Amanda D. Melin - Publications

Affiliations: 
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States 
Area:
Sensory ecology, molecular ecology, foraging, behaviour

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2024 Campos FA, Wikberg EC, Orkin JD, Park Y, Snyder-Mackler N, Cheves Hernandez S, Lopez Navarro R, Fedigan LM, Gurven M, Higham JP, Jack KM, Melin AD. Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 379: 20230482. PMID 39463253 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0482  0.72
2023 Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GEC, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin ID, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD. Sensory collectives in natural systems. Elife. 12. PMID 38019274 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.88028  0.583
2023 DePasquale AN, Poirier AC, Mah MA, Villalobos Suarez C, Guadamuz A, Cheves Hernandez S, Lopez Navarro 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. e23549. PMID 37690098 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23549  0.347
2023 Pinto SL, Janiak MC, Dutyschaever G, Barros MAS, Chavarria AG, Martin MP, Tuh FYY, Valverde CS, Sims LM, Barclay RMR, Wells K, Dominy NJ, Pessoa DMA, Carrigan MA, Melin AD. Diet and the evolution of across seven orders of mammals. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 230451. PMID 37448478 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230451  0.608
2023 Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Pajic P, Saitou M, Ochieng J, Dagsaan LD, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gokcumen O, Melin AD. Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes. Communications Biology. 6: 683. PMID 37400713 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05047-y  0.601
2022 Veilleux CC, Dominy NJ, Melin AD. The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited. Evolutionary Anthropology. 31: 281-301. PMID 36519416 DOI: 10.1002/evan.21967  0.576
2022 Eppley TM, Hoeks S, Chapman CA, Ganzhorn JU, Hall K, Owen MA, Adams DB, Allgas N, Amato KR, Andriamahaihavana M, Aristizabal JF, Baden AL, Balestri M, Barnett AA, Bicca-Marques JC, ... ... Melin AD, et al. Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2121105119. PMID 36215474 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2121105119  0.763
2022 Melin AD, Veilleux CC, Janiak MC, 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 primates. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 289: 20220847. PMID 35975434 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0847  0.306
2021 Buckner JC, Jack KM, Melin AD, Schoof VAM, Gutiérrez-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: e0254604. PMID 34383779 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254604  0.665
2021 Amato KR, Chaves ÓM, Mallott EK, Eppley TM, Abreu F, Baden AL, Barnett AA, Bicca-Marques JC, Boyle SA, Campbell CJ, Chapman CA, De la Fuente MF, Fan P, Fashing PJ, Felton A, ... ... Melin AD, et al. Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. PMID 33650680 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24257  0.708
2020 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. 10: 12679-12684. PMID 33304485 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6901  0.726
2020 Sánchez-Solano KG, Morales-Mávil JÉ, Laska M, Melin A, Hernández-Salazar LT. Visual detection and fruit selection by the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata). American Journal of Primatology. e23186. PMID 32812274 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.23186  0.437
2020 Campos FA, Kalbitzer U, Melin AD, Hogan JD, Cheves SE, Murillo-Chacon E, Guadamuz A, Myers MS, Schaffner CM, Jack KM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM. Differential impact of severe drought on infant mortality in two sympatric neotropical primates. Royal Society Open Science. 7: 200302. PMID 32431912 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.200302  0.779
2020 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 and Ecology. 15. DOI: 10.5751/Ace-01615-150125  0.695
2020 Dominy NJ, Melin AD. Liminal Light and Primate Evolution Annual Review of Anthropology. 49: 257-276. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Anthro-010220-075454  0.623
2019 Bergstrom ML, Kalbitzer U, Campos FA, Melin AD, Thompson ME, Fedigan LM. Non-invasive estimation of the costs of feeding competition in a neotropical primate. Hormones and Behavior. 104632. PMID 31759943 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2019.104632  0.733
2019 Moreira LAA, Duytschaever G, Higham JP, Melin AD. Platyrrhine color signals: New horizons to pursue. Evolutionary Anthropology. 28: 236-248. PMID 31609040 DOI: 10.1002/Evan.21798  0.303
2019 Bergstrom ML, Hogan JD, 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. PMID 31396949 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.23913  0.624
2019 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: 182037. PMID 31183134 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.182037  0.652
2019 Melin AD, Nevo O, Shirasu M, Williamson RE, Garrett EC, 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. 10: 2407. PMID 31160592 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-10250-9  0.442
2019 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. e22985. PMID 31081233 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.22985  0.338
2019 Jacobs RL, Veilleux CC, Louis EE, Herrera JP, Hiramatsu C, Frankel DC, Irwin MT, Melin AD, Bradley BJ. Less is more: lemurs (Eulemur spp.) may benefit from loss of trichromatic vision Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-018-2629-9  0.498
2018 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. PMID 30324904 DOI: 10.1017/S0031182018001749  0.309
2018 Nevo O, Valenta K, Razafimandimby D, Melin AD, Ayasse M, Chapman CA. Frugivores and the evolution of fruit colour. Biology Letters. 14. PMID 30258028 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2018.0377  0.538
2018 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. PMID 30135468 DOI: 10.1038/S41396-018-0256-0  0.683
2018 Kries K, Barros MAS, Duytschaever G, Orkin JD, Janiak MC, Pessoa DMA, Melin AD. Colour vision variation in leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): links to cave roosting and dietary specialization. Molecular Ecology. PMID 30059176 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14818  0.346
2018 Kries K, Barros MAS, Duytschaever G, Orkin JD, Janiak MC, Pessoa DMA, Melin AD. Colour vision variation in leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): links to cave roosting and dietary specialization. Molecular Ecology. PMID 30059176 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14818  0.453
2018 Hogan JD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Kawamura S, Melin AD. Trichromatic perception of flower colour improves resource detection among New World monkeys. Scientific Reports. 8: 10883. PMID 30022096 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-28997-4  0.671
2017 Melin AD, Chiou KL, Walco ER, Bergstrom ML, Kawamura S, Fedigan LM. Trichromacy increases fruit intake rates of wild capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28894009 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1705957114  0.669
2017 Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Allen WL, Dubuc C, Higham JP. Experimental evidence that primate trichromacy is well suited for detecting primate social colour signals. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 28615496 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2016.2458  0.378
2017 Bergstrom ML, Emery Thompson M, Melin AD, Fedigan LM. 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. PMID 28555757 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.23239  0.604
2017 Melin AD, Khetpal V, Matsushita Y, Zhou K, Campos FA, 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. PMID 28261454 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.2716  0.715
2016 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. PMID 27733116 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-016-0783-0  0.41
2016 Mason VC, Li G, Minx P, Schmitz J, Churakov G, Doronina L, Melin AD, Dominy NJ, Lim NT, Springer MS, Wilson RK, Warren WC, Helgen KM, Murphy WJ. Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates. Science Advances. 2: e1600633. PMID 27532052 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.1600633  0.626
2016 Hogan JD, Melin AD, Mosdossy KN, Fedigan LM. Seasonal importance of flowers to Costa Rican capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator): Implications for plant and primate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. PMID 27492752 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.23059  0.648
2016 Melin AD, Kline DW, Hiramatsu C, Caro T. Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans. Plos One. 11: e0145679. PMID 26799935 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0145679  0.399
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. PMID 26739880 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msv346  0.798
2016 Schoof VA, Bonnell TR, Jack KM, Ziegler TE, Melin AD, Fedigan LM. Male endocrine response to seasonally varying environmental and social factors in a neotropical primate, Cebus capucinus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. PMID 26739266 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.22925  0.747
2016 Valenta K, Miller CN, Monckton SK, Melin AD, Lehman SM, Styler SA, Jackson DA, Chapman CA, Lawes MJ. Fruit Ripening Signals and Cues in a Madagascan Dry Forest: Haptic Indicators Reliably Indicate Fruit Ripeness to Dichromatic Lemurs Evolutionary Biology. 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/S11692-016-9374-7  0.557
2015 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 Signalling? Plos One. 10: e0131725. PMID 26115040 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0131725  0.498
2015 Mosdossy KN, 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. PMID 26010158 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.22767  0.679
2015 Crowley BE, Melin AD, Yeakel JD, Dominy NJ. Do Oxygen Isotope Values in Collagen Reflect the Ecology and Physiology of Neotropical Mammals? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2015.00127  0.618
2015 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. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12575  0.685
2015 Valenta K, Brown KA, Rafaliarison RR, Styler SA, Jackson D, Lehman SM, Chapman CA, Melin AD. Sensory integration during foraging: the importance of fruit hardness, colour, and odour to brown lemurs Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-015-1998-6  0.542
2014 Melin AD, Danosi CF, McCracken GF, Dominy NJ. Dichromatic vision in a fruit bat with diurnal proclivities: the Samoan flying fox (Pteropus samoensis). Journal of Comparative Physiology. a, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 200: 1015-22. PMID 25319538 DOI: 10.1007/S00359-014-0951-X  0.664
2014 Moritz GL, Melin AD, Tuh Yit Yu F, Bernard H, Ong PS, Dominy NJ. Niche convergence suggests functionality of the nocturnal fovea. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 8: 61. PMID 25120441 DOI: 10.3389/Fnint.2014.00061  0.786
2014 Brent LJ, Melin AD. The Genetic Basis of Primate Behavior: Genetics and Genomics in Field-Based Primatology. International Journal of Primatology. 35: 1-10. PMID 25013243 DOI: 10.1007/S10764-013-9732-6  0.307
2014 Melin AD, Crowley BE, Brown ST, Wheatley PV, Moritz GL, Yit Yu FT, Bernard H, DePaolo DJ, Jacobson AD, Dominy NJ. Technical Note: Calcium and carbon stable isotope ratios as paleodietary indicators. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154: 633-43. PMID 24839035 DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.22530  0.748
2014 Melin AD, Young HC, Mosdossy KN, Fedigan LM. Seasonality, extractive foraging and the evolution of primate sensorimotor intelligence. Journal of Human Evolution. 71: 77-86. PMID 24636732 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2014.02.009  0.633
2014 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: 1799-812. PMID 24612406 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12703  0.372
2014 Fedigan LM, Melin AD, Addicott JF, Kawamura S. The heterozygote superiority hypothesis for polymorphic color vision is not supported by long-term fitness data from wild neotropical monkeys. Plos One. 9: e84872. PMID 24404195 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0084872  0.633
2014 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. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2014.03.007  0.779
2014 Melin AD, Hiramatsu C, Parr NA, Matsushita Y, Kawamura S, Fedigan LM. The Behavioral Ecology of Color Vision: Considering Fruit Conspicuity, Detection Distance and Dietary Importance International Journal of Primatology. 35: 258-287. DOI: 10.1007/S10764-013-9730-8  0.682
2013 Valenta K, Burke RJ, Styler SA, Jackson DA, Melin AD, Lehman SM. Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs. Scientific Reports. 3: 2424. PMID 23939534 DOI: 10.1038/Srep02424  0.392
2013 Melin AD, Kline DW, Hickey CM, Fedigan LM. Food search through the eyes of a monkey: a functional substitution approach for assessing the ecology of primate color vision. Vision Research. 86: 87-96. PMID 23643907 DOI: 10.1016/J.Visres.2013.04.013  0.672
2013 Melin AD, Matsushita Y, Moritz GL, Dominy NJ, Kawamura S. Inferred L/M cone opsin polymorphism of ancestral tarsiers sheds dim light on the origin of anthropoid primates. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 280: 20130189. PMID 23536597 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2013.0189  0.77
2013 Melin AD, Hiramatsu C, Fedigan LM, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Polymorphism and adaptation of primate colour vision Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends. 225-241. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30425-5_13  0.545
2012 Melin AD, Moritz GL, Fosbury RA, Kawamura S, Dominy NJ. Why aye-ayes see blue. American Journal of Primatology. 74: 185-92. PMID 24006536 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.21996  0.786
2012 Alfaro JW, Matthews L, Boyette AH, Macfarlan SJ, Phillips KA, Falótico T, Ottoni E, Verderane M, Izar P, Schulte M, Melin A, Fedigan L, Janson C, Alfaro ME. Anointing variation across wild capuchin populations: a review of material preferences, bout frequency and anointing sociality in Cebus and Sapajus. American Journal of Primatology. 74: 299-314. PMID 21769906 DOI: 10.1002/Ajp.20971  0.612
2011 Parr NA, 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. DOI: 10.1155/2011/967274  0.619
2011 Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Melin AD. Reproductive Seasonality in Female Capuchins (Cebus capucinus) in Santa Rosa (Area de Conservación Guanacaste), Costa Rica International Journal of Primatology. 32: 1076-1090. DOI: 10.1007/S10764-011-9523-X  0.77
2010 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: 453-64. PMID 19861643 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msp262  0.646
2010 Kawamura S, Hiwatashi T, Okabe Y, Tsutsui T, Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Oota H, Schaffner CM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM, Innan H. A Population Genetic Test Of Balancing Selection For Color Vision Variation In New World Monkeys Primate Research Supplement International Primatological Society. 471-471. DOI: 10.14907/Primate.26.0.471.0  0.333
2010 Hiramatsu C, Melin AD, Aureli F, Schaffner CM, Vorobyev M, Kawamura S. Challenging Advantage Of Trichromacy In Fruit Foraging Behavior Of Wild Spider Monkeys Primate Research Supplement International Primatological Society. 468-468. DOI: 10.14907/Primate.26.0.468.0  0.314
2010 Kawamura S, Melin AD. Variation And Evolution Of Primate Color Vision Revealed By Cross-Disciplinary Studies Primate Research Supplement International Primatological Society. 393-393. DOI: 10.14907/Primate.26.0.393.0  0.352
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. DOI: 10.1093/Czoolo/56.3.300  0.657
2009 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. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2009.02.012  0.451
2009 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: 753-775. DOI: 10.1007/S10764-009-9383-9  0.67
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: e3356. PMID 18836576 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0003356  0.435
2008 Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Kawamura S. Polymorphic color vision in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Is there foraging niche divergence among phenotypes? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 62: 659-670. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-007-0490-3  0.671
2007 Melin AD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Sendall CL, 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. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2006.07.003  0.654
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