2026     Sadoughi, B.*, Petersen, R.M.*, Patterson, S. K., Slikas, E., Adjandba, C., Ryan, N., Costa, C.E., Newman, L.E., Watowich, M.M., Kelsey, C.R., Greenier, A., Negrón-Del Valle, J.E.,  Phillips, D.,  Thompson, I., Bauman Surratt, S.E., González, O., Compo, N.,  Burgos, A., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, DeCasien, A.R., Chiou, K.L., Walker, C.S., Ruiz Lambides, A.V.,  Martínez, M.I., Sterner, K.N., Brent, L.J.N.,  Higham, J.P., Montague, M.J., Platt, M.L., Snyder-Mackler, N. & Lea, A. J. Age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues in macaques. Science. 392(6804): eaea4922         

2026     Petersen, R.M.*, Patterson, S.K.,* Widdig, A., Turcotte, C.M., Antón, S.C., Williams, S.A., Bauman Surratt, S.E., Ruiz Lambides, A.V., Romero, A.N., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Snyder-Mackler, N., Brent, L.J.N., Higham, J.P., Lea, A.J. Early life adversity shapes the relationship between growth and reproduction in free-ranging female rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(19): e2524909123

2026     Petersen, R.M., Tennyson, R., Tan Boon Huat, T.B.T., Tam, K.L., Watowich, M.M., Solhaimi bin Fadzil, K., Nicholas, C., bin Mohd Sayed, I., Seong Ng, K., Lim, Y.A.L., Venkataraman, V.V., Wallace, I.J., Kraft, T.S., Lea, A.J. Early life environments shape adult cardiometabolic health during rapid lifestyle change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293(2069): 20252856 

2026     Petersen, R.M., Nonnamaker, L.M., Anderson, J.A., Bergey, C.M., Roos, C., Melin, A.D., Higham, J.P. Evidence for genetically-based sperm discrimination in the vaginal tract of a primate species. PLoS Biology. 24(3): e3003699

2025     Petersen, R.M., Vockley, C.M., Lea, A.J. Uncovering methylation dependent genetic effects in regulatory element function in diverse genomes. Genome Research. 35(7): 1-13

2025     Longtin, A., Watowich, M.M., Sadoughi, B., Petersen, R.M., Brosnan, S.F., Buetow, K., Cai, Q., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Gurven, M.D., Higham, J.P., Highland, H.M., Huang, Y., Kaplan, H., Kraft, T.S., Lim, Y.A.L., Long, J., Melin, A.D., Montague, M.J., Roberson, J., Ng, K.S., Platt, M.L., Schneider-Crease, I.A., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B.C., Venkataraman, V.V., Wallace, I.J., Wu, J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Jones, A., Bick, A.G., Lea A.J. Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing. PLoS genetics. 21(5), e1011667.

2024     Patterson, S.K., Andonov, E., Arre, A.M., Martínez, M.I., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., Petersen, R.M., Phillips, D., Rahman, A., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Villanueva, I., Lea, A.J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Brent, L.J.N., Higham, J.P. Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379: 20220456

2024     Watowich, M.M., Costa, C.E., Chiou, K.L., Goldman, E.A., Petersen, R.M., Patterson, S., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martínez, M.I., Sterner, K.N., Horvath, J.E., Montague, M.J., Platt, M.L., Brent, L.J.N., Higham, J.P., Lea A.J., Synder-Mackler, N. Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a nonhuman primate. Molecular Ecology, e17445

2023     Newman, L., Testard, C., DeCasien, A.R., Chiou, K.L., Watowich, M.M., Janiak, M.C., Paves-Fox, M.A., Sanchez Rosado, M.R., Cooper, E.B., Costa, C.E., Petersen, R.M., Montague, M.M., Platt, M.L., Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Higham, J.P. The biology of aging in a social world: insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105424

2023     Patterson, S.K.*, Petersen, R.M.*, Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Lea, A.J., Higham, J.P. Natural animal populations as model systems for understanding early life adversity effects on aging. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icad058

2022     Petersen, R.M., Bergey, C.M., Roos, C., Higham, J.P. Relationship between genome-wide and MHC class I and II genetic diversity and complementarity in a nonhuman primate. Ecology andEvolution 12, e9346

2021     Petersen, R.M., Heistermann, M., Higham, J.P. Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques. BehavioralEcology and Sociobiology 75(12): 1-17

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