Christine M. Drea

Journal article Current biology : CB · November 2020 Featured Work As chemicals that elicit unlearned, functionally specialized, and species-specific responses [1] or 'stereotyped behavior' [2], pheromones differ from mammalian scent signatures that comprise complex, variable mixtures, convey multiple messages via learned ... Full text Cite

Spotted hyaenas and the sexual spectrum: reproductive endocrinology and development.

Journal article The Journal of endocrinology · October 2020 Featured Work The spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) is a unique species, even amongst the Hyaenidae. Extreme clitoral development in female spotted hyaenas challenges aspects of the accepted framework of sexual differentiation and reproductive function. They lack a vulva ... Full text Cite

A role for gut microbiota in host niche differentiation.

Journal article The ISME journal · July 2020 Featured Work If gut microbes influence host behavioral ecology in the short term, over evolutionary time, they could drive host niche differentiation. We explored this possibility by comparing the gut microbiota of Madagascar's folivorous lemurs from Indriidae and Lepi ... Full text Cite

Design, delivery and perception of condition-dependent chemical signals in strepsirrhine primates: implications for human olfactory communication.

Journal article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · June 2020 Featured Work The study of human chemical communication benefits from comparative perspectives that relate humans, conceptually and empirically, to other primates. All major primate groups rely on intraspecific chemosignals, but strepsirrhines present the greatest diver ... Full text Cite