, France
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- UMR Physiologie de la Nutrition et du Comportement Alimentaire, AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, 75005, Paris, France.
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Peled A, Sarig O, Samuelov L, Bertolini M, Ziv L, Weissglas-Volkov D, Eskin-Schwartz M, Adase C, Malchin N, Bochner R, Fainberg G, Sugawara K, Baniel A, Tsuruta D, Luxemburg C, Adir N, Goldberg I, Gallo R, Shomron N, Paus R, Sprecher E. 414 A new form of ectodermal dysplasia caused by mutations in TSPEAR. J Invest Dermatol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2016.02.448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Baniel A. New Techniques in Solvent Extraction and in ION-Exchange. Isr J Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.197500066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Huchard E, Albrecht C, Schliehe-Diecks S, Baniel A, Roos C, Kappeler PM, Brameier M. Erratum to: Large-scale MHC class II genotyping of a wild lemur population by next generation sequencing. Immunogenetics 2013. [PMCID: PMC4079603 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-013-0737-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ants use multiple sources of information to navigate, but do not integrate all this information into a unified representation of the world. Rather, the available information appears to serve three distinct main navigational systems: path integration, systematic search and the use of learnt information--mainly via vision. Here, we report on an additional behaviour that suggests a supplemental system in the ant's navigational toolkit: 'backtracking'. Homing ants, having almost reached their nest but, suddenly displaced to unfamiliar areas, did not show the characteristic undirected headings of systematic searches. Instead, these ants backtracked in the compass direction opposite to the path that they had just travelled. The ecological function of this behaviour is clear as we show it increases the chances of returning to familiar terrain. Importantly, the mechanistic implications of this behaviour stress an extra level of cognitive complexity in ant navigation. Our results imply: (i) the presence of a type of 'memory of the current trip' allowing lost ants to take into account the familiar view recently experienced, and (ii) direct sharing of information across different navigational systems. We propose a revised architecture of the ant's navigational toolkit illustrating how the different systems may interact to produce adaptive behaviours.
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- Antoine Wystrach
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.
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Huchard E, Baniel A, Schliehe-Diecks S, Kappeler PM. MHC-disassortative mate choice and inbreeding avoidance in a solitary primate. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:4071-86. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2012] [Revised: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 04/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Elise Huchard
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit; German Primate Center; Kellnerweg 4 Göttingen Germany
- Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour; University of Göttingen; Kellnerweg 6 Göttingen Germany
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- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit; German Primate Center; Kellnerweg 4 Göttingen Germany
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- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit; German Primate Center; Kellnerweg 4 Göttingen Germany
- Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour; University of Göttingen; Kellnerweg 6 Göttingen Germany
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- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit; German Primate Center; Kellnerweg 4 Göttingen Germany
- Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour; University of Göttingen; Kellnerweg 6 Göttingen Germany
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Huchard E, Albrecht C, Schliehe-Diecks S, Baniel A, Roos C, Kappeler PM, Peter PMK, Brameier M. Large-scale MHC class II genotyping of a wild lemur population by next generation sequencing. Immunogenetics 2012; 64:895-913. [PMID: 22948859 PMCID: PMC3496554 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-012-0649-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
The critical role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in disease resistance, along with their putative function in sexual selection, reproduction and chemical ecology, make them an important genetic system in evolutionary ecology. Studying selective pressures acting on MHC genes in the wild nevertheless requires population-wide genotyping, which has long been challenging because of their extensive polymorphism. Here, we report on large-scale genotyping of the MHC class II loci of the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) from a wild population in western Madagascar. The second exons from MHC-DRB and -DQB of 772 and 672 individuals were sequenced, respectively, using a 454 sequencing platform, generating more than 800,000 reads. Sequence analysis, through a stepwise variant validation procedure, allowed reliable typing of more than 600 individuals. The quality of our genotyping was evaluated through three independent methods, namely genotyping the same individuals by both cloning and 454 sequencing, running duplicates, and comparing parent-offspring dyads; each displaying very high accuracy. A total of 61 (including 20 new) and 60 (including 53 new) alleles were detected at DRB and DQB genes, respectively. Both loci were non-duplicated, in tight linkage disequilibrium and in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, despite the fact that sequence analysis revealed clear evidence of historical selection. Our results highlight the potential of 454 sequencing technology in attempts to investigate patterns of selection shaping MHC variation in contemporary populations. The power of this approach will nevertheless be conditional upon strict quality control of the genotyping data.
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- Elise Huchard
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, Göttingen, Germany.
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