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Names of PI, undergraduates, rotating graduate students, full-time graduate students, postdocs, technicians, and visiting researchers are in bold. 

2026
Bruijning, Marjolein, Andrew H. Moeller, Gavriela Carver, Mohamed S. Donia, Britt Koskella, Prerna Singh, and C. Jessica E. Metcalf. The bacterial march toward symbiosis: on-ramps and off-ramps. Trends in Microbiology (2026): doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2026.05.008

Ge, Muzi, Tomoya Maeda, Jingdi Li, Maryam Chaib De Mares, Emmanuel George Kifaro, Gizachew Haile Gidamo, Katsuyuki Shiroguchi, Andrew H. Moeller, Zhibin Zhang, and Jianshi Jin. Standardized and batch effect-independent technologies enable global collaboration in microbiome research. The ISME Journal (2026): doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrag122

Real, Madalena V. F., Maren N. Vitousek, Michael J. Sheehan, Andrew H. Moeller. The mouse gut microbiota responds to predator odor and predicts host behavior. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2025): doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.01.662568

Dillard, Brian A., Jon G. Sanders, Azhar P. Husain, Kelsey M. Yule, Andrew H. Moeller. Isolation by distance promotes gut microbial strain divergence in wild moue populations. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025): doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03073-7

Moeller, Andrew H. Human gut microbiota and brain evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (2026): doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535454123

2025
Sprockett, Daniel D., Brian A. Dillard, Abigail A. Landers, Jon G. Sanders, Andrew H. Moeller. Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice. Nature Communications​ (2025): doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57435-z
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Moeller, Andrew H. Partner fidelity, not geography, drives co-diversification of gut microbiota with hominids. Biology Letters (2025): doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0454

Zipple, Matthew N., Daniel C. Kuo, Xinmiao Meng, Tess M. Reichard, Kwynn Guess, Caleb C. Vogt, Andrew H. Moeller, Michael J. Sheehan. Sex-specific competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice. Science (2025): doi.org/10.1126/science.adq0579 PDF

2024
Moeller, Andrew H., Brian A. Dillard, Samantha L. Goldman, Madalena V. F. Real, Daniel D. Sprockett. Removal of adapter contamination improves microbial genome databases. BMC Genomics (2024): doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10956-1 PDF
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Vogt, Caleb C., Matthew N. Zipple, Daniel D. Sprockett, Caitlin H. Miller, Summer X. Hardy, Matthew K. Arthur, Adam M. Greenstein Melanie S. Colvin, Lucie M. Michel, Andrew H. Moeller, Michael J. Sheehan Female behavior drives the formation of distinct social structures in C57BL/6J versus wild-derived outbred mice in field enclosures. BMC Biology (2024): doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01809-0​ PDF

Goldman, Samantha L., Jon G. Sanders, Daniel D. Sprockett, Abigail Landers, Weiwei Yan, Andrew H. Moeller. Hackflex library preparation enables low-cost metagenomic profiling. ISME Communications (2024): doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae075 PDF​

Sarkar, Amar, Cameron J.A. McInroy, Siobhán Harty, Aura Raulo, Neil G.O. Ibata, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Katerina V-A. Johnson, Ilana L. Brito, Joseph Henrich, Elizabeth A. Archie, Luis B. Barreiro, Francesca S. Gazzaniga, B. Brett Finlay, Eugene V. Koonin, Rachel N. Carmody*, Andrew H. Moeller*. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease. Cell (2024): doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.12.014 PDF *Equal contributions

Real, Madalena V.F., Melanie S. Colvin, Michael J. Sheehan, Andrew H. Moeller. Major urinary protein (Mup) gene family deletion drives sex-specific alterations on the house mouse gut microbiota. Microbiology Spectrum (2024): doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03566-23 PDF

2023
Brunetti, Andrés E., Mariana L. Lyra, Juliane PC Monteiro, Juan P. Zurano, Diego Baldo, Celio FB Haddad, Andrew H. Moeller. Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2023): doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2223

Trevelline, Brian K., Daniel D. Sprockett, William V. DeLuca, Catherine R. Andreadis, Andrew H. Moeller*, Christopher Tonra*. Convergent remodeling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long-distance migration. Functional Ecology (2023): doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14430 *Co-senior authors

Moeller, Andrew H., Jon G. Sanders, Daniel D. Sprockett, Abigail Landers. Assessing co‐diversification in host‐associated microbiomes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2023): doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14221

Sanders, Jon G., Daniel D. Sprockett, Yingying Li, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Jean-Bosco Ndjango, Alexander V. Georgiev, John H. Hart, Crickette Sanz, David Morgan, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller. Widespread extinctions of co-diversified primate gut bacterial symbionts from humans. Nature Microbiology (2023): doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01388-w
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Sprockett, Daniel D., Jeffrey D. Price, Anthony F. Juritsch, Robert J. Schmaltz, Madalena V. F. Real, Samantha L. Goldman, Michael J. Sheehan, Amanda E. Ramer-Tait, Andrew H. Moeller. Home-site advantage for host-species specific gut microbiota. Science Advances (2023): doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf5499

Moeller, Andrew H. Metagenomic targets of balancing selection in the human gut. Molecular Ecology (2023): doi.org/10.1111/mec.16474

2022
Sanders, Jon G., Weiwei Yan, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, John A. Hart, Crickette M. Sanz, David B. Morgan, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller. A low-cost genomics workflow enables isolate screening and strain-level analyses within microbiomes. Genome Biology (2022): doi.org/10.1186/s13059-022-02777-w

Moeller, Andrew H. Loyal gut microbes. Science (2022): doi.org/10.1126/science.ade2879
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Dillard, Brian A., Albert K. Chung, Shane C. Campbell-Staton, Alex R. Gunderson, Andrew H. Moeller. Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments. eLife (2022): doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76381
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Trevelline, Brian K.
, Andrew H. Moeller. Robustness of mammalian gut microbiota to humanization in captivity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2022): doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.785089

​Goldman, Samantha L., Jon G. Sanders, Weiwei Yan, Anthony Denice, Margaret Cornwall, Kathleen N. Ivey, Emily N. Taylor, Alex Gunderson, Michael J. Sheehan, Deus Mjungu, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn, Andrew H. Moeller. Culture-enriched molecular profiling improves resolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota. Molecular Ecology Resources (2021): doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13456

2021
Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Andrew H.Moeller, Sabra L.Klein, Susan E.Erdman, Karl J.Friston, Rachel N.Carmody. The gut microbiome as a biomarker of differential susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. Trends in Molecular Medicine (2021): doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2021.09.009

Moeller, Andrew H. Genomic expansions in the human gut microbiome. Genome Biology and Evolution (2021): doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab156

​Hernandez, Christopher J., Andrew H. Moeller. The Microbiome: A Heritable Contributor to Bone Morphology? Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology (2021): doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.06.022

Houtz, Jennifer L., Jon G. Sanders, Anthony Denice, Andrew H. Moeller. Predictable and host‐species specific humanization of the gut microbiota in captive primates. Molecular Ecology (2021): doi.org/10.1111/mec.15994 

Sprockett, Daniel D., Andrew H. Moeller. Microbiomes: Infant chimps crawling with bacteria. Current Biology. 3 (2021): doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.045

2020
Moeller, Andrew H., Jon G. Sanders. Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (2020): 20190597.

Moeller, Andrew H., Kathleen Ivey, Margaret B. Cornwall, Kathryn Herr, Jordan Rede, Emily N. Taylor, Alex R. Gunderson. The lizard gut microbiota changes with temperature and is associated with heat tolerance. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86 (2020): e01181-20.

Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Katerina V-A. Johnson, Andrew H. Moeller, Elizabeth A. Archie, Laura D. Schell, Rachel N. Carmody, Timothy H. Clutton-Brock, Robin IM Dunbar, Philip WJ Burnet. Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (2020): 1020–1035.

Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Katerina V‐A. Johnson, Andrew H. Moeller, Rachel N. Carmody, Soili M. Lehto, Susan E. Erdman, Robin IM Dunbar, Philip WJ Burnet. The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour. Biological Reviews 95 (2020): 1131–1166.

Sepulveda, Juan, and Andrew H. Moeller. The effects of temperature on animal gut microbiomes. Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (2020): 384.

2019
Moeller, Andrew H., João C. Gomes-Neto, Sara Mantz, Hatem Kittana, Rafael R. Segura Munoz, Robert J. Schmaltz, Amanda E. Ramer-Tait, Michael W. Nachman. Experimental evidence for adaptation to species-specific gut microbiota in house mice. mSphere 4  (2019): e00387-19.

2018
Moeller, Andrew H., Taichi A. Suzuki, Megan Phifer-Rixey, Michael W. Nachman. Transmission modes of the mammalian gut microbiota. Science 362 (2018): 453–457.

Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Soili M. Lehto, Andrew H. Moeller, Timothy G. Dinan, Robin IM Dunbar, John F. Cryan, Philip WJ Burnet. The microbiome in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences  22 (2018): 611–636.

Barbian, Hannah J., Yingying Li, Miguel Ramirez, Zachary Klase, Iddi Lipende, Deus Mjungu, Andrew H. Moeller, Micahel L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Frederic D. Bushman, Beatrice H. Hahn. Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of Simian Immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 80 (2018): e22515.

2017
Moeller, Andrew H., Taichi A. Suzuki, Dana Lin, Eileen A. Lacey, Samuel K. Wasser, Michael W. Nachman. Dispersal limitation promotes the diversification of the mammalian gut microbiota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 52 (2017): 13768–13773.
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Moeller, Andrew H. The shrinking human gut microbiome. Current Opinion in Microbiology 38 (2017): 30–35.

Raymann, Kasie, Andrew H. Moeller, Andrew L. Goodman, Howard Ochman. Unexplored Archaeal Diversity in the Great Ape Gut Microbiome. mSphere 2 (2017): e00026-17.

2016
Moeller, Andrew H., Alejandro Caro-Quintero, Deus Mjungu, Alexander V. Georgiev, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Martin N. Muller, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman. Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids. Science 353 (2016): ​380–382.
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Moeller, Andrew H., Steffen Foerster, Michael L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman. Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome. Science Advances 2 (2016): e1500997.

2015
Waldor, Matthew K., Gene Tyson, Elhanan Borenstein, Howard Ochman, Andrew H. Moeller, B. Brett Finlay, Heidi H. Kong, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Karen E. Nelson, Karim Dabbagh, Hamilton Smith. Where next for microbiome research? PLoS biology 13 (2015): e1002050–e1002050.

Moeller, Andrew H., Martine Peeters, Ahidjo Ayouba, Eitel Mpoudi Ngole, Amadine Esteban, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. "Stability of the gorilla microbiome despite simian immunodeficiency virus infection." Molecular Ecology 24 (2015): 690–697.

2014
Moeller, Andrew H., Yingying Li, Eitel Mpoudi Ngole, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. "Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111 (2014): 16431–16435.

Moeller, Andrew H., Howard Ochman. Microbiomes are true to type. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111 (2014): 9372–9373.

2013
Moeller, Andrew H., Martine Peeters, Jean-Basco Ndjango, Yingying Li, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman. Sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas harbor convergent gut microbial communities. Genome Research 23 (2013): 1715–1720.

Moeller, Andrew H.*, Meghan Shilts*, Yingying Li, Rebecca S. Rudicell, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman. SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiome. Cell Host & Microbe 14 (2013): 340–345. 

Moeller, Andrew H., Howard Ochman. Factors that drive variation among gut microbial communities. Gut Microbes 4 (2013): 403–408.

López-Giráldez, Francesc, Andrew H. Moeller, Jeffrey P. Townsend. Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets. BioMed Research International 2013 (2013): 621604.

Moeller, Andrew H., Jeffrey P. Townsend. Response to: The relative utility of sequence divergence and phylogenetic informativeness profiling in phylogenetic study design. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (2013): 436.

2012
Moeller, Andrew H., Patrick H. Degnan, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman. Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes. Nature Communications 3 (2012): 1179.
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2011
Moeller, Andrew H., Jeffrey P. Townsend. Phylogenetic informativeness profiling of 12 genes for 28 vertebrate taxa without divergence dates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60 (2011): 271621604–272.


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