Madagascar

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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 multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates. 
  • A necessarily complex model to explain the biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar. 
  • A new species of Propithecus (primates) from northeast Madagascar. 
  • Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates. 
  • Ancient single origin for Malagasy primates. 
  • Antibacterial soap use impacts skin microbial communities in rural Madagascar. 
  • Assessment of genetic relatedness of vaginal isolates of Candida albicans from different geographical origins. 
  • Blood transcriptomes reveal novel parasitic zoonoses circulating in Madagascar's lemurs. 
  • Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. 
  • Cholera prevention with traditional and novel water treatment methods: an outbreak investigation in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar. 
  • Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs. 
  • Conservation. CITES designation for endangered rosewood in Madagascar. 
  • Conservation: Protection for trade of precious rosewood. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies for cervical infection among women at high risk in Madagascar. 
  • Defining spatial and temporal patterns of phylogeographic structure in Madagascar's iguanid lizards (genus Oplurus). 
  • Delimiting species without nuclear monophyly in Madagascar's mouse lemurs. 
  • Dental microwear texture analysis of two families of subfossil lemurs from Madagascar. 
  • Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities. 
  • Dental use wear in extinct lemurs: evidence of diet and niche differentiation. 
  • Development and application of a phylogenomic toolkit: resolving the evolutionary history of Madagascar's lemurs. 
  • Divergence dates for Malagasy lemurs estimated from multiple gene loci: geological and evolutionary context. 
  • Does the moon influence sleep in small-scale societies? 
  • Dynamic vs. static social networks in models of parasite transmission: predicting Cryptosporidium spread in wild lemurs. 
  • Ecogeographic size variation in small-bodied subfossil primates from Ankilitelo, southwestern Madagascar. 
  • Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on indri (Indri indri) health in Madagascar. 
  • Expression and trans-specific polymorphism of self-incompatibility RNases in coffea (Rubiaceae). 
  • Extinction risks and the conservation of Madagascar's reptiles. 
  • Female and male life tables for seven wild primate species. 
  • Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye. 
  • Frugivores and the evolution of fruit colour. 
  • Gene Expression Profiling in the Hibernating Primate, Cheirogaleus Medius. 
  • Geogenetic patterns in mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) reveal the ghosts of Madagascar's forests past. 
  • High prevalence of hypertension in an agricultural village in Madagascar. 
  • Implications of lemuriform extinctions for the Malagasy flora. 
  • Incongruence between genetic and morphological diversity in Microcebus griseorufus of Beza Mahafaly. 
  • Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography. 
  • It's Not Easy Being Blue: Are There Olfactory and Visual Trade-Offs in Plant Signalling? 
  • Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. 
  • Lemurs. 
  • Local habitat, not phylogenetic relatedness, predicts gut microbiota better within folivorous than frugivorous lemur lineages. 
  • Morphometric analysis of lumbar vertebrae in extinct Malagasy strepsirrhines. 
  • Morphometrics and growth in captive aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis). 
  • Multilocus coalescent analyses reveal the demographic history and speciation patterns of mouse lemur sister species. 
  • Multilocus phylogenetic and geospatial analyses illuminate diversification patterns and the biogeographic history of Malagasy endemic plated lizards (Gerrhosauridae: Zonosaurinae). 
  • New pedal remains of Megaladapis and their functional significance. 
  • Next-generation approaches to advancing eco-immunogenomic research in critically endangered primates. 
  • No sex for science? Formative research on the acceptability and feasibility of a true contraceptive efficacy clinical trial. 
  • Phylogenetic and functional affinities of Babakotia (primates), a fossil lemur from northern Madagascar. 
  • Phylogeny and evolution of Malagasy plated lizards. 
  • Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability. 
  • Relative growth of the limbs and trunk in sifakas: heterochronic, ecological, and functional considerations. 
  • Segmented sleep in a nonelectric, small-scale agricultural society in Madagascar. 
  • Seroepidemiological Study of Interepidemic Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection Among Persons with Intense Ruminant Exposure in Madagascar and Kenya. 
  • Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor. 
  • Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus. 
  • Species discovery and validation in a cryptic radiation of endangered primates: coalescent-based species delimitation in Madagascar's mouse lemurs. 
  • Subfossil Indri indri from the Ankarana Massif of northern Madagascar. 
  • The evolutionary origin of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys). 
  • The giant aye-aye Daubentonia robusta. 
  • The hands and feet of Archaeolemur: metrical affinities and their functional significance. 
  • The importance of scale in comparative microbiome research: New insights from the gut and glands of captive and wild lemurs. 
  • The lemur revolution starts now: the genomic coming of age for a non-model organism. 
  • Tropical heterothermy is "cool": The expression of daily torpor and hibernation in primates. 
  • Working at the interface of phylogenetics and population genetics: a biogeographical analysis of Triaenops spp. (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Yoder, Anne Daphne, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Duke University