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ArticleAnimal behaviour2025

Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?

Megan Petersdorf, Lauren F Brasington, Nelle K Kulick, Margaret S Buehler, Saúl Cheves Hernandez, Linda M Fedigan, Ronald Lopez Navarro, Amanda D Melin, Fernando A Campos, Katharine M Jack

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Article in Animal behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Intergroup Encounters Among Wild White-Faced Capuchins (International journal of primatology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Megan PetersdorfDepartment of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
Lauren F BrasingtonDepartment of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
Nelle K KulickDepartment of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
Margaret S BuehlerDepartment of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
Saúl Cheves HernandezSanta Rosa Primate Conservation Fund, Costa Rica.
Linda M FediganDepartment of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
Ronald Lopez NavarroSanta Rosa Primate Conservation Fund, Costa Rica.
Amanda D MelinDepartment of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
Fernando A CamposDepartment of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.
Katharine M JackDepartment of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.

Funding

A new model system for assessing the socio-environmental determinants of the pace of aging: leveraging a long-term study of wild capuchinsR61AG078529 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI CAMPOS, FERNANDO ALONSO, JACK, KATHARINE MARY · 2022 to 2023
$570k
NIA NIH HHS R61 AG078529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infanticide by males is an extreme form of sexual conflict that can increase male reproductive success at a cost to female reproductive success. Females have evolved a variety of strategies to reduce the occurrence and the cost of infanticide, including the termination of pregnancy after nontraumatic exposure to non-sire males, known as the Bruce effect. A recent model (Zipple 2020) proposed that the Bruce effect will evolve in populations if the risk of infanticide is high and alpha male replacements occur routinely but infrequently relative to gestation length. We tested this model using 38 years of demographic data from a population of wild white-faced capuchins (

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Bruce effectInfanticidemale take-overprimatessexual conflictsexual selectionwhite-faced capuchin

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PMID41959698
PMCPMC13061273

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