Publications & Data
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
Bartolomucci A, Tung J, Harris KM. 2024. The fortunes and misfortunes of social life across the life course: A new era of research from field, laboratory and comparative studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 162: 105655. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105655. PMID: 38583652.
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
Sapolsky, R. 2024. Making sense of the costs of adversity throughout the lifespan on aging in humans and other animals. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 159: 105571. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105571. PMID: 38316195
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
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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
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Motes-Rodrigo A, Albery GF, Negron-Del Valle JE, Philips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Testard C. 2025. A natural disaster exacerbates and redistributes disease risk across free-ranging macaques by altering social structure. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70000
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
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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
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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
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