Susan C Alberts
Associate Professor

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020 Bio Sci

Alberts Lab

Research Interests: Behavorial ecology of large mammals

My lab has two primary lines of research. The first involves understanding how behavior impacts individual fitness in natural populations of large mammals. This research is based on detailed information about individual behavior and life histories, and is focused on the savannah baboon population and the African elephant population in Amboseli National Park, in southern Kenya. The second involves the relationship between genes and behavior; how does behavior affect population genetic structure, and how do genes influence behavior? See my lab web page for more information.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Charpentier MJE, Van Horn RC, Altmann J, Alberts SC, Paternal effects on offspring fitness in a multi-male primate society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 105 no. 6 (2008), pp. 1988-1992 .
2. Tung J, Charpentier MJE, Garfield D, Altmann J, Alberts SC, Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population, Molecular Ecology, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 1998-2011 .
3. Charpentier MJE, Tung J, Altmann J, Alberts SC, Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences, Molecular Ecology, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 2026-2040 .
4. Archie EA, Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants, Molecular Ecology, vol. 16 (2007), pp. 4138-4148 .
5. Van Horn RC, Buchan JC, Altmann J, Alberts SC, Divided destinies: group choice by female savannah baboons during group fission, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61 (2007), pp. 1823-1834 .
6. Hollister-Smith JA, Poole JH, Archie EA, Vance EA, Georgiadis NJ, Moss CJ, Alberts SC, Paternity success in wild African elephants, Animal Behaviour, vol. 74 (2007), pp. 287-296 .