Making sense of the costs of adversity throughout the lifespan on aging in humans and other animals

R Sapolsky, A Bartolomucci - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Social adversity, particularly early in life, can cause lifelong damage to health; by now,
numerous studies examine this relationship in non-human species, producing some …

A new era in quantification of animal social behaviors.

JD Choi, V Kumar - 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Comments on an article Automatically annotated motion tracking identifies a distinct social
behavioral profile following chronic social defeat stress by J. Bordes et al.(2023). Bordes et …

Genetically identical mice express alternative reproductive tactics depending on social conditions in the field

MN Zipple, CC Vogt… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In many species, establishing and maintaining a territory is critical to survival and
reproduction, and an animal's ability to do so is strongly influenced by the presence and …

The fortunes and misfortunes of social life across the life course: a new era of research from field, laboratory and comparative studies

A Bartolomucci, J Tung, KM Harris - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
Social gradients in health and aging have been reported in studies across many human
populations, and-as the papers included in this special collection highlight–also occur …

Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior

SS Ding, JL Fox, A Gordus, A Joshi… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Humans have been trying to understand animal behavior at least since recorded history.
Recent rapid development of new technologies has allowed us to make significant progress …

Assessing immune phenotypes using simple proxy measures: promise and limitations

AE Downie, RS Barre, A Robinson, J Yang… - Discovery …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The study of immune phenotypes in wild animals is beset by numerous methodological
challenges, with assessment of detailed aspects of phenotype difficult to impossible. This …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-specific competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice

MN Zipple, DC Kuo, X Meng, TM Reichard, K Guess… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Contingency (or 'luck') in early life plays an important role in shaping individuals'
development. When individuals live within larger societies, social experiences may cause …