Publications
2014
Archie, E.A., Tung, J., Clark, M., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. In press. Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Tung, J. In press. Genes revisited: the biodemography of social environmental variation through a functional genomic lens. In Advances in Biodemography: Cross-species Comparisons of Social Environments and Social Behaviors, and their Effects on Health and Longevity. Eds: M. Lane and M. Weinstein.
Snyder-Mackler, N.M., Somel, M., and Tung, J. 2014. Shared signatures of social stress and aging in PBMC gene expression profiles. Aging Cell: DOI:10.1111/acel.12239. [Open Access]
Gallego Romero, I., Pai., A.A., Tung, J., and Gilad, Y. 2014. RNA-seq: impact of RNA degradation on transcript quantification. BMC Biology 12: 42. [Open Access]
2013
Tung, J. and Gilad, Y. 2013. Social environmental effects on gene regulation. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 70: 4323-4339. [Open Access]
Runcie, D.E., Wiedmann, R.T., Archie, E.A., Altmann, J., Wray, G.A., Alberts, S.C., and Tung, J. 2013. Social environment influences the relationship between genotype and gene expression in wild baboons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 20120345. [Link]
Loisel, D.A. and Tung, J. 2013. Genetic variation in the immune system of old world monkeys: functional and selective effects. In Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution: A Context for Understanding Emerging Disease. Eds: J.F. Brinkworth and E.A. Pechenkina. New York, NY: Springer: 65 - 90.
Akinyi, M.Y., Tung, J., Jeneby, M., Patel, N.B., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. 2013. Role of grooming in reducing tick load in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Animal Behaviour 85: 559-568. [Link]
2012
Harper, K.N., Fyumagwa, R.D., Hoare, R. Wambura, P.N., Coppenhaver, D.H., Sapolsky, R.M., Alberts, S.C., Tung, J., Kilewo, M., Batamuzi, E.K., Leendertz, F.H., Knauf, S., and Armelagos, G.J. 2012. Treponema pallidum infection in the wild baboons of East Africa: distribution and genetic characterization of the strains responsible. PLoS One 7: e50882. [Link]
Barreiro, L.B. and Tung, J. 2012. Perspective: Getting under--and through--the skin: ecological genomics of chytridiomycosis infection in frogs. Molecular Ecology 21: 3095-3097. [Link]
Tung, J., Barreiro, L.B., Johnson, Z.P., Hansen, K.D., Michopoulous, V., Toufexis, D., Michelini, K.M., Wilson, M.E., and Gilad, Y. 2012. Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 6490-6495 [Open Access]
Tung, J.*, Charpentier, M.J.E.*, Mukherjee, S., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. 2012. Genetic effects on mating success and partner choice in a social mammal. American Naturalist 180: 113-129. [Link]
Charpentier, M.J.E.*, Fontaine, M.C.*, Cherel, E., Renoult, J.P., Jenkins, T., Benoit, L., Barthes, N., Alberts, S.C., Tung, J. 2012. Genetic structure in a dynamic baboon hybrid zone corroborates behavioral observations in a hybrid population. Molecular Ecology 21: 715-731. [Link]
Babbitt, C.C., Tung, J., Wray, G.A., and Alberts, S.C. 2012. Changes in gene expression associated with reproductive maturation in wild female baboons. Genome Biology and Evolution 4: 102-109.[Link]
2007 - 2011
Tung, J., Akinyi, M., Mutura, S., Altmann, J., Wray, G.A.*, and Alberts, S.C.* 2011. Allele specific gene expression in a wild nonhuman primate population. Molecular Ecology 20: 725-739. [Link]
Tung, J., Alberts, S.C.*, and Wray, G.A.* 2010. Evolutionary genetics in wild primates:
combining genetic approaches with field studies of natural populations. Trends in Genetics 26: 353-362. [Link]
Tung, J. and Wray, G.A. 2009. Evolution of traits deduced from genome comparisons. In: The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0021746.
Tung, J., Fedrigo, O., Haygood, R., Mukherjee, S.*, and Wray, G.A.* 2009. Genomic features that predict allelic imbalance in humans suggest patterns of constraint on gene expression variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26: 2047-2059. [Link]
Tung, J., Primus, A., Bouley, A.J., Severson, T., Alberts, S.C.*, and Wray, G.A.* 2009. Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates. Nature 460: 388-392. [Link]
Leonhardt, S.*, Tung, J.*, Camden, J., Leal, M., and Drea, C.M. 2009. Seeing red: behavioral evidence of trichromatic color vision in strepsirrhine primates. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1-12. [Link]
Tung, J., Charpentier, M.J.E., Garfield, D.A., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. 2008. Genetic evidence reveals dynamic patterns of hybridization in a wild baboon population. Molecular Ecology 17: 1998-2011. [Link]
Charpentier, M.J.E., Tung, J., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. 2008. Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, demographic, and environmental influences. Molecular Ecology 17: 2026-2040. [Link]
Tung, J., Rudolph, J., Altmann, J., and Alberts, S.C. 2007. Parallel effects of genetic variation on ACE activity in baboons and humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134: 1-8. [Link]
* denotes equal contribution
