Melissa E. Thompson, Ph.D. - Publications

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2005 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
Anthropology

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2023 Wood BM, Negrey JD, Brown JL, Deschner T, Thompson ME, Gunter S, Mitani JC, Watts DP, Langergraber KE. Demographic and hormonal evidence for menopause in wild chimpanzees. Science (New York, N.Y.). 382: eadd5473. PMID 37883540 DOI: 10.1126/science.add5473  0.656
2022 Fox SA, Muller MN, González NT, Enigk DK, Machanda ZP, Otali E, Wrangham R, Thompson ME. Weak, but not strong, ties support coalition formation among wild female chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 378: 20210427. PMID 36440557 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0427  0.74
2022 Mine JG, Slocombe KE, Willems EP, Gilby IC, Yu M, Thompson ME, Muller MN, Wrangham RW, Townsend SW, Machanda ZP. Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances. 8: eabo5553. PMID 35905190 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo5553  0.758
2021 Kavanagh E, Street SE, Angwela FO, Bergman TJ, Blaszczyk MB, Bolt LM, Briseño-Jaramillo M, Brown M, Chen-Kraus C, Clay Z, Coye C, Thompson ME, Estrada A, Fichtel C, Fruth B, et al. Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates. Royal Society Open Science. 8: 210873. PMID 34350023 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210873  0.718
2021 Colchero F, Aburto JM, Archie EA, Boesch C, Breuer T, Campos FA, Collins A, Conde DA, Cords M, Crockford C, Thompson ME, Fedigan LM, Fichtel C, Groenenberg M, Hobaiter C, et al. The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis. Nature Communications. 12: 3666. PMID 34135334 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3  0.692
2021 Pontzer H, Brown MH, Wood BM, Raichlen DA, Mabulla AZP, Harris JA, Dunsworth H, Hare B, Walker K, Luke A, Dugas LR, Schoeller D, Plange-Rhule J, Bovet P, Forrester TE, ... Thompson ME, et al. Evolution of water conservation in humans. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 33675699 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.045  0.637
2021 Thompson ME. Primate Reproduction: When Timing Is Everything. Current Biology : Cb. 31: R11-R13. PMID 33434476 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.029  0.398
2020 Enigk DK, Thompson ME, Machanda ZP, Wrangham RW, Muller MN. Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74. PMID 33776193 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-020-02872-7  0.758
2020 Thompson ME, Muller MN, Machanda ZP, Otali E, Wrangham RW. The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change. Biological Conservation. 252. PMID 33281197 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108857  0.707
2020 Negrey JD, Thompson ME, Langergraber KE, Machanda ZP, Mitani JC, Muller MN, Otali E, Owens LA, Wrangham RW, Goldberg TL. Demography, life-history trade-offs, and the gastrointestinal virome of wild chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190613. PMID 32951554 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0613  0.797
2020 Phillips SR, Goldberg TL, Muller MN, Machanda ZP, Otali E, Friant S, Carag J, Langergraber KE, Mitani JC, Wroblewski EE, Wrangham RW, Thompson ME. Faecal parasites increase with age but not reproductive effort in wild female chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190614. PMID 32951547 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0614  0.796
2020 Thompson ME, Machanda ZP, Fox SA, Sabbi KH, Otali E, Thompson González N, Muller MN, Wrangham RW. Evaluating the impact of physical frailty during ageing in wild chimpanzees (). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190607. PMID 32951544 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0607  0.742
2020 González NT, Otali E, Machanda Z, Muller MN, Wrangham R, Thompson ME. Urinary markers of oxidative stress respond to infection and late-life in wild chimpanzees. Plos One. 15: e0238066. PMID 32916689 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0238066  0.716
2020 Muller MN, Blurton Jones NG, Colchero F, Thompson ME, Enigk DK, Feldblum JT, Hahn BH, Langergraber KE, Scully EJ, Vigilant L, Walker KK, Wrangham RW, Wroblewski EE, Pusey AE. Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility. Journal of Human Evolution. 144: 102795. PMID 32454364 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2020.102795  0.693
2020 Enigk DK, Thompson ME, Machanda ZP, Wrangham RW, Muller MN. Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-020-02872-7  0.764
2019 Bergstrom ML, Kalbitzer U, Campos FA, Melin AD, Thompson ME, Fedigan LM. Non-invasive estimation of the costs of feeding competition in a neotropical primate. Hormones and Behavior. 104632. PMID 31759943 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2019.104632  0.462
2019 Mattison SM, Shenk MK, Thompson ME, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Fortunato L. The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 374: 20190007. PMID 31303170 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0007  0.496
2019 Surbeck M, Boesch C, Crockford C, Thompson ME, Furuichi T, Fruth B, Hohmann G, Ishizuka S, Machanda Z, Muller MN, Pusey A, Sakamaki T, Tokuyama N, Walker K, Wrangham R, et al. Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees. Current Biology : Cb. 29: R354-R355. PMID 31112681 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2019.03.040  0.756
2019 Grebe NM, Del Giudice M, Thompson ME, Nickels N, Ponzi D, Zilioli S, Maestripieri D, Gangestad SW. Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the Dual Hormone hypothesis. Hormones and Behavior. PMID 30685468 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2019.01.006  0.331
2019 Benenson JF, Hillyer LJ, White MM, Kantor S, Thompson ME, Markovits H, Wrangham RW. Social contact and hormonal changes predict post-conflict cooperation between friends Evolution and Human Behavior. 40: 345-354. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2019.03.001  0.591
2018 Scully EJ, Basnet S, Wrangham RW, Muller MN, Otali E, Hyeroba D, Grindle KA, Pappas TE, Thompson ME, Machanda Z, Watters KE, Palmenberg AC, Gern JE, Goldberg TL. Lethal Respiratory Disease Associated with Human Rhinovirus C in Wild Chimpanzees, Uganda, 2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 24: 267-274. PMID 29350142 DOI: 10.3201/Eid2402.170778  0.745
2017 Milich KM, Georgiev AV, Petersen RM, Thompson ME, Maestripieri D. Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season. Hormones and Behavior. PMID 28954215 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2017.09.014  0.768
2017 Rushmore J, Allison AB, Edwards EE, Bagal U, Altizer S, Cranfield MR, Glenn TC, Liu H, Mudakikwa A, Mugisha L, Muller MN, Stumpf RM, Thompson ME, Wrangham R, Yabsley MJ. Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections. American Journal of Primatology. 79: 1-2. PMID 28324622 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.22645  0.492
2016 Thompson ME. Energetics of feeding, social behavior, and life history in non-human primates. Hormones and Behavior. PMID 27594442 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2016.08.009  0.367
2016 Trumble BC, Blackwell AD, Stieglitz J, Thompson ME, Suarez IM, Kaplan H, Gurven M. Associations between male testosterone and immune function in a pathogenically stressed forager-horticultural population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. PMID 27465811 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.23054  0.421
2016 Pontzer H, Brown MH, Raichlen DA, Dunsworth H, Hare B, Walker K, Luke A, Dugas LR, Durazo-Arvizu R, Schoeller D, Plange-Rhule J, Bovet P, Forrester TE, Lambert EV, Thompson ME, et al. Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history. Nature. PMID 27144364 DOI: 10.1038/Nature17654  0.542
2016 Georgiev AV, Christie D, Rosenfield KA, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Maldonado E, Thompson ME, Maestripieri D. Breaking the succession rule: The costs and benefits of an alpha-status take-over by an immigrant rhesus macaque on Cayo Santiago Behaviour. 153: 325-351. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003344  0.746
2016 Thompson ME, Muller MN. Comparative perspectives on human reproductive behavior Current Opinion in Psychology. 7: 61-66. DOI: 10.1016/J.Copsyc.2015.08.012  0.474
2016 Fedurek P, Slocombe KE, Enigk DK, Thompson ME, Wrangham RW, Muller MN. The relationship between testosterone and long-distance calling in wild male chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2087-1  0.592
2015 Rushmore J, Allison AB, Edwards EE, Bagal U, Altizer S, Cranfield MR, Glenn TC, Liu H, Mudakikwa A, Mugisha L, Muller MN, Stumpf RM, Thompson ME, Wrangham R, Yabsley MJ. Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections. American Journal of Primatology. 77: 1075-85. PMID 26119266 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.22442  0.604
2015 Georgiev AV, Thompson ME, Mandalaywala TM, Maestripieri D. Oxidative stress as an indicator of the costs of reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaques. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 218: 1981-5. PMID 25908058 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.121947  0.75
2015 Georgiev AV, Muehlenbein MP, Prall SP, Thompson ME, Maestripieri D. Male quality, dominance rank, and mating success in free-ranging rhesus macaques Behavioral Ecology. 26: 763-772. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arv008  0.773
2014 Benenson JF, Kuhn MN, Ryan PJ, Ferranti AJ, Blondin R, Shea M, Charpentier C, Thompson ME, Wrangham RW. Human males appear more prepared than females to resolve conflicts with same-sex peers. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 25: 251-68. PMID 24845881 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-014-9198-Z  0.549
2013 Thompson ME. Reproductive ecology of female chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology. 75: 222-37. PMID 23015287 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.22084  0.519
2013 Thompson ME, McCabe GM. Reproductive seasonality in wild Sanje mangabeys (Cercocebus sanjei), Tanzania: Relationship between the capital breeding strategy and infant survival Behaviour. 150: 1399-1429. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003102  0.383
2013 Thompson ME. Comparative Reproductive Energetics of Human and Nonhuman Primates Annual Review of Anthropology. 42: 287-304. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Anthro-092412-155530  0.398
2012 Thompson ME, Zhou A, Knott CD. Low testosterone correlates with delayed development in male orangutans. Plos One. 7. PMID 23077585 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0047282  0.536
2012 Thompson ME, Muller MN, Wrangham RW. The energetics of lactation and the return to fecundity in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology. 23: 1234-1241. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Ars107  0.544
2011 Georgiev AV, Thompson ME, Lokasola AL, Wrangham RW. Seed predation by bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primates; Journal of Primatology. 52: 309-14. PMID 21830045 DOI: 10.1007/S10329-011-0256-4  0.74
2011 Benenson JF, Markovits H, Thompson ME, Wrangham RW. Under threat of social exclusion, females exclude more than males. Psychological Science. 22: 538-44. PMID 21403174 DOI: 10.1177/0956797611402511  0.667
2011 Muller MN, Thompson ME, Kahlenberg SM, Wrangham RW. Sexual coercion by male chimpanzees shows that female choice may be more apparent than real Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 921-933. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-010-1093-Y  0.817
2010 Newton-Fisher NE, Thompson ME, Reynolds V, Boesch C, Vigilant L. Paternity and social rank in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from the Budongo Forest, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 142: 417-28. PMID 20033921 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.21241  0.546
2010 Knott CD, Thompson ME, Stumpf RM, McIntyre MH. Female reproductive strategies in orangutans, evidence for female choice and counterstrategies to infanticide in a species with frequent sexual coercion Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277: 105-113. PMID 19812079 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2009.1552  0.539
2009 Knott CD, Thompson ME, Wich SA. The ecology of female reproduction in wild orangutans Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213276.003.0011  0.31
2008 Thompson ME, Wrangham RW. Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 135: 171-81. PMID 18046778 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.20718  0.675
2008 Kahlenberg SM, Thompson ME, Muller MN, Wrangham RW. Immigration costs for female chimpanzees and male protection as an immigrant counterstrategy to intrasexual aggression Animal Behaviour. 76: 1497-1509. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2008.05.029  0.814
2007 Thompson ME, Kahlenberg SM, Gilby IC, Wrangham RW. Core area quality is associated with variance in reproductive success among female chimpanzees at Kibale National Park Animal Behaviour. 73: 501-512. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2006.09.007  0.793
2006 Muller MN, Thompson ME, Wrangham RW. Male chimpanzees prefer mating with old females. Current Biology : Cb. 16: 2234-8. PMID 17113387 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2006.09.042  0.677
2006 Marsden SB, Marsden D, Thompson ME. Demographic and female life history parameters of free-ranging chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project, River Gambia National Park International Journal of Primatology. 27: 391-410. DOI: 10.1007/S10764-006-9029-0  0.477
2005 Thompson ME. Reproductive endocrinology of wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): Methodological considerations and the role of hormones in sex and conception American Journal of Primatology. 67: 137-158. PMID 16163723 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.20174  0.445
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