Sofya Dolotovskaya

Research Interests
Pair bonds and monogamy
Behavioural genetics
Mate choice and dispersal

Academic career

• 2022 - present: Leopoldina Postdoc Scholarship: Postdoctoral researcher at the Social Evolution in Primates Group, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany, collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, USA
• 2021 - 2022: Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology and Biocommunication, A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia
• 2017 - 2020: PhD student at the Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany (PhD degree awarded February 2021)
  Project: Genetic and behavioral correlates of pair living in coppery titi monkeys, Plecturocebus cupreu.
  Supervisors: Eckhard W. Heymann, Christian Roos
• 2015 - 2016: Researcher, Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
• 2014: Research assistant, research project on golden-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas, Suriname
• 2010: Internship, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China
• 2008: Field course in Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Tropical Biology Association, Tanzania
• 2004 - 2009: Diploma in Zoology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
  Project: Molecular phylogenetics and morphological differentiation of Central Asian racerunner lizards of subgenus Dimorphea
  Supervisors: Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Anna Bannikova

Publications

• Adret P, Clink DJ, Dolotovskaya S (2023) Duetting and turn-taking patterns of singing mammals: from genes to vocal plasticity, and beyond. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1279635. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1279635
• Tesar K, Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S (2023) A comparison of scan and focal sampling in estimating activity budgets, diet composition, and proximity patterns of a wild pair-living primate. Folia Primatologica 94:249-263. doi.org/10.1163/14219980-bja10016
• Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2022) Coordinated singing in coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus): resource or mate defense? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 898509. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.898509
• Theara GK, Ruíz Macedo J, Zárate Gómez R, Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S (2022) Fur rubbing in Plecturocebus cupreus – an incidence of self-medication? Primate Biology 9:7-10. doi.org/10.5194/pb-9-7-2022
• Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S (2022) Terrestrial feeding on fruits of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae) by Saimiri macrodon. Neotropical Primates 28: 82-84. doi.org/10.62015/np.2022.v28.230
  
• Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S, Tirado Herrera ER (2021) Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco. Ecotropica 23:202101. doi.org/10.30427/ecotrop202101
• Dolotovskaya S, Roos C, Heymann EW (2020) Genetic monogamy and mate choice in a pair-living primate. Scientific Reports 10:20328. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77132-9
• Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2020)Do less or eat more: strategies to cope with costs of parental care in a pair-living monkey. Animal Behaviour 163:163-173. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.03.012
  
• Dolotovskaya S, Walker S, Heymann EW (2020) What makes a pair bond in a Neotropical primate: female and male contributions. Royal Society Open Science 7:191489. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191489
• Dolotovskaya S, Flores Amasifuen C, Haas CE, Nummert F, Heymann EW (2019) Active anti-predator behaviour of red titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus). Primate Biology 6:59-64. doi.org/10.5194/pb-6-59-2019
• Zinner D, Atickem A, Beehner JC, Bekele A, Bergman TJ, Burke R, Dolotovskaya S, Fashing PJ, Gippoliti S, Knauf S, Knauf Y (2018) Phylogeography, mitochondrial DNA diversity, and demographic history of geladas (Theropithecus gelada). PLoS One 13:e0202303. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202303
• Dolotovskaya S, Torroba Bordallo J, Haus T, Noll A, Hofreiter M, Zinner D, Roos C (2017) Comparing mitogenomic timetrees for two African savannah primate genera (Chlorocebus and Papio). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181:471-483. doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx001

Conference contributions

• Dolotovskaya S, Huashuayo-Llamocca R, Theara G, Heymann EW (2023) Fur rubbing in two titi monkey species - potential self-medication? 2023. Talk at the 45th Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists
• Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2023) Coordinated singing in a pair-living primate: resource or mate defense? Talk at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society
• Dolotovskaya S, Roos C, Heymann EW (2021) Does pair living translate into genetic monogamy in red titi monkeys? Talk at the IPS-SLAPrim Virtual Meeting, as part of the symposium on titi monkeys
• Dolotovskaya S, Roos C, Heymann EW (2021) Genetic monogamy and mate choice in a pair-living primate. Talk at the Animal Behavior Society Virtual Meeting
• Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2019) Females rule, males serve: The recipe for social monogamy in a Neotropical monkey? Poster at the Wildlife Research and Conservation Conference in Berlin, Germany
• Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2019) Social monogamy and pair bonds in red titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus). Poster at the Gesellschaft für Primatologie Congress in Göttingen, Germany
• Dolotovskaya S, Chirikova M, Solovyeva E, Poyarkov NA, Wan L, Orlova V (2007) Molecular and morphological differentiation of rapid racerunner Eremias velox (Lacertidae) with comments on taxonomy and biogeography of Middle-Asian racerunners. Poster at the European Congress of Herpetology and SEH Meeting in Porto, Portugal