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17. Stothart, M.R.^†, Lavergne, S.^†, McCaw, L., Singh, H., de Vega, W., Gandhi, N., Mahmood, R., Amato, K., Poissant, J., and Boonstra, R. (2024). Population Dynamics and the Microbiome in a Wild Boreal Mammal: The Snowshoe Hare Cycle and Impacts of Diet, Season and Predation Risk. Molecular Ecology

16. Vaasjo, E., Stothart, M.R., Black, S.R., Poissant, J., and Whiteside, D.P. (2024) Characterization of the endangered greater sage-grouse (Centrocerus urophasianus) microbiome in a zoo-housed conservation program. Conservation Physiology

15. Stothart, M.R., McLoughlin, P.D., Medill, S.A., Greuel, R.J. Wilson, A.J., and Poissant, J.P. (2024) Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome predicts survival in a feral horse population. Nature Communications

14. Leonard, A., … Stothart, M.R., … and Alberdi, A. (2024) A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution

13. Fusco, N., Vanek, J.P.,  …  Stothart, M.R.,  …  and Caccone, C. (2023). Population genomic structure of a widespread, urban-dwelling mammal; The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Molecular Ecology12. Stothart, M.R.†, Spina, H.A.†, Hotchkiss, M., Ko, W., and Newman, A.E.M. (2023). Seasonal dynamics in the mammalian microbiome between disparate environments. Ecology and Evolution.

11. Stothart, M.R., McLoughlin, P.D., and Poissant, J. (2022). Shallow shotgun sequencing of the microbiome recapitulates 16S amplicon results while providing functional insights. Molecular Ecology Resources.

10. Rimbach, R., Grant, A., Gupte, P.R., Newman, A.E.M., Stothart, M.R., and Pontzer, H. (2022). Comfortably numb? A stressor indicator decreases along a rural-urban gradient in eastern gray squirrels. Urban Naturalist.

9. Webb, S., Teullet, S., and Stothart, M.R. (2022). Growing and maintaining a network for early career researchers through the Animal Microbiome Research Group. Evolutionary Anthropology.

8. Stothart, M.R. and Newman, A.E.M. (2021). Shades of grey: host phenotype dependent effect of urbanization on the bacterial microbiome of a wild mammal. Animal Microbiome.

7. Gavriliuc, S., Stothart, M.R., Henry, A., & Poissant, J.P. (2021). Long-term storage of feces at -80°C versus -20°C is negligible for 16S rRNA amplicon profiling of the equine bacterial microbiome. PeerJ.

6. Stothart, M.R., Greuel, R.J, Gavriliuc, S., Henry, A., Wilson, A.J., McLoughlin, P.D., & Poissant, J.P. (2020). Bacterial dispersal and drift drive microbiome diversity patterns within a population of feral hindgut fermenters. Molecular Ecology.

5. Greyson-Gaito, C., Bartley, T., Cottenie, K., Jarvis, W., Newman, A.E.M, and Stothart, M.R. (2020). Into the wild: microbiome transplant studies need broader ecological reality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

4. Stothart, M.R., Palme, R., Newman, A.E.M. (2019). It’s what’s on the inside that counts: stress physiology and the bacterial microbiome of a wild urban mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

3. Rivkin, L.R., Santangelo, J.S., Alberti, M., Aronson, M.F.J., de Keyzer, C.W., Diamond, S.E., Fortin, M., Frazee, L.J., Gorton, A.J., Hendry, A.P., Liu, Y., Losos, J.B., MacIvor, J.S., Martin, R.A., McDonnell, M.J., Miles, L.S., Munshi‐South, J., Ness, R.W., Newman, A.E.M., Stothart, M.R., Theodorou, P., Thompson, K.A., Verrelli, B.C., Whitehead, A., Winchell, K.M. & Johnson, M.T.J. (2019). A roadmap for research in urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications.

2. Stothart, M.R., Elliott, K.H., Wood, T., Hatch, S.A., and Speakman, J.R. (2016). Counting calories in cormorants: dynamic body acceleration predicts daily energy expenditure in pelagic cormorants. Journal of Experimental Biology.

1. Stothart, M.R., Bobbie, C.B., Schulte-Hostedde, A.I., Boonstra, R., Palme, R., Mykytczuk, N.C.S., and Newman A.E.M. (2016). Stress and the microbiome: linking glucocorticoids to bacterial community dynamics in wild red squirrels. Biology Letters.

†Authors contributed equally.