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Susan C. Alberts

Susan C. Alberts

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
91
Citations
24968
World Ranking
457
National Ranking
162

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan C. Alberts is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Susan C. Alberts has been involved in publishing scientific work in several venues across their career. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Data Repository, Duke University
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals," 2020, Science
  • "Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent," 2021, Science
  • "Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals," 2022, Science
  • "High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons," 2021, eLife
  • "Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent coauthors in their research activities are:

  • Elizabeth A. Archie
  • Jenny Tung
  • J. Kinyua Warutere
  • Fernando A. Campos
  • Laurence R. Gesquiere

Throughout their career, Susan C. Alberts has been recognized with several awards:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012

Best Publications

  • Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival

    Joan B. Silk;Susan C. Alberts;Jeanne Altmann

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

    Noah Snyder-Mackler;Joseph Robert Burger;Lauren Gaydosh;Daniel W. Belsky

  • Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons.

    Jenny Tung;Luis B. Barreiro;Michael B. Burns;Jean Christophe Grenier

  • Social relationships among adult female baboons (papio cynocephalus) I. Variation in the strength of social bonds

    Joan B. Silk;Jeanne Altmann;Susan C. Alberts

  • True paternal care in a multi-male primate society

    Jason C. Buchan;Susan C. Alberts;Joan B. Silk;Jeanne Altmann

  • Behavior predicts genes structure in a wild primate group

    Jeanne Altmann;Susan C. Alberts;Susan A. Haines;Jean Dubach

  • The ties that bind: genetic relatedness predicts the fission and fusion of social groups in wild African elephants

    Elizabeth A Archie;Cynthia J Moss;Susan C Alberts

  • Hypercortisolism Associated With Social Subordinance or Social Isolation Among Wild Baboons

    Robert M. Sapolsky;Susan C. Alberts;Jeanne Altmann

  • BALANCING COSTS AND OPPORTUNITIES: DISPERSAL IN MALE BABOONS

    Susan C. Alberts;Jeanne Altmann

  • Queuing and queue-jumping: long-term patterns of reproductive skew in male savannah baboons, Papio cynocephalus

    Susan C. Alberts;Heather E. Watts;Jeanne Altmann;Jeanne Altmann

  • Growth rates in a wild primate population: ecological influences and maternal effects

    Jeanne Altmann;Susan C. Alberts

  • Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons

    Laurence R. Gesquiere;Niki H. Learn;M. Carolina M. Simao;Patrick O. Onyango

  • Social relationships among adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus) II. Variation in the quality and stability of social bonds

    Joan B. Silk;Susan C. Alberts;Jeanne Altmann

  • Aging in the Natural World: Comparative Data Reveal Similar Mortality Patterns Across Primates

    Anne M. Bronikowski;Jeanne Altmann;Diane K. Brockman;Marina Cords

  • Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons

    Elizabeth A. Archie;Jenny Tung;Michael Clark;Jeanne Altmann

  • Sexual selection in wild baboons: from mating opportunities to paternity success

    Susan C. Alberts;Jason C. Buchan;Jeanne Altmann;Jeanne Altmann

  • Dominance rank relationships among wild female African elephants, Loxodonta africana

    Elizabeth A. Archie;Thomas A. Morrison;Charles A.H. Foley;Cynthia J. Moss

  • Mate guarding constrains foraging activity of male baboons

    Susan C. Alberts;Jeanne Altmann;Jeanne Altmann;Michael L. Wilson

  • Mechanistic basis of resistance to PCBs in Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson River.

    Isaac Wirgin;Nirmal K. Roy;Matthew Loftus;R. Christopher Chambers

  • Behavioral, endocrine, and immunological correlates of immigration by an aggressive male into a natural primate group.

    Susan C. Alberts;Robert M. Sapolsky;Jeanne Altmann;Jeanne Altmann

  • Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in baboons.

    Jeanne Altmann;Jeanne Altmann;Susan C. Alberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne Altmann
Jeanne Altmann Princeton University
Elizabeth A. Archie
Elizabeth A. Archie University of Notre Dame
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tara S. Stoinski
Tara S. Stoinski Georgia Institute of Technology
Anne E. Pusey
Anne E. Pusey Duke University
Linda M. Fedigan
Linda M. Fedigan University of Calgary
Marina Cords
Marina Cords Columbia University
Marie J. E. Charpentier
Marie J. E. Charpentier University of Montpellier
Joan B. Silk
Joan B. Silk Arizona State University
Gregory A. Wray
Gregory A. Wray Duke University

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