Deus Mjungu

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 812 citations indexed

About

Deus Mjungu is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Deus Mjungu has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 812 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Social Psychology, 7 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Deus Mjungu's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (6 papers). Deus Mjungu is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (6 papers). Deus Mjungu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tanzania and United Kingdom. Deus Mjungu's co-authors include Anne E. Pusey, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Beatrice H. Hahn, Martin N. Muller, Andrew H. Moeller, Martine Peeters, Alexander V. Georgiev, Howard Ochman, Alejandro Caro‐Quintero and Michael L. Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Genome biology.

In The Last Decade

Deus Mjungu

21 papers receiving 800 citations

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Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids

2016 399 citations Andrew H. Moeller, Deus Mjungu et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 2025 ·iScience ·Joseph T. Feldblum, Kara K. Walker, Margaret A. Stanton, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Deus Mjungu, Carson M. Murray, Anne E. Pusey	0
2	Potentially Zoonotic Enteric Infections in Gorillas and Chimpanzees, Cameroon and Tanzania 2024 ·Emerging infectious diseases ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard A. Bergl, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, (unknown), Deus Mjungu, Mimi Arandjelovic, (unknown), Karen A. Terio, Dominic A. Travis, Thomas R. Gillespie	1
3	Personality traits, rank attainment, and siring success throughout the lives of male chimpanzees of Gombe National Park 2023 ·PeerJ ·Alexander Weiß, Joseph T. Feldblum, Drew Altschul, (unknown), Shadrack Kamenya, Deus Mjungu, Steffen Foerster, Ian C. Gilby, Michael L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey	2
4	Widespread extinctions of co-diversified primate gut bacterial symbionts from humans 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Jon G. Sanders, Daniel D. Sprockett, Yingying Li, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Jean-Bosco N. Ndjango, Alexander V. Georgiev, John Hart, Crickette Sanz, David Morgan, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller	27
5	A low-cost genomics workflow enables isolate screening and strain-level analyses within microbiomes 2022 ·Genome biology ·Jon G. Sanders, Weiwei Yan, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, John Hart, Crickette Sanz, David Morgan, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller	6
6	Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees 2021 ·Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Steffen Foerster, Ian C. Gilby, Joseph T. Feldblum, Kimberly VanderWaal, Tiffany M. Wolf, Dominic A. Travis, Jane Raphael, Iddi Lipende, Deus Mjungu, Anne E. Pusey, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Thomas R. Gillespie	8
7	Evaluating adaptive hypotheses for female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees 2021 ·Animal Behaviour ·Kara K. Walker, Steffen Foerster, Carson M. Murray, Deus Mjungu, Anne E. Pusey	3
8	Culture‐enriched community profiling improves resolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota 2021 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Samantha L. Goldman, Jon G. Sanders, Weiwei Yan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Emily N. Taylor, Alex R. Gunderson, Michael J. Sheehan, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller	15
9	Monopolizability of Mating Opportunities Promotes Within-Community Killing in Chimpanzees 2021 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·(unknown), Emily E. Wroblewski, Deus Mjungu, (unknown), Joseph T. Feldblum, (unknown), Steffen Foerster, Rebecca S. Rudicell, Beatrice H. Hahn, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson	1
10	Research and conservation in the greater Gombe ecosystem: challenges and opportunities 2020 ·Biological Conservation ·Michael L. Wilson, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Deus Mjungu, Shadrack Kamenya, (unknown), Dave Collins, Thomas R. Gillespie, Dominic A. Travis, Iddi Lipende, (unknown), (unknown), Lilian Pintea, Jane Raphael, (unknown), Beatrice H. Hahn, Anne E. Pusey, Jane Goodall	15
11	Syndromic Surveillance of Respiratory Disease in Free-Living Chimpanzees 2019 ·EcoHealth ·Tiffany M. Wolf, Randall S. Singer, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Richard F. MacLehose, Thomas R. Gillespie, Iddi Lipende, Jane Raphael, Karen A. Terio, Carson M. Murray, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn, Shadrack Kamenya, Deus Mjungu, Dominic A. Travis	3
12	CHIIMP: An automated high‐throughput microsatellite genotyping platform reveals greater allelic diversity in wild chimpanzees 2018 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Hannah J. Barbian, Andrew Connell, (unknown), Ronnie M. Russell, Andrew G. Smith, (unknown), (unknown), Yingying Li, Frédéric Bibollet‐Ruche, Emily E. Wroblewski, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Fiona A. Stewart, A. Piel, Anne E. Pusey, Paul M. Sharp, Beatrice H. Hahn	20
13	Predation by female chimpanzees: Toward an understanding of sex differences in meat acquisition in the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo 2017 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Ian C. Gilby, Zarin Machanda, Robert C. O’Malley, Carson M. Murray, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Kara K. Walker, Deus Mjungu, Emily Otali, Martin N. Muller, Melissa Emery Thompson, Anne E. Pusey, Richard W. Wrangham	35
14	Personality in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park 2017 ·Scientific Data ·Alexander Weiß, Michael L. Wilson, Dave Collins, Deus Mjungu, Shadrack Kamenya, Steffen Foerster, Anne E. Pusey	19
15	Infanticide in chimpanzees: Taphonomic case studies from Gombe 2017 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·(unknown), Michael L. Wilson, Deus Mjungu, Jane Raphael, Shadrack Kamenya, Dave Collins	11
16	Feeding habitat quality and behavioral trade-offs in chimpanzees: a case for species distribution models 2016 ·Behavioral Ecology ·Steffen Foerster, (unknown), Lilian Pintea, Carson M. Murray, Michael L. Wilson, Deus Mjungu, Anne E. Pusey	17
17	‘Impact hunters’ catalyse cooperative hunting in two wild chimpanzee communities 2015 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Ian C. Gilby, Zarin Machanda, Deus Mjungu, (unknown), Martin N. Muller, Anne E. Pusey, Richard W. Wrangham	58
18	Rates of lethal aggression in chimpanzees depend on the number of adult males rather than measures of human disturbance 2012 ·Michael L. Wilson, Christophe Boesch, Takeshi Furuichi, Ian C. Gilby, Chie Hashimoto, Gottfried Hohmann, Noriko Itoh, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, John C. Mitani, Deus Mjungu, David Morgan, Michio Nakamura, Jill D. Pruetz, Anne E. Pusey, Crickette Sanz, Nicole Simmons, Frances J. White, David P. Watts, Klaus Zuberbühler, Richard W. Wrangham	3
19	Impact of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on Chimpanzee Population Dynamics 2010 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Rebecca S. Rudicell, James H. Jones, Emily E. Wroblewski, Gerald H. Learn, Yingying Li, J. D. Robertson, Elizabeth Greengrass, Falk Grossmann, Shadrack Kamenya, Lilian Pintea, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anna Mosser, Clarence Lehman, Dave Collins, Brandon F. Keele, Jane Goodall, Beatrice H. Hahn, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson	64
20	Prevalence and correlates of hypertension: a cross-sectional study among rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa 2010 ·Journal of Human Hypertension ·Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Gerson Nyadzi, Deus Mjungu, (unknown), Miguel A. Ramirez, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Walter C. Willett	78

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