Publications
Frank, H.E.R., K.R. Amato, M. Trautwein, P.D. Maia, E. Liman, L. Nichols, K. Schwenk, P.A.S. Breslin, R. Dunn. (in review). The evolution of sour taste. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Kuthyar, S., K. Watson, S. Huang, L.J.N. Brent, M. Platt, J. Horvath, J. Gonzalez-Martinez, M. Martínez, F. Godoy-Vitorino, R. Knight, M.G. Dominguez-Bello**, K.R. Amato** (in review). Non-human primate data indicate the importance of environmental factors in driving urban-associated microbiome shifts. FEMS Microbiology.
McManus, N., S.M. Holmes, E.E. Louis, Jr., S.E. Johnson, A.L. Baden**, K.R. Amato** (in review). The gut microbiome as an indicator of habitat disturbance in a Critically Endangered lemur. Oecologia.
Martinez-Mota, R., N. Righini, E.K. Mallott, T.R. Gillespie**, K.R. Amato** (in review). The effects of endoparasite infection on the gut bacteria of wild black howler monkeys, Alouatta pigra. American Journal of Primatology
Amato, K.R.*, H. Jiang, S. Kuthyar, E. Rubenstein, V.A. Kirk, P.A. Pebsworth. (in review). Preliminary evidence that clay supplementation causes no short-term harm in primates and should be explored as an intervention for gastrointestinal symptoms. Zoo Biology
Liu, R.**, K.R. Amato**, R. Hou, A. Gomez, D.W. Dunn, J. Zhang, P.A. Garber, C.A. Chapman, N. Righini, G. He, Gu Fang, B. Li, S. Guo. (in review). Digestive adaptations of both the fore- and hind-gut in a temperate colobine monkey. Animal Microbiome.
Mallott, E.K. and K.R. Amato*. (in review). Butyrate production pathways in primate gut microbiomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution
Amato, K.R.*, E.K. Mallott, P.D. Maia, M.L. Savo Sardaro. (in press). Pre-digestion as an evolutionary impetus for human fermented food use. Current Anthropology.
Sun, B., Y. Xia, S. Davison, A. Gomez, P.A. Garber, K.R. Amato, X. Xu, D.P. Xia, X. Wang, J.H. Li. (in press). Assessing the influence of environmental sources on the gut mycobiome of Tibetan Macaques. Frontiers in Microbiology.
Manus, M.B., S. Kuthyar, A.G. Perroni-Marañón, A. Nuñez de la Mora, K.R. Amato. (in press). Comparing different sample collection and storage methods for field-based skin microbiome research. American Journal of Human Biology.
Cortes-Ortiz, L. and K.R. Amato. (2021). Host genetics influence the gut microbiome. Science. 373(6551): 159-160.
Mallot, E.K. and K.R. Amato* (2021). Host specificity of the gut microbiome. Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00562-3
Amato, K.R.*, M.C. Arrieta, M. B. Azad, M.T. Bailey, J.L. Broussard, C.E. Bruggeling, E.C. Claud, E.K. Costello, E.R. Davenport, B.E. Dutilh, H.A. Swain Ewald, P. Ewald, E.C. Hanlon, W. Julion, A. Keshavarzian, C.F. Maurice, G.E. Miller, G.A. Preidis, L. Segurel, B. Singer, S. Subramanian, L. Zhao, C.W. Kuzawa. (2021). The human gut microbiome and health inequities. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. 18(25): e2017947118
Amato, K.R.*, O.M. Chaves, E.K. Mallott, T.M. Eppley, F. Abreu, A.L. Baden, A.A. Barnett, J.C. Bicca-Marques, S.A. Boyle, C.J. Campbell, C.A. Chapman, M.F. De la Fuente, P. Fan, P.J. Fashing, A. Felton, B. Fruth, V.B. Fortes, C.C. Grueter, G. Hohmann, M. Irwin, J.K. Matthews, A. Mekonnen, A.D. Melin, D.B. Morgan, J. Ostner, N. Nguyen, A.K. Piel, B. Pinacho-Guendulain, E.P. Quintino-Arêdes, P.T. Razanaparany, N. Schiel, C.M. Sanz, O. Schülke, S. Shanee, A. Souto, J.P. Souza-Alves, F. Stewart, K.M. Stewart, A. Stone, B. Sun, S. Tecot, K. Valenta. E.R. Vogel, S. Wich, Y. Zeng. (2021). Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175(3): 513-530.
Sun, B., Y. Xia, P.A. Garber, K.R. Amato, A. Gomez, X. Xu, W. Li, M. Huang, D. Xia, X. Wang, J. Li. (2021). Captivity is associated with gut mycobiome composition in Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana). Frontiers in Microbiology. 12:885.
Finlay, B.B, K.R. Amato, M. Azad, M.J. Blaser, T.C.G. Bosch, H. Chu, M. Dominguez-Bello, D. Ehrlich, E. Elinav, N. Geva-Zatorsky, P. Gros, K. Guillemin, F. Keck, T. Korem, M. McFall-Ngai, M. Melby, M. Nichter, S. Pettersson, H. Poinar, T. Rees, C. Tropini, L. Zhao, T. Giles-Vernick. (2021) The hygiene hypothesis during a pandemic: consequences for the human microbiome. PNAS. 118 (6) e2010217118
Baniel, A., K.R. Amato, J.C. Beehner, T.J. Bergman, A. Mercer, R.F. Perlman, L. Petrullo, L. Reitsema, S. Sams, A. Lu, N. Snyder-Mackler. (2021). Seasonal shifts in the gut microbiome indicate plastic responses to diet in wild geladas. Microbiome. 9: 26.
Narat, V.**, K.R. Amato**, N. Ranger, M. Salmona, S.M. Delarue, S. Rupp, P. Ambata, R. Njouom, F. Simon, T. Giles-Vernick, J. LeGoff. (2020) A multi-disciplinary comparison of great ape gut microbiota in a central African forest and European zoo. Scientific Reports. 10: 19107.
Kuthyar, S.K., M.M. Kowalewski, D.M. Roellig, E.K. Mallott, Y. Zeng, T.R. Gillespie**, K.R. Amato**. (2020) Effects of Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Giardia duodenalis Infection on a Sentinel Species’ Gut Bacteria. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6910
Manus, M.B., S. Kuthyar, A.G. Perroni-Marañón, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora**, K.R. Amato** (2020). Infant skin bacterial communities vary by skin site and infant age across populations in Mexico and the United States. mSystems https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00834-20
Amato, K.R., S. Kuthyar, M. Ekanayke-Weber, R. Salmi, N. Snyder-Mackler, L. Wijayathunga, R. Vandercone, A. Lu. (2020) Gut Microbiome, Diet, and Conservation of Endangered Langurs in Sri Lanka. Biotropica 52(5): 981-990.
Mallott, E.K. and K.R. Amato. (2020) Phylosymbiosis, diet, and gut microbiome associated metabolic disease. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 2020(1): 100-101.
Mallott, E.K., C. Borries, A. Koenig, K.R. Amato**, A. Lu**. (2020) Reproductive hormones mediate changes in the gut microbiome during pregnancy and lactation in Phayre’s leaf monkeys. Scientific Reports, 10: 9961.
Song, S.J., J.G. Sanders, F. Delsuc , J.L. Metcalf, K.R. Amato, M.W. Taylor, F. Mazel, H.L. Lutz, K. Winker, G.R. Graves, G. Humphrey, J.A. Gilbert, S.J. Hackett, K.P. White, H.R. Skeen, S.M. Kurtis, J. Withrow, T. Braile, M. Miller, K. G. McCracken, J.M. Maley, V.O. Ezenwa, A. Williams, J.M. Blanton, V.J. McKenzie, R. Knight 2020. Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats. mBio. 11(1).
Dunn, R.R., K.R. Amato, E. Archie, M. Arandjelovic, A.N. Crittenden, L.M. Nichols. (2020) The internal, external, and extended microbiomes of hominins. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8: 25.
Mann, A.E., F. Mazel, M.A. Lemay, E. Morien, V. Billy, M. Kowalewski, A. Di Fiore, A. Link, T.L. Goldberg, S. Tecot, A.L. Baden, A. Gomez, M.L. Sauther, F.P. Cuozzo, G.A.O. Britton, N.J. Dominy, R.M. Stumpf, R.J. Lewis, L. Swedell, K.R. Amato, L.W. Parfrey. (2020) Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild non-human primate gut. ISME Journal 14: 609-622
Kuthyar S, Manus MB, Amato KR. 2019. Leveraging non-human primates for exploring the social transmission of microbes. Current Opinion in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2019.09.001
Goodfellow, C., Whitney, T.L., Christie, D.M., Sicotte, P., Wikberg, E., Ting, N. (AJP, 2019). Divergence in gut microbial communities mirrors a social group fission event in a black-and-white colobus monkey.