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Susan C. Alberts

Susan C. Alberts

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
130 Science Drive, Rm 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Preprints

Early-life paternal relationships predict adult female survival in wild baboons.

Preprint · May 10, 2025 Parent-offspring relationships can have profound effects on offspring behavior, health, and fitness in adulthood. These effects are strong when parents make heavy investments in offspring care. However, in some mammals, including several species of carnivo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons.

Preprint · April 2025 Mammalian gut microbiomes are highly dynamic communities that shape and are shaped by host aging, including age-related changes to host immunity, metabolism, and behavior. As such, gut microbial composition may provide valuable information on host biologic ... Full text Cite

Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons

Preprint · March 10, 2025 AbstractMammalian gut microbiomes are highly dynamic communities that shape and are shaped by host aging, including age-related changes to host immunity, metabolism, and behavior. As such, gut microbial composition ... Full text Cite

Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation

Preprint · 2025 ABSTRACT Over six decades of research on wild baboons and their close relatives (collectively, the African papionins) have uncovered substantial variation in their behavior and social systems. While most papionins form discrete social groups (sin ... Full text Cite

Admixture influences the genetic architecture of DNA methylation in a wild primate hybrid zone

Preprint · 2025 Background Hybrid zones play a central role in evolutionary biology because they serve as natural laboratories for studying how traits and taxa diverge. Changes in gene regulation make important contributions to this process. However, the degree ... Full text Cite

Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons

Preprint · October 28, 2024 AbstractUnderstanding why some individuals age faster than others is essential to evolutionary biology and geroscience, but measuring variation in biological age is difficult. One solution may lie in measuring gut ... Full text Cite

Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons

Preprint · 2024 ABSTRACT Over the past few decades studies have provided strong evidence that the robust links between the social environment, health, and survival found in humans also extend to non-human social animals. A number of these studies emphasize the e ... Full text Cite