Publications
Preprints
Sadoughi B, Petersen R, Patterson SK, Slikas E, Adjangba C, Ryan N, Costa CE, Newman LE, Watowich MM, Kelsey CR, Greenier A, Goldman EA, Negrón-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Thompson I, Surratt SEB, González O, Compo N, Burgos A, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Walker CS, Lambides AVR, Martínez MI, Sterner KN, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ, "Age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues in macaques", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.07.13.664445
McCoy BM, Mariner BL, Cheng CF, Slikas E, Adjangba C, Greenier A, Brassington L, Marye A, Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, Bamberger T, Algavi Y, Muller E, Harris A, Rout E, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Avery A, Borenstein E, Promislow D, Snyder-Mackler N, "Aging at scale: Younger dogs and larger breeds from the Dog Aging Project show accelerated epigenetic aging", bioRxiv, 2024, doi: 10.1101/2024.10.03.616519
Feder JA, Alberts SC, Archie EA, Arlet ME, Baniel A, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Carter AJ, Charpentier MJ, Chiou KL, Crockford C, Cowlishaw G, Dal Pesco F, Fernandez D, Fischer J, Higham JP, Huchard E, Le Floch A, Lehmann J, Lu A, McCabe G, Mielke A, Mubemba B, Petersdorf M, Ross C, Schneider-Crease IA, Seyfarth RM, Snyder-Mackler N, Swedell L, Trede F, Tung J, Weyher AH, Wittig R, Kamilar JM, Silk JB, "Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.07.31.667759
Mariner BL, McCoy BM, Greenier A, Brassington L, Slikas E, Adjangba C, Marye A, Harrison BR, Bamberger T, Algavi Y, Muller E, Harris A, Rout E, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Avery A, Borenstein E, Promislow D, Snyder-Mackler N, "DNA methylation of transposons pattern aging differences across a diverse cohort of dogs from the Dog Aging Project", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2024.10.08.617286
Petersen RM, Patterson SK, Widdig A, Turcotte CM, Antón SC, Williams SA, Romero AN, Bauman Surratt SE, Ruiz Lambides AV, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Lea AJ, "Early life adversity shapes life history trade-offs between growth and reproduction in free-ranging rhesus macaques", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.09.11.675677
Bamberger T, Muller E, Algavi YM, Greenier A, Adjangba C, Slikas E, Brassington L, Mariner B, McCoy B, Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, Marye A, Harris A, Rout E, DAP Consortium, Avery A, Promislow DE, Snyder-Mackler N, Borenstein E, "Mapping the canine microbiome: Insights from the Dog Aging Project", bioRxiv, 2024, doi: 10.1101/2024.12.02.625632
Sadoughi B, Hernández-Rojas R, Hamou H, Lopez R, Mah M, Slikas E, Simmons S, Orkin JD, Higham JP, Brosnan SF, Jack KM, Campos FA, Snyder-Mackler N, Melin AD, "Non-invasive measures of DNA methylation capture molecular aging in wild capuchin monkeys", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.06.03.657357
Arner AM, Muhoya B, Rozado MS, Gurven MR, Kahumbu J, Kamau J, Kinyua P, Lotukoi F, Martins DJ, Miano C, Montague MJ, Njeru S, Peng J, Straub P, Watowich MM, Davis LK, Snyder-Mackler N, Ayroles JF, Lea AJ, "Sex differences in immune function and disease risk are not easily explained by an evolutionary mismatch", bioRxiv, 2024, doi: 10.1101/2024.02.13.580011
Yang W, Watkins KL, DeCasien AR, O'Neill MB, Bohlen MO, O'Day DR, Duran M, Qiu C, Meleshko A, Vo A, Menke M, Calderon D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Sallet J, Higham JP, Martínez MI, Trapnell C, Starita LM, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Chiou KL, Shendure J, Snyder-Mackler N, "Single-cell, multi-region profiling of the macaque brain across the lifespan", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.10.31.685880
Dawkins TG, Curry BA, Drane A, Rivas VN, Ueda Y, Stern JA, Philips D, Negron-Del Valle J, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent L, Shave R, "The influence of captivity on cardiac structure and function across age, in rhesus macaques", bioRxiv, 2025, doi: 10.1101/2025.10.20.683517
2026
Gnanadesikan GE, Bray EE, Levy KM, Horschler DJ, Hargrave S, Douglas LE, Kennedy BS, Watowich MM, Snyder-Mackler N, MacLean EL, "Characterizing the heritability of cognitive and behavioural traits across development in domestic dogs", Royal Society Open Science, 2026, doi: 10.1098/rsos.241918
Metcalf CJE, Anderson RM, Hochberg ME, Masel J, Moorad J, Promislow DEL, Tuljapurkar S, Snyder-Mackler N, "How and why does aging occur? Updating evolutionary theory to meet a new era of data", Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2026, doi: 10.1093/emph/eoaf040
Abusheikha AJ, Johnson CSC, Snyder-Mackler N, Zimmerman KD, Frye BM, Shively CA, Register TC, "Mediterranean versus western diet effects on obesity phenotypes and adipose tissue transcriptional profiles in female monkeys", Obesity , 2026, doi: 10.1002/oby.70121
2025
Cooper EB, Whalen C, Beeby N, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, Higham JP, "Associations between social behaviour and proinflammatory immune activation are modulated by age in a free-ranging primate population", Animal Behaviour, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.10.035
Watowich MM, Chiou KL, Graves B, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Horvath JE, Lu A, Martinez MI, Platt ML, Schneider-Crease IA, Lea AJ, Snyder-Mackler N, "Best practices for genotype imputation from low-coverage sequencing data in natural populations", Molecular Ecology Resources, 2025, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13854
Feder JA, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Conditional benefits of social integration in wild female geladas", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2025, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0491
Longtin A, Watowich MM, Sadoughi B, Petersen RM, Brosnan SF, Buetow K, Cai Q, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Gurven MD, Higham JP, Highland HM, Huang YT, Kaplan H, Kraft TS, Lim YAL, Long J, Melin AD, Montague MJ, Roberson J, Ng KS, Platt ML, Schneider-Crease IA, Stieglitz J, Trumble BC, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Wu J, Snyder-Mackler N, Jones A, Bick AG, Lea AJ, "Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing", PLoS Genetics, 2025, doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011667
Conrow KD, Haney RS, Malek-Ahmadi MH, Albright JD, Kaplan BLF, Snyder-Mackler N, Kerr KF, Su Y, Promislow DEL, Bray EE, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Leung MCK, "Demographic features, health status, and behavioral changes associated with cannabidiol use in the Dog Aging Project", Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2025, doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1666663
Abusheikha AJ, Johnson CSC, Snyder-Mackler N, Zimmerman KD, Negrey JD, Chiou KL, Frye BM, Howard TD, Shively CA, Register TC, "Differential effects of Mediterranean vs. Western diets on coronary atherosclerosis and peripheral artery transcriptomics", Frontiers in Nutrition, 2025, doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1564741
Harrison BR, Akey JM, Snyder-Mackler N, Raftery D, DAP Consortium, Creevy KE, Promislow DEL, "Dogs and humans share biomarkers of mortality", The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2025, doi: 10.1093/gerona/glaf279
Saroff MJ, Haile AA, Baniel A, Kraberger S, Regney M, Harrach B, Kaján GL, Lu A, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Varsani A, Schneider-Crease IA, "Early-life infection dynamics and genomic diversity of adenoviruses in a wild primate (Theropithecus gelada)", Microbial Genomics, 2025, doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001595
Freudiger A, Jovanovic VM, Huang Y, Snyder-Mackler N, Conrad DF, Miller B, Montague MJ, Westphal H, Stadler PF, Bley S, Horvath JE, Brent LJN, Platt ML, Ruiz-Lambides A, Tung J, Nowick K, Ringbauer H, Widdig A, "Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2401106122
Baniel A, Roberts EK, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, Beehner JC, "Evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate", Current Biology, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.070
Feder JA, Schneider-Crease IA, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Seyfarth RM, Silk JB, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Female reproductive ageing persists despite high infanticide risk in chacma baboons and geladas", Royal Society Open Science, 2025, doi: 10.1098/rsos.241210
Costa CE, Watowich MM, Goldman EA, Sterner KN, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ, "Genetic architecture of immune cell DNA methylation in the rhesus macaque", Molecular Ecology, 2025, doi: 10.1111/mec.17576
Schneider-Crease IA, Moya IL, Chiou KL, Baniel A, Haile AA, Kebede F, Abebe B, Lu A, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Varsani A, "Intestivirid acquisition increases across infancy in a wild primate population", Molecular Ecology, 2025, doi: 10.1111/mec.17801
Anderson TJ, Watowich MM, Chiou KL, Goldman EA, Peterson S, Anderson JA, Snyder-Mackler N, Carbone L, Kohama SG, Sterner KN, "Patterns of transcriptomic aging in the hippocampus of rhesus macaques highlight midlife transitions", GeroScience, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s11357-025-01834-z
Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, Marye A, Djukovic D, Kauffman M, Dunbar MD, Mariner BL, McCoy BM, Algavi YM, Muller E, Baum S, Bamberger T, Raftery D, Creevy KE, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Avery A, Borenstein E, Snyder-Mackler N, Promislow DEL, "Protein catabolites as blood-based biomarkers of aging physiology: Findings from the Dog Aging Project", Aging Cell, 2025, doi: 10.1111/acel.70226
Prescott J, Keyser AJ, Litwin P, Dunbar MD, McClelland R, Ruple A, Ernst H, Butler BL, Kauffman M, Avery A, Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, McCoy BM, Slikas E, Greenier AK, Muller E, Algavi YM, Bamberger T, Creevy KE, DAP Consortium, Borenstein E, Snyder-Mackler N, Promislow DEL, "Rationale and design of the Dog Aging Project precision cohort: a multi-omic resource for longitudinal research in geroscience", GeroScience, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s11357-025-01571-3
Crist RC, Chehimi SN, Divakaran SS, Montague MJ, Tremblay S, Snyder-Mackler N, Bohlen MO, Chiou KL, Zintel TM, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Juul H, Silvestri G, Hayes MR, Kolson DL, Reiner BC, "SIV infection induces alterations in gene expression and loss of interneurons in Rhesus Macaque frontal cortex during early systemic infection", Translational Psychiatry, 2025, doi: 10.1038/s41398-025-03261-2
Pavez-Fox MA, Siracusa ER, Ellis S, Kimock CM, Rivera-Barreto N, Valle JEN, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, De Moor D, Brent LJN, "Socioecological drivers of injuries and aggression in female and male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)", Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s00265-025-03587-3
Hass JK, Fernandes AG, Montague MJ, Burgos-Rodriguez A, Martinez MI, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Danias J, Wollstein G, Higham JP, Melin AD, "The ocular surface microbiome of rhesus macaques", Animal Microbiome, 2025, doi: 10.1186/s42523-025-00454-4
Turcotte CM, Raghunath A, Ryan TM, DeMars LJD, Siracusa E, Patterson SK, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Bauman SE, Montague MJ, Martinez MI, Williams SA, Antón SC, Higham JP, Kuo S, "Variation in trabecular bone microarchitecture across rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) load-bearing joints", Journal of Anatomy, 2025, doi: 10.1111/joa.70069
2024
Painter MC, Gustison ML, Snyder-Mackler N, Tinsley Johnson E, le Roux A, Bergman TJ, "Acoustic variation and group level convergence of gelada, Theropithecus gelada, contact calls", Animal Behaviour, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.002
Jarvey JC, Low BS, Azanaw Haile A, Chiou KL, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Schneider-Crease IA, "Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate", Behavioral Ecology: Official Journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2024, doi: 10.1093/beheco/arad079
Bartolomucci A, Kane AE, Gaydosh L, Razzoli M, McCoy BM, Ehninger D, Chen BH, Howlett SE, Snyder-Mackler N, "Animal models relevant for geroscience: Current trends and future perspectives in biomarkers, and measures of biological aging", The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2024, doi: 10.1093/gerona/glae135
Cooper EB, Brent LJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, "Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population", Oikos, 2024, doi: 10.1111/oik.10624
Jin K, McCoy BM, Goldman EA, Usova V, Tkachev V, Chitsazan AD, Kakebeen A, Jeffery U, Creevy KE, Wills A, Snyder-Mackler N, Promislow DEL, "DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility predict age in the domestic dog", Aging Cell, 2024, doi: 10.1111/acel.14079
Testard C, Shergold C, Acevedo-Ithier A, Hart J, Bernau A, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Watowich MM, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, Platt ML, Brent LJN, "Ecological disturbance alters the adaptive benefits of social ties", Science (New York, N.Y.), 2024, doi: 10.1126/science.adk0606
DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Testard C, Mercer A, Negrón-Del Valle JE, Bauman Surratt SE, González O, Stock MK, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Antón SC, Walker CS, Sallet J, Wilson MA, Brent LJN, Montague MJ, Sherwood CC, Platt ML, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, "Evolutionary and biomedical implications of sex differences in the primate brain transcriptome", Cell Genomics, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100589
Rosado MRS, Marzan-Rivera N, Watowich MM, Valle ADN, Pantoja P, Pavez-Fox MA, Siracusa ER, Cooper EB, Valle JEN, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Sariol CA, Snyder-Mackler N, "Immune cell composition varies by age, sex and exposure to social adversity in free-ranging Rhesus Macaques", GeroScience, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11357-023-00962-8
Watowich MM, Costa CE, Chiou KL, Goldman EA, Petersen RM, Patterson S, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martínez MI, Sterner KN, Horvath JE, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Lea AJ, Snyder-Mackler N, "Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a nonhuman primate", Molecular Ecology, 2024, doi: 10.1111/mec.17445
Watowich MM, Costa CE, Chiou KL, Goldman EA, Petersen RM, Patterson S, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martínez MI, Sterner KN, Horvath JE, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Lea AJ, Snyder-Mackler N, "Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a nonhuman primate", Molecular Ecology, 2024, doi: 10.1111/mec.17445
Chiou K, Snyder-Mackler N, "Marmosets contain multitudes", eLife, 2024, doi: 10.7554/eLife.97866
Turcotte CM, Choi AM, Spear JK, Hernandez-Janer EM, Dickinson E, Taboada HG, Stock MK, Villamil CI, Bauman SE, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Williams SA, Antón SC, Higham JP, "Mechanical and morphometric approaches to body mass estimation in rhesus macaques: A test of skeletal variables", American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24901
Frye BM, Negrey JD, Johnson CSC, Kim J, Barcus RA, Lockhart SN, Whitlow CT, Chiou KL, Snyder-Mackler N, Montine TJ, Craft S, Shively CA, Register TC, "Mediterranean diet protects against a neuroinflammatory cortical transcriptome: Associations with brain volumetrics, peripheral inflammation, social isolation, and anxiety in nonhuman primates (Macaca fascicularis)", Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.04.016
Turcotte CM, Choi AM, Spear JK, Hernandez-Janer EM, Taboada HG, Stock MK, Villamil CI, Bauman SE, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Williams SA, Higham JP, Antón SC, "Quantifying the relationship between bone and soft tissue measures within the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago", American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24920
Siracusa ER, Pavez-Fox MA, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Silk MJ, "Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2024, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0462
Pavez-Fox MA, Escabi-Ruiz CM, Hart JDA, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Bauman SE, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, "Trade-offs between sociality and gastrointestinal parasite infection in the context of a natural disaster", Animal Behaviour, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.03.002
Campos FA, Wikberg EC, Orkin JD, Park Y, Snyder-Mackler N, Cheves Hernandez S, Lopez Navarro R, Fedigan LM, Gurven M, Higham JP, Jack KM, Melin AD, "Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2024, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0482
2023
Chiou KL, Huang X, Bohlen MO, Tremblay S, DeCasien AR, O'Day DR, Spurrell CH, Gogate AA, Zintel TM, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Andrews MG, Martínez MI, Starita LM, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Shendure J, Snyder-Mackler N, "A single-cell multi-omic atlas spanning the adult rhesus macaque brain", Science Advances, 2023, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh1914
Fernandes AG, Alexopoulos P, Burgos-Rodriguez A, Martinez MI, Ghassibi M, Leskov I, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Danias J, Wollstein G, Higham JP, Melin AD, "Age-related differences in ocular features of a naturalistic free-ranging population of rhesus macaques", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2023, doi: 10.1167/iovs.64.7.3
Siracusa ER, Pereira AS, Brask JB, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, "Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2023, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0061
Peterson SM, Watowich MM, Renner LM, Martin S, Offenberg E, Lea A, Montague MJ, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Neuringer M, Ferguson B, "Genetic variants in melanogenesis proteins TYRP1 and TYR are associated with the golden rhesus macaque phenotype", G3, 2023, doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad168
Kraus C, Snyder-Mackler N, Promislow DEL, "How size and genetic diversity shape lifespan across breeds of purebred dogs", GeroScience, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s11357-022-00653-w
Prater KE, Green KJ, Mamde S, Sun W, Cochoit A, Smith CL, Chiou KL, Heath L, Rose SE, Wiley J, Keene CD, Kwon RY, Snyder-Mackler N, Blue EE, Logsdon B, Young JE, Shojaie A, Garden GA, Jayadev S, "Human microglia show unique transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease", Nature Aging, 2023, doi: 10.1038/s43587-023-00424-y
Forsyth KK, McCoy BM, Schmid SM, Promislow DEL, Snyder-Mackler N, DAP Consortium, Creevy KE, "Lifetime prevalence of owner-reported medical conditions in the 25 most common dog breeds in the Dog Aging Project pack", Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023, doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1140417
Patterson SK, Petersen RM, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ, Higham JP, "Natural animal populations as model systems for understanding early life adversity effects on aging", Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2023, doi: 10.1093/icb/icad058
McCoy BM, Brassington L, Jin K, Dolby GA, Shrager S, Collins D, Dunbar M, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Ruple A, Snyder-Mackler N, "Social determinants of health and disease in companion dogs: a cohort study from the Dog Aging Project", Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2023, doi: 10.1093/emph/eoad011
Newman LE, Testard C, DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Watowich MM, Janiak MC, Pavez-Fox MA, Sanchez Rosado MR, Cooper EB, Costa CE, Petersen RM, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, "The biology of aging in a social world: Insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques", Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105424
Shively CA, Frye BM, Negrey JD, Johnson CSC, Sutphen CL, Molina AJA, Yadav H, Snyder-Mackler N, Register TC, "The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates", Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105320
DeLacey PM, Sen S, Schneider-Crease IA, Chiou KL, Lemma A, Ayele F, Haile AA, Lu A, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Snyder-Mackler N, "Vascularization underlies differences in sexually selected skin coloration in a wild primate", Molecular Ecology, 2023, doi: 10.1111/mec.17026
2022
Schneider-Crease IA, Chiou KL, Moya IL, Lemma A, Ayele F, Haile AA, Kebede F, Abebe B, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Lu A, Lund MC, Custer JM, Kraberger S, Snyder-Mackler N, Varsani A, "A novel statovirus identified in fecal samples from wild geladas in the Ethiopian highlands", Archives of Virology, 2022, doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05588-3
Morrill K, Hekman J, Li X, McClure J, Logan B, Goodman L, Gao M, Dong Y, Alonso M, Carmichael E, Snyder-Mackler N, Alonso J, Noh HJ, Johnson J, Koltookian M, Lieu C, Megquier K, Swofford R, Turner-Maier J, White ME, Weng Z, Colubri A, Genereux DP, Lord KA, Karlsson EK, "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes", Science, 2022, doi: 10.1126/science.abk0639
DeLacey PM, Perlman RF, Sen S, Schneider-Crease I, Chiou KL, Lemma A, Ayele F, Higham JP, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, "Assessing male gelada chest patches: color measurement and physiological mechanisms", Mammalian Biology, 2022, doi: 10.1007/s42991-021-00211-5
Cooper EB, Watowich MM, Beeby N, Whalen C, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Montague MJ, Brent LJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, "Concentrations of urinary neopterin, but not suPAR, positively correlate with age in rhesus macaques", Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1007052
Ruple A, MacLean E, Snyder-Mackler N, Creevy KE, Promislow D, "Dog models of aging", Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2022, doi: 10.1146/annurev-animal-051021-080937
Sloan ET, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N, Jacquemyn H, "Effects of climate variability on the demography of wild geladas", Ecology and Evolution, 2022, doi: 10.1002/ece3.8759
Chiou KL, Janiak MC, Schneider-Crease IA, Sen S, Ayele F, Chuma IS, Knauf S, Lemma A, Signore AV, D'Ippolito AM, Abebe B, Haile AA, Kebede F, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, McCann C, Houck ML, Wall JD, Burrell AS, Bergey CM, Rogers J, Phillips-Conroy JE, Jolly CJ, Melin AD, Storz JF, Lu A, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, "Genomic signatures of high-altitude adaptation and chromosomal polymorphism in geladas", Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01703-4
Snyder-Mackler N, Snyder-Mackler L, "Holistic rehabilitation: Biological embedding of social adversity and its health implications", Physical Therapy, 2022, doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzab245
Baniel A, Petrullo L, Mercer A, Reitsema L, Sams S, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Maternal effects on early-life gut microbiota maturation in a wild nonhuman primate", Current Biology, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.037
Johnson CSC, Frye BM, Register TC, Snyder-Mackler N, Shively CA, "Mediterranean diet reduces social isolation and anxiety in adult female nonhuman primates", Nutrients, 2022, doi: 10.3390/nu14142852
Chiou KL, DeCasien AR, Rees KP, Testard C, Spurrell CH, Gogate AA, Pliner HA, Tremblay S, Mercer A, Whalen CJ, Negrón-Del Valle JE, Janiak MC, Bauman Surratt SE, González O, Compo NR, Stock MK, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Wilson MA, Melin AD, Antón SC, Walker CS, Sallet J, Newbern JM, Starita LM, Shendure J, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, "Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment", Nature Neuroscience, 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01197-0
Watowich MM, Chiou KL, Montague MJ, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Simons ND, Horvath JE, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, "Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121663119
Pavez-Fox MA, Kimock CM, Rivera-Barreto N, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, Siracusa ER, Brent LJN, "Reduced injury risk links sociality to survival in a group-living primate", iScience, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105454
Siracusa ER, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, "Social ageing: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behaviour in mammals", Biology Letters, 2022, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0643
Testard C, Brent LJN, Andersson J, Chiou KL, Negron-Del Valle JE, DeCasien AR, Acevedo-Ithier A, Stock MK, Antón SC, Gonzalez O, Walker CS, Foxley S, Compo NR, Bauman S, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martinez MI, Skene JHP, Horvath JE, Unit CBR, Higham JP, Miller KL, Snyder-Mackler N, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Sallet J, "Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society", Science Advances, 2022, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl5794
Feder JA, Beehner JC, Baniel A, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Social drivers of maturation age in female geladas", Behavioral Ecology: Official Journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2022, doi: 10.1093/beheco/arac028
Petrullo L, Baniel A, Jorgensen MJ, Sams S, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "The early life microbiota mediates maternal effects on offspring growth in a nonhuman primate", iScience, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103948
Cooper EB, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Singh M, Sengupta A, Khatiwada S, Malaivijitnond S, Qi Hai Z, Higham JP, "The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene", eLife, 2022, doi: 10.7554/eLife.78169
Schneider-Crease IA, Feder JA, Baniel A, McCann C, Haile AA, Abebe B, Fitzgerald L, Gomery MA, Simberloff RA, Petrie ZL, Gabriel S, Dorny P, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Urinary neopterin reflects immunological variation associated with age, helminth parasitism, and the microbiome in a wild primate", Scientific Reports, 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25298-9
Siracusa ER, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Platt ML, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, "Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209180119
2021
Johnson CSC, Shively CA, Michalson KT, Lea AJ, DeBo RJ, Howard TD, Hawkins GA, Appt SE, Liu Y, McCall CE, Herrington DM, Ip EH, Register TC, Snyder-Mackler N, "Contrasting effects of Western vs Mediterranean diets on monocyte inflammatory gene expression and social behavior in a primate model", eLife, 2021, doi: 10.7554/eLife.68293
Miller CM, Snyder-Mackler N, Nguyen N, Fashing PJ, Tung J, Wroblewski EE, Gustison ML, Wilson ML, "Extragroup paternity in gelada monkeys, Theropithecus gelada, at Guassa, Ethiopia and a comparison with other primates", Animal Behaviour, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.008
Schneider-Crease IA, Blackwell AD, Kraft TS, Emery Thompson M, Maldonado Suarez I, Cummings DK, Stieglitz J, Snyder-Mackler N, Gurven M, Kaplan H, Trumble BC, "Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists", Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2021, doi: 10.1093/emph/eoab035
Lu A, Feder JA, Snyder-Mackler N, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, "Male-mediated maturation in wild geladas", Current Biology, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.003
Testard C, Larson SM, Watowich MM, Kaplinsky CH, Bernau A, Faulder M, Marshall HH, Lehmann J, Ruiz-Lambides A, Higham JP, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Platt ML, Brent LJN, "Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster", Current Biology, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.029
Baniel A, Amato KR, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Mercer A, Perlman RF, Petrullo L, Reitsema L, Sams S, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N, "Seasonal shifts in the gut microbiome indicate plastic responses to diet in wild geladas", Microbiome, 2021, doi: 10.1186/s40168-020-00977-9
Pavez-Fox MA, Negron-Del Valle JE, Thompson IJ, Walker CS, Bauman SE, Gonzalez O, Compo N, Ruiz-Lambides A, Martinez MI, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Montague MJ, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Brent LJN, "Sociality predicts individual variation in the immunity of free-ranging rhesus macaques", Physiology & Behavior, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113560
Tinsley Johnson E, Feder JA, Bergman TJ, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N, Beehner JC, "The Goldilocks effect: female geladas in mid-sized groups have higher fitness", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2021, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0820
2020
Watowich MM, MacLean EL, Hare B, Call J, Kaminski J, Miklósi Á, Snyder-Mackler N, "Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan", Animal Cognition, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10071-020-01385-0
Schneider-Crease IA, Chiou KL, Snyder-Mackler N, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, Lu A, "Beyond infant death: the hidden costs of male immigration in geladas", Animal Behaviour, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.11.010
Gnanadesikan GE, Hare B, Snyder-Mackler N, Call J, Kaminski J, Miklósi Á, MacLean EL, "Breed differences in dog cognition associated with brain-expressed genes and neurological functions", Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2020, doi: 10.1093/icb/icaa112
Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Gomery MA, Koklic L, Lu A, Snyder-Mackler N, "Ecology eclipses phylogeny as a major driver of nematode parasite community structure in a graminivorous primate", Functional Ecology, 2020, doi:
Gnanadesikan GE, Hare B, Snyder-Mackler N, MacLean EL, "Estimating the heritability of cognitive traits across dog breeds reveals highly heritable inhibitory control and communication factors", Animal Cognition, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10071-020-01400-4
Amato KR, Kuthyar S, Ekanayake-Weber M, Salmi R, Snyder-Mackler N, Wijayathunga L, Vandercone R, Lu A, "Gut microbiome, diet, and conservation of endangered langurs in Sri Lanka", Biotropica, 2020, doi: 10.1111/btp.12805
Emery Thompson M, Rosati AG, Snyder-Mackler N, "Insights from evolutionarily relevant models for human ageing", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2020, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0605
Shively CA, Appt SE, Chen H, Day SM, Frye BM, Shaltout HA, Silverstein-Metzler MG, Snyder-Mackler N, Uberseder B, Vitolins MZ, Register TC, "Mediterranean diet, stress resilience, and aging in nonhuman primates", Neurobiology of Stress, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100254
Chiou KL, Montague MJ, Goldman EA, Watowich MM, Sams SN, Song J, Horvath JE, Sterner KN, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, "Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2020, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0612
Snyder-Mackler N, Burger JR, Gaydosh L, Belsky DW, Noppert GA, Campos FA, Bartolomucci A, Yang YC, Aiello AE, O'Rand A, Harris KM, Shively CA, Alberts SC, Tung J, "Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals", Science, 2020, doi: 10.1126/science.aax9553
2019
Petrullo L, Jorgensen MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, "Composition and stability of the vervet monkey milk microbiome", American Journal of Primatology, 2019, doi: 10.1002/ajp.22982
Ellis S, Snyder-Mackler N, Ruiz-Lambides A, Platt ML, Brent LJN, "Deconstructing sociality: the types of social connections that predict longevity in a group-living primate", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2019, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1991
Lu A, Petrullo L, Carrera S, Feder J, Schneider-Crease I, Snyder-Mackler N, "Developmental responses to early-life adversity: Evolutionary and mechanistic perspectives", Evolutionary Anthropology, 2019, doi: 10.1002/evan.21791
Snyder-Mackler N, Voyles T, Tung J, "Generating RNA baits for capture-based enrichment", Methods in Molecular Biology, 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_12
MacLean EL, Snyder-Mackler N, vonHoldt BM, Serpell JA, "Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behaviour", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2019, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0716
Fischer J, Higham JP, Alberts SC, Barrett L, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Carter AJ, Collins A, Elton S, Fagot J, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Hammerschmidt K, Henzi P, Jolly CJ, Knauf S, Kopp GH, Rogers J, Roos C, Ross C, Seyfarth RM, Silk J, Snyder-Mackler N, Staedele V, Swedell L, Wilson ML, Zinner D, "Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies", eLife, 2019, doi: 10.7554/eLife.50989
Debray R, Snyder-Mackler N, Kohn JN, Wilson ME, Barreiro LB, Tung J, "Social affiliation predicts mitochondrial DNA copy number in female rhesus macaques", Biology Letters, 2019, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0643
Snyder-Mackler N, Sanz J, Kohn JN, Voyles T, Pique-Regi R, Wilson ME, Barreiro LB, Tung J, "Social status alters chromatin accessibility and the gene regulatory response to glucocorticoid stimulation in rhesus macaques", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1811758115
Snyder-Mackler N, Sanz J, Kohn JN, Voyles T, Pique-Regi R, Wilson ME, Barreiro LB, Tung J, "Social status alters chromatin accessibility and the gene regulatory response to glucocorticoid stimulation in rhesus macaques", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1811758115
2018
Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ, "Functional genomic insights into the environmental determinants of mammalian fitness", Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2018.08.001
Ramos-Fernandez G, King AJ, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Crofoot MC, Di Fiore A, Lehmann J, Schaffner CM, Snyder-Mackler N, Zuberbühler K, Aureli F, Boyer D, "Quantifying uncertainty due to fission-fusion dynamics as a component of social complexity", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2018, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0532
Tinsley Johnson E, Snyder-Mackler N, Lu A, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, "Social and ecological drivers of reproductive seasonality in geladas", Behavioral Ecology: Official Journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2018, doi: 10.1093/beheco/ary008
Madlon-Kay S, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Ellis S, Zhong B, Snyder-Mackler N, Horvath JE, Skene JHP, Platt ML, "Weak effects of common genetic variation in oxytocin and vasopressin receptor genes on rhesus macaque social behavior", American Journal of Primatology, 2018, doi: 10.1002/ajp.22873
2017
Schneider-Crease I, Griffin RH, Gomery MA, Dorny P, Noh JC, Handali S, Chastain HM, Wilkins PP, Nunn CL, Snyder-Mackler N, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, "Identifying wildlife reservoirs of neglected taeniid tapeworms: Non-invasive diagnosis of endemic Taenia serialis infection in a wild primate population", PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017, doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005709
Belsky DW, Snyder-Mackler N, "Invited commentary: Integrating genomics and social epidemiology-analysis of late-life low socioeconomic status and the conserved transcriptional response to adversity", American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwx145
Snyder-Mackler N, Tung J, "Vasopressin and the neurogenetics of parental care", Neuron, 2017, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.027
2016
Kohn JN, Snyder-Mackler N, Barreiro LB, Johnson ZP, Tung J, Wilson ME, "Dominance rank causally affects personality and glucocorticoid regulation in female rhesus macaques", Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.09.005
Snyder-Mackler N, Majoros WH, Yuan ML, Shaver AO, Gordon JB, Kopp GH, Schlebusch SA, Wall JD, Alberts SC, Mukherjee S, Zhou X, Tung J, "Efficient genome-wide sequencing and low-coverage pedigree analysis from noninvasively collected samples", Genetics, 2016, doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.187492
Wall JD, Schlebusch SA, Alberts SC, Cox LA, Snyder-Mackler N, Nevonen KA, Carbone L, Tung J, "Genomewide ancestry and divergence patterns from low-coverage sequencing data reveal a complex history of admixture in wild baboons", Molecular Ecology, 2016, doi: 10.1111/mec.13684
Charruau P, Johnston RA, Stahler DR, Lea A, Snyder-Mackler N, Smith DW, vonHoldt BM, Cole SW, Tung J, Wayne RK, "Pervasive effects of aging on gene expression in wild wolves", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2016, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw072
Snyder-Mackler N, Sanz J, Kohn JN, Brinkworth JF, Morrow S, Shaver AO, Grenier JC, Pique-Regi R, Johnson ZP, Wilson ME, Barreiro LB, Tung J, "Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques", Science, 2016, doi: 10.1126/science.aah3580
Snyder-Mackler N, Kohn JN, Barreiro LB, Johnson ZP, Wilson ME, Tung J, "Social status drives social relationships in groups of unrelated female rhesus macaques", Animal Behaviour, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.10.033
2014
Tinsley Johnson E, Snyder-Mackler N, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, "Kinship and dominance rank influence the strength of social bonds in female geladas (theropithecus gelada)", International Journal of Primatology, 2014, doi: 10.1007/s10764-013-9733-5
Snyder-Mackler N, Somel M, Tung J, "Shared signatures of social stress and aging in peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene expression profiles", Aging Cell, 2014, doi: 10.1111/acel.12239
Snyder-Mackler N, Alberts SC, Bergman TJ, "The socio-genetics of a complex society: female gelada relatedness patterns mirror association patterns in a multilevel society", Molecular Ecology, 2014, doi: 10.1111/mec.12987
2013
le Roux A, Snyder-Mackler N, Roberts EK, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, "Evidence for tactical concealment in a wild primate", Nature Communications, 2013, doi: 10.1038/ncomms2468
Schneider-Crease IA, Snyder-Mackler N, Jarvey JC, Bergman TJ, "Molecular identification of Taenia serialis coenurosis in a wild Ethiopian gelada (Theropithecus gelada)", Veterinary Parasitology, 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.08.015
2012
Snyder-Mackler N, Alberts SC, Bergman TJ, "Concessions of an alpha male? Cooperative defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups", Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 2012, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0842
Snyder-Mackler N, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, "Defining higher levels in the multilevel societies of geladas (theropithecus gelada)", International Journal of Primatology, 2012, doi: 10.1007/s10764-012-9584-5
Gersick AS, Snyder-Mackler N, White DJ, "Ontogeny of social skills: social complexity improves mating and competitive strategies in male brown-headed cowbirds", Animal Behaviour, 2012, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.02.005
White DJ, Gersick AS, Snyder-Mackler N, "Social networks and the development of social skills in cowbirds", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2012, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0223
Pappano DJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Bergman TJ, Beehner JC, "Social ‘predators’ within a multilevel primate society", Animal Behaviour, 2012, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.021
2011
Snyder-Mackler N, White DJ, "The developmental ecology of acoustic reactions: approaches to song playbacks by male cowbirds change across their first year of life", Behaviour, 2011, doi:
2010
White DJ, Gersick AS, Freed-Brown G, Snyder-Mackler N, "The ontogeny of social skills: experimental increases in social complexity enhance reproductive success in adult cowbirds", Animal Behaviour, 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.014