Andrew C. Kitchener

This study uses dental calculus metagenomics to show that domestication affects oral microbiomes across three mammalian genera, with genus-specific variations observed.

This study examines dental calculus presence across 142 mammalian species to identify diet and phylogeny factors influencing its formation.

The paper analyzes oral microbiomes from museum specimens to show that diet drives oral microbiome evolution and some microbes have ancient origins.

The paper uses genomic and morphometric analyses to show that pigs in Wallacea and Oceania have diverse ancestries linked to Austronesian dispersal 4,000-3,000 years ago.

This study characterizes the demographic decline and recovery of the British European polecat population using whole-genome analyses, revealing a genetic bottleneck and admixture events.

This study evaluates the impact of host traits on metagenomic library preparation from dental calculus across 32 mammals, identifying diet-related challenges and success factors.

This study analyzes the genomic data of red squirrels in Scotland to reveal loss of heterozygosity linked to extreme founder effects from human impacts.

The paper uses primate genetic data to predict human variant pathogenicity with a deep learning classifier trained on 4.3 million common missense variants.

This study presents whole-genome data from 233 primate species, revealing patterns of genetic diversity, mutation rates, and recurrent missense mutations across primate clades.

The paper analyzes ACE2 gene sequences in strepsirrhine primates to assess their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, finding high variability and potential risk in some species.

The paper predicts the viability of archaic human hybrids using mitochondrial DNA divergence patterns to assess fertility differences between species pairs.