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Melin AD, Veilleux CC. Primate senses: finding and evaluating food. IN: Primate Diet and Nutrition: Needing, Finding, and Using Food. Lambert JE and Rothman JM (eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
DePasquale AN, Poirier AC, Mah MA, Villalobos-Suarez C, Guadamuz Chavarria A, Cheves Hernandez S, Navarro Lopez R, Hogan JD, Rothman JM, Nevo O, Melin AD. Picking pithy plants: pith selectivity by wild white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus imitator. American Journal of Primatology
DePasquale AN, Hogan JD, Villalobos-Suarez C, Mah MA, Martin JC, Fedigan LM, Rothman JM, Melin AD. Does color vision type drive dietary and nutritional niche divergence in wild capuchins? Animal Behaviour
PREPRINTS
Glass HC, Melin AD, Vamosi SM. De novo transcriptome analysis of dermal tissue from the rough-skinned newt, Taricha granulosa, enables investigation of tetrodotoxin expression. bioRxiv. 653238. View paper.
2023
Casorso JG, DePasquale AN, Romero Morales S, Cheves Hernandez S, Lopez Navarro R, Hockings KJ, Carrigan MA, Melin AD. Seed dispersal syndrome predicts ethanol concentration of fruits in a tropical dry forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290: 20230804 View paper.
Pinto SL, Orkin JD, Duytschaever G, Wit J, Avramenko RW, Gilleard JS, Melin AD. Promise and limitations of 18S genetic screening of extracted DNA from wild primates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2023 (11) View paper.
Moreira LAA, Fetherstonhaugh L, Merrigan Johnson C, Higham JP, Melin AD. Assessing color cues of development, breeding status and pregnancy stage in captive golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia). American Journal of Primatology. View paper.
Gao et al. (97 coauthors, including Melin AD). The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. Science 380 (6648) View paper.
Kuderna et al. (75 coauthors, including Melin AD). A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species. Science. 380 (6648) 906-913 View paper.
Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Pajic P, Saitou M, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gokcumen O, Melin AD. Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes. Communications Biology 6:683 View paper.
Pinto SL, Janiak M*, Dutyschaever G, Barros MAS, Guadamuz Chavarria A, Martin MP, Tuh FYY, Soto Valverde C, Sims LM, Barclay RMR, Wells K, Dominy NJ, Pessoa DMA, Carrigan MA, Melin AD. Diet and the evolution of ADH7 across seven orders of mammals. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 230451230451 View paper.
Duytschaever G, Stroher P, van der Meer F, Fonseca K, Melin AD. Effectiveness of TRIzol in inactivating animal pathogens. Applied Bioscience. DOI: 10.1089/apb.2022.0031 View paper.
Chaves OM, Morales-Cerdas V, Calderón-Quirós J, IAzofeifa-Rojas I, Riba-Hernández P, Solano-Rojas D, Chaves-Cordero C, Chacón-Madrigal E, Melin AD. Plant diversity in the diet of Costa Rican primates in contrasting habitats: a meta-analysis. Diversity 15(5), 602. View paper.
Fernandes AG, Alexopoulos P, Burgos-Rodriguez A, Martinez MI, Ghassibi M, Leskov I, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N, Danias J, Wollstein G, Higham JP, Melin AD. Age-Related Differences in Ocular Features of a Naturalistic Free-Ranging Population of Rhesus Macaques. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2023;64(7):3. View paper.
2022
Veilleux CC, Dominy NJ, Melin AD. The sensory ecology of primate food perception revisited. Evolutionary Anthropology, 31(6), 281–301. View paper.
Moreira LAA, Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Higham JP, Melin AD. Evaluating genital skin color as a putative sexual signal in wild saddleback (Leontocebus weddelli) and emperor (Saguinus imperator) tamarins. American Journal of Primatology, 85(2), e23456. View paper.
Poirier AC, Waterhouse JS, Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Dunn J, Melin AD, Smith AC. Olfactory communication in tamarins: a comparative analysis of scents from wild and captive populations. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v11i1.652, View paper.
Chiou KC, DeCasien AR, Testard C, Spurrell CH, Gogate AA, Pliner HA , Mercer A, Negrón-Del Valle JE, Janiak MC, Bauman Surratt SE, González O, Compo NR, Stock MK, Ruiz-Lambides AV, Martínez MI, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Melin AD, Antón SC, Walker CS, Sallet J, Starita LM, Shendure J, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Montague MJ , Platt ML, Snyder-Mackler N. Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment. Nature Neuroscience, 25(12), 1714–1723. View paper.
Eppley TM et al (118 coauthors, including Melin AD). Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2121105119. View paper.
DePasquale AN, Hogan J, Guadamuz Araya C, Dominy NJ, Melin AD. Aeroscapes and the sensory ecology of olfaction in a tropical dry forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.849281. View paper.
Munds RA, Cooper E, Janiak MC, Lam LG, DeCasien A, Bauman Surratt S, Montague M, Martinez M, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Kawamura S, Higham JP , Melin AD. Variation and heritability of retinal cone ratios in a free ranging population of rhesus macaques. Evolution 76: 1776-1789. View paper.
Melin AD, Veilleux CV, Janiak MJ, Hiramatsu C, Sánchez‐Solano KG, Lundeen IK, Webb SE, Williamson RE, Mah MA, Murillo-Chacon E, Schaffner CM, Hernández‐Salazar L, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Anatomy and dietary specialization influence sensory behaviour among sympatric frugivorous primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289 20220847. View paper.
Akhtar MS, Ashino R, Oota H, Ishida H, Niimura Y, Touhara K, Melin AD, Kawamura D. Genetic variation in an olfactory receptor gene family in a Japanese population. Anthropological Science. Volume 130 Issue 2 Pages 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.211024. View paper.
Janiak MC, Silva FE, Beck RMD, de Vries D, Kuderna LFK, Torosin NS, Melin AD, Marquès-Bonet T, Goodhead IB, Messias M, da Silva MNF, Sampaio I, Farias IP, Rossi R, de Melo FR, Valsecchi J, Hrbek T, Boubli JP. Two hundred and five newly assembled mitogenomes provide mixed evidence for rivers as drivers of speciation for Amazonian primates. Molecular Ecology. 31:3888–3902 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16554 . View paper.
Storer JM, Walker JA, Rockwell CE, Mores G, Beckstrom TO, Orkin JD, Melin AD, Phillips KA, Roos C, Batzer MA. Recently Integrated Alu Elements in Capuchin Monkeys: A Resource for Cebus/Sapajus Genomics. Genes (Basel). 13(4):572. doi: 10.3390/genes13040572. View paper.
Chiou KL, Janiak MC, Schneider-Crease I, Sen S, Ayele F, Chuma IS, Knauf S, Lemma A, Signore AV, D'Ippolito AM, Abebe B, Azanaw Haile A, Kebede F, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, McCann C, Houck ML, Wall JD, Burrell AS, Bergey CM, Rogers J, Phillips-Conroy JE, Jolly CJ, Melin AD, Storz JF, Lu A, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Snyder-Mackler N. Genomic signatures of high-altitude adaptation and chromosomal polymorphism in geladas. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 630–643 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01703-4 . View paper.
2021
Toda Y, Hayakawa T, Itoigawa A, Kurihara Y, Nakagita T, Hayashi M, Ashino R, Matsui A, Melin AD, Ishimaru Y, Kawamura S, Imai H, Misaka T. Evolution of the primate glutamate taste sensor from a nucleotide sensor. Current Biology 30: 4641-4649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.002. View paper.
Tang J, Poirier AC, Duytschaever G, Moreira LAA, Nevo O, Melin AD. Assessing urinary odours across the oestrous cycle in a mouse model using portable and benchtop gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Royal Society Open Science 8: 210172. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210172. View paper.
Melin AD. Promise and prospects in primate pelage research: a comment on Caro et al. Behavioral Ecology 32(4): 570. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab041. View paper.
Mathavarajah S, Melin AD, Dellaire G. SARS-CoV-2 and wastewater: what does it mean for non-human primates? American Journal of Primatology. e23340 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23340. View paper.
Buckner JC, Jack KM, Melin AD, Schoof VAM, Gutierrez-Espeleta GA, Lima MGM, Lynch JW. Major histocompatibility complex class II DR and DQ evolution and variation in wild capuchin monkey species (Cebinae). PLoS ONE 16(8): e0254604. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254604. View paper.
Williamson RE, Webb SE, Lopez R, Cheves Hernandez S, Fedigan LM, Melin AD. Sharing spaces: niche differentiation in diet and substrate use among wild capuchin monkeys. Animal Behavior. 179:317-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.002. View paper.
Melin AD, Orkin JD, Janiak MC, Valenzuela A, Kuderna L, Marrone III F, Ramangason H, Horvath JE, Roos C, Kitchener AC, Khor CC, Lim WK, Lee JGH, Tan P, Umapathy G, Raveendran M, Harris RA, Gut I, Gut M, Lizano E, Nadler T, Zinner D, Le MD, Manu S, Rabarivola CJ, Zaraomody A, Andriaholinirina N, Johnson SE, Jarvis ED, Fredigo O, Wu D, Zhang G, Farh, KK-H, Rogers J, Marques-Bonet T, Navarro A, Juan D, Arora PS, Higham JP. Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises. American Journal of Primatology. doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23255. View paper.
Amato et al. (44 coauthors, including Melin AD). Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24257. View paper.
Janiak MC, Montague MJ, Villamil CI, Stock MK, Trujillo AE, DePasquale A, Orkin JD, Bauman Surratt SE, Gonzalez O, Platt ML, Martínez M, Antón SC, Dominguez-Bello G, Melin AD, James P. Higham. Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques. Microbiome. 9:68 doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01009-w. View paper.
DePasquale AD, Webb SE, Williamson RE, Fedigan LM, Melin AD. Testing the niche differentiation hypothesis in wild capuchin monkeys with polymorphic color vision. Behavioral Ecology. doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab001. View paper.
Poirier AC, Waterhouse JS, Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn J, Melin AD, Smith AC. On the trail of primate scent signals: a field analysis of tamarin scent-gland secretions by portable gas chromatography ̶ mass spectrometry. American Journal of Primatology. 83: e23236. View paper.
Orkin JD, Montague M, Tejada-Martinez D, de Manuel M, del Campo J, Cheves Hernandez S, Di Fiore A, Fontser C, Janiak M, Kuderna LFK, Lizano E, Pía Martín M, Niimura Y, Hodgson J, Perry PJ, Soto Valverde C, Tang J, Warren W, de Magalhães JP, Kawamura S, Marques-Bonet T, Krawetz R, Melin AD. The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7) e2010632118. View paper
2020
Melin AD, Janiak MC, Marrone F 3rd, Arora PS, Higham JP. Comparative ACE2 variation and primate COVID-19 risk. Commun Biol. 3(1):641. View paper.
Lee Q, Padula MP, Pinello N, Williams SH, O'Rourke MB, Fumagalli MJ, Orkin JD, Song R, Shaban B, Brenner O, Pimanda JE Weninger, W, de Souza WM, Melin AD, Wong JJL Crim MJ, Monette S, Roediger B, Jolly, CJ. Murine and related chapparvoviruses are nephro-tropic and produce novel accessory proteins in infected kidneys. PLoS pathogens. 2020 Jan 23;16(1). View paper.
Melin AD, Hogan JD, Campos FA, Wikberg E, King-Bailey G, Webb SE, Kalbitzer U, Asensio N, Murillo-Chacon E, Cheves Hernandez S, Guadamuz Chavarria A, Schaffner C, Kawamura S, Aureli F, Fedigan LM, Jack KM. Primate life history, social dynamics, ecology, and conservation: contributions from long-term research in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Biotropica 52 (6), 1041-1064. View paper.
Nishikawa M, Ferrero N, Cheves S, Lopez R, Kawamura S, Fedigan LM, Melin AD, Jack KM. Infant cannibalism in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. Ecology and Evolution. doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6901. View paper.
Sánchez-Solano KG, Morales-Mávil JE, Laska M, Melin AD, Hernández-Salazar LT. Visual detection and fruit selection by the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata). American Journal of Primatology: 82 e23186. View paper.
Janiak MC*, Pinto, SL*, Duytschaever G*, Carrigan MA, Melin AD. Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: Revisiting the “myth” of natural intoxication. Biology Letters: 16 20200070. View paper.
Dominy NJ, Melin AD. Liminal light and primate evolution. Annual Reviews of Anthropology: 49:1. View paper.
Owen KC, Melin AD, Campos FA, Fedigan LM, Gillespie TW, Mennill DJ. Bioacoustic analyses reveal that bird communities recover with forest succession in tropical dry forests. Avian Conservation & Ecology, 15: 25. View paper.
Campos FA, Kalbitzer U, Melin AD, Hogan J*, Cheves Hernandez S, Murillo-Chacon E, Guadamuz A, Myers M, Schaffner C, Jack K, Aureli F, Fedigan LM. Differential impact of severe drought on infant mortality in two sympatric neotropical primates. Royal Society Open Science 7: 200302. View paper.
Bergstrom MB, Kalbitzer U, Campos FA, Melin AD, Emery Thompson M, Fedigan LM. Non-invasive estimation of the costs of feeding competition in a neotropical primate. Hormones and Behavior 118: 104632. View paper.
2019
Melin AD, Nevo O, Shirasu M, Williamson RE* Garrett E, Endo M, Sakurai K, Matsushita Y, Touhara K, Kawamura S. Fruit scent and observer colour vision shape food-selection strategies in wild capuchin monkeys. Nature Communications. View paper.
Moreira LAA*, Duytschaever G, Higham JP, Melin AD. Platyrrhine color signals: a whole new world, with new horizons to pursue. Evolutionary Anthropology. Wiley library.
Bergstrom ML, Hogan J, Melin AD, Fedigan LM. The nutritional importance of invertebrates to female Cebus capucinus imitator in a highly seasonal tropical dry forest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley library.
Storer JM, Mierl JR, Brantley SA, Threeton B, Sukharutski Y, Rewerts LC, St. Romain CP, Foreman MM, Baker JN, Walker JA, Orkin JD, Melin AD, Phillips KA, Konkel MK, Batzer MA. Amplification Dynamics of Platy-1 retrotransposons in the Cebidae Platyrrhine lineage. Genome Biology Evolution. View paper.
Duytschaever G, Janiak MC, Ong PS, Wells K, Dominy NJ, Melin AD. Opsin genes of select treeshrews resolve ancestral character states within Scandentia. Royal Society Open Science 6. View paper.
Orkin JD, Webb SE, Melin AD. Small to modest impact of social group on the gut microbiome of wild Costa Rican capuchins in a seasonal forest. American Journal of Primatology. View paper.
Jacobs RL, Veilleux CC, Louis Jr. EE, Frankel DC, Melin AD, Bradley BJ. Less is more: lemurs (Eulemur spp.) may benefit from loss of trichromatic vision. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. View paper.
Orkin JD, Campos FA, Myers MS, Cheves Hernandez SE, Guadamuz A, Melin AD. Seasonality of the gut microbiota of free ranging white-faced capuchins in a tropical dry forest. The ISME Journal 13: 83–196. View paper.
2018
Nevo O, Valenta K, Razafimandimby D, Melin AD, Ayasse M, Chapman CC. Frugivores and the evolution of fruit colour. Biology Letters. 14: 20180377. View paper.
Solórzano García B, Melin AD, Aureli F, Pérez Ponce de León G. Unveiling patterns of genetic variation in parasite-host associations: an example with pinworms and Neotropical primates. Parasitology, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S0031182018001749 . View paper.
Kries K, Barros MAS, Duytschaever G, Orkin JD, Janiak, M, Pessoa DMA, Melin AD. Colour vision variation in leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): links to cave roosting and dietary specialization. Molecular Ecology 27:3627-3640. Wiley Library.
Hogan J, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Kawamura S, Melin AD. Trichromatic perception of flower colour improves resource detection among New World monkeys. Scientific Reports. 8:10883. View paper.
2017
Melin AD, Chiou K, Walco E, Bergstrom M, Kawamura S, Fedigan L. Trichromacy increases fruit intake rates of wild capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114:10402-10407. View paper
Bergstrom M, Emery Thompson M, Melin A, Fedigan L. Using urinary parameters to estimate seasonal variation in the physical condition of female white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 163:707-715. Wiley library
Melin A, Khetpal V, Matsushita Y, Zhou K, Campos F, Welker B, Kawamura S. Howler monkey foraging ecology suggests convergent evolution of routine trichromacy as an adaptation for folivory. Ecology and Evolution. 7:1421-1434. Wiley library
Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Allen W, Dubuc C, Higham JP. Experimental evidence that primate trichromacy is well suited for detecting primate social colour signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20162458. View paper
2016
Melin AD, Wells K, Moritz GL, Kistler L, Orkin JD, Timm RM, Bernard H, Lakim MB, Perry GH, Kawamura S, Dominy NJ. Euarchontan opsin variation brings new focus to primate origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33: 1029-1041. View paper.
Melin AD, Kline DW, Hiramatsu C, Caro T. Zebra Stripes Through the Eyes of Predators, Zebras, and Humans. PLoSOne. 11: e0145679. View paper
Hogan J, Melin AD, Mosdossy K, Fedigan L. Seasonal importance of flowers to Costa Rican capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator): implications for plant and primate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 161:591-602. Wiley library
Tsutsui K, Otoh M, Sakurai K, Suzuki-Hashido N, Hayakawa T, Misaka T, Ishimaru Y, Aureli F, Melin AD, Kawamura S, Imai H. Variation in ligand responses of the bitter taste receptors TAS2R1 and TAS2R4 among New World monkeys. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:208. View paper
Schoof V, Bonnell T, Jack K, Ziegler T, Melin AD, Fedigan L. Male endocrine response to seasonally varying environmental and social factors in a Neotropical primate, Cebus capucinus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Wiley library
Mason V, Li G, Minx P, Schmitz J, Melin A, Dominy N, Springer M, Wilson R, Warren W, Helgen K, Murphy
W. Genomic analysis reveals remarkable hidden biodiversity within colugos, and the sister group to
primates. Science Advances. 2(8): 1-15. View paper
Valenta K, Miller C, Monckton S, Styler S, Jackson D, Melin A, Lehman S, Chapman C, Lawes M. Fruit ripening signals and cues in a Madagascan dry forest: Haptic indicators reliably indicate fruit ripeness to dichromatic lemurs. Evolutionary Biology. 43: 344-355. View paper
2015
Crowley BE, Melin AD, Yeakel JD, Dominy NJ. Do oxygen isotope values reflect the ecology and physiology of
Neotropical mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3: 127. View paper
Valenta K, Edwards M, Rafaliarison RR, Johnson SE, Holmes SM, Brown KA, Dominy NJ, Lehman SM, Parra EJ, Melin AD. Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism. Functional Ecology. 3: 932-942. View paper
Mosdossy K, Melin AD, Fedigan LM. Quantifying seasonal fallback on invertebrates, pith and bromeliad leaves by white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) in a tropical dry forest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158: 66-77. View paper
Valenta K, Brown K, Rafaliarison R, Styler S, Jackson D, Lehman S, Chapman C, Melin A. Sensory integration during foraging: the importance of fruit hardness, colour and odour to brown lemurs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69: 1855-1865. View paper
Valenta K, Brown KA, Melin AD, Monckton SK, Styler SA, Jackson DA, Chapman CA. It’s not easy being blue: are there olfactory and visual trade-offs in plant signaling. PLoSOne. 10: e0131725. View paper
2014
Melin AD, Danosi C, McCracken G, Dominy NJ. Dichromatic vision in a fruit bat with diurnal proclivities, the Samoan flying fox (Pteropus samoensis). Journal of Comparative Physiology A. View paper
Melin AD, Crowley BE, Brown ST, Wheatley PV, Moritz GL, Tuh F, Bernard H, DePaolo DJ, Jacobson AD, Dominy NJ. Calcium and carbon stable isotope ratios as paleodietary indicators. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22530 Wiley Library
Melin AD, Young HC, Mosdossy K, Fedigan LM. Seasonality, extractive foraging, and the evolution of primate sensorimotor intelligence. Journal of Human Evolution 71: 77-86 View Paper
Moritz GL, Melin AD, Tuh F, Bernard H, Ong P, Dominy N. Niche convergence suggests functionality of the nocturnal fovea. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 8: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2014.00061. View paper.
Campos FA, Bergstrom ML, Childers A, Hogan JD, Jack KM, Melin AD, Mosdossy KN, Myers MS, Parr NA, Sargeant E, Schoof VAM, Fedigan LM. Drivers of home range characteristics across spatiotemporal scales in a Neotropical primate, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behaviour 91:93-109. View Paper
Matsumoto Y, Hiramatsu C, Matsushita Y, Ozawa N, Ashino R, Nakata M, Kasagi S, Di Fiore A, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Melin AD, Kawamura S. Evolutionary renovation of L/M opsin polymorphism confers a fruit discrimination advantage to ateline New World monkeys. Molecular Ecology 23: 1799-1812. Wiley Library
Fedigan L, Melin AD, Addicott J, Kawamura S. The heterozygote superiority hypothesis for polymorphic color vision is not supported by long-term fitness data from wild Neotropical monkeys. PLoSOne 9: e84872. View paper
Brent LJN, Melin AD. The Genetic Basis of Primate Behavior: Genetics and Genomics in Field-Based Primatology. International Journal of Primatology 35: 1-10. View paper
Melin AD, Hiramatsu C, Parr NA, Matsushita Y, Kawamura S, Fedigan LM. The behavioral ecology of colour vision: considering fruit conspicuity, detection distance and dietary importance. International Journal of Primatology 35: 258–287. View paper
2013
Valenta K, Burke RJ, Styler SA, Jackson DA, Melin AD, Lehman SM. Color and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs. Scientific Reports 3: 2424. View paper
Melin AD, Kline D, Hickey CM, Fedigan L. Food search through the eyes of a monkey: a functional substitution approach for assessing the ecology of color vision. Vision Research 86: 87-96. View paper (html)
Melin AD, Matsushita Y, Moritz G, Dominy NJ, Kawamura S. Inferred M/L cone opsin polymorphism of ancestral tarsiers sheds dim light on the origin of anthropoid primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 208 no. 1759. View paper
2012
Melin AD, Moritz GL, Fosbury RA, Kawamura S, Dominy NJ. Why aye-ayes see blue. 2012 American Journal of Primatology 74: 185-192. Wiley Library
Melin AD, Hiramatsu C, Fedigan LM, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Polymorphism and adaptation of primate color vision. IN: Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends. Pontarotti (ed). Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, p225-241. Download
Valenta K, Melin AD. Protein limitation explains variation in primate colour vision phenotypes: a unified model for the evolution of primate trichromatic vision. IN Zoology, Maria-Dolores Garcia (Ed.), InTech, ISBN: 978-953-51-0360-8.Download
Kawamura S, Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM. Polymorphic color vision in primates: evolutionary considerations. In: Post Genome Biology of Primates Hirai H, Imai H, and Go Y. (eds). Springer, Tokyo, Japan : 93-120. Download
2011
Carnegie S, Fedigan L, Melin AD. Reproductive seasonality in female capuchins (Cebus capucinus) in Santa Rosa (Área de Conservación Guanacaste), Costa Rica. International Journal of Primatology 32: 1076-1090.Download
Parr N, Melin AD, Fedigan LM. Figs are more than fallback foods: the relationship between Ficus and Cebus in a tropical dry forest. International Journal of Zoology 2011: 1-10. Download
Lynch JW, Matthews L, Boyette A, Macfarlan SJ, Phillips KA, Falotico T, Ottoni E, Verderane M, Izar P, Schulte M, Melin AD, Fedigan L, Janson C, Alfaro M. Anointing variation across wild capuchin populations: A review of material preferences, bout frequency and anointing sociality in Cebus and Sapajus. American Journal of Primatology 73: 1-16. Wiley library
2010
Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Young HC, Kawamura S. Can color vision variation explain sex differences in invertebrate foraging by capuchin monkeys? Current Zoology 56: 300- 312. Download
Hiwatashi T, Okabe Y, Tsutsui T, Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Oota H, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, 2010 Fedigan LM, Innan H, Kawamura S. An explicit signature of balancing selection for color vision variation in New World monkeys. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:453–464. View paper
2009
Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Hiwatashi T, Parr N, Kawamura S. Fig foraging by dichromatic and trichromatic white-faced capuchin monkeys in a tropical dry forest. International Journal of Primatology 30: 753-775. View Paper
Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Aureli F, Schaffner CM, Vorobyev M, Kawamura S. Interplay of olfaction and vision in fruit foraging of spider monkeys. Animal Behaviour 77: 1421-1426. View Paper
2008
Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Aureli F, Schaffner CM, Vorobyev M, Matsumoto Y, Kawamura S. Importance of achromatic contrast in short-range fruit foraging of primates. PLoS One 3: 1-12. Download
Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Kawamura S. Polymorphic colour vision in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Is there foraging niche divergence among phenotypes? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 659-670. Download
2007 and prior
Melin AD, Fedigan L, Hiramatsu C, Sendall C, Kawamura S. Effects of colour vision phenotype on insect capture by a free-ranging population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Animal Behaviour 73: 205-214. View Paper
Bergmann P, Melin AD, Russell A. 2006. Differential segmental growth of the vertebral column of the rat (Rattus norvegicus). Zoology 109: 54-65. Science Direct
Melin AD, Bergmann P, Russell A. 2005. Mammalian postnatal growth estimates: the influence of weaning on the choice of a comparative metric. Mammalogy 86: 1042-1049. View paper
Book Chapters
Melin AD, Veilleux CC. (2018). Primate senses: finding and evaluating food. IN: Primate Diet and Nutrition: Needing, Finding, and Using Food. Lambert JE and Rothman JM (eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Melin AD, Webb S, Williamson R, Chiou K. (2018). A fresh look at behavioural data collection in primate foraging ecology. In: Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability - Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Kalbitzer U, Jack KM (eds) Springer, New York, NY.
Hogan J, Melin AD. (2018). Intra- and interannual variation in the fruit diet of wild capuchins: impact of plant phenology. In: Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability - Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Kalbitzer U, Jack KM (eds) Springer, New York, NY.
Bergstrom ML, Melin AD, Myers MS, Fedigan LM. (2018). Dietary profile, food composition, and nutritional intake of female white-faced capuchins. In: Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability - Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Kalbitzer U, Jack KM (eds) Springer, New York, NY.
Kawamura S and Melin AD. 2018. Evolution of genes for color vision and the chemical senses in primates.. IN: Saitou N (ed). Evolution of the Human Genome I: The Genome and Genes, p1-59.
Melin AD, Hiramatsu C, Fedigan LM, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Kawamura S. 2012. Polymorphism and adaptation of primate colour vision. IN: Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends. Pontarotti (ed). Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, p225-241.
Valenta K, Melin AD. 2012. Protein limitation explains variation in primate colour vision phenotypes: a unified model for the evolution of primate trichromatic vision. IN Zoology, Maria-Dolores Garcia (Ed.), InTech, ISBN: 978-953-51-0360-8.
Kawamura S, Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM. 2o12. Polymorphic colour vision in primates: evolutionary considerations. In: Post Genome Biology of Primates Hirai H, Imai H, and Go Y. (eds). Springer, Tokyo, Japan: 93-120.
Other Contributions
Melin AD, Jack K, Fedigan LM, Méndez-Carvajal. Central American White-faced Capuchin (Cebus imitator). IN: All the World’s Primates. N Rowe and M Myers (eds.), Pogonias Press, Charlestown, Rhode Island.
Our Most-Cited Papers
(updated Feb 2023)
1. [154 citations] Melin AD, Fedigan L, Hiramatsu C, Sendall C, Kawamura S. Effects of colour vision phenotype on insect capture by a free-ranging population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Animal Behaviour 73: 205-214.
2. [148 citations] Melin AD, Janiak MC, Marrone F 3rd, Arora PS, Higham JP. Comparative ACE2 variation and primate COVID-19 risk. Commun Biol. 3(1):641.
3. [111 citations] Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Aureli F, Schaffner CM, Vorobyev M, Matsumoto Y, Kawamura S. Importance of achromatic contrast in short-range fruit foraging of primates. PLoS One 3: 1-12.
4. [106 citations] Melin AD, Young HC, Mosdossy K, Fedigan LM. Seasonality, extractive foraging, and the evolution of primate sensorimotor intelligence. Journal of Human Evolution 71: 77-86
5. [101 citations] Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Hiwatashi T, Parr N, Kawamura S. Fig foraging by dichromatic and trichromatic Cebus capucinus in a tropical dry forest. International Journal of Primatology 30 (6):753-775.
6. [93 citations] Hiwatashi T, Okabe Y, Tsutsui T, Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Oota H, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM, Innan H, Kawamura S. An explicit signature of balancing selection for color vision variation in New World monkeys. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:453–464.