Evan L. MacLean

This study examines how maternal care and rearing environment affect puppy behavior and cognition, finding associations between pre-pregnancy dam traits, rearing location, and offspring outcomes.

The paper analyzes the canine gut microbiome across 900 dogs to identify factors influencing microbiome composition and develops a metagenomics-based aging clock.

The paper develops two novel spatial memory tests for dogs and finds age-related cognitive decline is consistent across body sizes, suggesting no moderation by body mass.

The paper investigates interference in urinary oxytocin immunoassays using knockout and wildtype mice, finding that common extraction methods fail to eliminate false positives and proposing a new extraction method to reduce interference.