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![]() Axel AC, Harshbarger BM, Lewis RJ, Tecot SR. (2024). Consistency in Verreaux's sifaka home range and core area size despite seasonal variation in resource availability as assessed by Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). American Journal of Primatology. e23617. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23617 (OPEN ACCESS) |
![]() Gnanadesikan GE, Bray EE, Cook EN, Levy KM, Douglas LELC, Kennedy BS, Tecot SR, MacLean EL. (2024). Basal plasma oxytocin and fecal cortisol concentrations are highly heritable and associated with individual differences in behavior and cognition in dog puppies. Hormones and Behavior, 165:105612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105612 Cover story
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Gnanadesikan G, King K, Carranza E, Flyer A, Ossello G, Smith PG, Steklis NG, Steklis HD, Carter SC, Connelly JJ, Barnett M, Gee N, Tecot S, MacLean E. (2024). Effects of human-animal interaction on salivary and urinary oxytocin in children and dogs. Psychoneuroendocrinology,169:107147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107147 Editor's pick
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![]() Gnanadesikan GE, Carranza E, King KM, Flyer AC, Ossello G, Smith PG, Steklis N, Steklis HD, Connelly JJ, Barnett M, Gee N, Tecot S, MacLean EL. (2024). Glucocorticoid response to naturalistic interactions between children and dogs. Hormones and Behavior. 161:105523.
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![]() Grieneisen L, Hays A, Cook E, Blekhman R, Tecot S. (2024). Temporal patterns of gut microbiota in lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) living in intact and disturbed habitats. American Journal of Primatology, Special Issue: From Molecules to Metapopulations: Global Research led by Primatologists in Canada. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23656 (OPEN ACCESS)
![]() Veilleux, CC, Tecot, SR, Lewis, RJ. (2024). Fat storage and drought tolerance in a seasonally-adapted primate: Implications for models of global climate change. Integrative Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/inc3.65 (OPEN ACCESS) Cover photo and cover story
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![]() MacLean EL, Carranza E, Gnanadesikan GE, King KM, Allen AM, Linde-Krieger LB, Feldman R, White-Traut RC, Hammock EA, Carter CS, Leng G, Tecot S, Bell A. (2024). Neurophysin I is an Analytically Robust Surrogate Biomarker for Oxytocin. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106951. doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106951
![]() Whitney TL, Mallot EM, Diakiw LO, Christie DM, Ting N, Amato KR, Tecot S, Baden AL. (2024). Ecological and genetic variables co-vary with social group identity to shape the gut microbiome of a pair-living primate. American Journal of Primatology e23657. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23657
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Tecot S, Ossello, G, Smith, P, Rakotonirina, LHR, TELO Albert, RANDRINIRINA V, RAKOTONIRINA TE, Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. (2023). Diurnal fecal glucocorticoid metabolite rhythms in a cathemeral primate, the red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer), and across mammalian species. American Journal of Primatology, 85(8), e23521. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23521
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![]() West K, Tecot,S, Borgerson C, Wright P, Walker-Bolton A, Andriamiadanarivo A, Andrianoely D, Celestain J, Elison P, Jordan J, Liu A, Rafidimanandray R, Randimbiarimanana C, Razafindrapaoly BN, Aliperti JR. (2023). Commentary: An overdue catalyst: limitations imposed by Covid-19 improve capacity building in community-led environmental education in Madagascar. In Special Issue: New Ideas in Conservation Education. American Journal of Primatology, 8(5), e23497 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.23497
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Tecot S, Birr M, Dixon J, Lahitsara JP, Razafindraibe D, Razanajatovo S, Sanchez-Arroyo A, Tombotiana AV, Velontsara JB, Baden AL. (2023). Functional relationships between estradiol and paternal care in red-bellied lemurs. Hormones and Behavior, 150, 105324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105324 |
![]() Ziegler TE, Tecot SR, Fernandez-Duque E, Savage A, Snowdon CT. (2022). Nonhuman primate paternal care: Species and individual differences in behavior and mechanisms. In: G. Gonzalez-Mariscal (Ed.), Advances in Neurobiology: From Animal Science to Comparative Ethology and Neuroscience (pp. 213-238). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97762-7
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![]() Eppley T, et al…Tecot SR…(2022). Descending from the trees: Factors leading to terrestriality in arboreal primates. PNAS, 119(42): e2121105119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121105119 |
![]() Gnanadesikan GE, Hammock EAD, Tecot SR, Lewis RJ, Hart R, Carter CS, MacLean EL. (2022). What are oxytocin assays measuring? Epitope mapping, metabolites, and comparisons of wildtype & knockout mouse urine. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 143, 105827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105827 |
Watzek J, Hauber M, Jack K, Murrell J, Tecot S, Brosnan S. (2021). The origins of collective decision-making: Insights into collective defense behavior from agent-based modeling. Behavioural Processes, 193:104530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104530
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![]() Gnanadesikan G, Hammock EAD, Tecot SR, Carter CS, MacLean EL. (2021). Specificity of plasma oxytocin immunoassays: a comparison of commercial assays and sample preparation techniques using oxytocin knockout and wildtype mice. Psychoneuroendocrinology. doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105368
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Amato KR, Abreu F, Baden A, Barnett A, Bicca-Marques JC, Boyle S, Chapman C, Chaves OM, Lopes KGD, Eppley TM, Fan P, Fashing P, de la Fuente F, Fortes V, Grueter CC, Hohmann G, Irwin M, Matthews J, Mekonnen A, Ostner J, Nguyen N, Piel A, Pinacho B, Aredes EPQ, Razanaparany T, Rothman J, Schuelke O, Shanee S, Souza-Alves JP, Tecot S, Stewart F, Stone A, Sun B, Vogel E, Wich S, Mallott EK. (2021). Fermented food use in wild primates suggests nutritional benefits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24257
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![]() Garber P, Chism J, Tecot S, Kowalewski M, Gillespie T. (2020). Best practices in field primatology in the age of COVID-19. American Society of Primatologists Conservation Action Network. August 2020.
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![]() Singletary, B and Tecot, S. (2020). Multimodal pair-bond maintenance: a review of signaling across modalities in pair-bonded nonhuman primates. American Journal of Primatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23105
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![]() Mann AE, Mazel F, Lemay M, Morien E, Kowalewski M, Di Fiore A, Link A, Goldberg TL, Tecot S, Baden A, Gomez A, Sauther ML, Cuozzo F, Britton GAO, Dominy NJ, Stumpf R, Lewis RJ, Swedell L, Amato K, Parfrey LW (2019). Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild non-human primate gut. ISME J, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0551-4.
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![]() Tecot, S, Irwin, M, Raharison, J-L. (2019). Faecal glucocorticoid metabolite profiles in diademed sifakas increase during seasonal fruit scarcity with interactive effects of age/sex class and habitat degradation. Conservation Physiology 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz001. OPEN ACCESS
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![]() Singletary, B, and Tecot, S. (2019). Signaling across the senses: a captive case study in pair-bonded red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) at the Duke Lemur Center, NC, USA. Primates. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00770-9
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![]() Erhart, E, Tecot, S, Grassi, C. (2018). Interannual variation in diet, dietary diversity and dietary overlap in three strepsirrhine species in southeastern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-018-0040-z
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![]() Amato, K, Sanders, J, Song, SJ, Nute, M, Metcalf, JL, Thompson, L, Morton, J, Amir, A, McKenzie, V, Humphrey, G, Gogul, G, Gaffney, J, Baden, A, Britton, J, Cuozzo, F, Di Fiore, A, Dominy, N, Goldberg, T, Gomez, A, Kowalewski, M, Lewis, R, Link, A, Sauther, M, Tecot, S, White, B, Nelson, K, Stumpf, R, Knight, R, Leigh, S. (2018). Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh diet in structuring primate gut microbiomes. ISME Journal. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0175-0
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![]() Tecot, S and Baden, A. (2018). Profiling caregivers: Hormonal variation underlying allomaternal care in wild red-bellied lemurs. Special Issue. Physiology and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.12.007
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![]() Raulo, A, Ruokolainen, L, Hanski, I, Lane, A, Baden, A, Amato, K, Knight, R, Leigh S, Stumpf R, White, B, Neson, K, Tecot, S. (2017). Social behavior and gut microbiota in red-bellied lemurs: In search of the role of immunity in the evolution of sociality. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12781
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![]() Eronen, JT, Zohmdy S, Evans AR, Tecot SR, Wright PC, Jernvall J. (2017). Feeding ecology and morphology make a bamboo specialist vulnerable to climate change. Current Biology 27: 3384-3389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.050
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![]() Zohdy, S, Bisanzio, D, Tecot, S, Wright, PC, Jernvall, J. (2017). Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur. Animal Behaviour. 132:109-119. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.002
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![]() Crouse, D, Jacobs, RL, Richardson Z, Klum, S, Jain, A, Baden, AL, Tecot, SR. (2017). LemurFaceID: A face recognition system to facilitate lemur conservation. BMC Zoology. 2:2-14. doi: 10.1186/s40850-016-0011-9
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![]() Kamilar, JM, Tecot, SR. (2016). Anthropogenic and climatic effects on the distribution of Eulemur species: A niche modeling approach. Special Issue: New Research Directions in the Genus Eulemur. International Journal of Primatology 1:47-68. doi:10.1007/s10764-015-9875-8
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![]() Tecot, S, Singletary, B, Eadie, E. (2016). Why “monogamy” isn’t good enough. American Journal of Primatology. 78(3):340-354. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22412
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![]() Kamilar J & Tecot S. (2015). Connecting proximate mechanisms and evolutionary patterns: pituitary gland size and mammalian life history. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:1997-2008. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12715
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![]() Tecot, S & Baden, A. (2015). Primate allomaternal care. In: R. Scott, S. Kosslyn, eds. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. 1-16.
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![]() Zohdy, S, Gerber B, Tecot S, Blanco MB, Winchester JM, Wright PC, Jernvall J. (2014). Teeth, sex, and testosterone: Ageing in the world’s smallest primate. Plos ONE. 9:e109528. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109528
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![]() Tecot S. R., Gerber B. D., King S. J., Verdolin J. L., Wright P. C. (2013). Risky business: sex differences in mortality and dispersal in a polygynous, monomorphic lemur. Behavioral Ecology. 24: 987-996. doi: 10.1093/beheco/art008
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![]() Tecot S (2013). Variable energetic strategies in disturbed and undisturbed rain forest habitats: fecal cortisol levels in southeastern Madagascar. In: J. Masters, M. Gamba, F. Génin, R. Tuttle, eds. Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects). New York: Springer. Pp. 185-195.
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