Scholars@Duke

• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • NSFDEB-NERC: Integrating computational, phenotypic, and population-genomic approaches to reveal processes of cryptic speciation and gene flow in Madagascar's mouse lemurs awarded by  National Science Foundation 2022 - 2026
  • CSBR:Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History awarded by  National Science Foundation 2020 - 2023
  • DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: A comparative study of gut microbiomes in folivorous lemurs: Effects of captivity, habitat, and evolutionary history awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2019
  • Life in the wild takes guts: The gut microbiome relative to the phylogeny, folivory, and environment of endangered Malagasy lemurs awarded by Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation 2017 - 2018
  • Linking Dietary Quality to the Gut Microbiome of Endangered Malagasy Primates awarded by Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation 2015 - 2017
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • E. Bayard Halsted Fellowship awarded by Duke University 2017 - 2018
  • University Scholar awarded by Duke University 2014
  • James B. Duke Fellow awarded by Duke University 2014
  • Graduate Research Fellow awarded by NSF 2014
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Dimac-Stohl, Kristin A., Charli S. Davies, Nicholas M. Grebe, Alexandra C. Stonehill, Lydia K. Greene, Jessica Mitchell, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Christine M. Drea. “Incidence and biomarkers of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and neonatal loss during an environmental stressor: Implications for female reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding meerkat.” Physiology & Behavior 193, no. Pt A (September 2018): 90–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.11.011.
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    • Greene, Lydia K., and Erin A. McKenney. “The inside tract: The appendicular, cecal, and colonic microbiome of captive aye‐ayes.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166, no. 4 (August 2018): 960–67. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23481.
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    • Leclaire, Sarah, Staffan Jacob, Lydia K. Greene, George R. Dubay, and Christine M. Drea. “Social odours covary with bacterial community in the anal secretions of wild meerkats.” Scientific Reports 7, no. 1 (June 12, 2017): 3240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03356-x.
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    • McKenney, Erin A., Lydia K. Greene, Christine M. Drea, and Anne D. Yoder. “Down for the count: Cryptosporidium infection depletes the gut microbiome in Coquerel's sifakas.” Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 28, no. 1 (January 2017): 1335165. https://doi.org/10.1080/16512235.2017.1335165.
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    • Davies, C. S., K. N. Smyth, L. K. Greene, D. A. Walsh, J. Mitchell, T. Clutton-Brock, and C. M. Drea. “Exceptional endocrine profiles characterise the meerkat: sex, status, and reproductive patterns.” Scientific Reports 6 (October 18, 2016): 35492.
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    • Smyth, Kendra N., Lydia K. Greene, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Christine M. Drea. “Androgens predict parasitism in female meerkats: a new perspective on a classic trade-off.” Biology Letters 12, no. 10 (October 2016): 20160660. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0660.
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    • Greene, Lydia K., Timothy W. Wallen, Anneke Moresco, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Christine M. Drea. “Reproductive endocrine patterns and volatile urinary compounds of Arctictis binturong: discovering why bearcats smell like popcorn.” Die Naturwissenschaften 103, no. 5–6 (June 2016): 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-016-1361-4.
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    • Greene, L. K., K. E. Grogan, K. N. Smyth, C. A. Adams, S. A. Klager, and C. M. Drea. “Mix it and fix it: functions of composite olfactory signals in ring-tailed lemurs.” Royal Society Open Science 3, no. 4 (April 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160076.
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    • Trillo, Javier delBarco-, Lydia K. Greene, Ines Braga Goncalves, Miriam Fenkes, Jillian H. Wisse, Julian A. Drewe, Marta B. Manser, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Christine M. Drea. “Beyond aggression: Androgen-receptor blockade modulates social interaction in wild meerkats.” Hormones and Behavior 78 (February 2016): 95–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.11.001.
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    • Greene, L. K., and C. M. Drea. “Love is in the air: Sociality and pair bondedness influence sifaka reproductive signalling.” Animal Behaviour 88 (February 1, 2014): 147–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.019.
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    • Drea, Christine M., Marylène Boulet, Javier Delbarco-Trillo, Lydia K. Greene, Caitlin R. Sacha, Thomas E. Goodwin, and George R. Dubay. “The "secret" in secretions: methodological considerations in deciphering primate olfactory communication.” American Journal of Primatology 75, no. 7 (July 2013): 621–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22143.
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• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • workshop leader. Genetics in Madagascar. 2018 - 2018  2018
  • workshop co-leader. Duke Data Expeditions. 2014 - 2016  2014 - 2016
  • Educational docent. Duke Lemur Center. 2007  2007

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