2022
Science In Press
Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech
Nishimura T, Tokuda IT, Miyachi S, Dunn JC, Herbst C, Ishimura K, Kaneko A, Kinoshita Y, Koda H, Saers JP, Imai H, Matsuda T, Larsen ON, Jürgens U, Hirabayashi H, Kojima S, Fitch TW
Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research In Press
Olfactory communication in tamarins: a comparative analysis of scents from wild and captive populations
Poirier A, Waterhouse J, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Melin A, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn JC, Smith A.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science In Press
From soundwave to soundscape: a guide to acoustic research in captive animal environments
Clark F, Dunn JC
Primates 63: 283-291
The effect of vegetation type on howler monkey distribution.
Shedden A, Dunn JC, Martinez-Mota R, Gillingham P, Cristóbal-Azkarate J, McSwiney C, Newton A, Rodríguez-Luna E & Korstjens A.
Animal Behaviour 186: 219-229
Socioecological correlates of social play in adult howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata mexicana and A. p. palliata)
Asensio N, Zandono A, Cristobal-Azkarate J, Dunn J.
2021
Science Advances 7: abe2101
The evolution of mammalian brain size.
Smaers JB, Rothman RS, Hudson DR, Balanoff AM, Beatty B, Dechmann DKN, de Vries D, Dunn JC, Fleagle JG, Gilbert CC, Goswami A, Iwaniuk AN, Jungers W, Kerney M, Ksepka DT, Manger PR, Mongle CS, Rohlf FJ, Smith NA, Soligo C, Weisbecker V & Safi K
Behavioural and Brain Sciences 44, e97
Progress without exclusion in the search for an evolutionary basis of music.
Bowling D, Hoeschelle M, Dunn JC.
Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology. 75: 88
Convergent character displacement in sympatric tamarin calls (Saguinus spp.).
Sobroza T, Pequeno PACL, Gordo M, Dunn JC, Spironello WC, Rabelo RM, Barnett APA.
Animal Conservation 24: 432-444
Evaluating extinction debt in fragmented forests: the rapid recovery of a critically endangered primate.
Alcocer-Rodriguez M, Arroyo-Rodriguez V, Galan-Acedo C, Cristobal-Azkarate J, Asensio N, Rito K, Hawes J, Vea-Baro J, Dunn JC.
American Journal of Primatology 83, e23236
On the trail of scent signals: a field analysis of tamarin scent-gland semiochemistry by portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Poirier A, Waterhouse J, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Melin A, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn JC, Smith A.
Chemical Senses. 46: 008
Scent-marking signals species, group, sex and reproductive satus in tamarins (Saguinus spp., new world primates).
Poirier A, Waterhouse J, Dunn JC, Smith A.
2020
PLOS Biology 18: e3000764
Rapid evolution of the primate larynx.
Bowling DL*, Dunn JC*, Smaers J, Garcia M, Kerney M, Stewart A, Hanke G, Kitchener A, Handschuhe S, Dengg S, Gumpenberger M & Fitch WTS.
American Journal of Primatology e23160
Low genetic diversity and limited genetic structure across the range of the critically endangered Mexican howler monkey (Alouatta palliata mexicana)
Melo-Carrilo A, Dunn JC, Cortes-Ortiz L.
Nature Scientific Reports 10: 3692
Western gorilla space use suggests territoriality.
Morrison M, Dunn JC, Illera G, Walsh P, Bermejo M.
2019
Bioarxiv doi: 10.1101/859983
A machine learning based approach to the segmentation of micro CT data in archaeological and evolutionary sciences
O’Mahoney T, McKnight L, Lowe T, Mednikova M, Dunn JC
Current Biology 29: 732-733
No evidence that maximum fundamental frequency reflects selection for signal diminution in bonobos.
Garcia M*, Dunn JC*
In the name of climate change Bodenhorn B, Irvine R (eds.). Berghahn Press.
Predicting the effects of climate change and habitat destruction on the conservation of Mexican primates: current perspectives and future prospects.
Dunn JC, Cristobal-Azkarate J, Rodriguez-Luna E & Knapp L
Journal of Voice 33: 401-411
Fundamental frequency estimation of low-quality electroglottographic signals.
Herbst C & Dunn JC
2018
Frontiers in Neuroscience 10.3389: 00534
Neural correlates of vocal complexity in primates
Dunn JC & Smaers JB
Anthropological Science 126: 29-34.
Sexual selection and the loss of laryngeal air sacs during the evolution of speech.
Dunn JC
Anthropological Science 126: 19-27
Non-invasive documentation of primate sound production using electroglottography.
Herbst C & Dunn JC.
International Journal of Primatology 39(1) 90-104
Socioecological factors affecting territoriality among howler monkeys.
Asensio N, Jose-Dominguez JM, Dunn JC.
Avances y perspectivas en la investigación de los bosques tropicales Reynoso-Rosales VH, Coates R & Vázquez Cruz M (eds.). UNAM Press, Mexico City.
Los efectos de la fragmentación del hábitat sobre los monos aulladores
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Dias PA, Vegas-Carillo S, Hervier B, Dunn JC, Asensio N, Rodríguez-Luna E & Vea-Baro JJ
2017
Nature Scientific Reports 7: 10450.
Acoustic allometry revisited: morphological determinants of fundamental frequency in primate vocal production.
Garcia M, Herbst C, Bowling D, Dunn JC, Fitch WT
Nature Scientific Reports 41070
Body size and vocalisation in primates and carnivores.
Bowling DL, Garcia M, Dunn JC, Ruprecht R, Stewart A, Frommolt KH, Fitch T
PeerJ 5:e3547.
A ten-year history of demographic change in a population of free-ranging howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) living in a fragmented landscape in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Dunn JC, Domingo-Balcells C, Vea JJ.
Primates 58(4) 485-491
The coevolution of play and the cortico-cerebellar system in primates
Kerney M, Smears J, Schoenemann T & Dunn JC
2016
PeerJ PrePrints 3: e800v1
A ten-year history of demographic change in a population of free-ranging howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) living in a fragmented landscape in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Dunn JC, Domingo-Balcells C, Vea JJ
2015
Current Biology 25: 2839-2844
Evolutionary tradeoff between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys.
Dunn JC, Halenar L, Davies T, Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Fitch T, Knapp L
American Journal of Primatology 36: 429-440
Role of emitter and severity of aggression influence the agonistic vocalizations of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)
Ordóñez-Gómez JD, Dunn JC, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Santillán Doherty AM, Méndez-Cárdenas MG, Márquez-Arias A
2014
PLoS One e107719.
Resistance to antibiotics of clinical relevance in the fecal microbiota of Mexican wildlife.
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Dunn JC, Day J, Amábile-Cuevas C
Primates 55: 155-160.
Limited genetic diversity in the critically endangered Mexican howler monkey (Alouatta palliata mexicana) in the Selva Zoque, Mexico.
Dunn JC, Shedden-González A, Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Cortés-Ortiz L, Rodríguez-Luna E & Knapp L.
Ecology of lianas Schnitzer S, Bongers F, Burnham R & Putz F (eds.). Springer Press. pp 407-426.
Use of lianas by primates: more than a food source.
Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Asensio N, Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J & Gonzalez-Zamora A
2013
International Journal of Primatology 34: 246-259.
Travel time predicts fecal glucocorticoid levels in free-ranging howler monkeys.
Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Chavira R & Veà J.
Primates in fragments: complexity and resilience Marsh L, Chapman C (eds.). Springer. New York. pp 75-88.
Lessons from Los Tuxtlas: 30 years of research into primates in fragments
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Dunn JC
Primates in fragments: complexity and resilience Springer Press, New York. pp 503- 523
Primates in fragments ten years later: once and future goals. In: Marsh LK & Chapman CA
Marsh LK, Chapman CA, Arroyo-Rodriguez V, Cobden AK, Dunn J, Gabriel D, Ghai RR, Nijman V, Reyna-Hurtado R, Serio-Silva JC & Wasserman MD
2012
Biotropica 44: 705-714
The ranging costs of a fallback food: liana consumption supplements diet but increases foraging effort in howler monkeys
Dunn JC, Asensio N, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Schnitzer S & Cristóbal-Azkarate J
Perspectives in primatology Gama L, Arriaga-Weiss S & Contreras-Sanchez W (eds.). Villahermosa: UJAT Press.
Effects of fruit consumption and foraging effort on stress levels in two groups of Alouatta palliata mexicana in forest fragments
Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Veà J & Chavira R
2011
The conservation of Mexican primates Dias PAD, Rangel-Negrin A, Canales D (eds.). Universidad Veracruzana Press.
Demography, life history and migrations in howler monkeys in Los Tuxtlas
Cristóbal-Azkarate J, Domingo Balcells C, Dunn JC & Vea-Baro J
2010
IUCN/CBSG CAMP 2006
Conservation and management plan for Mexican primates
Rodríguez-Luna E, Solórzano-García B, Shedden A, Rangel-Negrín A, Dias PAD, Cristóbal-Azkárate J, Cortés-Ortiz L, Dunn JC, Domingo-Balcells C, Sánchez S, Carrillo L & Cornejo J
International Journal of Primatology 31: 887-903
Seasonal variations in the diet and feeding effort of two groups of howler monkeys in different sized forest fragments
Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J & Veà J
2009
American Journal of Primatology 71: 654-662
Differences in diet and activity pattern between two groups of Alouatta palliata associated with the availability of big trees and fruit of top food species
Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J & Veà J
Biotropica 41: 768-773.
Conservation value of landscape supplementation for howler monkeys living in forest patches
Asensio N, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Dunn JC & Cristóbal-Azkarate J
Check List 5: 787-799
Angiosperms, Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, Mexico
Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Dunn JC, Benítez-Malvido J & Mandujano S. (2009).
2008
Folia Primatologica 79: 299-301
The feeding ecology of the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata): coping strategies in altered landscapes
Dunn JC, Cristóbal-Azkarate J & Veà J. (2008)