Sarkar A, McInroy CJA, Harty S, Raulo A, Ibata NGO, Valles-Colomer M, Johnson KVA, Brito IL, Henrich J, Archie EA, Barreiro LB, Gazzaniga FS, Finlay BB, Koonin EV, Carmody RN*, Moeller AH*. 2024. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease. Cell 187: 17-43. Link PDF
Lieberman DE, Worthington S, Schell LD, Parkent CM, Devinsky O, Carmody RN. 2023. Comparing measured dietary varitaion within and between tropical hunter-gatherer groups to the Paleo diet. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 118: 549-560. Link PDF
Amato KR, Carmody RN. 2023. Gut microbial intersections with human ecology and evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 52: 295-311. Link PDF
Wang K, Mehta RS, Ma W, Nguyen LH, Wang DD, Ghazi AR, Yan Y, Al-Shaar L, Wang Y, Hang D, Fu BC, Ogino S, Rimm EB, Hu FB, Carmody RN, Garrett WS, Sun Q, Chan AT, Huttenhower C, Song M. 2023. The gut microbiome modifies the associations of short- and long-term physical activity with body weight changes. Microbiome 11: 121. Link
Carmody RN, Bisanz JE. 2023. The role of the gut microbiome in weight management. Nature Reviews Microbiology 21: 535-550. Link PDF
McNamara MP, Venable EM, Cadney MD, Castro AA, Schmill MP, Kazzazi L, Carmody RN, Garland T. 2023. Juvenile microbiome composition of a mouse model selectively bred for high voluntary wheel-running behavior. Journal of Experimental Biology 226: jeb.245081. Link
MacArthur MR, Mitchell SJ, Chadaideh KS, Treviño-Villareal JH, Reynolds J, Jung J, Kalafut K, Trocha K, Tao M, Yeliseyev V, Bry L, Ozaki CK, Lewis CA, Carmody RN, Mitchell JR. 2022. Multi-omics assessment of dietary protein titration reveals altered hepatic glucose utilization. Cell Reports 40: 111187. Link
Sarkar A, Harty S, Moeller AH, Klein SL, Erdman SE, Friston KJ, Carmody RN. 2021. The gut microbiome as a biomarker of differential susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. Trends in Molecular Medicine 27: 1115-1134. Link PDF
Chadaideh KS, Carmody RN. 2021. Host-microbial interactions in the metabolism of different dietary fats. Cell Metabolism 33: 857-872. Link PDF
Carmody RN, Sarkar A, Reese AT. 2021. Gut microbiota through an evolutionary lens. Science 372: 462-463. Link PDF Press
Reese AT, Chadaideh KS, Diggins CE, Schell LD, Beckel M, Callahan P, Ryan R, Emery Thompson M, Carmody RN. 2021. Effects of domestication on the gut microbiota parallel those of human industrialization. eLife 2021: 10:e60197. Link PDF Perspective Press
Ma S, Ren B, Mallick H, Moon YS, Schwager E, Maharjan S, Tickle TL, Lu Y, Carmody RN, Franzosa EA, Janson L, Huttenhower C. 2021. A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles. PLoS Computational Biology 17: e1008913. Link
Ke S, Mitchell SJ, MacArthur MR, Kane AE, Sinclair DA, Venable EM, Chadaideh KS, Carmody RN, Grodstein F, Mitchell JR, Liu YY. 2021. Gut microbiota predicts healthy late-life aging in male mice. Nutrients 13: 3290. Link
Reese AT, Phillips-Garcia S, Owens LA, Venable EM, Machanda ZP, Langergraber KE, Mitani JC, Watts DP, Muller MN, Wrangham RW, Goldberg TL, Emery Thompson M, Carmody RN. 2020. Age patterning in the wild chimpanzee gut microbiota reveals differences from humans in early life. Current Biology 31: 613-620. Link PDF Perspective
Sarkar A, Harty S, Johnson KVA, Moeller AH, Archie EA, Schell LD, Carmody RN, Clutton-Brock TH, Dunbar RIM, Burnet PWJ. 2020. Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1020-1035. Link
Sarkar A, Harty S, Johnson KVA, Moeller AH, Carmody RN, Lehto SM, Erdman SE, Dunbar RIM, Burnet PWJ. 2020. The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour. Biological Reviews 95: 1131-1166. Link
Carmody RN, Bisanz JE, Maurice CF, Lyalina S, Bowen BJ, Chadaideh KS, Maini Rekdal V, Bess EN, Spanogiannopoulos P, Bauer KC, Balon TW, Pollard KS, Northen TR, Turnbaugh PJ. 2019. Cooking shapes the structure and function of the gut microbiome. Nature Microbiology 4: 2052-2063. Link PDF Perspective Press
Wallace IJ, Bendele AM, Riew G, Hung HH, Frank EH, Holowka NB, Bolze AS, Venable EM, Yegian A, Dingwall HL, Carmody RN, Grodzinsky AJ, Lieberman DE. 2019. Physical inactivity and knee osteoarthritis in guinea pigs. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 27: 1721-1728. Link
Carmody RN, Baggish AL. 2019. Working out the bugs: microbial modulation of athletic performance. Nature Metabolism 1: 658-659. Link PDF
Kip P, Trocha KM, Tao M, O’Leary JJ, Ruske J, Giulietti JM, Trevino-Villareal JH, MacArthur MR, Bolze AS, Burak MF, Patterson S, Ho KJ, Carmody RN, Guzman RJ, Mitchell JR, Ozaki CK. 2019. Insights from a short-term protein-caloric restriction exploratory trial in elective carotid endarterectomy patients. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 53: 470-476. Link
Reese AT, Carmody RN. 2018. Thinking outside the cereal box: non-carbohydrate routes for dietary manipulation of the gut microbiota. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85: e02246-18. Link PDF
Zhang L, Carmody RN, Kalariya H, Duran RM, Moskal K, Poulev A, Kuhn P, Turnbaugh PJ, Raskin I, Roopchand DE. 2018. Grape proanthocyanidin-induced intestinal bloom of Akkermansia muciniphila is dependent on its baseline abundance and precedes activation of host genes related to metabolic health. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 56: 142-151. Link
Carmody RN. 2017. Evolution of the human dietary niche: quest for high-quality. In Muller MN, Wrangham RW and Pilbeam DR (eds.) Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Link
Carmody RN*, Dannemann M*, Briggs AW, Nickel B, Groopman EE, Wrangham RW and Kelso J. 2016. Genetic evidence of human adaptation to a cooked diet. Genome Biology and Evolution 8: 1091-1103. Link PDF
Spanogiannopoulos P, Bess EN, Carmody RN and Turnbaugh PJ. 2016. The microbial pharmacists within us: a metagenomic view of xenobiotic metabolism. Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 273-287. Link
Wrangham RW and Carmody RN. 2016. Influences of the control of fire on the energy value and composition of the human diet. In Lee-Thorp J and Katzenberg MA (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link
Roopchand DE, Carmody RN, Kuhn P, Moskal K, Rojas-Silva P, Turnbaugh PJ and Raskin I. 2015. Dietary polyphenols promote growth of the gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila and attenuate high fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome. Diabetes 64: 2847-2858. Link PDF
Smith A, Carmody RN, Dutton RJ and Wrangham RW. 2015. The significance of cooking for early hominin scavenging. Journal of Human Evolution 84: 62-70. Link
Carmody RN*, Gerber G*, Luevano JM, Somes L, Svenson KL and Turnbaugh PJ. 2015. Diet dominates host genotype in shaping the murine gut microbiota. Cell Host & Microbe 17: 72-84. Link PDF Perspective Cover
Groopman EE, Carmody RN and Wrangham RW. 2015. Cooking increases net energy gain from a lipid-rich food. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 11-18. Link PDF Cover
Carmody RN. Digestion and human evolution. 2015. In Beaudry MC and Metheny K (eds.), Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Link
Carmody RN and Turnbaugh PJ. 2014. Host-microbial interactions in the metabolism of therapeutic and diet-derived xenobiotics. Journal of Clinical Investigation 124: 4173-4181. Link PDF
David LA, Maurice CF, Carmody RN, Gootenberg DB, Button JE, Wolfe BE, Ling AV, Devlin AS, Varma Y, Fischbach M, Biddinger SB, Dutton RJ and Turnbaugh PJ. 2014. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature 505: 559-563. Link
Wrangham RW and Carmody RN. 2013. What makes us human – is it cooking? In Jobling MA, Hollox E, Hurles M, Kivisild T and Tyler-Smith C (eds.), Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and Disease (2nd Edition). New York: Garland Science. Link
Carmody RN and Turnbaugh PJ. 2012. Gut microbes make for fattier fish. Cell Host & Microbe 12: 259-261. Link PDF
Carmody RN, Weintraub GS and Wrangham RW. 2012. Reply to Wollstonecroft et al.: Cooking increases the bioavailability of starch from diverse plant sources. PNAS 109: E992. Link PDF
Carmody RN, Weintraub GS and Wrangham RW. 2011. Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing. PNAS 108: 19199-19203. Link PDF
Wrangham R and Carmody R. 2010. Human adaptation to the control of fire. Evolutionary Anthropology 19: 187-199. Link
Carmody RN and Wrangham RW. 2009. Cooking and the human commitment to a high-quality diet. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 74: 427-434. Link PDF
Carmody RN and Wrangham RW. 2009. The energetic significance of cooking. Journal of Human Evolution 57: 379-391. Link
Boback SM, Cox CL, Ott BD, Carmody R, Wrangham RW and Secor SM. 2007. Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology A 148: 651-656. Link
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[* denotes equal contributions]