2016
Luncz, L. V., Proffitt, T., Kulik, L., Haslam, M., & Wittig, R. M. (2016). Distance-decay effect in stone tool transport by wild chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1845): 20161607.
Gogarten, J. F., Düx, A., Schuenemann, V. J., Nowak, K., Boesch, C., Wittig, R. M., Krause, J., Calvignac-Spencer, S., & Leendertz, F. H. (2016). Tools for opening new chapters in the book of Treponema pallidum evolutionary history. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 22(11), 916-921.
Wittig, R. M., Crockford, C., Weltring, A., Langergraber, K. E., Deschner, T., & Zuberbühler, K. (2016). Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations. Nature Communications, 7: 13361.
Madinda, N. F., Ehlers, B., Wertheim, J. O., ... Stoinski, T. S., Wittig, R. M., Zuberbühler, K., Peeters, M., Leendertz, F. H., & Calvignac-Spencer, S. (2016). Assessing host-virus codivergence for close relatives of merkel cell polyomavirus infecting african great apes. Journal of Virology, 90(19), 8531-8541.
Antonation, K. S., Grützmacher, K., Dupke, S., ... Karhemere, S., Wittig, R. M., Couacy-Hymann, E., ... Corbett, C. R., Klee, S. R., & Leendertz, F. H. (2016). Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis causing anthrax in sub-saharan Africa: Chromosomal monophyly and broad geographic distribution. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(9): e0004923.
Fröhlich, M., Wittig, R. M., & Pika, S. (2016). Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: Flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices. Royal Society Open Science, 3: 160278.
Kalan, A., Piel, A. K., Mundry, R., Wittig, R. M., Boesch, C., & Kühl, H. S. (2016). Passive acoustic monitoring reveals group ranging and territory use: A case study of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Frontiers in Zoology, 13: 34.
Fröhlich, M., Kuchenbuch, P., Müller, G., Fruth, B., Furuichi, T., Wittig, R. M., & Pika, S. (2016). Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences. Scientific Reports, 6: 25887.
Kühl, H. S., Kalan, A. K., Arandjelovic, M., ... V., Willie, J., Wittig, R. M., Zuberbuehler, K., & Boesch, C. (2016). Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing. Scientific Reports, 6: 22219.
Fröhlich, M., Wittig, R. M., & Pika, S. (2016). Should I stay or should I go? Initiation of joint travel in mother–infant dyads of two chimpanzee communities in the wild. Animal Cognition, 19, 483-500.
Wittig, R. M. (2016). Der Austausch von Ressourcen und enge soziale Bindungen - Biologische Märkte bei freilebenden Schimpansen = The exchange of resources and social bonds - biological markets in wild chimpanzee communities. In H. Meller, H. P. Hahn, R. Jung, & R. Risch (Eds.), Arm und Reich - Zur Ressourcenverteilung in prähistorischen Gesellschaften = Rich and Poor - Competing for resources in prehistoric societies: 8. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 22. bis 24. Oktober in Halle (Saale) (pp. 19-25). Halle (Saale): Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte.
Wittig, R. M. (2016). Ein guter Freund schützt vor Feinden. In H. Fink, & R. Rosenzweig (Eds.), Gehirn zwischen Liebe und Krieg: Menschlichkeit in Zeiten der Neurowissenschaften (pp. 121-138). Münster: Mentis.