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A comparative study of leukocyte counts and disease risk in primates

scientific article

A comparative study of white blood cell counts and disease risk in carnivores

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A roadmap for ‘core concepts’ in evolutionary medicine.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Allometric Slopes and Independent Contrasts: A Comparative Test of Kleiber's Law in Primate Ranging Patterns

scientific article published in November 2000

Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: Intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Behavioural ecology and infectious disease: implications for conservation of biodiversity

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Centrality in primate-parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans.

scientific article

Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism-generalism spectrum of mammal parasites.

scientific article published in March 2018

Chronotype variation drives night-time sentinel-like behaviour in hunter-gatherers.

scientific article published in July 2017

Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates

scientific article

Comparing transmission potential networks based on social network surveys, close contacts and environmental overlap in rural Madagascar

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

Connecting evolution, medicine, and public health

scientific article published in July 2015

Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications.

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Do animals living in larger groups experience greater parasitism? A meta-analysis

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Do male "long-distance calls" function in mate defense? A comparative study of long-distance calls in primates

article published in 2002

Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primates

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Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

scientific article published in March 2013

Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test

scientific article

Does the moon influence sleep in small-scale societies?

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Effect of urban habitat use on parasitism in mammals: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Effective Network Size Predicted From Simulations of Pathogen Outbreaks Through Social Networks Provides a Novel Measure of Structure-Standardized Group Size.

scientific article published on 3 May 2018

Effects of host extinction and vector preferences on vector-borne disease risk in phylogenetically structured host-hector communities

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

Effects of land use, habitat characteristics, and small mammal community composition on Leptospira prevalence in northeast Madagascar

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Effects of the distribution of female primates on the number of males

scientific article published in 2011

Environmental influences on the skin microbiome of humans and cattle in rural Madagascar.

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Estimating infection prevalence: Best practices and their theoretical underpinnings.

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Estimating parasite host range.

scientific article

Eulerian videography technology improves classification of sleep architecture in primates

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Evidence for a tradeoff between retention time and chewing efficiency in large mammalian herbivores

scientific article

Evolutionary biology (Communication arising): Significance of primate sexual swellings

scientific article published in Nature

Evolutionary change in physiological phenotypes along the human lineage

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Evolutionary disequilibrium and activity period in primates: a bayesian phylogenetic approach

scientific article published on 27 January 2012

Evolutionary dynamics of sexual size dimorphism in non-volant mammals following their independent colonization of Madagascar.

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Female reproductive synchrony predicts skewed paternity across primates

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Females drive primate social evolution.

scientific article published in February 2004

Global Mammal Parasite Database version 2.0.

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Hadza sleep biology: Evidence for flexible sleep-wake patterns in hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on 07 January 2017

Host longevity and parasite species richness in mammals

scientific article

Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks

article published in 2018

How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

scientific article published on 17 September 2011

Identifying future zoonotic disease threats: Where are the gaps in our understanding of primate infectious diseases?

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Identifying wildlife reservoirs of neglected taeniid tapeworms: Non-invasive diagnosis of endemic Taenia serialis infection in a wild primate population

scientific article

Infectious disease and group size: more than just a numbers game

scientific article published on May 2015

Infectious disease, behavioural flexibility and the evolution of culture in primates

scientific article published in January 2015

Infectious diseases and extinction risk in wild mammals

scientific article

Innovative Approaches to the Relationship Between Diet and Mandibular Morphology in Primates

article by Callum F. Ross et al published 22 May 2012 in International Journal of Primatology

Integrative approaches to the study of primate infectious disease: implications for biodiversity conservation and global health

scientific article

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

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Interactions between micro- and macroparasites predict microparasite species richness across primates

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Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships

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Investigating evolutionary lag using the species-pairs evolutionary lag test (SPELT).

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Investigating the impact of observation errors on the statistical performance of network-based diffusion analysis

scientific article published in August 2010

Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents

scientific article published in 2015

Linking Evolution, Ecology, and Health: TriCEM

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Metabarcoding of eukaryotic parasite communities describes diverse parasite assemblages spanning the primate phylogeny

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Microparasites and Placental Invasiveness in Eutherian Mammals. ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces.

scientific article published in May 2011

Mutualism or parasitism? Using a phylogenetic approach to characterize the oxpecker-ungulate relationship

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Non-invasive body temperature measurement of wild chimpanzees using fecal temperature decline

scientific article published in April 2009

On sexual dimorphism in immune function

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Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep

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Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density

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Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate clades

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Pathogen flow: what we need to know

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Patterns of host specificity and transmission among parasites of wild primates

scientific article

Phylogenetic Targeting of Research Effort in Evolutionary Biology ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Phylogenetic analysis of the ecology and evolution of mammalian sleep

scientific article published on July 2008

Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo

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Potential parasite transmission in multi-host networks based on parasite sharing

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Primate brain architecture and selection in relation to sex.

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Primate disease ecology in comparative and theoretical perspective

scientific article published on June 2012

Primate extinction risk and historical patterns of speciation and extinction in relation to body mass ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Primate malarias as a model for cross-species parasite transmission

publication published on 28 January 2022

Quantitative uniqueness of human brain evolution revealed through phylogenetic comparative analysis

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Ranging patterns and parasitism in primates

scientific article

Segmented sleep in a nonelectric, small-scale agricultural society in Madagascar

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Sexual dimorphism in immunity across animals: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates

Shining evolutionary light on human sleep and sleep disorders

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Simulating trait evolution for cross-cultural comparison

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Sleep in a comparative context: Investigating how human sleep differs from sleep in other primates

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Sleep influences cognitive performance in lemurs

scientific article published on 04 May 2019

Sleep intensity and the evolution of human cognition

scientific article published in November 2015

Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

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Sociality and health: impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies

scientific article published on May 2015

Speeding in the slow lane: Phylogenetic comparative analyses reveal that not all human life history traits are exceptional

scientific article published on 09 March 2019

Temporal patterns of waterhole use as a predator avoidance strategy

scientific article published in 2020

Testing for divergent transmission histories among cultural characters: a study using Bayesian phylogenetic methods and Iranian tribal textile data

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The 1918 influenza pandemic: Ecological, historical, and evolutionary perspectives

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

The Global Synanthrome Project: A Call for an Exhaustive Study of Human Associates

scientific article

The Phylogeny of Sleep Database: A New Resource for Sleep Scientists

scientific article published on January 2008

The changing ecology of primate parasites: Insights from wild-captive comparisons

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

The cost of deep sleep: Environmental influences on sleep regulation are greater for diurnal lemurs

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

The evolution of self-control

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The influence of natural diet composition, food intake level, and body size on ingesta passage in primates

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

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The sociality-health-fitness nexus: synthesis, conclusions and future directions

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The spread of fecally transmitted parasites in socially-structured populations

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To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms

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Transparency, usability, and reproducibility: Guiding principles for improving comparative databases using primates as examples

scientific article published on September 2016

What is segmented sleep? Actigraphy field validation for daytime sleep and nighttime wake

scientific article published on 29 October 2016

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