Vervet Phenome/Genome Project
In collaboration with other members of the International Vervet Research Consortium, this research attempts to link the variation seen in wild populations to underlying genetic variation using genomic methods. To accomplish this, we have several ongoing projects that capitalize on the broad sampling of individuals from the genus Chlorocebus at the Vervet Research Colony at Wake Forest School of Medicine, from the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts & Nevis, and from across their range in Subsaharan Africa.
My own research interests focus on body quality, energetics, and evolutionary aspects of obesogenic growth and development in both captive and wild populations of vervets, while my collaborations have investigated a wide range of traits including SIV resistance and evolution, parasite distribution, the evolution and development of scrotal coloration, and population genomics and phylogenetics. For a broad sampling of our research, please see the abstracts associated with our recent symposium at the 2014 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
My own research interests focus on body quality, energetics, and evolutionary aspects of obesogenic growth and development in both captive and wild populations of vervets, while my collaborations have investigated a wide range of traits including SIV resistance and evolution, parasite distribution, the evolution and development of scrotal coloration, and population genomics and phylogenetics. For a broad sampling of our research, please see the abstracts associated with our recent symposium at the 2014 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
