Max-Planck-InstitutContact
Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 200
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Publications
Articles
| Godoy, I., Vigilant, L., & Perry, S. E. (2016). Inbreeding risk, avoidance and costs in a group-living primate, Cebus capucinus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(9), 1601-1611. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Städele, V., & Vigilant, L. (2016). Strategies for determining kinship in wild populations using genetic data. Ecology and Evolution, 6(17), 6107-6120. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Städele, V., Pines, M., Swedell, L., & Vigilant, L. (2016). The ties that bind: Maternal kin bias in a multilevel primate society despite natal dispersal by both sexes. American Journal of Primatology, 78(7), 731-744. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Godoy, I., Vigilant, L., & Perry, S. E. (2016). Cues to kinship and close relatedness during infancy in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behaviour, 116, 139-151. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Banes, G., Galdikas, B. M. F., & Vigilant, L. (2016). Reintroduction of confiscated and displaced mammals risks outbreeding and introgression in natural populations, as evidenced by orang-utans of divergent subspecies. Scientific Reports, 6: 22026. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Rosenbaum, S., Hirwa, J. P., Silk, J. B., Vigilant, L., & Stoinski, T. S. (2016). Infant mortality risk and paternity certainty are associated with postnatal maternal behavior toward adult male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). PLoS One, 11(2): e0147441. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Banes, G., Galdikas, B. M. F., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Male orang-utan bimaturism and reproductive success at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69(11), 1785-1794. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Hans, J., Haubner, A., Arandjelovic, M., Bergl, R. A., Fünfstück, T., Gray, M., Morgan, D. B., Robbins, M. M., Sanz, C., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Characterization of MHC class II B polymorphism in multiple populations of wild gorillas using non-invasive samples and next-generation sequencing. American Journal of Primatology, 77(11), 1193-1206. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Fünfstück, T., & Vigilant, L. (2015). The geographic distribution of genetic diversity within gorillas. American Journal of Primatology, 77(9), 974-985. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| McCarthy, M., Lester, J. D., Howe, E. J., Arandjelovic, M., Stanford, C. B., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Genetic censusing identifies an unexpectedly sizeable population of an endangered large mammal in a fragmented forest landscape. BMC Ecology, 21: 15. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., Roy, J., Bradley, B. J., Stoneking, C. J., Robbins, M. M., & Stoinski, T. S. (2015). Reproductive competition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate species with habitual female dispersal. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69(7), 1163-1172. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Rosenbaum, S., Hirwa, J., Silk, J., Vigilant, L., & Stoinski, T. (2015). Male rank, not paternity, predicts male–immature relationships in mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei. Animal Behaviour, 104, 13-24. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Moore, D. L., Langergraber, K. E., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Genetic analyses suggest male philopatry and territoriality in savanna-woodland chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Ugalla, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology, 36(2), 377-397. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Arandjelovic, M., Bergl, R. A., Ikfuingei, R., Jameson, C., Parker, M., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Detection dog efficacy for collecting faecal samples from the critically endangered Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) for genetic censusing. Royal Society Open Science, 2: 140423. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Fünfstück, T., Arandjelovic, M., Morgan, D. B., Sanz, C., Reed, P., Olson, S. H., Cameron, K., Ondzie, A., Peeters, M., & Vigilant, L. (2015). The sampling scheme matters: Pan troglodytes troglodytes and P. t. schweinfurthii are characterized by clinal genetic variation rather than a strong subspecies break. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156(2), 181-191. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Schubert, G., Stockhausen, M., Hoffmann, C., Merkel, K., Vigilant, L., Leendertz, F. H., & Calvignac-Spencer, S. (2015). Targeted detection of mammalian species using carrion fly-derived DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(2), 285-294. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Städele, V., Van Doren, V., Pines, M., Swedell, L., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Fine-scale genetic assessment of sex-specific dispersal patterns in a multilevel primate society. Journal of Human Evolution, 78, 103-113. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Rowney, C., Schubert, G., Crockford, C., Hobaiter, C., Wittig, R. M., Wrangham, R. W., Zuberbühler, K., & Vigilant, L. (2014). How old are chimpanzee communities? Time to the most recent common ancestor of the Y-chromosome in highly patrilocal societies. Journal of Human Evolution, 69, 1-7. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Moore, D. L., & Vigilant, L. (2014). A population estimate of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Ugalla region using standard and spatially explicit genetic capture–recapture methods. American Journal of Primatology, 76(4), 335-346. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Arandjelovic, M., Head, J. S., Boesch, C., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2014). Genetic inference of group dynamics and female kin structure in a western lowland gorilla population (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Primate Biology, 1(1), 29-38. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chang, Z., Yang, B., Vigilant, L., Liu, Z., Ren, B., Yang, J., Xiang, Z., Garber, P. A., & Li, M. (2014). Evidence of male-biased dispersal in the endangered Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithexus roxellana). American Journal of Primatology, 76(1), 72-83. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Fünfstück, T., Arandjelovic, M., Morgan, D. B., Sanz, C., Breuer, T., Stokes, E. J., Reed, P., Olson, S. H., Cameron, K., Ondzie, A., Peeters, M., Kühl, H. S., Cipolletta, C., Todd, A., Masi, S., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., Bradley, B. J., & Vigilant, L. (2014). The genetic population structure of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) living in continuous rain forest. American Journal of Primatology, 76(9), 868-878. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Rowney, C., Crockford, C., Wittig, R. M., Zuberbühler, K., & Vigilant, L. (2014). Genetic analyses suggest no immigration of adult females and their offspring into the Sonso community of chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. American Journal of Primatology, 640-648. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Moore, D. L., & Vigilant, L. (2014). Genetic diversity at the edge: Comparative assessment of Y-chromosome and autosomal diversity in eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Ugalla, Tanzania. Conservation Genetics, 15(3), 495-507. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Roy, J., Arandjelovic, M., Bradley, B. J., Guschanski, K., Stephens, C. R., Bucknell, D., Cirhuza, H., Kusamba, C., Kyungu, J. C., Smith, V., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2014). Recent divergences and size decreases of eastern gorilla populations. Biology Letters, 10(11): 20140811. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Roy, J., Gray, M., Stoinski, T., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2014). Fine-scale genetic structure analyses suggest further male than female dispersal in mountain gorillas. BMC Ecology, 14: 21. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Roy, J., Vigilant, L., Gray, M., Wright, E., Kato, R., Kabano, P., Basabose, A., Tibenda, E., Kühl, H. S., & Robbins, M. M. (2014). Challenges in the use of genetic mark-recapture to estimate the population size of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). Biological Conservation, 180, 249-261. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Ostner, J., Vigilant, L., Bhagavatula, J., Franz, M., & Schülke, O. (2013). Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate. Animal Behaviour, 86(3), 623-631. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Mitani, J. C., Watts, D. P., & Vigilant, L. (2013). Male–female socio-spatial relationships and reproduction in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(6), 861-873. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Prüfer, K., Langergraber, K. E., Pääbo, S., & Vigilant, L. (2013). Reply to Gibb and Hills: Divergence times, generation lengths and mutation rates in great apes and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(8): E612. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chan, Y.-C., Roos, C., Inoue-Murayama, M., Inoue, E., Shih, C.-C., Pei, K.-J.-C., & Vigilant, L. (2013). Inferring the evolutionary histories of divergences in Hylobates and Nomascus gibbons through multilocus sequence data. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13: 82. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Gray, M., Roy, J., Vigilant, L., Fawcett, K., Basabose, A., Cranfield, M., Uwingeli, P., Mburanumwe, I., Kagoda, E., & Robbins, M. M. (2013). Genetic census reveals increased but uneven growth of a critically endangered mountain gorilla population. Biological Conversation, 158, 230-238. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Schubert, G., Vigilant, L., Boesch, C., Klenke, R., Langergraber, K. E., Mundry, R., Surbeck, M., & Hohmann, G. (2013). Co–residence between males and their mothers and grandmothers is more frequent in bonobos than chimpanzees. PLoS One, 8(12): e83870. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K., Pruefer, K., Rowney, C., Boesch, C., Crockford, C., Fawcett, K., Inoue, E., Inoue-Muruyama, M., Mitani, J. C., Muller, M. N., Robbins, M. M., Schubert, G., Stoinski, T. S., Viola, B., Watts, D., Wittig, R., Wrangham, R. W., Zuberbühler, K., Pääbo, S., & Vigilant, L. (2012). Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(39), 15716-15721. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chang, Z. F., Luo, M. F., Liu, Z. J., Yang, J. Y., Xiang, Z. F., Li, M., & Vigilant, L. (2012). Human influence on the population decline and loss of genetic diversity in a small and isolated population of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). Genetica, 140(4-6), 105-114. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chan, Y.-C., Roos, C., Inoue-Murayama, M., Inoue, E., Shih, C.-C., & Vigilant, L. (2012). A comparative analysis of Y chromosome and mtDNA phylogenies of the Hylobates gibbons. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12: 150. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chancellor, R. L., Langergraber, K., Ramirez, S., Rundus, A. S., & Vigilant, L. (2012). Genetic sampling of unhabituated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gishwati Forest Reserve, an isolated forest fragment in Western Rwanda. International Journal of Primatology, 33(2), 479-488. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chang, Z., Liu, Z., Yang, J., Li, M., & Vigilant, L. (2012). Noninvasive genetic assessment of the population trend and sex ratio of the Shennongjia population of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). Chinese Science Bulletin, 57(10), 1135-1141. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Groeneveld, L. F., Atencia, R., Garriga, R. M., & Vigilant, L. (2012). High diversity at PRDM9 in chimpanzees and bonobos. PLoS One, 7(7): e39064. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Scally, A., Dutheil, J. Y., Hillier, L. W., Jordan, G. E., Goodhead, I., Herrero, J., Hobolth, A., Lappalainen, T., Mailund, T., Marques-Bonet, T., McCarthy, S., Montgomery, S. H., Schwalie, P. C., Tang, Y. A., Ward, M. C., Xue, Y., Yngvadottir, B., Alkan, C., Andersen, L. N., Ayub, Q., Ball, E. V., Beal, K., Bradley, B. J., Chen, Y., Clee, C. M., Fitzgerald, S., Graves, T. A., Gu, Y., Heath, P., Heger, A., Karakoc, E., Kolb-Kokocinski, A., Laird, G. K., Lunter, G., Meader, S., Mort, M., Mullikin, J. C., Munch, K., O’Connor, T. D., Phillips, A. D., Prado-Martinez, J., Rogers, A. S., Sajjadian, S., Schmidt, D., Shaw, K., Simpson, J. T., Stenson, P. D., Turner, D. J., Vigilant, L., Vilella, A. J., Whitener, W., Zhu, B., Cooper, D. N., de Jong, P., Dermitzakis, E. T., Eichler, E. E., Flicek, P., Goldman, N., Mundy, N. I., Ning, Z., Odom, D. T., Ponting, C. P., Quail, M. A., Ryder, O. A., Searle, S. M., Warren, W. C., Wilson, R. K., Schierup, M. H., Rogers, J., Tyler-Smith, C., & Durbin, &. R. (2012). Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence. Nature, 483(7388), 169-175. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Groeneveld, L. F. (2012). Using genetics to understand primate social systems. Nature Education Knowledge, 3(10): 87. Retrieved from http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/using-genetics-to-understand-primate-social-systems-71223219. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Arandjelovic, M., Head, J., Rabanal, L. I., Schubert, G., Mettke, E., Boesch, C., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Non-Invasive genetic monitoring of wild central chimpanzees. PLoS ONE, 6(3): e14761. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Genetic differences cannot be excluded from generating behavioural differences among chimpanzee groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 278(1715), 2094-2095. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Boesch, C., Inoue, E., Inoue-Murayama, M., Mitani, J. C., Nishida, T., Pusey, A., Reynolds, V., Schubert, G., Wrangham, R. W., Wroblewski, E., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 278(1704), 408-416. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K., Schubert, G., Rowney, C., Wrangham, R., Zommers, Z., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Genetic differentiation and the evolution of cooperation in chimpanzees and humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1717), 2546-2552. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Schubert, G., Stoneking, C. J., Arandjelovic, M., Boesch, C., Eckhardt, N., Hohmann, G., Langergraber, K., Lukas, D., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Male-mediated gene flow in patrilocal primates. PLoS One, 6(7): e21514. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Thalmann, O., Wegmann, D., Spitzner, M., Arandjelovic, M., Guschanski, K., Leuenberger, C., Bergl, R. A., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 85, pp. 1-10. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Langergraber, K. E. (2011). Inconclusive evidence for patrilocality in Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(18), E87-E87. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Arandjelovic, M., Head, J., Kuehl, H., Boesch, C., Robbins, M. M., Maisels, F., & Vigilant, L. (2010). Effective non-invasive genetic monitoring of multiple wild western gorilla groups. Biological Conservation, 143(7), 1780-1791. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chan, Y.-C., Roos, C., Inoue-Murayama, M., Inoue, E., Shih, C.-C., Pei, K.-J.-C., & Vigilant, L. (2010). Mitochondrial genome sequences effectively reveal the phylogeny of Hylobates gibbons. PLoS One, 5(12): e14419. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Muniz, L., Perry, S., Manson, J. H., Gilkenson, H., Gros-Louis, J., & Vigilant, L. (2010). Male dominance and reproductive success in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) at Lomas Barbudal, Costa Rica. American Journal of Primatology, 72(12), 1118-1130. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Newton-Fisher, N. E., Thompson, M. E., Reynolds, V., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2010). Paternity and social rank in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from the Budongo Forest, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 142(3), 417-428. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Schülke, O., Bhagavatula, J., Vigilant, L., & Ostner, J. (2010). Social bonds enhance reproductive success in male macaques. Current Biology, 20(24), 2207-2210. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Smith, T. M., Smith, B. H., Reid, D. J., Siedel, H., Vigilant, L., Hublin, J.-J., & Boesch, C. (2010). Dental development of the Taï Forest chimpanzees revisited. Journal of Human Evolution, 58(5), 363-373. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Arandjelovic, M., Guschanski, K., Schubert, G., Harris, T. R., Thalmann, O., Siedel, H., & Vigilant, L. (2009). Two-step multiplex polymerase chain reaction improves the speed and accuracy of genotyping using DNA from noninvasive and museum samples. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9(1), 28-36. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Guschanski, K., Vigilant, L., McNeilage, A., Gray, M., Kagoda, E., & Robbins, M. M. (2009). Counting elusive animals: Comparing field and genetic census of the entire mountain gorilla population of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Biological Conservation, 142(2), 290-300. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Harris, T. R., Caillaud, D., Chapman, C. A., & Vigilant, L. (2009). Neither genetic nor observational data alone are sufficient for understanding sex-biased dispersal in a social-group-living species. Molecular Ecology, 18(8), 1777-1790. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Mitani, J. C., & Vigilant, L. (2009). Kinship and social bonds in female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 71(10), 840-851. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (2009). Elucidating population histories using genomic DNA sequences. Current Anthropology, 50(2), 201-212. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Guschanski, K. (2009). Using genetics to understand the dynamics of wild primate populations. Primates, 50(2), 105-120. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bergl, R. A., Bradley, B. J., Nsubuga, A. M., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Effects of habitat fragmentation, population size and demographic history on genetic diversity: the cross river gorilla in a comparative context. American Journal of Primatology, 70(9), 848-859. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Genetic identification of elusive animals: Re-evaluating tracking and nesting data for wild western gorillas. Journal of Zoology, 275(4), 333-340. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Guschanski, K., Caillaud, D., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Females shape the genetic structure of a gorilla population. Current Biology, 18(22), 1809-1814. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Inoue, E., Inoue-Murayama, M., Vigilant, L., Takenaka, O., & Nishida, T. (2008). Relatedness in wild chimpanzees: Influence of paternity, male philopatry, and demographic factors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 137(3), 256-262. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Muniz, L., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the white-faced capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus) and cross-species amplification in other New World monkeys. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8(2), 402-405. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Nsubuga, A. M., Robbins, M. M., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Patterns of paternity and group fission in wild multimale mountain gorilla groups. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 135(3), 263-274. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Perry, S., Manson, J. H., Muniz, L., Grios-Louis, J., & Vigilant, L. (2008). Kin-biased social behaviour in wild adult female white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behaviour, 76(1), 187-199. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., & Vigilant, L. (2007). Potential for female kin associations in wild western gorillas despite female dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological Sciences, 274(1622), 2179-2185. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bergl, R. A., & Vigilant, L. (2007). Genetic analysis reveals population structure and recent migration within the highly fragmented range of the Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla Gorilla Diehli). Molecular Ecology, 16(3), 501-516. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Boesch, C., Head, J., Tagg, N., Arandjelovic, M., Vigilant, L., & Robbins, M. M. (2007). Fatal chimpanzee attack in Loango National Park, Gabon. International Journal of Primatology, 28(5), 1025-1034. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Stiller, M., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., Harris, T. R., Chapman, C. A., Vigilant, L., & Poinar, H. N. (2007). Plant DNA sequences from feces: Potential means for assessing diets of wild primates. American Journal of Primatology, 69(6), 699-705. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Mitani, J. C., & Vigilant, L. (2007). The limited impact of kinship on cooperation in wild chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 104(19), 7786-7790. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Langergraber, K. E., Siedel, H., Mitani, J. C., Wrangham, R. W., Reynolds, V., Hunt, K. D., & Vigilant, L. (2007). The genetic signature of sex-biased migration in patrilocal chimpanzees and humans. PLoS One, 2(10): e973. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Thalmann, O., Fischer, A., Lankester, F., Pääbo, S., & Vigilant, L. (2007). The complex evolutionary history of gorillas: Insights from genomic data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24(1), 146-158. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Muniz, L., Perry, S., Manson, J. H., Gilkenson, H., Gros-Louis, J., & Vigilant, L. (2006). Father–daughter inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate population. Current Biology, 16(5), R156-R157. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Boesch, C., Kohou, G., Néné, H., & Vigilant, L. (2006). Male competition and paternity in wild chimpanzees of the Taï forest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130(1), 103-115. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Eriksson, J., Siedel, H., Lukas, D., Kayser, M., Erler, A., Hashimoto, C., Hohmann, G., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2006). Y-chromosome analysis confirms highly sex-biased dispersal and suggests a low male effective population size in bonobos (Pan paniscus). Molecular Ecology, 15(4), 939-949. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Leendertz, F. H., Yumlu, S., Pauli, G., Boesch, C., Couacy-Hymann, E., Vigilant, L., Junglen, S., Schenk, S., & Ellerbrok, H. (2006). A new bacillus anthracis found in wild chimpanzees and a gorilla from West and Central Africa. PLoS Pathogens, 2(1): e8. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Robbins, M. M., Williamson, E. A., Steklis, H. D., Gerald-Steklis, N., Eckhardt, N., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2005). Mountain gorilla tug-of-war: Silverbacks have limited control over reproduction in multimale groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(26), 9418-9423. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Lukas, D., & Vigilant, L. (2005). Reply: Facts, faeces and setting standards for the study of MHC genes using noninvasive samples. Molecular Ecology, 14(5), 1601-1602. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Lukas, D., Reynolds, V., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2005). To what extent does living in a group mean living with kin? Molecular Ecology, 14(7), 2181-2196. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Thalmann, O., Serre, D., Hofreiter, M., Lukas, D., Eriksson, J., & Vigilant, L. (2005). Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA. Molecular Ecology, 14(1), 179-188. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Nsubuga, A. M., Robbins, M. M., Roeder, A. D., Morin, P. A., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Factors affecting the amount of genomic DNA extracted from ape faeces and the identification of an improved sample storage method. Molecular Ecology, 13(7), 2089-2094. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Crockford, C., Herbinger, I., Vigilant, L., & Boesch, C. (2004). Wild chimpanzees produce group-specific calls: A case for vocal learning? Ethology, 110(3), 221-243. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., Lukas, D., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Dispersed male networks in western gorillas. Current Biology, 14, 510-513. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Chambers, K. E., Reichard, U. H., Möller, A., Nowak, K., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Cross-species amplification of human microsatellite markers using noninvasive samples from white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar). American Journal of Primatology, 64(1), 19-27. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Eriksson, J., Hohmann, G., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Rivers influence the population genetic structure of bonobos (Pan paniscus). Molecular Ecology, 13(11), 3425-3435. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Leendertz, F. H., Ellerbrok, H., Boesch, C., Couacy-Hymann, E., Mätz-Rensing, K., Hakenbeck, V., Abaza, P., Bergmann, C., Möbius, Y., Vigilant, L., Formenty, P., & Pauli, G. (2004). Anthrax kills wild chimpanzees in a tropical rainforest. Nature, 430, 451-452. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Lukas, D., Bradley, B. J., Nsubuga, A. M., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Major histocompatibility complex and microsatellite variation in two populations of wild gorillas. Molecular Ecology, 13(11), 3389-3402. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| McGrew, W. C., Ensminger, A. L., Marchant, L. F., Pruetz, J. D., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Genotyping aids field study of unhabituated wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology, 63, 87-93. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Pääbo, S., Poinar, H. N., Serre, D., Jänicke-Després, V. R., Hebler, J., Rohland, N., Kuch, M., Krause, J., Vigilant, L., & Hofreiter, M. (2004). Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. Annual Review of Genetics, 38, 645-679. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Thalmann, O., Hebler, J., Poinar, H. N., Pääbo, S., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Unreliable mtDNA data due to nuclear insertions: A cautionary tale from analysis of humans and other great apes. Molecular Ecology, 13(2), 321-335. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Bradley, B. J. (2004). Genetic variation in gorillas. American Journal of Primatology, 64(2), 161-172. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Hofreiter, M., Siedel, H., van Neer, W., & Vigilant, L. (2003). Mitochondrial DNA sequence from an enigmatic gorilla population (Gorilla gorilla uellensis). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 121(4), 361-368. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Smith, S., Vigilant, L., & Morin, P. A. (2002). The effects of sequence length and oligonucleotide mismatches on 5 ' exonuclease assay efficiency. Nucleic Acids Research, 30(20): e111. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., & Vigilant, L. (2002). False alleles derived from microbial DNA pose a potential source of error in microsatellite genotyping of DNA from faeces. Molecular Ecology Resources, 2(4), 602-605. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Chambers, K. E., & Vigilant, L. (2001). Accurate DNA-based sex identification of apes using non-invasive samples. Conservation Genetics, 2(2), 179-181. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Morin, P. A., Chambers, K. E., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2001). Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis of DNA from noninvasive samples for accurate microsatellite genotyping of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Molecular Ecology, 10(7), 1835-1844. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., Hofreiter, M., Siedel, H., & Boesch, C. (2001). Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 98(23), 12890-12895. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Warren, K. S., Verschoor, E. J., Langenhuijzen, S., Heriyanto, S. R. A., Vigilant, L., & Heeney, J. H. (2001). Speciation and intra-subspecific variation of Bornean orang-utans, Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18(4), 472-480. Retrieved from http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/4/472.full. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2000). Identification and redesign of human microsatellite markers for genotyping wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) and gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) DNA from faeces. Conservation Genetics, 1(3), 289-292. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Di Benedetto, G., Nasidze, I., Stenico, M., Nigro, L., Krings, M., Lanzinger, M., Vigilant, L., Stoneking, M., Pääbo, S., & Barbujani, G. (2000). Mitochondrial DNA sequences in prehistoric human remains from the Alps. European Journal of Human Genetics, 8(9), 669-677. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (1999). An evaluation of techniques for the extraction and amplification of DNA from naturally shed hairs. Biological Chemistry, 380(11), 1329-1331. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Soodyall, H., Vigilant, L., Hill, A., Stoneking, M., & Jenkins, T. (1996). mtDNA control-region sequence variation suggests multiple independent origins of an "Asian-specific" 9-bp deletion in sub-Saharan Africans. American Journal of Human Genetics, 58(3), 595-608. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Stoneking, M., Sherry, S. T., & Vigilant, L. (1992). Geographic origin of human mitochondrial DNA revisited. Systematic Biology, 41(3), 384-391. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Stoneking, M., Sherry, S. T., Redd, A. J., & Vigilant, L. (1992). New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 337(1280), 167-175. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., Stoneking, M., Harpending, H., Hawkes, K., & Wilson, A. (1991). African populations and the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA. Science, 253(5027), 1503-1507. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Stoneking, M., Hedgecock, D., Higuchi, R., Vigilant, L., & Erlich, H. (1991). Population variation of human mtDNA control region sequences detected by enzymatic amplification and sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes. American Journal of Human Genetics, 48(2), 370-382. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., Pennington, R., Harpending, H., Kocher, T., & Wilson, A. (1989). Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 86(23), 9350-9354. BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., Stoneking, M., & Wilson, A. (1988). Conformational mutation in human mtDNA detected by direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA. Nucleic Acids Research, 16(13), 5945-5955. BibTeX Endnote |
Book Reviews
| Vigilant, L. (2002). Moving and mixing: Book review of Mapping Human History by Steve Olsen. Science, 297, 775. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Book Chapters
| Knapp, M., Vigilant, L., & Hofreiter, M. (2008). Ancient DNA: Phylogenetic applications. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. New York: Wiley. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Boesch, C., Boesch, H., & Vigilant, L. (2006). Cooperative hunting in chimpanzees: Kinship or mutualism? In P. M. Kappeler, & C. P. van Schaik ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Hofreiter, M., & Vigilant, L. (2003). Ancient human DNA: Phylogenetic applications. In David N. Cooper ( BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (2003). Genetic perspectives on Pan troglodytes verus. In Kormos, Rebecca; Boesch, Christophe; Bakarr, Mohamed I.; Butynski, Thomas M., & IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group ( BibTeX Endnote |
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| Bradley, B. J., & Vigilant, L. (2002). The evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology of chimpanzees and bonobos. In Boesch, Christophe; Hohmann, Gottfried; Marchant, Linda F. ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (1996). Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA. In R. Meyers ( BibTeX Endnote |
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| Stoneking, M., Sherry, S. T., Redd, A. J., & Vigilant, L. (1993). New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor. In M. J. Aitken, C. B. Stringer, & P. A. Mellars ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Others
| Vigilant, L. (2007). Bonobos. Current Biology, 17(3), R74-R75. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (2004). Chimpanzees. Current Biology, 14(10), R369-R371. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Bradley, B. J. (2004). Gorillas. Current Biology, 14(19), R826-R827. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L. (2002). Technical challenges in the microsatellite genotyping of a wild chimpanzee population using feces. Evolutionary Anthropology, 11(Suppl. 1), 162-165. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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| Vigilant, L., & Pääbo, S. (1999). A chimpanzee millenium (Guest Editorial). Biological Chemistry, 380(12), 1353-1354. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Talks
| Städele, V., Swedell, L., & Vigilant, L. (2015). Patterns of philopatry and dispersal in a multilevel primate society. Talk presented at GfP Tagung; 14. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Primatologie. Leipzig. 2015-02-11 - 2015-02-13. BibTeX Endnote |