Elise Huchard
I am interested in the evolution of mammalian social and mating systems. At the interface between sexual and kin selection, a major focus of my work explores the causes and consequences of reproductive and life-history strategies in mammalian societies using observational and experimental data, mainly in the context of long-term individual-centered studies.
My research examined the evolution of sexual signals, mating choice, mating with multiple partners (polyandry), and reproductive competition in females from natural populations of primates and other social mammals.
I am currently working specifically on sexual conflict, as well as genetic and social influences on development, growth, and immunity in the context of life history trait theory, occasionally using quantitative genetic tools or comparative studies, and using Tsaobis baboons, Kirindy lemurs, Kalahari meerkats, and Bakoumba mandrills as my primary models (see attached figure).
Tsaobis Baboon Project
The ecology of sexual coercion and of male-female power asymmetries in primates : Elise Huchard | Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) online seminar series
Primatology
Interview with Elise Huchard - France Culture - Wednesday, March 05, 2024 4pm
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- Jules Dezeure, Marie J.E. Charpentier, Elise Huchard. Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest. Animal Behaviour, 2021, 185, pp.113-126. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.01.002⟩. ⟨hal-03768630⟩
- Alice Baniel, Christine Webb, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. The submissive pattern of postconflict affiliation in asymmetric relationships: a test in male and sexually coerced female baboons.. Animal Behaviour, 2021, 175, pp.87-97. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.014⟩. ⟨hal-03192677⟩
- Jules Dezeure, Alice Baniel, Alecia J Carter, Guy Cowlishaw, Bernard Godelle, et al.. Birth timing generates reproductive trade-offs in a non-seasonal breeding primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, 288 (1950), pp.20210286. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2021.0286⟩. ⟨hal-03254769⟩
- Jules Dezeure, Julie Dagorrette, Alice Baniel, Alecia Carter, Guy Cowlishaw, et al.. Developmental transitions in body color in chacma baboon infants: Implications to estimate age and developmental pace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2020, ⟨10.1002/ajpa.24118⟩. ⟨hal-02995912⟩
- Christine Webb, Peter Woodford, Elise Huchard. The Study That Made Rats Jump for Joy, and Then Killed Them. BioEssays, 2020, 42 (6), pp.2000030. ⟨10.1002/bies.202000030⟩. ⟨hal-02995689⟩
- Serge Ely Dibakou, Alain Souza, Larson Boundenga, Laurent Givalois, Séverine Mercier-Delarue, et al.. Ecological, parasitological and individual determinants of plasma neopterin levels in a natural mandrill population. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020, 11, pp.198-206. ⟨10.1016/j.ijppaw.2020.02.009⟩. ⟨hal-02995775⟩
- Serge Ely Dibakou, Alain Souza, Larson Boundenga, Laurent Givalois, Séverine Mercier-Delarue, et al.. Ecological, parasitological and individual determinants of plasma neopterin levels in a natural mandrill population. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020, 11, pp.198-206. ⟨10.1016/j.ijppaw.2020.02.009⟩. ⟨hal-04504643⟩
- Alecia Carter, Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses. Royal Society Open Science, 2020, 7 (3), pp.192206. ⟨10.1098/rsos.192206⟩. ⟨hal-02995782⟩
- Serge Ely Dibakou, Didier Basset, Alain Souza, M. Charpentier, Elise Huchard. Determinants of Variations in Fecal Neopterin in Free-Ranging Mandrills. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019, 7, pp.368. ⟨10.3389/fevo.2019.00368⟩. ⟨hal-02305339⟩
- Dieter Lukas, Elise Huchard. The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019, ⟨10.1101/405688⟩. ⟨hal-02114584⟩
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