Jenny Tung

This study estimates the heritability of aggressive and submissive behavior in wild female baboons, finding both genetic and social inheritance effects.

This study examines the social and fitness outcomes of a group fusion in hybrid baboons, finding no detectable fitness costs and rapid social integration.

The paper examines gene expression evolution in primate immune cells under different conditions, finding that perturbation-responsive genes evolve faster than baseline genes.

This study examines VR gene repertoires and olfactory behaviors in wild capuchin monkeys, finding evolutionary constraint on VRs and a diverse set of olfactory behaviors suggesting a role in social communication.

This study tracks gut microbiota changes in wild baboons across reproductive states, finding distinct microbial patterns linked to pregnancy and hormone levels.

This study develops a low-power Bluetooth and LoRaWAN system to collect long-term cardiac data from wild baboons, revealing circadian patterns and behavioral changes in a female who left her social group.

The paper estimates heritability and genetic correlations of lifetime fitness and time-limited metrics in wild baboons, finding high genetic correlations and heritability for survival and breeding success.

The paper quantifies variation in primate social structures across 11 species, identifying distinct patterns in kin and rank biases and male-centered subgrouping.

The paper links social microbiome transmission to microbial specialization and host lifespan in wild baboons using metagenomic data.

This study shows that social status at first exposure, but not secondary exposure, influences antibody responses and gene expression in vaccinated female rhesus macaques.

The paper provides four newly available data sets from a long-term study of wild baboons in Amboseli, Kenya, covering demographics, activity, diet, and weather data spanning 1971-2023.

The paper examines how admixture affects DNA methylation genetic architecture in a wild primate hybrid zone, finding that admixture increases methylation variance and alters enhancer activity.

This study examines how group social traits and climate variables predict foraging behavior in wild baboons, finding interactions between rainfall, temperature, group size, and social network density on foraging outcomes.

This study tests developmental constraints and adaptive response hypotheses for early life effects on fertility in wild baboons but finds no strong support for these explanations.

The paper characterizes eukaryotic diversity in wild baboon gut microbiomes and finds social group membership explains some variation, but season, age, and sex do not.

The paper finds that strong early-life paternal relationships in wild baboons correlate with longer adult survival in females, regardless of early adversity.

This study re-examines the link between maternal sociality and infant survival in wild baboons, finding that the relationship is confounded by reproductive state and infant presence.

This paper evaluates a Shiny web app for teaching paternity inference in primatology, showing improved student understanding and engagement in a Kenyan setting.

The paper shows that strain sharing in microbiomes can reflect both transmission and environmental factors, emphasizing the need for careful study design.

The paper estimates realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques using IBD analysis from low coverage whole genome data, revealing genetic variation within kin classes and cryptic relatives.

The paper examines how high early lactational synchrony in baboon groups affects female-female competition and infant mortality using long-term field data.

The paper develops a microbiome-based age predictor for wild baboons using 13,563 gut microbial profiles and finds that microbiome age reflects current social and environmental conditions but not developmental milestones or lifespan.

The paper identifies a female-biased gene expression signature of dominance in meerkats, showing differential gene expression in females but not males, with implications for social status and life history trade-offs.

The paper examines how adult male primates influence infant behavior and proximity, showing that maternal early adversity affects infant-male interactions.

This study identifies DNA methylation signatures in wild baboons linked to early life adversity, showing exposure-dependent effects and functional relevance of methylation changes.

The paper uses mSTARR-seq to show DNA methylation interacts with environmental factors like IFNA and influenza virus in human macrophages, but not for early life adversity sites.

This study identifies gene regulatory differences linked to dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons, showing sex-specific effects and distinct immune responses to social factors.

The paper investigates how social status in rhesus macaques affects gene regulation, glucocorticoid physiology, and mitochondrial DNA phenotypes through specific behavioral interactions.

This study finds that high-ranking male baboons show accelerated epigenetic aging, suggesting a trade-off between reproductive success and lifespan.

The paper introduces IMAGE, a statistical method for mQTL mapping that improves detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation by accounting for bisulfite sequencing data and allele-specific patterns.