Research Papers

Overall Program

• J. Carey and J. Vaupel (2004). Biodemography, Handbook of Biodemography.

Project 1: Biodemographic Effects of Social Evolution in the Honey Bee

• O. Rueppell, G. Amdam, R. Page, and J. Carey (2004). From Genes to Societies, SAGE KE, 2004(5), 5pp.
• O. Rueppell, M. Kim Fondrk, R. Page (2004) Biodemographic analysis of male honey bee mortality, manuscript.

Project 2: Aging in the Wild-Medflies and Nematodes

• J. Carey, N. Papadopoulos, N. Kouloussis, B. Katsoyannos, H. Müller, J-L. Wang, Y-K. Tseng (2005). Age-specific & lifetime behavior patterns in Drosophila melanogaster & the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, Exp. Gerontology.
• J. Chiou, H. Müller, and J.L. Wang (2004). Functional response models, Statistica Sinica 14, 675-693.
• H. Müller, J.L. Wang, J. Carey, E. Caswell-Chen, C. Chen, N. Papadopoulos, F. Yao (2004) Demographic window to aging in the wild: constructing life tables and estimating survival functions from marked individuals of unknown age, Aging Cell, 3, 125-131.
• J. Carey, P. Liedo, H. Müller, J.L. Wang, Y. Zhang, L. Harshman (2004) Stochastic dietary restriction, Markov-chain feeding protocol elicits complex, life history response in medflies, Aging Cell, 3, to appear.

Project 3: The Mathematical Demography of Biodemography

• D. Steinsaltz, S. Evans, K. Wachter (2004) A generalized model of mutation-selection balance with applications to aging.
• D. Steinsaltz (2004) Reevaluating a test of the heterogeneity explanation for mortality plateaus.
• D. Steinsaltz, S. Evans (2004) Markov mortality models: implications of quasistationarity and varying initial distributions.

Project 4: Biodemography of Intergenerational Transfer

Project 5: Evolutionary Dynamics of Life Span