Publications based on research in PKWS
- Shivani, Malaivijitnond S, Meesawat S, Schülke O & Ostner J (in press) Females prioritize future over current offspring in wild seasonally breeding Assamese macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B
- Arbaiza-Bayona AL, Mundry R, Malaivijitnond S, Meesawat S, Schülke O & Ostner J (2025) Age-trajectory of mother-infant relationships in wild Assamese macaques. BioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.10.653242
- Kawam B, Ostner J, McElreath R, Schülke O & Redhead D (2024) A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure. BioRXiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.26.600748
- Vogg R, Nuske M, Weis M, Lüddecke T, Karakoç E, Ahmed Y, Pereira S, Malaivijitnond, Meesawat S, Wörgötter, Kappeler P, Gail A, Ostner J, Schülke O, Fichtel C & Ecker A (2024) PriMAT: A robust multi-animal tracking model for primates in the wild. bioRXiv, doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.21.607881
- Anzà S, Heistermann M, Ostner J & Schülke O (2025) Early prenatal but not postnatal glucocorticoid exposure is associated with enhanced HPA axis activity into adulthood in a wild primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 292: 20242418, http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2418
- De Moor D, Skelton M, MacaqueNet consortium, …, Schülke O, Ostner J, Neumann C, Duboscq J, Brent L (2025) MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration. Journal of Animal Ecology 94, 519-534, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14223
- Vogg R, Lüddecke T, Henrich J, Dey S, Nuske M, Hassler V, Murphy D, Fischer J, Ostner J, Schülke O, Kappeler P, Fichtel C, Gail A, Treue S, Scherberger H, Wörgötter F & Ecker A (2025) Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild. Nature Methods 1-13, doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02653-y
- Eppley TM .…Ostner J, Schülke O… et al. (2024) Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment. Conservation Letters 17, e13007 https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13007
- Huang P, Arlet M, Balasubramaniam K, Beisner B, Bliss-Moreau E, Brent L, Duboscq J, Garcia-Nisa I, Kaburu S, Kendal R, Konečná M, Marty P, McCowan B, Micheletta J, Ostner J & Schülke O (2024) Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates. Behavioral Ecology 35, arae066, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae066
- Perea-Garcia JO, Massen JJM, Ostner J, Schülke O, Castellano-Navarro A, Gazagne E, Jose-Dominguez J-M, Beltran-Frances V, Kaburu S, Ruppert N, Micheletta J, Gupta S, Majolo B, Marechal L, Pflüger L, Böhm P, Bourjade M, Duran E, Hobaiter C, Monteiro A J (2024) Photoregulatory functions drive variation in eye coloration across macaque species. Scientific Reports 14, 29115 1, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80643-4
- Sadoughi B, Mundry R, Schülke O, Ostner J (2024) Social network shrinking is explained by active and passive effects but not increasing selectivity with age in wild macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291
- Sterck E, Crockford C, Fischer J, Massen J, Tiddi B, Perry S, Sueur C, Schülke O, Ostner J (2024) The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates. Evolution and Human Behavior 45, 106628 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106628
- Stranks J, Heistermann M, Sangmaneedet S, Schülke O & Ostner J (2024) Dynamics of sociality and glucocorticoids in wild male Assamese macaques. Hormones and Behavior 164, 105604, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105604
- Anzà S, Schneider D, Daniel R. Heistermann M, Sangmaneedet S, Ostner J, Schülke O (2023) The long-term gut bacterial signature of a wild primate is associated with timing effect of pre- and postnatal maternal glucocorticoid levels. Microbiome 11, 165
- Behringer V, Heistermann M, Malaivijitnond S, Schülke O, Ostner J (2023) Developmental and environmental modulation of fecal thyroid hormone levels in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). American Journal of Primatology e23530
- Anzà S, Berghänel A, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke (2022) Growth trajectories of wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) determined from parallel laser photogrammetry. Mammalian Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00262-2
- Sadoughi B, Schneider D, Daniel R, Schülke O, Ostner J (2022) Aging gut microbiota of wild macaques are equally diverse, less stable, but progressively personalized. Microbiome 10 95, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01283-2
- Sadoughi B, Anzà S, Defolie C, Manin V, Müller-Klein N, Murillo T, Ulrich M, Wu D (2022) Parasites in a social world: lessons from primates. in Animal Behavior and Parasitism. Edited by Ezenwa V, Altizer S and Hall R, Oxford University Press. page 35-52. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0003
- Schülke O, Anzà S, Crockford C, De Moor D, Deschner T, Fichtel C, Gogarten JF, Kappeler PM, Manin V, Müller-Klein N, Prox L, Sadoughi B, Touitou S, Wittig R, Ostner J (2022) Quantifying within-group variation in sociality – covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Anzà S, Demuru E, Palagi E (2021) Sex and grooming as exchange commodities in female bonobos’ daily biological market. Scientific Reports | (2021) 11:19344
- Amato K, Chaves O, Mallott E, Eppley T, Abreu F, Baden A, Barnett A, Bicca-Marques J, Boyle S, Chapman C, De la Fuent M, Fan P, Fashing P, Felton A, Fontes I, Fruth B, Fortes V, Grueter C, Hohmann G, Irwin M, Matthews J, Mekonnen A, Melin A, Ostner J, Nguyen N, Piel A, Pinacho-Guendulain B, Quintino Aredes E, Razanaparany P, Schiel N, Schülke O, Shanee S, Souto A, Souza-Alves J, Stewart F, Stewart K, Stone A, Sun B, Tecot S, Valenta K, Vogel E, Wich S, Zeng Y (2021) Fermented food consumption in wild primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2021, 1-18
- Kavanagh E,… Ostner J,… Schülke O, … & Slocombe K (2021) Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates. Royal Society Open Science
- Touitou S, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2021) Triiodothyronine and cortisol levels in the face of energetic challenges from reproduction, thermoregulation and food intake in female macaques. Hormones and Behavior 131, 104968
- Touitou S, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2021) The effect of reproductive state on activity budget, feeding behavior, and urinary C-peptide levels in wild female Assamese macaques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75 128 (2021)
- Trede F*, Kil N*, Stranks J*, Connell A, Fischer J, Ostner J, Schülke O, Zinner D & Roos C (2021) A refined panel of 42 microsatellite loci to universally genotype catarrhine primates. Ecology and Evolution 11, 498-505; *joint first authorship
- De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J, Schülke O (2020) Female Assamese macaques bias their affiliation to paternal and maternal kin. Behavioral Ecology 31, 493-507
- De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J, Schülke O (2020) Bonds of bros and brothers: Kinship and social bonding in postdispersal male macaques. Molecular Ecology 29, 3346
- Ebenau A, von Borell C, Penke L, Ostner J, Schülke O (2020) Integrative personality assessment in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Journal of Comparative Psychology 143, 27-41
- Haunhorst CB, Fürtbauer I, Schülke O, Ostner J (2020) Female macaques compete for ‘power’ and ‘commitment’ in their male partners. Evolution and Human Behavior 41, 117-125
- Ebenau A, von Borell C, Penke L, Ostner J, Schülke O (2019) Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Animal Behaviour 155, 21-35
- Schülke O, Ostner J, Berghänel A (2019) Prenatal maternal stress effects on the development of primate social behavior. Behavoural Ecology and Sociobiology 73, 128
- Gutleb D, Roos C, Noll A, Ostner J & Schülke O (2018) COMT Val158Met moderates the link between rank and aggression in a non-human primate. Genes, Brain and Behavior 17, e12443
- Gutleb D, Ostner J, Schülke O, Wajjwalku W, Sukmak M, Roos C & Noll A (2018) Non-invasive genotyping with a massively parallel sequencing panel for the detection of SNPs in HPA-axis genes. Scientific Reports 8, 15944
- Puga-Gonzalez I, Ostner J, Schülke O, Sosa S, Thierry B & Sueur C (2018) Mechanisms of reciprocity and diversity in social networks: a modelling and comparative approach. Behavioral Ecology, doi:10.1093/beheco/ary034
- Berghänel A, Heistermann M, Schülke O and Ostner J (2017) Prenatal stress accelerates offspring growth to compensate for reduced maternal investment across mammals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 114 (50) E10658-E10666
- Haunhorst CB, Heesen M, Ostner J & Schülke O (2017) Social bonds with males lower costs of competition for wild female Assamese macaques, Animal Behaviour 165, 51-60
- Kalbitz J, Schülke O, Ostner J (2017) Triadic male-infant-male interaction serves in bond maintenance in male Assamese macaques. PLoS ONE 12, e0183981. DOI:10.1371/0183981
- Sukmak M, Wajjwalku W, Ostner J & Schülke O (2017) A first report of non-invasive adenovirus detection in wild Assamese macaques in Thailand, Primates 58, 303-317
- Berghänel A, Heistermann M, Schülke O and Ostner J (2016) Prenatal stress effects in a wild, long-lived primate: predictive adaptive responses in an unpredictable environment, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 283, 20161304
- Chalise M, Cooper M, Ostner J & Schülke O (2016) Assam Macaque (Macaca assamensis). In: Rowe N, Myers M (eds.) All the World's Primates. Pogonias Press, Charlestown, 401-402
- Haunhorst C, Schülke O and Ostner J (2016) Opposite-sex social bonding in wild Assamese macaques, American Journal of Primatology 78, 872-882
- Kalbitz J, Ostner J & Schülke O (2016) Strong, equitable and long-term social bonds in the dispersing sex in Assamese macaques, Animal Behaviour 113, 13-22
- Minge C, Berghänel A, Schülke O & Ostner J (2016) Patterns and consequences of male-infant relationships in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis), International Journal of Primatology 37, 350-370
- Richter C, Heesen M, Nenadic O, Ostner J & Schülke O (2016) Males matter: increased home range size is associated with the number of resident males after controlling for ecological factors in wild Assamese macaques, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, 52-62
- Adams M, Majolo B, Ostner J, Schülke O, De Marco A, Thierry B, Engelhardt A, Widdig A, Gerald M & Weiss A (2015) Personality structure and social style in macaques, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000041
- Berghänel A, Schülke O & Ostner J (2015) Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: a life history trade-off, Science advances 1, e1500451. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500451
- Heesen M, Macdonald S, Ostner J & Schülke O (2015) Ecological and social determinants of group cohesiveness and within-group spatial position in wild Assamese macaques, Ethology 121, 270-283
- Fürtbauer I, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2014) Low female stress hormone levels are predicted by same- or opposite-sex sociality depending on season in wild Assamese macaques, Psychoneuroendocrinology 48, 19-28
- Heesen M, Rogahn S, Macdonald S, Ostner J & Schülke O (2014) Predictors of food-related aggression in wild Assamese macaques and the role of conflict avoidance, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68, 1829-1841
- Müller M, Ostner J, Schülke O & Walter L (2014) Towards the non-invasive assessment of MHC genotype in wild primates: analysis of wild Assamese macaque MHC-DRB from fecal samples, American Journal of Primatology 76, 230-238
- Schülke O, Heistermann M & Ostner J Lack of evidence for energetic costs of mate-guarding in wild male Assamese macaques, International Journal of Primatology 35, 677-700
- Sukmak M, Malaivijitnond S, Schülke O, Ostner J, Hamada Y & Wajjwalku W (2014) Preliminary study of the gentic diversity of eastern Assames macaques (Macaca assamensis assamensis) in Thailand based on mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite markers, Primates 55, 189-197
- Sukmak M, Wajjwalku W, Ostner J & Schülke O (2014) Dominance rank, female reproductive synchrony, and male reproductive skew in wild Assamese macaques, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68, 1097-1108
- Fürtbauer I, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2013) Female fecal androgens prior to the mating season reflect readiness to conceive in reproductively quiescent wild macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151, 311-315
- Heesen M, Rogahn S, Ostner J, Schülke O (2013) Food abundance affects energy intake and reproduction in frugivorous female Assamese macaques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67, 1052-1066, doi:10.1007/s00265-013-1530-9
- Macdonald S, Schülke O* & Ostner J* (2013) The absence of grooming for rank-related benefits in female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). International Journal of Primatology 34, 571-584 *equal contribution as last authors
- Ostner J, Vigilant L, Bhagavatula J, Franz M, Schülke O (2013) Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate. Animal Behaviour 86, 623-631
- Fürtbauer I, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2012) Patterns of fecal androgen excretion and fetal sex effects during gestation in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147, 334-339
- Fürtbauer I, Mundry R, Heistermann M, Schülke O & Ostner J (2011) You mate, I mate: macaque females synchronize sex, not cycles. PLoS One 6, e26144. doi:10.1371
- Fürtbauer I, Schülke O, Heistermann M & Ostner J (2011) Concealed fertility and extended female sexuality in a nonhuman primate (Macaca assamensis). PLoS ONE 6, e23105
- Ostner J, Heistermann M & Schülke O (2011) Male competition and its hormonal correlates in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Hormones & Behavior 59, 105-113
- Schülke O, Pesek D, Whitman BJ & Ostner J (2011) Ecology of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. Journal of Wildlife in Thailand 18, 1-15
- Fürtbauer I, Schülke O, Heistermann M & Ostner J (2010) Reproductive and life history parameters in wild female Macaca assamensis. International Journal of Primatology 31, 501-517
- Schülke O, Bhagavatula J, Vigilant L & Ostner J (2010) Social bonds enhance reproductive success in male macaques. Current Biology 20, 2207-2210
- Ostner J, Heistermann M & Schülke O (2008) Dominance, aggression and physiological stress in wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Hormones & Behavior 54, 613-619