Publications
Watowich MM, Arner AM, Wang S, John E, Kahumbu JC, Kinyua P, Lopurudoi A, Lotukoi F, Mwai CM, Muhoya B, Mukoma B, Tam KL, Huat BT, Gurven M, Lim YAL, Martins D, Njeru S, Ng KS, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Ayroles JF, Kraft TS, Lea AJ. The built environment is more predictive of cardiometabolic health than other aspects of lifestyle in two rapidly transitioning Indigenous populations. Under review. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.26.24312234
Hilton DJ, Young AD, Milla L, Jin M, Wilcox S, Wang Q, Wimmer V, Chang J, Kallies H, Hall A, Watowich MM, Busch CA, Wilcox J, Swarbrick A, Walter M, Sands D, Paterson D, Goodey B, Lees DC, Duretto MF, Moussalli A, Halsey M, Kallies A. A new clade of Australian Heliozelidae in the genus Prophylactis Meyrick, 1897 (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea) pollinating Boronia (Rutaceae: Sapindales). Under review.
Costa CE, Watowich MM, Goldman EA, Sterner K, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt M, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ. Genetic architecture of immune cell DNA methylation in the rhesus macaque. Under review.
Gnanadesikan GE, Bray EE, Levy KM, Horschler DJ, Douglas LELC, Kennedy BS, Watowich MM, Snyder-Mackler N, MacLean EL. Characterizing the heritability of cognitive and behavioral traits across development in domestic dogs. Under review.
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. (2024) Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a nonhuman primate. Molecular Ecology. https:// doi.org/10.1111/mec.17445
Brassington L, Arner AM, Watowich MM, Damstedt J, Seong K, Lim YAL, Venkataraman VV, Wallace I, Kraft TS, Lea AJ. (2024) Integrating the Thrifty Genotype and Evolutionary Mismatch Hypotheses to understand variation in cardiometabolic disease risk. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae014
Testard C, Shergold C, Acevedo-Ithier A, Hart J, Negron-Del Valle JE, Philips D, Watowich MM, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP, Platt ML, Brent LJN. (2024) Natural disaster alters the adaptive benefits of sociality. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk0606
Sanchez Rosado MR, Marzan-Rivera N, Watowich MM, Negron-Del Valle AD, Pantoja P, Pavez-Foz MA, Siracusa ER, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Sariol CA, Snyder-Mackler N. (2024) Immune cell composition varies by age, sex and exposure to social adversity in free-ranging Rhesus Macaques. Geroscience. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.06.471383
Newman LE, Testard C, DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Watowich MM, Janiak MC, Pavez-Fox MA, Sanchez Rosado MR, Cooper EB, Costa CE, Petersen RM, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham JP. (2023) The biology of aging in a social world: insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105424
Peterson SM, Watowich MM, Renner L, Martin S, Offenberg E, Lea AJ, Montague MJ, Higham JP, Snyder-Mackler N, Neuringer M, Ferguson B. (2023) Genetic basis of coat color variation in rhesus macaques: a primate model for oculocutaneous albinism. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad168
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. (2023). Best practices for genotype imputation from low-coverage sequencing data in natural populations. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13854
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, Noah Snyder-Mackler. (2022) Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121663119
Cooper EC, Watowich MM, Beeby N, Whalen C, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Higham J (2022). Concentrations of unrinary neopterin, but not suPAR, positively correlate with age in rhesus macaques. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1007052
Goldman EA, Chiou KL, Watowich MM, Mercer A, Sams SN, Horvath JE, Anderson JA, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Tung J, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Martínez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Sterner KN, Snyder-Mackler N. (2022) A generalizable epigenetic clock captures aging in two nonhuman primates. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.01.514719
Testard, C., Larson SM, Watowich MM, Kaplinsky CH, Bernau A, Faulder M, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Higham JP, Montague MJ, Snyder-Mackler N, Platt ML, Brent LJN. (2021) Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.029
Watowich MM, MacLean EL, Hare B, Call J, Kaminski J, Miklósi A, & Snyder-Mackler, N. (2020). Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01385-0
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. (2020) Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0612
