Publications & Data | Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network

Recent publications and data stemming from Animal Models Network-funded research and collaborations are listed below.

Rothwell, E.S., Carp, S.B., Bliss-Moreau, E. (2023). The importance of social behavior in nonhuman primate studies of aging: A mini-review.. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 154, 105422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105422

Albery, G.F., Sweeny, A.R., Webber, Q. (2023). How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105426

Berendzen, K.M. (2023). Understanding social attachment as a window into the neural basis of prosocial behavior. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1247480

Berendzen, K.M., Bales, K.L., Manoli, D.S. (2023). Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105339

Hernández-Pacheco, R., Steiner, U.K., Rosati, A., Tuljapurkar, S. (2023). Advancing methods for the biodemography of aging within social contexts. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105400

Lyons, C.E., Razzoli, M., Bartolomucci, A. (2023). The impact of life stress on hallmarks of aging and accelerated senescence: Connections in sickness and in health. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, 105359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105359

Dettmer, A.M., Chusyd, D.E. (2023). Early life adversities and lifelong health outcomes: A review of the literature on large, social, long-lived nonhuman mammals. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105297

Rosenbaum, S., Kuzawa, C.W. (2023). The promise of great apes as model organisms for understanding the downstream consequences of early life experiences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105240

Thompson González, N., Machanda, Z., Emery Thompson, M. (2023). Age-related social selectivity: An adaptive lens on a later life social phenotype. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105294

Tung, J., Lange, E.C., Alberts, S.C., Archie, E.A. (2023). Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105282 Data

Wolf, S.E., Shalev, I. (2023). The shelterin protein expansion of telomere dynamics: Linking early life adversity, life history, and the hallmarks of aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105261

Zipple, M.N., Vogt, C.C., Sheehan, M.J. (2023). Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105238

Gendron, C.M., Chakraborty, T.S., Duran, C., Dono, T., Pletcher, S.D. (2023). Ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex act as a rheostat for sensory modulation of aging. PLoS Biology, 21(6), e3002149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002149

Morrison, R.E., Eckardt, W., Stoinski, T.S., Rosenbaum, S. (2023). Cumulative early-life adversity does not predict reduced adult longevity in wild gorillas. Current Biology, 33(11), 2307-2314.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.051 Data

Berendzen, K.M., Sharma, R., Mandujano, M.A., Wei, Y., Rogers, F.D., Simmons, T.C., Seelke, A.M.H., Bond, J.M., Larios, R., Goodwin, N.L., Sherman, M., Parthasarthy, S., Espineda, I., Knoedler, J.R., Beery, A., Bales, K.L., Shah, N.M., Manoli, D.S. (2023). Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles. Neuron, 111(6), 787-796.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.12.011

Kivimäki, M., Bartolomucci, A., & Kawachi, I. (2023). The multiple roles of life stress in metabolic disorders. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 19, 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-022-00746-8

Berendzen, K.M. and Manoli, D.S. (2022). Rethinking the Architecture of Attachment: New Insights into the Role for Oxytocin Signaling. Affective Science, 3(4), 734-748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00142-5

Albery, G.F., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, D.H., & Firth, J.A. (2022). Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01817-9 GitHub Code

Testard, C., Brent, L.J., Andersson, J., Chiou, K.L., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., DeCasien, A.R., Acevedo-Ithier, A., Stock, M.K., Antón, S.C., Gonzalez, O., & Walker, C.S. (2022). Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society. Science Advances, 8(15), p.eabl5794. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl5794 Data

Green, C.L., Englund, D.A., Das, S., Herrerias, M.M., Yousefzadeh, M.J., Grant, R.A., Clark, J., Pak, H.H., Liu, P., Bai, H., Prahlad, V., Lamming, D.W., & Chusyd, D.E. (2021). The Second Annual Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium: The Future of Aging Research in the Midwestern United States. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 76(12), 2156-2161. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab210

Albery, Gregory F., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pemberton, J.M., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Nussey, D.H., & Firth, J.A. (2021). Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate. Ecology Letters, 24(4), 676-686. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13684 GitHub Code

Bartolomucci, A., & Sapolsky, R. M. (2021). Psychosocial Risk Factors, Noncommunicable Diseases, and Animal Models for COVID-19. Biological psychiatry, 89(12), e67–e71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.12.014

Testard, C., Larson, S. M., Watowich, M. M., Kaplinsky, C. H., Bernau, A., Faulder, M., Marshall, H. H., Lehmann, J., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Higham, J. P., Montague, M. J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Platt, M. L., & Brent, L. (2021). Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster. Current Biology: CB, 31(11), 2299–2309.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.029 GitHub Code and Data

Testard, C., Tremblay, S., & Platt, M. (2021). From the field to the lab and back: neuroethology of primate social behavior. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 68, 76–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.01.005

Snyder-Mackler, N., Burger, J. R., Gaydosh, L., Belsky, D. W., Noppert, G. A., Campos, F. A., Bartolomucci, A., Yang, Y. C., Aiello, A. E., O’Rand, A., Harris, K. M., Shively, C. A., Alberts, S. C., & Tung, J. (2020). Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6493), eaax9553. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9553 Code

Preprints

Real, M.V.F., Colvin, M.S., Sheehan, M.J., Moeller, A.H. (2023). Major urinary protein (Mup) gene family deletion drives sex-specific alterations on the house mouse gut microbiota. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.01.551491 GitHub Code and Data

Testard, C., Shergold, C., Acevedo-Ithier, A., Hart, J., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., Philips, D., Watowich, M.M., Sanguinetti-Scheck, J.I., Montague, M.J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Higham, J.P., Platt, M.L., Brent, L.J.N. (2023). Natural disaster alters the adaptive benefits of sociality. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.17.549328

Zipple, M.N., Vogt, C.C., Sheehan, M.J. (2023). Genetically Identical Mice Express Alternative Reproductive Tactics Depending on Social Conditions in the Field. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.25.542282

Newman, L.E., Testard, C., DeCasien, A.R., Chiou, K.L., Watowich, M.M., Janiak, M.C., Pavez-Fox, M.A., Sanchez Rosado, M.R., Cooper, E.B., Costa, C.E., Petersen, R.M., Montague, M.J., Platt, M.L., Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Higham, J.P. The biology of aging in a social world: Insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.28.525893

Albery, G.F., Morris, S., Morris, A., Kenyon, F., McBean, D., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, D.H., & Firth, J.A. (2022). Different helminth parasites show contrasting relationships with age in a wild ungulate. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.31.514008

Vogt, C.C., Zipple, M.N., Sprockett, D.D., Miller, C.H., Hardy, S.X., Arthur, M., Greenstein, A.M., Colvin, M.S., Michel, L.M., Moeller, A.H., Sheehan, M.J. (2022). Female behavior drives the formation of distinct social structures in C57BL/6J versus wild-derived outbred mice in field enclosures. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.19.488643 GitHub Code Data