Watowich MM, Petersen RM, Brassington L, Arner AM, Rodenberg G, A/P Tan Boon Huat TBT, Tam KL, Schellenberg E, bin Mohd Sayed I, John E, Kahumbu JC, Muhoya B, Gurven M, Trumble BC, Njeru SN, Martins D, Ayroles JF, Lim YAL, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Kraft TS, Lea AJ (2026) Divergent Biological Consequences of APOE Isoforms Across Industrialized and Non-Industrial Environments. bioRxiv. 2026.02.24.706846; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.24.706846. Under review.
Watowich MM, Brassington L, Longtin A, Wang S, Rossow R, Reinhardt KD, Kahumbu J, Kinyua P, Lopurudoi A, Lotukoi F, Miano C, Muhoya B, Mukoma B, Huat TBT, Tam KL, Lim YAL, Martins D, Njeru SN, Ng KS, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Ayroles JF, Gurven M, Kraft TS, Lea AJ (2025) Urbanization exacerbates age-associated declines in cardiometabolic health in Turkana and Orang Asli. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.06.25329160. Under review.
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 TBT, Gurven M, Lim YAL, Martins D, Njeru S, Ng KS, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Ayroles JF, Kraft TS, Lea AJ. (2026) The built environment is more predictive of cardiometabolic health than other aspects of lifestyle in two rapidly transitioning Indigenous populations. Accepted to Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.26.24312234
Sadoughi B, Petersen R, Patterson SK, Slikas E, Adjandba C, Ryan N, Costa CE, Newman LE, Watowich MM, Kelsey CR, Greenier A, Goldman EA, Negrón-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Thompson I, Bauman Surratt SE, González O, Compo N, Burgos A, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, DeCasien AR, Chiou KL, Walker CS, Ruiz Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Sterner KN, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N, Lea AJ. (2026) Age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues in macaques. Accepted to Science. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.13.664445
Petersen RM, Tennyson R, Huat TBT, Tam KL, Watowich MM, Fadzil FS, Nicholas C, Sayed IM, Ng KS, Lim YAL, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Kraft TS, Lea AJ. (2026) Early life environments shape adult cardiometabolic health during rapid lifestyle change. Accepted to Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.06.658350
Gnanadesikan GE, Bray EE, Levy KM, Horschler DJ, Douglas LELC, Kennedy BS, Watowich MM, Snyder-Mackler N, MacLean EL. (2026) Characterizing the heritability of cognitive and behavioral traits across development in domestic dogs. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241918
Longtin A, Watowich MM, Sadoughi B, Petersen RM, Bronsan SF, Beutow K, Cai Q, Gurven MD, Highland HM, Haung Y, Kaplan H, Kraft TS, Lim YAL, Long J, Melin AD, Robertson J, Ng KS, Steiglitz J, Trumble BC, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Wu J, Snyder-Mackler N, Jones A, Bick AG, Lea AJ. (2025) Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing. PLOS Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011667
Anderson TJ, Watowich MM, Chiou KL, Goldman EA, Peterson S, Anderon JA, Snyder-Mackler N, Carbone L, Kohama SG, Sterner KN. Patterns of transcriptomic aging in the hippocampus of rhesus macaques highlight midlife transitions. (2025) GeroScience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01834-z
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. (2025) Phylogeny and taxonomy of a new clade of Australian Heliozelidae in the genus Prophylactis Meyrick, 1897 (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea) pollinating Boronia (Rutaceae: Sapindales). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.83.e130334
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
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.
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, 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