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PM Finnegan, PA Garber, AC McKenney, JC Bicca-Marques, MF De La Fuente, F Abreu, A Souto, N Schiel, KR Amato, EK Mallott. Group membership, not diet, structures the composition and functional potential of the gut microbiome in a wild primate. mSphere 9: e00233-24. DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00233-24.
TL Whitney, EK Mallott, LO Diakiw, DM Christie, N Ting, KR Amato, SR Tecot, AL Baden. Ecological and genetic variables co-vary with social group identity to shape the gut microbiome of a pair-living primate. American Journal of Primatology 86: e23657. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23657.
P Pradhan, EK Mallott, W Shirola, AL Lu, KR Amato. Host-gut microbiota interactions during pregnancy. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 12: 7-23. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoac001.
EK Mallott. Disentangling the mechanisms underlying phylosymbiosis in mammals. Molecular Ecology 33: e17193 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17193.
EK Mallott, AR Sitarik, LD Leve, C Cioffi, CA Camargo Jr, K Hosegawa, SR Bordenstein. Human microbiome variation associated with race and ehtnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age. PLoS Biology 21: e3002230. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002230.
O Chioma, EK Mallott, B Shah-Gandhi, Z Wiggins, M Langford, A Lancaster, A Gelbard, H Wu, JE Johnson, WR Mason, L Lancaster, EM Wilfong, LJ Crofford, CG Montgomery, L Van Kaer, SR Bordenstein, DC Newcomb, WP Drake. Low gut microbial diversity augments estrogen-mediated pulmonary fibrosis in female-predominant interstitial lung disease. Cells 12: 766. DOI: 10.3390/cells12050766.
TJ Cepon-Robins, EK Mallott, IC Recca, TE Gildner. Evidence and effects of neglected parasitic infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi. American Journal of Human Biology 35: e23889. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23889.
O Chioma, EK Mallott, L Hesse, A Chapman, JC Van Amburg, H Wu, B Shah-Gandhi, N Dey, M Kirkland, M Byndloss, MB Piazuelo, J Johnson, GR Bernard, SR Bodduluri, S Davison, H Bodduluri, SR Bordenstein, W Drake. Gut microbiota modulates lung fibrosis severity following acute lung injury in mice. Communications Biology 5: 1401. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04357-x.
EK Mallott. Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20221794. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1794.
J Li†, RHG Markowitz†, AW Brooks†, EK Mallott†, BA Leigh, T Olszewski, H Zare, M Bagheri, HM Smith, KA Friese, I Habibi, WM Lawrence, CL Rost, A Lédeczi, AM Eeds, JF Ferguson, HJ Silver, SR Bordenstein. Ethnicity dominates a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viromes. PLoS Biology 20: e3001758. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001758/. †Equal contribution
R Martínez-Mota, N Righini, EK Mallott, R Palme, KR Amato. Environmental stress and the primate microbiome: Glucocorticoids contribute to structure gut bacterial communities of black howler monkeys in anthropogenically disturbed forest fragments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 863242. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.863242.
EK Mallott, LH Skovmand, PA Garber, KR Amato. The faecal metabolome of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) varies in response to seasonal dietary changes. Molecular Ecology 31: 4146-4161. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16559/.
T Cepon-Robins, EK Mallott, I Recca, T Gildner. Exploring biocultural determinants of intestinal health: Do resource access and parasite exposure contribute to intestinal inflammation among a preliminary sample of children in rural Mississippi? American Journal of Biological Anthropology 182: 606-619. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24574/.
EK Mallott, KR Amato. Butyrate-producing pathway abundances are similar in human and nonhuman primate gut microbiomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39: msab279. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab279/.
AL Severson, BF Byrd, EK Mallott, AC Owings, M DeGiorgio, A de Flamingh, C Nijmeh, M Arellano, A Leventhal, N Rosenberg, RS Malhi. Ancient and modern genomics of the Ohlone Indigenous population of California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2111533119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111533119.
EK Mallott, KR Amato. Host specificity of the gut microbiome. Nature Reviews Microbiology 19: 639-653. DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00562-3.
R Martínez-Mota, N Righini, EK Mallott, T Gillespie, KR Amato. The relationship between pinworm (Trypanoxyuris) infection and gut bacteria in wild black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra). American Journal of Primatology 83: e23330. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23330.
KR Amato, EK Mallott, P Maia, ML Savo Sardaro. Pre-digestion as an evolutionary impetus for human fermented food use. Current Anthropology 62: S207-S219. DOI: 10.1086/715238.
KR Amato, OM Chaves, EK Mallott, TM Eppley, F Abreu, AL Baden, AA Barnett, JC Bicca-Marques, SA Boyle, CA Chapman, K Galisteo Diemer Lopes, P Fan, P Fashing, A Felton, IP Fontes, B Fruth, MF Castellon de la Fuente, V Fortes, CC Grueter, G Hohmann, M Irwin, J Matthews, A Mekonnen, A Melin, J Ostner, N Nguyen, A Piel, B Pinacho-Guendulain, EP Quintino Aredes, PT Razanaparany, JM Rothman, N Schiel, O Schuelke, S Shanee, A Souto, JP Souza-Alves, S Tecot, F Stewart, A Stone, B Sun, K Valenta, E Vogel, S Wich, Y Zeng. Occurrence of fermented food consumption in wild non-human primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175: 513-530. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24257.
S Kuthyar, MM Kowalewski, DM Roellig, EK Mallott, Y Zeng, TR Gillespie, KR Amato. Effects of anthropogenic habitat disturbance and Giardia duodenalis infection on a sentinel species’ gut bacteria. Ecology and Evolution 11: 45-57. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6910.
EK Mallott, KR Amato. High-fiber diets and gut microbiome-associated metabolic disease in human and nonhuman primates. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 2020: 100-101. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaa019.
EK Mallott, C Borries, A Koenig, KR Amato, A Lu. Reproductive hormones mediate changes in the gut microbiome during pregnancy and lactation in Phayre’s leaf monkeys. Scientific Reports 10: 9961. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-6685-2.
EK Mallott, RS Malhi, KR Amato. Assessing the comparability of different DNA extraction and amplification methods in gut microbial community profiling. Access Microbiology. DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000060.
JS Frankel, EK Mallott, LM Hopper, SR Ross, KR Amato. The effect of captivity on the primate gut microbiome varies with host dietary niche. American Journal of Primatology 81: e23061. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23061.
KR Amato, EK Mallott, JE Lambert, D McDonald, A Gomez, JL Metcalf, NJ Dominy, GAO Britton, RM Stumpf, T Goldberg, SR Leigh, R Knight. The human gut microbiome is more similar to that of Old World monkeys than apes. Genome Biology 20: 201. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1807-z.
A Gomez, A Sharma, EK Mallott, K Petrzelkova, CJ Robinson, C Teoman, F Carbonero, B Pafco, J Rothman, A Ulanov, K Vlckova, KR Amato, S Schnorr, NJ Dominy, D Modry, A Todd, M Torralba, K Nelson, M Burns, R Blekhman, M Remis, RM Stumpf, B Wilson, H Gaskins, PA Garber, B White, SR Leigh. Plasticity in the human gut microbiome defies evolutionary constraints. mSystems 4: e00271-19. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00271-19.
PA Garber, EK Mallott, LM Porter, A Gomez. The gut microbiome and metabolome of saddleback tamarins (Leontocebus weddelli): Insights into the foraging ecology of small-bodied primates. American Journal of Primatology 81: e23003. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23003.
EK Mallott, KR Amato. The microbial reproductive ecology of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Primatology 80: e22896. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22896.
EK Mallott, PA Garber, RS Malhi. trnL outperforms rbcL as a DNA metabarcoding marker when compared with the observed plant component of the diet of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus, Primates). PLoS One 13: e0199556. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199556.
EK Mallott, KR Amato, PA Garber, RS Malhi. Influence of fruit and invertebrate consumption on the gut microbiota of wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165: 576-588. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23395.
J Lindo, M Rogers, EK Mallott, B Petzelt, J Mitchell, D Archer, RS Malhi, M DeGiorgio. Patterns of genetic coding variation in a Native American population before and after European contact. American Journal of Human Genetics 102: 806-815. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.03.008.
A de Flamingh, EK Mallott, AL Roca, A Boraas, RS Malhi. Species identification and mitochondrial genomes of ancient fish bones from the Riverine Kachemack tradition of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 3: 409-411. DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1456371.
EK Mallott, PA Garber, RS Malhi. Integrating feeding behavior, ecological data, and DNA barcoding to identify developmental differences in invertebrate foraging strategies in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162: 241-254. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23113.
JE Molto, O Loreille, EK Mallott, RS Malhi, S Fast, J Daniels-Higginbotham, C Marshall, R Parr. Complete mitochondrial genome sequencing of a burial from a Romano-Christian cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. Genes 8: 262. DOI: 10.3390/genes8100262.
G Figueiro, L Cabrera Pérez, J Lindo, EK Mallott, A Owings, RS Malhi, M Sans. Análisis del genoma mitocondrial de dos individuos inhumados en el sitio arqueológico CG14E01 “Isla Larga” (Rocha, Uruguay). Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica 19: 1:17. DOI: 10.17139/raab.2017.0019.01.06.
EK Mallott, PA Garber, RS Malhi. High-throughput sequencing of fecal DNA to identify insects consumed by wild Weddell’s saddleback tamarins (Saguinus weddelli, Cebidae, Primates) in Bolivia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 474-481. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22654.
PA Garber, A McKenney, EK Mallott. The ecology of trunk-to-trunk leaping in Saguinus fuscicollis: implications for understanding locomotor diversity in callitrichines. Neotropical Primates 12: 1-7. DOI: 10.1896/044.019.0101.