Katherine Ryan Amato

This study examines how forest fragmentation affects the genetics and microbiomes of black howler monkeys, finding contrasting patterns where genetic diversity increases in fragmented areas while microbiome diversity decreases.

The paper presents a large-scale gut microbiome dataset across 1,553 host species and identifies major compositional shifts in gut microbiomes during animal evolution.

This study validates body condition scoring (BCS) as a screening tool for low body condition and obesity in common marmosets using quantitative magnetic resonance (QMR) as a reference.

This study investigates how diet, climate, and sex influence the gut mycobiome of wild common marmosets, finding that environmental factors are more strongly correlated with mycobiome composition than host factors.

This study compares the facial skin microbiome of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, finding humans have a unique, low-diversity microbiome dominated by Cutibacterium, absent in other primates.