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Amanda Melin
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Latest papers
Dominance rank, facial morphology and testes size in male white-faced capuchins: evidence for pre- and post-mating competition.
Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025
The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023
SARS-CoV-2 and wastewater: What does it mean for non-human primates?
American journal of primatology · 2022
Latest funding
- $350,000
Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $273,310
The aging eye: integrating genomics, anatomy, and behaviour across the lifespan in a non-human primate model
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $304,000
How we came to our senses: dietary ecology and primate sensory evolution
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Dominance rank, facial morphology and testes size in male white-faced capuchins: evidence for pre- and post-mating competition.
Chapoy N, Alvarez-Garita M, Howard E, Insausti BC, Kulick NK, Marinaro M, Mendez HA, Romero Morales S, Petersdorf M, Poirier AC, Sandoval R, Severino G, Téllez Arias W, Widdig A, Melin A, Jack K
The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates.
Gao H, Hamp T, Ede J, Schraiber JG, McRae J, Singer-Berk M, Yang Y, Dietrich ASD, Fiziev PP, Kuderna LFK, Sundaram L, Wu Y, Adhikari A, Field Y, Chen C, Batzoglou S, Aguet F, Lemire G, Reimers R, Balick D, Janiak MC, Kuhlwilm M, Orkin JD, Manu S, Valenzuela A, Bergman J, Rousselle M, Silva FE, Agueda L, Blanc J, Gut M, de Vries D, Goodhead I, Harris RA, Raveendran M, Jensen A, Chuma IS, Horvath JE, Hvilsom C, Juan D, Frandsen P, de Melo FR, Bertuol F, Byrne H, Sampaio I, Farias I, do Amaral JV, Messias M, da Silva MNF, Trivedi M, Rossi R, Hrbek T, Andriaholinirina N, Rabarivola CJ, Zaramody A, Jolly CJ, Phillips-Conroy J, Wilkerson G, Abee C, Simmons JH, Fernandez-Duque E, Kanthaswamy S, Shiferaw F, Wu D, Zhou L, Shao Y, Zhang G, Keyyu JD, Knauf S, Le MD, Lizano E, Merker S, Navarro A, Bataillon T, Nadler T, Khor CC, Lee J, Tan P, Lim WK, Kitchener AC, Zinner D, Gut I, Melin A, Guschanski K, Schierup MH, Beck RMD, Umapathy G, Roos C, Boubli JP, Lek M, Sunyaev S, O'Donnell-Luria A, Rehm HL, Xu J, Rogers J, Marques-Bonet T, Farh KK
SARS-CoV-2 and wastewater: What does it mean for non-human primates?
Mathavarajah S, Melin A, Dellaire G
Visual detection and fruit selection by the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata).
Sánchez-Solano KG, Morales-Mávil JÉ, Laska M, Melin A, Hernández-Salazar LT
Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Keywords: Sensory ecology; genomics; transcriptomics; eye health; ; primate evolution; animal behaviour; foraging; ecology; plant-; animal interactions
The aging eye: integrating genomics, anatomy, and behaviour across the lifespan in a non-human primate model
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Keywords: visual function; aging; ocular disease;gene expression; retina; functional genomics; Rhesus macaque
How we came to our senses: dietary ecology and primate sensory evolution
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Keywords: sensory ecology; dietary ecology; primate evolution; field primatology; molecular genetics; genomics; niche divergence; field primatology; cebus; euarchonta
How we came to our senses: dietary ecology and primate sensory evolution
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
Primate Genomics And Dietary Ecology
Principal investigators: Melin, Amanda
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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