Kelly F. Ethun

The paper identifies eight distinct dam-daughter relationship types in rhesus macaques based on grooming, spatial closeness, and agonistic support behaviors, showing demographic factors influence these behaviors differently.

Across 105 rhesus macaque matrilines at two primate centers, family grooming cohesion drops below a mean kinship threshold of 0.16, while lower kinship continuously increases severe within-family aggression.

This study examines how low social status and obesogenic diets affect brain structure in female macaques from infancy to adulthood, finding specific and persistent effects of social rank and transient effects of diet.

This paper develops two epigenetic clocks for rhesus macaques and finds that early life adversity, specifically infant maltreatment, is associated with epigenetic age acceleration.