Trudy R. Turner

Savanna Monkeys (eBook, ePUB)

The Genus Chlorocebus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Living across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How do members of the genus Chlorocebus live in desert-like conditions and in areas with freezing temperatures and snow in winter? This book examines the ways these primates adapt genetically, hormonally, physically and behaviourally to their changing landscapes. It features summary chapters for major topics such as behavioural ecology, life history, taxonomy, genetics and ethnoprimatology. Shorter essays supplement the work, with experts detailing their particular research on these primates. The combination of scholarship provides both a comprehensive view of this adaptable genus while enabling the reader to gain depth in specific topics. Developed from a symposium, this book combines decades of experience working with savanna monkeys into a tangible resource, for students and researchers in primatology as well as evolutionary and behavioural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108676434
• Artikelnr.: 57076883

Autorenporträt

Trudy R. Turner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and an Affiliated Faculty member in the Genetics Department at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She is co-founder of Primate Ecology and Genetics Group (PEGG), the South African Primatology Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer;
1. Introduction Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy
Cramer; 2. Biological resources for genomic investigation in vervet monkey
(Chlorocebus) Anna J. Jasinska; 3. Vervet taxonomy Trudy R. Turner,
Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 4. The promise of vervet
genomics Wesley C. Warren and Michael J. Montague; 5. African green monkeys
as a natural host of SIV Cristian Apetrei, Kevin Raehtz and Ivona Pandrea;
6. The vervet microbiome Katherine R. Amato; 7. Population genetics Trudy
R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 8. Population
genetic structure of vervet monkeys in South Africa Willem G. Coetzer,
Joseph G. Lorenz, Nelson B. Freimer and J. Paul Grobler; 9. Behavioral
ecology of vervets Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer
Danzy Cramer; 10. Socioecology of vervet monkeys Patricia Whitten; 11.
Biological complexity in primate sociality and health Brandi T. Wren; 12.
Predation and food competition in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
Lynne A. Isbell; 13. Vervet monkeys' social learning abilities Erica van de
Waal; 14. Life history Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer
Danzy Cramer; 15. The social and thermal competence of wild vervet monkeys
Richard McFarland, Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett; 16. Novelty seeking in
vervets: developmental, genetic and environmental influences Lynn A.
Fairbanks; 17. Measurement of novelty seeking in wild vervet monkeys
Maryjka Blaszczyk; 18. Causes of variation in the static allometry of
morphological structures: a case study with vervet monkeys Rafael L.
Rodríguez, Tegan J. Gaetano, J. Paul Grobler and Nelson B. Freimer; 19.
Ethnoprimatology Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy
Cramer; 20. Exploring Caribbean vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops
sabaeus) through an ethnoprimatological lens Kerry M. Dore; 21. Vervet
monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and
humans (Homo sapiens): studying interactions using stable isotope analysis
Matt Sponheimer, James E. Loudon, J. Paul Grobler, Kimberly Moyer and
Joseph G. Lorenz.