Male Response to Female Ovulation in White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Variation in Fecal Testosterone, Dihydrotestosterone, and Glucocorticoids

Schoof, Valérie A. M.; Jack, Katharine M.; Ziegler, Toni E.

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“…Cortisol levels of male S. nigritus are shown to increase during this season in response to mating opportunities (Lynch et al 2002). Similar results were also reported for Cebus capucinus (Schoof et al, 2014), Brachyteles arachnoides (Strier et al, 1999) and Callithrix jacchus (Cunha, Vivacqua, Fernandes, & Sousa, 2007). Although the variation in GCs of primate males was also associated with intragroup male-male competition (Emery Thompson & Georgiev, 2014), we did not find such association in our data (Moreira, 2010).…”

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“…Lynch, Ziegler, & Strier, 2002;Romero et al, 2009;Sapolsky, 1983;Setchell, Smith, Wickings, & Knapp, 2010;Strier, Ziegler, & Wittwer, 1999). We also investigated whether there is an increase in females' GCM levels caused by energy requirements related to the breeding season or to the late pregnancy (Bales, French, Hostetler, & Dietz, 2005;Bercovitch & Ziegler, 2002;Lahoz, Nagle, & Porta, 2007;Schoof, Jack, & Ziegler, 2014); and if reproduction-related factors can explain GCM variations better than food availability. Since immature individuals do not have reproduction-related requirements and deal with specific challenges associated to their development, as body growth (Altmann, 1998;Clymer, 2006), we expected that food availability would influence their GCM levels more than other events.…”

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Variation of glucocorticoid metabolite levels is associated with survival demands in immature and reproductive demands in adult wild black capuchins (Sapajus nigritus)

Moreira

Santos²,

Sousa³

et al. 2016

Int. j. psychol. res.

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According to the concept of allostasis and its association with energy mobilization, glucocorticoids (GCs) should parallel cumulative energy expenditure for animal survival and reproduction. Therefore, it is expected that seasonal food shortages might lead to increased levels of GCs. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the intra-annual variation of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (GCM) in 14 wild black capuchin monkeys (Sapajus nigritus) living in a social group in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We analyzed the association between GCM and social and environmental variables for the three age/sex classes (adult males, adult females and immatures (juveniles and infants). Decreased fruit intake during the dry season increased the GCM levels of both immatures and adult males. Although fruit shortage influenced the allostasis of adult males, the variation in their GCM levels was more impacted by the breeding season. GCM levels of adult females varied during the late stage of pregnancy. These results suggest fruit consumption as the main source of allostatic load for immature animals, while reproductive costs had greater effect on adults. De acuerdo al concepto de alostasis y su asociación con la movilización de la energía, los glucocorticoides (GC) deben acumular en paralelo la energía para la supervivencia animal y la reproducción. Por lo tanto, se espera que la escaséz de alimentos de temporada pueda llevar al incremento de los niveles de GC. Pusimos a prueba esta hipótesis mediante el análisis de la variación intra-anual de metabolitos de glucocorticoides fecales (MGC) en 14 monos capuchinos salvajes negros (Sapajus nigritus), que vivían en un grupo social en el bosque R e s e a r c h

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Variation of glucocorticoid metabolite levels is associated with survival demands in immature and reproductive demands in adult wild black capuchins (Sapajus nigritus)

Moreira

Santos²,

Sousa³

et al. 2016

Int. j. psychol. res.

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“…Additionally, those who responded to social reorganization with larger increases in cortisol were at greater risk for infection (Cohen et al, 1997). example, great apes and humans share a propensity to cardiomyopathy (Hansen, Alford, & Keeling, 1984) and heart failure, the leading cause of death in great apes (Videan et al, 2009 (Pryce, Dettling, Spengler, Schnell, & Feldon, 2004), mentioned in the introduction of reports (F€ urtbauer, Heistermann, Sch € Ulke, & Ostner, 2014;Hämäläinen, Heistermann, & Kraus, 2015;Hoffman et al, 2011;Laudenslager, Jorgensen, & Fairbanks, 2012;MacIntosh, Alados, & Huffman, 2011;MacLarnon et al, 2015;Schoof, Jack, & Ziegler, 2014), and/or used to frame results in discussions (Coplan et al, 2015;Barr, Newman, Lindell, et al, 2004;F€ urtbauer et al, 2014;Hoffman et al, 2011;MacIntosh et al, 2011;Mendonça-Furtado et al, 2014;Onyango, Gesquiere, Wango, Alberts, & Altmann, 2008 ( variety of publications. One group assigned allostatic load levels to various animal species based on dominance rank without calculating an ALI (Goymann & Wingfield, 2004 ACTH, adrenocorticotropin-releasing hormone; BMI, body mass index; CRF, corticotropin-releasing factor; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; DHEA-S, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor 1; IL-1ra, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; IL-6, interleukin-6; IL-8, interleukin-8; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; LH, luteinizing hormone; SBP, systolic blood pressure; WBC, white blood cells.…”

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Allostatic load and biological anthropology

Edes

Crews

2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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Multiple stressors affect developing and adult organisms, thereby partly structuring their phenotypes. Determining how stressors influence health, well-being, and longevity in human and nonhuman primate populations are major foci within biological anthropology. Although much effort has been devoted to examining responses to multiple environmental and sociocultural stressors, no holistic metric to measure stress-related physiological dysfunction has been widely applied within biological anthropology. Researchers from disciplines outside anthropology are using allostatic load indices (ALIs) to estimate such dysregulation and examine life-long outcomes of stressor exposures, including morbidity and mortality. Following allostasis theory, allostatic load represents accumulated physiological and somatic damage secondary to stressors and senescent processes experienced over the lifespan. ALIs estimate this wear-and-tear using a composite of biomarkers representing neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune systems. Across samples, ALIs are associated significantly with multiple individual characteristics (e.g., age, sex, education, DNA variation) of interest within biological anthropology. They also predict future outcomes, including aspects of life history variation (e.g., survival, lifespan), mental and physical health, morbidity and mortality, and likely health disparities between groups, by stressor exposures, ethnicity, occupations, and degree of departure from local indigenous life ways and integration into external and commodified ones. ALIs also may be applied to similar stress-related research areas among nonhuman primates. Given the reports from multiple research endeavors, here we propose ALIs may be useful for assessing stressors, stress responses, and stress-related dysfunction, current and long-term cognitive function, health and well-being, and risk of early mortality across many research programs within biological anthropology. K E Y W O R D Saging, allostasis, frailty, growth and development, nonhuman primates, senescence, stress | I N T R O D U C T I O NTraditional research foci within biological anthropology include variations in stress, morbidity, and mortality (for reviews, see Ice & James, 2007;Little, 2010). Despite this long-term focus, the field continues to pursue a reliable, relatively easy to apply metric for assessing lifetime stress and stress-related outcomes. We suggest incorporating the theory of allostasis and methods for assessing allostatic load within anthropological theory and methodology to aid in closing this gap. As a theory, allostasis was developed to explain how mammalian physiological responses to stressors in their environments evolved to maximize the probability of survival while limiting somatic damage (Korte, Koolhaas, Wingfield, & McEwen, 2005;McEwen & Stellar, 1993;McEwen & Wingfield, 2003;Sterling, 2004Sterling, , 2012Sterling & Eyer, 1988). Unfortunately, such beneficial defensive responses come at a cost and, over time, repeated allostatic activi...

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“…For example, in seasonallybreeding redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus: Ostner et al 2008b), tufted capuchins (Cebus apella nigritus: Lynch et al 2002), and Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis: Ostner et al 2008a), glucocorticoid levels of males were higher during the mating season than at other times. In this volume, Schoof et al (2014) used hormonal information to identify the days on which white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) females were near ovulation, finding that male glucocorticoid levels were significantly elevated when such females were present.…”

Section: Physiological Stressmentioning

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The High Price of Success: Costs of Mating Effort in Male Primates

Thompson

Georgiev

2014

Int J Primatol

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While males are generally the low investing sex when it comes to offspring care, males of many species experience intense and persistent mating effort. Mating effort incurs a variety of costs which are expected to have non-negligible effects on fitness, as well as how reproductive tactics are selected and investment in mating activity is moderated over time. This special issue features contributions investigating the costs of male mating effort across primate species. Here, we place these exciting new works in context, addressing the specific types of mating effort expected for male primates and the significance of these costs for our understanding of primate life histories and socioecology.

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Male Response to Female Ovulation in White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Variation in Fecal Testosterone, Dihydrotestosterone, and Glucocorticoids

Cited by 31 publications

References 69 publications

Variation of glucocorticoid metabolite levels is associated with survival demands in immature and reproductive demands in adult wild black capuchins (Sapajus nigritus)

Variation of glucocorticoid metabolite levels is associated with survival demands in immature and reproductive demands in adult wild black capuchins (Sapajus nigritus)

Allostatic load and biological anthropology

The High Price of Success: Costs of Mating Effort in Male Primates

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