Outputs (5)

Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.) (2020)
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Hasiniaina, A. F., Radespiel, U., Kessler, S. E., Rina Evasoa, M., Rasoloharijaona, S., Randrianambinina, B., Zimmermann, E., Schmidt, S., & Scheumann, M. (2020). Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.). Ecology and Evolution, 10(8), 3784-3797. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6177

Acoustic phenotypic variation is of major importance for speciation and the evolution of species diversity. Whereas selective and stochastic forces shaping the acoustic divergence of signaling systems are well studied in insects, frogs, and birds, kn... Read More about Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.).

Does the grey mouse lemur use agonistic vocalizations to recognise kin? (2018)
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Kessler, S. E., Radespiel, U., Hasiniaina, A. I., Nash, L. T., & Zimmermann, E. (2018). Does the grey mouse lemur use agonistic vocalizations to recognise kin?. Contributions to zoology, 87(4), 261-274

Frequent kin-biased coalitionary behaviour is a hallmark of mammalian social complexity. Furthermore, selection to understand complex social dynamics is believed to underlie the co-evolution of social complexity and large brains. Vocalisations have b... Read More about Does the grey mouse lemur use agonistic vocalizations to recognise kin?.

A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar (2018)
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Durden, L. A., Kessler, S. E., Radespiel, U., Zimmermann, E., Hasiniaina, A. F., & Zohdy, S. (2018). A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55(4), 910-914. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjy046

Lemurpediculus madagascariensis sp. nov. (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) is described from the Gray Mouse lemur, Microcebus murinus (J. F. Miller) (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), from Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar. Lemurs were trapped u... Read More about A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar.

Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition (2017)
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Kessler, S., Bonnell, T., Byrne, R., & Chapman, C. (2017). Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition. Journal of Human Evolution, 108, 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.009

The emergence of providing care to diseased conspecifics must have been a turning point during the evolution of hominin sociality. On a population level, care may have minimized the costs of socially transmitted diseases at a time of increasing socia... Read More about Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition.

Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations (2014)
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Kessler, S. E., Radespiel, U., Hasiniaina, A. I., Leliveld, L. M., Nash, L. T., & Zimmermann, E. (2014). Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations. Frontiers in Zoology, 11(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-14

Introduction Maternal kin selection is a driving force in the evolution of mammalian social complexity and it requires that kin are distinctive from nonkin. The transition from the ancestral state of asociality to the derived state of complex social... Read More about Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations.