Melissa Emery Thompson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
MSC01-1040, University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
memery@unm.edu

Curriculum vitae (pdf)

Emery Thompson, M, ML Wilson, AE Pusey, G Gobbo, MN Muller, and AE Pusey (in press). Hyperprogesteronemia in response to Vitex fischeri consumption in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). American Journal of Primatology.

Kahlenberg, SM, M Emery Thompson, MN Muller, and RW Wrangham (in press). Immigration costs for female chimpanzees and male protection as an immigrant counterstrategy to intrasexual aggression. Animal Behaviour.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (in press). Male mating interest varies with female fecundity in chimpanzees of Kanyawara, Kibale National Park. International Journal of Primatology 29.

Stumpf, RM, M Emery Thompson, and CD Knott (in press). A comparison of female chimpanzee and orangutan mating strategies.International Journal of Primatology 29.

Emery Thompson, M , RM Stumpf, and AE Pusey (in press). Female reproductive strategies and competition in apes. International Journal of Primatology 29.

Kahlenberg, SM, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (in press). Evidence for female competition over core areas among Kanyawara chimpanzees, Kibale National Park, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 29.

Knott, CD, M Emery Thompson, and SA Wich (in press). The ecology of reproduction in wild orangutans. In Orangutans: Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, and Conservation. Edited by SA Wich, SS Utami, T Mitra Setia, and CP van Schaik. Oxford University Press, London.

Emery Thompson, M (in press). Rape: sexual coercion in humans. In Sexual Coercion in Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Edited by MN Muller, RW Wrangham. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (in press). Pan troglodytes. In Mammals of Africa. Edited by DCD Happold, J Kingdon, and T Butynski. Elsevier Press, New York.

Emery Thompson, M (in press). The endocrinology of intersexual relationships among apes. In The Endocrinology of Social Relationships. Edited by PB Gray and PT Ellison. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Emery Thompson, M and CD Knott (2008). Urinary C-peptide of insulin as a non-invasive marker of energy balance in wild orangutans. Hormones and Behavior 53: 526-535.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (2008). Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135: 171-181.

Anderson, HB, M Emery Thompson, CD Knott, and L Perkins (2008). Fertility and mortality patterns of captive Bornean and Sumatran orangutans: Is there a species difference in life history? Journal of Human Evolution 54: 34-42.

Emery Thompson, M, JH Jones, AE Pusey, S Brewer-Marsden, J Goodall, D Marsden, T Matsuzawa, T Nishida, V Reynolds, Y Sugiyama, and RW Wrangham (2007). Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause. Current Biology 17: 2150-2156.

Townsend, SW, KE Slocombe, M Emery Thompson, and K Zuberbühler (2007). Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology 17: 365-366.

Emery Thompson, M, SM Kahlenberg, IC Gilby, and RW Wrangham (2007). Core area quality is associated with variance in reproductive success in chimpanzees at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park. Animal Behaviour 73: 501-512.

Muller, MN, SM Kahlenberg, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2007). Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 1009-1014.

Emery Thompson, M, NE Newton-Fisher, and V Reynolds (2006). Probable community transfer of parous adult female chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 27: 1601-1617.

Muller, MN, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2006). Male chimpanzees prefer mating with older females. Current Biology 16: 2234-2238.

Brewer-Marsden, S, D Marsden, and M Emery Thompson (2006). Demographic and female life history parameters of free-ranging chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project, River Gambia National Park. International Journal of Primatology 27: 391-410.

Emery Thompson, M, RW Wrangham, and V Reynolds (2006). Urine estrone conjugates and reproductive parameters in Kibale (Kanyawara) and Budongo (Sonso) chimpanzees. In Primates of Western Uganda. Edited by NE Newton-Fisher, H Notman, V Reynolds, and J Paterson. Springer, New York, pp. 227-246

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (2006). Comparison of sex differences in gregariousness in fission-fusion species: reducing bias by standardizing for party size. In Primates of Western Uganda. Edited by NE Newton-Fisher, H Notman, V Reynolds, and J Paterson. Springer, New York, pp. 209-226.

Emery Thompson, M (2005). Reproductive endocrinology of wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): methodological considerations and the role of hormones in sex and conception. American Journal of Primatology 67: 137-158.

Emery, MA and PL Whitten (2003). Size of sexual swellings reflects ovarian function in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54: 340-351.

Santiago, ML, M Lukasik, S Kamenya, Y Li, F Bibollet-Ruche, E Bailes, MN Muller, M Emery, DA Goldenberg, J Lwanga, A Ayouba, E Nerrienet, HM McClure, JL Heeney, DP Watts, AE Pusey, DA Collins, RW Wrangham, J Goodall, JFY Brookfield, PM Sharp, GM Shaw, and BH Hahn (2003). Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Journal of Virology 77: 7545-7562.