Specialty
Primatology, Mandrills, Sociality
Marie Charpentier
Research Director
I work on the evolution of sociality in primate societies using long-term, individual-centered data. Since 2012, I have been running a field station in southern Gabon (Parc de la Lékédi, Bakoumba) to study the world's only natural population of habituated mandrills. In this population, I study the main determinants of social relationships, such as kinship or individual parasite status, as well as the proximal factors that regulate these relationships.
The social microbiome: The missing mechanism mediating the sociality-fitness nexus?
In many social mammals, early social life and social integration in adulthood...
The Mandrillus Project
The Mandrillus project (www.projetmandrillus.com) is studying the socio-ecology of the only habituated population of wild mandrills...
Stillbirth of a mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the wild: perinatal behaviors and delivery sequences
Birth is a fundamental event in the lives of animals, including our own...
70 documents
- Jenny Tung, Marie Charpentier, Sayan Mukherjee, Jeanne Altmann, Susan Alberts. Genetic Effects on Mating Success and Partner Choice in a Social Mammal. The American Naturalist, 2012, 180 (1), pp.113-129. ⟨10.1086/665993⟩. ⟨hal-02079632⟩
- M. Charpentier, M. Fontaine, E. Cherel, J. Renoult, T. Jenkins, et al.. Genetic structure in a dynamic baboon hybrid zone corroborates behavioural observations in a hybrid population. Molecular Ecology, 2012, 21 (3), pp.715-731. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05302.x⟩. ⟨hal-02079621⟩
- C. Lucas, Marie Charpentier. Odeurs en sociétés. ÉCOLOGIE CHIMIQUE LE LANGAGE DE LA NATURE, cherche midi, pp.72-85, 2012, 978-2-7491-2772-9. ⟨hal-00780842⟩
- Julien Renoult, H. Martin Schaefer, Bettina Sallé, Marie Charpentier. The Evolution of the Multicoloured Face of Mandrills: Insights from the Perceptual Space of Colour Vision. PLoS ONE, 2011, 6 (12), pp.e29117. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0029117⟩. ⟨hal-02079613⟩
- M. Boulet, J. Crawford, M. Charpentier, M. Drea. Honest olfactory ornamentation in a female-dominant primate. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2010, 23 (7), pp.1558-1563. ⟨10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02007.x⟩. ⟨hal-02079606⟩
- Marie J.E. Charpentier, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Marylène Boulet, Christine Drea. Message ‘scent’: lemurs detect the genetic relatedness and quality of conspecifics via olfactory cues. Animal Behaviour, 2010, 80 (1), pp.101-108. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.04.005⟩. ⟨hal-02079611⟩
- Anne Starling, Marie J.E. Charpentier, Courtney Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Scordato, Christine Drea. Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Hormones and Behavior, 2010, 57 (1), pp.76-85. ⟨10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.09.016⟩. ⟨hal-02079605⟩
- Joanna Setchell, Marie Charpentier, Kristin Abbott, E. Jean Wickings, Leslie Knapp. Is Brightest Best? Testing the Hamilton-Zuk Hypothesis in Mandrills. International Journal of Primatology, 2009, 30 (6), pp.825-844. ⟨10.1007/s10764-009-9371-0⟩. ⟨hal-02079554⟩
- Elise Huchard, Julio Benavides, Joanna Setchell, Marie Charpentier, Alexandra Alvergne, et al.. Studying shape in sexual signals: the case of primate sexual swellings. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2009, 63 (8), pp.1231-1242. ⟨10.1007/s00265-009-0748-z⟩. ⟨hal-02079550⟩
- Alexandra Alvergne, Elise Huchard, Damien Caillaud, Marie Charpentier, Joanna Setchell, et al.. Human Ability to Recognize Kin Visually Within Primates. International Journal of Primatology, 2009, 30 (1), pp.199-210. ⟨10.1007/s10764-009-9339-0⟩. ⟨hal-02079548⟩
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