Lemur

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the endangered ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). 
  • A model for comparison of masticatory effectiveness in primates. 
  • Activity patterns in seven captive lemur species: Evidence of cathemerality in Varecia and Lemur catta? 
  • An ethmoid exposure (os planum) in the orbit of Indri indri (Primates, Lemuriformes). 
  • Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates. 
  • Apolipoprotein E: high-avidity binding to beta-amyloid and increased frequency of type 4 allele in late-onset familial Alzheimer disease. 
  • Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate 
  • Blood transcriptomes reveal novel parasitic zoonoses circulating in Madagascar's lemurs. 
  • Chemical composition of scent marks in the ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta): glandular differences, seasonal variation, and individual signatures. 
  • Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs. 
  • Costs of injury for scent signalling in a strepsirrhine primate. 
  • Daily activity and light exposure levels for five species of lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • Decoding an olfactory mechanism of kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate. 
  • Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities. 
  • Development and application of a phylogenomic toolkit: resolving the evolutionary history of Madagascar's lemurs. 
  • Dietary and dental variations in the genus Lemur, with comments concerning dietary-dental correlations among Malagasy primates. 
  • Divergence dates for Malagasy lemurs estimated from multiple gene loci: geological and evolutionary context. 
  • Endocrine correlates of pregnancy in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta): implications for the masculinization of daughters. 
  • Enriched sleep environments lengthen lemur sleep duration. 
  • Estimation of the transition/transversion rate bias and species sampling. 
  • Eulerian videography technology improves classification of sleep architecture in primates. 
  • Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, "subfossil" koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi. 
  • Evolutionary disequilibrium and activity period in primates: a bayesian phylogenetic approach. 
  • External genital morphology of the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta): females are naturally "masculinized". 
  • Feeding strategy shapes gut metagenomic enrichment and functional specialization in captive lemurs. 
  • Female dominance in blue-eyed black lemurs(Eulemur macaco flavifrons). 
  • Female rule in lemurs is ancestral and hormonally mediated. 
  • Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye. 
  • Gait kinetics of above- and below-branch quadrupedal locomotion in lemurid primates. 
  • Genetic variation at MHC class II loci influences both olfactory signals and scent discrimination in ring-tailed lemurs. 
  • Group Size Predicts Social but Not Nonsocial Cognition in Lemurs. 
  • Honest olfactory ornamentation in a female-dominant primate. 
  • Identification of diverse papillomaviruses in captive black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata). 
  • Incongruence between genetic and morphological diversity in Microcebus griseorufus of Beza Mahafaly. 
  • Individual recognition through olfactory-auditory matching in lemurs. 
  • Insights from macroevolutionary modelling and ancestral state reconstruction into the radiation and historical dietary ecology of Lemuriformes (Primates, Mammalia). 
  • Integrating the female masculinization and challenge hypotheses: Female dominance, male deference, and seasonal hormone fluctuations in adult blue-eyed black lemurs (Eulemur flavifrons). 
  • Lack of evidence for pheromones in lemurs. 
  • Lemurs. 
  • Living in tiny fragments: a glimpse at the ecology of Goodman's mouse lemurs (Microcebus lehilahytsara) in the relic forest of Ankafobe, Central Highlands, Madagascar. 
  • Local habitat, not phylogenetic relatedness, predicts gut microbiota better within folivorous than frugivorous lemur lineages. 
  • Lumbar vertebral morphology of flying, gliding, and suspensory mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of the subfossil lemurs Palaeopropithecus and Babakotia. 
  • Masseter electromyography during chewing in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). 
  • Maternal recognition of infant calls in ring-tailed lemurs. 
  • Microbial rewilding in the gut microbiomes of captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. 
  • Morphometrics and growth in captive aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis). 
  • Next-generation approaches to advancing eco-immunogenomic research in critically endangered primates. 
  • Next-generation genotyping of hypervariable loci in many individuals of a non-model species: technical and theoretical implications. 
  • No evidence for contagious yawning in lemurs. 
  • Organizational and activational androgens, lemur social play, and the ontogeny of female dominance. 
  • Patterns of gut bacterial colonization in three primate species. 
  • Population genomic structure in Goodman's mouse lemur reveals long-standing separation of Madagascar's Central Highlands and eastern rainforests. 
  • RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results. 
  • Remarkable species diversity in Malagasy mouse lemurs (primates, Microcebus). 
  • Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) exploit information about what others can see but not what they can hear. 
  • Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). 
  • Sex and seasonal differences in aggression and steroid secretion in Lemur catta: are socially dominant females hormonally 'masculinized'? 
  • Sight or scent: lemur sensory reliance in detecting food quality varies with feeding ecology. 
  • Sleep influences cognitive performance in lemurs. 
  • Smelling right: the scent of male lemurs advertises genetic quality and relatedness. 
  • Smelling wrong: Hormonal contraception in lemurs alters critical female odour cues. 
  • Social Darwinism lives! (Should it?). 
  • Sociality, Ecology, and Relative Brain Size in Lemurs. 
  • Stable and transient structural variation in lemur vaginal, labial and axillary microbiomes: patterns by species, body site, ovarian hormones and forest access. 
  • Tap-scanning and extractive foraging in aye-ayes, Daubentonia madagascariensis. 
  • Temporalis function in anthropoids and strepsirrhines: an EMG study. 
  • The cost of deep sleep: Environmental influences on sleep regulation are greater for diurnal lemurs. 
  • The ecology of spatial memory in four lemur species. 
  • The functional adaptations of primate molar teeth. 
  • The gaits of primates: center of mass mechanics in walking, cantering and galloping ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta. 
  • The volar skin of primates: its frictional characteristics and their functional significance. 
  • Tropical heterothermy is "cool": The expression of daily torpor and hibernation in primates. 
  • Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises. 
  • Victims of infanticide and conspecific bite wounding in a female-dominant primate: a long-term study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology