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in their social groups. Drea's main interest in her research on primates and carnivores is determining if similar factors (of a complex social group) affect the "learning and performance across taxonomic groups". Another interest in her research is how animals learn rules of conduct and maintain social cohesion (in their behavioral development) based on scent marking, social effects on behavior, play, and aggression. Drea's research shows a connection between the geography of a region and the adaptations of the animals to its features to increase survival.
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Christine M. Drea. “Local habitat, not phylogenetic relatedness, predicts gut microbiota better within folivorous than frugivorous lemur lineages.” Biology Letters
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Within her research, Christine Drea focuses on social learning and group cohesion, in particular, how social interaction modulates behavior, problem solving, and cognitive performance. With her research, she compares both carnivore and primate foraging to understand how animals modify their behavior
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Greene, Lydia K., Sally L. Bornbusch, Erin A. McKenney, Rachel L. Harris, Sarah R. Gorvetzian, Anne D. Yoder, and
Christine M. Drea. “The importance of scale in comparative microbiome research: New insights from the gut and glands of captive and wild lemurs.” American Journal of Primatology 81, no.
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Drea has also kept a strong focus on sex differentiation and female dominant species, in particular hyenas, meerkats, and lemurs. She studies naturally occurring hormones and hormonal activity, genital morphology, social behavior, and reproductive development in both lab and field environments.
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Christine M. Drea. “Genetic variation at MHC class II loci influences both olfactory signals and scent discrimination in ring-tailed lemurs.” Bmc Evolutionary Biology 19, no. 1 (August 22, 2019): 171.
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