Jenny Tung, Alumna  

Jenny Tung

I am broadly interested in the evolutionary genetics of wild populations, particularly the relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and observable phenotypic variation of adaptive importance. I am especially interested in systems where concordant genetic, environmental, and phenotypic data are available (or can be produced) for the same individuals. These systems offer the opportunity to study how genotype-phenotype relationships may be modified by ecologically important environmental variation. Most of my work focuses on wild baboons, and most of these baboons are members of a long-term population living in the Amboseli Basin of southern Kenya. This population has been under continuous study since 1971 by the Amboseli Baboon Research Project (www.princeton.edu/~baboon). My current projects focus on: 1) Hybridization between anubis baboons (Papio anubis) and yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in Amboseli and elsewhere in southern Kenya (collaboration with Marie Charpentier at CNRS-Montpellier) 2) The evolution of cis-regulatory variation in the Amboseli baboons, including its consequences for in vivo gene expression

Office Location: 4113 FFSC
Office Phone: +1 919 668-6249
Email Address: jt5@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jt5

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. J. Tung, A. Primus, A.J. Bouley, T.F. Severson, S.C. Alberts, G.A. Wray, Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates, Nature, vol. 460 (2009), pp. 388-392 .
  2. J. Tung, O. Fedrigo, R. Haygood, S. Mukherjee, G.A. Wray, Genomic features that predict allelic imbalance in humans suggest patterns of constraint on gene expression variation, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 26 (2009), pp. 2047-2059 .
  3. J. Tung and G.A. Wray, Evolution of traits deduced from genome comparisons, in The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Accepted, 2009) .
  4. J. Tung, M.J.E. Charpentier, D.A. Garfield, J. Altmann, S.C. Alberts, Genetic evidence reveals dynamic patterns of hybridization in a wild baboon population, Molecular Ecology, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 1998-2011 .
  5. M.J.E. Charpentier, J. Tung, J. Altmann, S.C. Alberts, Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, demographic, and environmental influences, Molecular Ecology, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 2026-2040 .

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