Jenny Tung, Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology  

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

Education:
Ph.D., Duke University, 2010

Office Location: 08 Bio Sci, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 668 4912
Email Address: jenny.tung@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jt5
Additional Web Page: http://www.tung-lab.org

Specialties:
Primate Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research Categories: primate behavior, hybridization, gene regulation

Research Description:

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Bartolomucci, A; Tung, J; Harris, KM, The fortunes and misfortunes of social life across the life course: A new era of research from field, laboratory and comparative studies., Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 162 (July, 2024), pp. 105655 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Tung, J, Understanding human uniqueness in the pre-genomic era., Nature reviews. Genetics, vol. 25 no. 7 (July, 2024), pp. 459 [doi] .
  3. Weibel, CJ; Dasari, MR; Jansen, DA; Gesquiere, LR; Mututua, RS; Warutere, JK; Siodi, LI; Alberts, SC; Tung, J; Archie, EA, Correction to: Using non‑invasive behavioral and physiological data to measure biological age in wild baboons., GeroScience (June, 2024) [doi] .
  4. Weibel, CJ; Dasari, MR; Jansen, DA; Gesquiere, LR; Mututua, RS; Warutere, JK; Siodi, LI; Alberts, SC; Tung, J; Archie, EA, Using non-invasive behavioral and physiological data to measure biological age in wild baboons., GeroScience (May, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Anderson, JA; Lin, D; Lea, AJ; Johnston, RA; Voyles, T; Akinyi, MY; Archie, EA; Alberts, SC; Tung, J, DNA methylation signatures of early-life adversity are exposure-dependent in wild baboons., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121 no. 11 (March, 2024), pp. e2309469121 [doi]  [abs].