Anthony Di Fiore

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Member - Center for the Study of Human Origins
Ph.D., UC, Davis 1997.

Dr. Anthony Di Fiore is a physical anthropologist specializing in the comparative behavior, ecology, and population genetics of neotropical primates. His current research projects include a field study of social relationships in woolly and spider monkeys at his field site (Proyecto Primates) in Amazonian Ecuador, collaborative field research on the socioecology of pair-living neotropical primates (including titi monkeys, sakis, and owl monkeys) in Ecuador and Argentina, and molecular studies of population structure and mating systems in many of these primates as well as in red howler monkeys in Venezuela and golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

Publications
Di Fiore, A., Fernandez-Duque, E., and Hurst, D. [in press]. Adult male replacement in socially monogamous equatorial saki monkeys (Pithecia aequatorialis). Folia Primatologica.

Carrillo, G.A., Di Fiore, A., and Fernandez-Duque, E. [in press]. Dieta, forrajeo y presupuesto de tiempo en cotoncillos (Callicebus discolor) del Parque Nacional Yasuní en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Neotropical Primates.

Di Fiore, A. and Campbell, C.J. 2007. The atelines: Variation in ecology, behavior, and social organization. In: Primates in Perspective (C.J. Campbell, A. Fuentes, K.C. MacKinnon, M. Panger, and S.K. Beader, eds.), pp. 155-185. New York: Oxford University Press.

Di Fiore, A. and Gagneux, P. 2007. Molecular primatology. In: Primates in Perspective (C.J. Campbell, A. Fuentes, K.C. MacKinnon, M. Panger, and S.K. Beader, eds.), pp. 369-393. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Di Fiore, A., Link, A., and Stevenson, P. 2006. Scent marking in two western Amazonian populations of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha). American Journal of Primatology 68: 637-649.

Link, A. and Di Fiore, A. 2006. Seed dispersal by spider monkeys and its importance in the maintenance of neotropical rain-forest diversity. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 335-346.

Di Fiore, A. 2005. A rapid genetic method for sex assignment in nonhuman primates. Conservation Genetics 6: 1053-1058. [26]

Di Fiore, A. and Fleischer, R.C. 2005. Social behavior, reproductive strategies, and population genetic structure of Lagothrix poeppigii. International Journal of Primatology 26: 1137-1173.

Perez-Sweeney, B.M., Valladares-Padua, C.P., Burrell, A.S., Di Fiore, A., Satkoski, J.S., van Coeverden De Groot, P., Boag, P.T., and Melnick, D.J. 2005. Dinucleotide microsatellite primers designed for a critically endangered primate, the black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 198-201.

Di Fiore, A. 2004. Diet and feeding ecology of woolly monkeys in a western Amazonian rainforest. International Journal of Primatology 24: 767-801.

Di Fiore, A. and Fleischer, R.C. 2004. Microsatellite markers for woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha) and their amplification in other New World primates (Primates: Platyrrhini). Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 246-249.

Di Fiore, A. 2004. Primate conservation. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, pp. 274-277. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies.