Publications

*denotes undergraduate student mentee

⚛denotes graduate student mentee

❇denotes senior authorship

°denotes corresponding author

(21) Schneider-Crease, I.A.°, Moya, I.L.*, Chiou, K.L., Baniel, A., Azanaw, A.H., Kebede, F., Abebe, B., Snyder-Mackler, N., Varsani, A. Intestivirid acquisition increases across infancy in a wild primate. In review. Molecular Ecology.

(20) Longtin, A., Watowich, M.M., Sadoughi, B., Peterson, R.M., Brosnan, S.F., Buetow, K., Cai, Q., Gurven, M.D., Highland, H.M., Huang, Y., Kaplan, H., Kraft, T.S., Lim, Y.A.L, Long, J., Melin, A.D., Roberson, J., Ng, K., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B.C., Venkataraman, V.V., Wallace, I.J., Wu, J., Schneider-Crease, I. A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Jones, A., Bick, A.G., Lea, A.L. Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing. PLoS Genetics. Accepted.

(19) Weyher, A. H., Katinta, M., Mubemba, B., Petersdorf, M., Kamilar, J. M., Schneider-Crease, I. A.°❇, Chiou, K. L. A friendlier “kinda” social system: male Kinda baboons invest in long-term social bonds with females. (2025). American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 186(1), e25056

(18) Feder, J., Schneider-Crease, I.A., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J., Seyfarth, R., Silk, J., Snyder-Macker, N., Lu, A. Reproductive aging patterns in chacma baboons and geladas. (2025). Royal Society Open Science. 12(1), 241210.

(17) Jarvey, J.C.*, Lowe, B.S., Chiou, K.L, Azanaw, A.H., Lu, A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Bergman, T.J., Beehner, J.C., Schneider-Crease, I.A.° (2024). Dominant females exploit foraging effort of lower-ranking females for seasonally desirable resources. Behavioral Ecology; arad079, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad079

(16) Watowich, M., Chiou, K.L., Graves, B., Montague, M., Brent, L., Higham, J., Horvath, J., Lu, A., Martinez, M., Platt, M., Schneider-Crease, I.A., Lea, A.J., Snyder-Mackler, N. (2023). Best practices for genotype imputation from low-coverage sequencing data in natural populations. Molecular Ecology Resources;  2023;00:1–13. 

(15) Delacey, P.M, Sen, S., Schneider-Crease, I.A, Chiou, K.L., Lemma, A., Ayele, F.,  Haile, A.A., Lu, A., Bergman, T.J., Snyder-Mackler, N. (2023).Vascularization underlies differences in sexually selected skin coloration in a wild primate. Molecular Ecology;00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17026. Click to access PDF

(14) Schneider-Crease, I.A.°, Feder, J.A., Baniel, A., McCann, C., Azanaw, A.H., Abebe, B., Fitzgerald, F.*, Gomery, M.A.*, Simberloff, R.A., Petrie, Z.L., Gabriel, S., Dorny, P., Fashing, P.J., Nguyen, N., Bergman, T.J., Beehner, J.C., Snyder-Mackler, N., Lu, A. (2022). Urinary neopterin reflects lifetime variation in innate immunity, helminth-induced immunomodulation, and microbiome diversity in a wild primate. Scientific Reports, 12(1): 21307. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25298-9. Click to access PDF

(13) Schneider-Crease, I.A.°, Chiou, K.L., Moya, I.L.*, Lemma, A., Ayele, F., Azanaw, A.H., Kebede, F., Abebe, B., Bergman, T.J., Beehner, J.C., Lu, A., Lund, M.C., Custer, J.M., Kraberger, S., Snyder-Mackler, N., Varsani, A. (2022). Novel statovirus identified in fecal samples from wild geladas in the Ethiopian highlands, Archives of Virology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-022-05588-3. Click to access PDF

(12) Schneider-Crease, I. A.°, Weyher, A. H., Mubemba, B., Kamilar, J. M., Petersdorf, M., & Chiou, K. L. (2022). Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons. Animal Behaviour189, 47-57. Click to access PDF

(11) Chiou, K. L., Janiak, M. C., Schneider-Crease, I. A., Sen, S., Ayele, F., Chuma, I. S., … & Snyder-Mackler, N. (2022). Genomic signatures of high-altitude adaptation and chromosomal polymorphism in geladas. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-14. Click to access PDF

(10) Delacey, P.M., Perlman, R.F., Sen, S.*, Schneider-Crease, I.A, Chiou, K.L., Lemma, A., Ayele, F., Higham, J.P., Lu, A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J. (2022) Assessing male gelada chest patches: color measurement and physiological mechanisms. Mammalian Biology, 1-13. Click to access PDF

(9) Schneider-Crease, I.A.°, Blackwell, A.D., Kraft, T.S., Emery Thompson, M., Maldonado Suarez, I., Cummings, D.K., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Snyder-Mackler, N., Gurven, M., Trumble, B.C. (2021). Helminth Parasitism Inhibits Cytokine Responses to Viral and Bacterial Stimulations in a Subsistence Population in Bolivia. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 9(1); https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab035. Click to access PDF

(8) Schneider-Crease, I.°, Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J., Gomery, M.A.*, Koklic, L.*, Lu, A., Snyder-Mackler, N. (2020). Ecology eclipses phylogeny as a major driver of nematode parasite community structure in a graminivorous primate. Functional Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365‐2435.13603. Click to access PDF

(7) Trumble, B.C., Schneider-Crease, I. (2020). Chronic Diseases of Aging in an Evolutionary Context. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. eoaa013, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaa013. Click to access PDF

(6) Schneider-Crease, I.°, Chiou, K.L., Snyder-Mackler, N., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J, Lu, A. (2020). Beyond infant death: the hidden costs of infanticide in geladas (Theropithecus gelada). Animal Behaviour, 59: 89-95. Click to access PDF

(5) Lu, A., Petrullo, L. Carrera, S., Feder, J., Schneider-Crease, I., Snyder-Mackler, N. (2019). Developmental Responses to Early Life Adversity: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology, doi.org/10.1002/evan.21791. Click to access PDF

(4) Miller, I.F., Schneider-Crease, I, Nunn, C.L., Muehlenbein, M.P. (2018). Estimating infection prevalence: best practices and their theoretical underpinnings. Ecology & Evolution, 8, 6738-6747. Click to access PDF

(3) Schneider-Crease, I.°, Griffin, R.H., Gomery, M.A.*, Dorny, P., Noh, J.C., Handali, S., Chastain, H., Wilkins, P.P., Nunn, C.L., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J. (2017). Identifying wildlife reservoirs of neglected taeniid tapeworms: Non-invasive diagnosis of endemic Taenia serialis infection in a wild primate population. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases11(7), e0005709. Click to access PDF

(2) Schneider-Crease, I.°, Griffin, R.H., Gomery, M.A.*, Bergman, T.J., Beehner, J.C. (2017). High mortality associated with tapeworm parasitism in geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. American Journal of Primatology, 79(9), e22684. Click to access PDF

(1) Schneider-Crease, I.°, Snyder-Mackler, N., Jarvey, J.C.*, Bergman, T.J. (2013). Molecular identification of Taenia serialis coenurosis in a wild Ethiopian gelada (Theropithecus gelada). Veterinary Parasitology, 198, 240-243. Click to access PDF

BOOK CHAPTERS

Schneider-Crease, I. (2020). Larval Tapeworm Infections in Primates: Coenurosis, Cysticercosis, and Echinococcosis. In: Neglected Diseases of Monkeys: From the Monkey-Human interface to One Health, Eds: S. Knauf & L. Jones-Engel. (pp. 323-342). Springer.