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Education

• Ph.D.Ìý,ÌýÌýNew York UniversityÌýÌý

Research Interests

• Anthropology
• Conservation of African Monkeys
• Molecular Primatology
• Primate Hybridization
• Primate Speciation
• Primate Behavioral Ecology
• African MonkeysÌý

Research Description

Kate Detwiler is an associate professor of biological sciences at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, where her research focus is on the evolution and conservation of African forest monkeys. Her primatology lab is based in the Biological Sciences Department and represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Anthropology Department in the College of Arts and Letters and the Biological Sciences Department and Environmental Sciences Program in the College of Science. Her lab specializes in studying rare and endangered primate species in the Congo Basin rainforests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hybrid monkeys in Gombe National Park in Western Tanzania, and a local population of introduced African monkeys living in the mangrove swamps near Fort Lauderdale airport. Detwiler completed her bachelor’s degree in biology at Bates College (1995), where she received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship upon graduation, later earning her doctoral degree in anthropology at New York University (2010). Prior to arriving at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, she was a postdoctoral science fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. She teaches biological anthropology courses to undergraduate and graduate students at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, and her work on the discovery of the new monkey species Cercopithecus lomamiensis received wide scale media coverage, including National Geographic, Science Magazine and Nature.Ìý

Recent Publications

• JD Amboko, D Alempijevic, KM Detwiler (2026).ÌýPolyspecificÌýAssociations Among Guenons in the Lomami National Park, Dr. Congo: Camera Traps as a Tool to Reveal Patterns.ÌýAmerican Journal of Primatology.Ìý

• K Coates, KM Detwiler (2026).ÌýThe Impacts of Hybridization on Guenon Male Loud Calls in Gombe National Park, Tanzania.ÌýAmerican Journal of Primatology.Ìý

• KM Detwiler,ÌýA Jensen, E Horton, K Guschanski (2026).ÌýAncient and Contemporary Hybridization in Guenons: New InsightsÌýFromÌýthe Y Chromosome of Cercopithecus Monkeys.ÌýAmerican Journal of Primatology.Ìý

• A Jensen, ER Horton, MB Koko, KM Detwiler, K Guschanski (2025).ÌýHolotype genome of theÌýlesulaÌýprovides insights into demography and evolution of a threatened primate lineage.ÌýGenome Biology.Ìý

• A Jensen, ER Horton, J Amboko, SA Parke, JA Hart, AJ Tosi,Ìý... (2024).ÌýY chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species.ÌýNature Communications.Ìý

• A Jensen, F Swift, D de Vries, R Beck, LFKÌýKuderna, S Knauf, IS Chuma, ... (2024).ÌýComplex Evolutionary HistoryÌýWithÌýExtensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation.ÌýMolecular Biology and Evolution.Ìý

• JM Linder, DT Cronin, N Ting, EE Abwe, FÌýAghomo, TRB Davenport,Ìý... (2024).ÌýTo conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus.ÌýConservation Letters.Ìý

• AÌýJensen, ER Horton, J Amboko, SA Parke, JA Hart,ÌýA Tosi, K Guschanski,Ìý... (2024).ÌýBreaking the rule: An exceptional Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species.ÌýbioRxiv.Ìý
• A Jensen, ER Horton, KM Detwiler, K Guschanski (2024).ÌýSequencing the CercopithecusÌýlomamiensisÌýholotype provides insights into demography and evolution of a threatened primate lineage.Ìý
• JM Linder, DT Cronin, N Ting, EE Abwe, TRB Davenport, K Detwiler, ... (2024). Red colobus (Piliocolobus) conservation action plan: 2021-2026.ÌýIUCN.Ìý

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