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Kettenburg G, Simonis MC, Ferretti P, Sánchez CA, Gaucherand L, Williams KM, Islam S, Lutz HL, Frank LE, Huntington CA, Juman MM, Mols V, Quintela-Tizon RM, Voirin CJ, Ansil BR, Vicente-Santos AC, Víquez-R L, Lelli D, Weinberg M, Woodson SE, Barker BR, Dávalos LM, Kingston T, Schmidt AG, Streicker DG, Uelmen J, Banerjee A, Frank HK, Seifert SN, Becker DJ, Brook CE. Prioritizing the next decade of research in bat infectious disease (batID). Nature Communications.
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Stock SR, Cooley V, Park J-S, Lutz HL. Prospecting for collagen in old bones. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.


Buckles EL, Cummings KJ, Fegley IM, Rothenheber D, Cavaretta M, Jarvis AR, Anderson R, Lutz HL, Golas BD, Glaser A, Bunting E, Goodman LB. Bacterial presence and shift in wing-microbiota associated with histological lesion severity of white-nose syndrome in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) during its early emergence in North America. 

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(37) Hounmavo A, Segniagbeto GH, Onditi KO, Lutz HL, Delapré A, Demos TC, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Nicolas V. Small terrestrial mammal inventory of Assoukoko forest (Togo), with new country records and potential new species for science. Zoosystema 

2026
​(36) Hounmavo A, Lutz HL, Cornette R, Segniagbeto GH, Demos T, Kerbis Peterhans J, Nicolas-Colin V. Integrative taxonomy of the Praomys tullbergi complex (Rodentia, Muridae): a new species from West Africa. Journal of Mammalogy, 107 (2), 368-382. 
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2025
(35) Purushotham JN*, Lutz HL*, Parker E, Andersen KG. Immunological drivers of zoonotic viral emergence, evolution, and endemicity. Immunity, 58 (4), 784-796.
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(34) Wells K, Bell JA, Fecchio A, Drovetski S, Galen S, Hackett S, Lutz HL, Skeen HR, Voelker G, Wamiti W, Weckstein JD, Clark NJ. Parasite Abundance-Occupancy relationships across biogeographic regions: joint effects of niche breadth, host availability and climate. Journal of Biogeography,  52:55-65.
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2024
(33) Cambronero-Solano S, Cortés J, Orcutt B, Amon D, Breedy O, Cowell EJ, D’Angelo T, Droge M, Guilhon M, Hiller C, Lauer R, Lutz HL, Matamoros W, Naranjo-Elizondo B, Perrin R, Ramírez G, Sánchez-Noguera C, Sandoval M I, Voight J, Cortés S, Vásquez F. Costa Rica Desconocida: Un mar de oportunidades a través de la investigación del océano profundo. Costa Rican Journal of Foreign Policy.
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(32) Linnehan BK, Kodera S, Allard SM, Brodie EC, Allaband C, Knight R, Lutz HL, Carroll MC, Meegan JM, Jensen ED, Gilbert JA. Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantations in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) using metagenomic sequencing. Journal of Applied Microbiobioloy, 135, Ixae026.
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2023
(31) Demos TC, Webala PW, Goodman SM, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Lutz HL, Agwanda BR, Cortés-Delgado N, Briones S, Ree RH, Patterson BD. Ultraconserved elements resolve phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of African-Malagasy bent-winged bats (Miniopterus). 2023. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 188,  107890.
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(30) Kelliher JM, Rudolph M, Vangay P, Abbas A, Borton MA, Davenport ER, Davenport KW, Erazo NG, Herman C, Karstens, Kocurek B, Lutz HL, Myers KS, Ockert I, Rodrigues FE, Santistevan JK, Smith ML, Vogtmann E, Windsor A, Wood-Chalrson WM, Woodley L, Eloe-Fadrosh EA. 2023. Cohort-based learning for microbiome research community standards. Nature Microbiology, 8, 751-753.
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(29) ​Herder EA, Lutz HL, Hird SM. 2023. Body size poorly predicts host-associated microbial diversity in wild birds. Microbiology Spectrum. ​e03749-22, 1-19.
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2022
(28) ​Kodera S, Sharma A, Martino C, Dsouza M, Grippo M, Cox A, Lutz HL, Knight RK, Gilbert JA, Negri C, Allard SM. Microbiome response in an urban river system is dominated by seasonality over wastewater treatment upgrades. 2022. Environmental Microbiome. 18 (1), 1-14.
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(27) ​​Shaffer JP*, Louis-Félix Nothias LN*, Thompson LR*, Sanders JG, Salido RA, Couvillion SP, Brejnrod AD, Huang S, Lejzerowicz F, Lutz HL, Zhu Q, Martino C, Morton JT, Karthikeyan S, Nothias-Esposito M, Dürkhop K, Böcker S, Kim H, Askenov AA, Bittremieux W, Minich JJ, Marotz C, Bryant MM, Sanders J,, Schwartz T, Humphrey G, Vásquez-Baeza Y, Tripathi A, Parida L, Carrieri AP, Haiminen N, Beck KL, Das P, González A, McDonald D, Karst SM, Albertsen M, Ackermann G, DeReus J, Thomas T, Petras D, Shade A, Stegen J, Song SJ, Metz TO, Swafford AD, Dorrestein PC, Jansson JK, Gilbert JA, Knight R, & the Earth Microbiome Project 500 (EMP500) Consortium. Standardized multi-omics profiling of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity. 2022. Nature Microbiology. 7(12), 2128-2150.
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​(26) Porter ML, Lutz HL, Steck M, Chong RA. The complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic analysis of two Nycteribiidae bat flies (Diptera:Hippoboscoidea). 2022. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 7(8), 1486-1488.
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(25) Colella JP, Greiman SE, Kutz S, Lutz HL, Cook JA. Genomic identification and surveillance of infectious disease in natural systems. In C. Holleley & O. Berry (eds) Applied Environmental Genomics, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
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(24) ​Kodera S, Das P, Gilbert JA, Lutz HL. Conceptual strategies for characterizing interactions in microbial communities. 2022. iScience.
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2021
(23) Dodiya HB, Lutz HL, Patel P, Leibowitz J, Zhang C, Weigle I, Xia J, Oshomuvwe D, Olszewski M, Zhang X, Schipma MJ, Butovsky O, Tanzi RE, Gilbert JA, Sisodia SS. Gut microbiota-driven brain Aβ amyloidosis requires Microglia. 2021. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 219:1, e20200895
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​(22) Fecchio A, Clark NJ, Bell JA, Skeen H, Lutz HL, Vaughan JA, De La Torre GM, Tkach VV, Schunck FC, Ferreira FC, Braga ÉM, Lugarini C, Wamiti W, Dispoto JH, Galen SC, Kirchgatter K, Sagario MC, Cueto VR, González-Acuña D, Inumaru M, Sato Y, Schumm YR, Quillfeldt P, Pellegrino I, Dharmarajan G, Gupta P,  Robin VV, Cilolgu A, Yildirim A, Huang X, Chapa-Vargas L, Álvarez-Mendizábal P, Santiago-Alarcon D, Drovetski SV, Hellgren O, Voelker G, Ricklefs RE, Hackett SJ, Collins MD, Weckstein JD, Wells K. 2021. Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30 (12), 2393-2406.
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​(21) Lutz HL, Gilbert JA, Dick CW. Associations between Afrotropical bats, eukaryotic parasites, and microbial symbionts. 2021. Molecular Ecology. 31 (7), 1939-1950. 
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Natal long-fingered bat (Miniopterus natalensis) parasitized by a male bat fly (Penicillidia fulvida) on the wall of a diatomite min near Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: Holly L. Lutz


​(20) Colella JP, Bates J, Burneo SF, Camacho MA, Bonilla CC, Constable I, D'Elía G, Dunnum JL, Greiman S, Hoberg EP, Lessa E, Liphardt SW, Londoño-Gaviria M,  Losos E, Lutz HL, Garza NO, Peterson AT,  Martin ML, Ribas CC, Struminger B, Pérez FT, Thompson CW, Weksler M, Cook JA. 2021. Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network. PLoS Pathogens. 17(6): e1009583. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009583
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​(19) Özen S*, Lutz HL*, Rivera VM,  Batu ED, Anderson E, Salas Garcia M, Aldrovandi MG, Pazarbasi I, Akbaba T, Bilginer Y, Balat A, Peynircioglu B, Reiff A, Gilbert JA, Dedeoglu F, Hausmann JS. 2021. Microbiome is not linked to clinical disease severity of Familial Mediterranean Fever in an international cohort of children. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, ​132(5):102-108
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2020​
(18) Lutz HL, Vangelatos A, Gottel N, Osculati A, Visona S, Finley SJ, Tuomisto S, Karhunen P, Gilbert JA, Javan GT. Effects of extended postmortem interval on microbial communities in organs of the human cadaver. 2020. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11:569630.
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(17) ​Jackson EW, Wilhelm R, Johnson M, Lutz HL, Danforth I, Gaydos J, Hart M, Hewson I. 2020. Diversity of sea star-associated densoviruses and transcribed endogenized viral elements of densovirus origin. Journal of Virology, JVI.01594-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01594-20
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​(16) Miller SE, Barrow LN, Ehlman SM, Goodheart JA, Greiman SE, Lutz HL, Misiewicz TM, Smith SM, Tan M, Thawley CJ, Cook JA, Light JE. 2020. Building natural history collections for the 21st Century and beyond. 2020. BioScience, 70(8), doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa069
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(15) ​Song SJ, Sanders J, Delsuc F, Metcalf J, Amato K, Taylor MW, Mazel F, Lutz HL, Winker K, Graves GR, Humphrey G, Gilbert JA, Hackett SJ, White KP, Skeen HR, Kurtis SM, Withrow J, Braile T, Miller M, McCracken K, Maley J, Blanton JM, McKenzie VJ, Knight R.  2020. Comparative analyses of vertebrate gut microbiomes reveal convergence between birds and bats. mBio. doi:10.1128/mBio.02901-19
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​2019

(14) Lutz HL, Jackson EW, Webala PW, Babyesiza WS, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Demos TC, Patterson BD, Gilbert JA. 2019. Ecology and host identity outweigh evolutionary history in shaping the bat microbiome. 2019. mSystems, doi:10.1128/mSystems.00511-19
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(13) ​Demos TC, Webala PW, Lutz, HL, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Goodman SM, Cortés-Delgado N, Bartonjo M, Patterson BD. 2019. Molecular systematics and coalescent delimitation of a cryptic radiation of African long-fingered bats (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). 2019. ​Zoologica Scripta. 49:1-13, doi:10.1111/zsc.12388
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​(12) Fecchio A., Bell J, Bosholn M, Vaughan J, Tkach V, Lutz, HL, Cueto V, Gorosito C, González-Acuña D, Stromlund C, Kvasager D, Comiche K, Kirchgatter K, Pinho J, Berv J, Anciaes M, Fontana C, Zyskowski K, Sampaio S, Dispoto J, Galen S, Weckstein JD, Clark N. 2019. An inverse latitudinal gradient in infection probability and phylogenetic diversity for Leucocytozoon blood parasites in New World birds. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(2):423-435, doi:10.1111/1365‐2656.13117
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​(11) Phillips C. D., Dunnum J. L., Dowler R. C., Bradley L. C., Garner H. J., MacDonald K. A., Lim B.K., Revelez M. A., Campbell M. L., Lutz, H. L., Cook J. A., Bradley R. D., and the Systematic Collections Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists. 2019. Curatorial guidelines and standards of the American Society of Mammalogists for collections of genetic resources. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(6), 1690-1694.
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​(10) Lutz, H. L., Ramírez-Puebla T., Abbo L., Durand A., Schlundt C., Sjaarda A. K., Gottel N., Hanlon R. T., Gilbert J. A., Mark Welch J. L. 2019. A simple microbiome in the European common Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. mSystems.00177-19.
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(9) Fecchio, A., Bell, J.A., Pinheiro, R., Cueto, V., Gorosito, C., Lutz, H.L., Gaiotti, M., Paiva, L., França, L., Toledo-Lima, G., Tolentino, M., Pinho, J., Tkach, V., Fontana, C., Grande, J., Santillán, M., Caparroz, R., Roos, A., Bessa, R., Nogueira, W., Moura, T., Nolasco, E., Comiche, K., Kirchgatter, K., Guimarães, L., Dispoto, J., Marini, M., Weckstein, J.D., Batalha-Filho, H., Collins, M. D. 2019. Avian host composition, local speciation, and dispersal drive the regional assembly of avian malaria parasites in South American birds. Molecular Ecology, 28(10), 2681-2693.
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(8) Barrow, L.N., McNew, S.M., Mitchell, N., Galen, S.C., Lutz, H.L., Skeen, H., Valqui, T., Weckstein, J.D., Witt, C.C. 2019. Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi-host, multi-parasite system. Ecology Letters, 22(6), 987-998.
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(7) Fecchio, A., Wells, K., Bell, J. A., Tkach, V. V., Lutz, H. L., Weckstein, J. D., Clegg, S. M., Clark, N. J. 2019. Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites. Ecology Letters, 22(3), 547-557.
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(6) Lutz, H. L., Carryl, S., Santymire, R. M. 2019. Wildlife Microbial Genomics and Endocrinology. In D. Marco (editor). Microbial Ecology: Current advances from genomics, metagenomics, and other “omics” approaches. Caister Academic Press, Poole, UK.
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2017
(5) Lutz, H. L., Tkach, V. T., Weckstein, J. D. 2017. Methods for Specimen-based Studies of Avian Symbionts. Pp. 157-183 in M. S. Webster (editor). The Extended Specimen: Emerging Frontiers in Collections-based Ornithological Research. Studies in Avian Biology (no. 50). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
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2016
(4) Lutz, H. L., Marra, N. J., Grewe, F., Carlson, J., Palinauskas, V. Valkiūnas, G., Stanhope, M. J. 2016. Laser capture microdissection microscopy and next generation genome sequencing of the avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum. Parasitology Research, 115(12), 4503-4510.
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(3) Lutz, H. L., Patterson, B. D., Kerbis, J. C., Webala, P. W., Stanley, W. T., Gnoske, T. P., Hackett, S. J., Stanhope, M. J. 2016. Diverse sampling of East African haemosporidians reveals chiropteran origin of malaria parasites in primates and rodents. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 99, 7-15. 
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2015
(2) Lutz, HL, Hochachka, WM, Engel, JI, Bell, JA, Tkach, VV, Bates, JM, Hackett, SJ, Weckstein, JD. 2015. Parasite prevalence corresponds to host life history in a diverse assemblage of Afrotropical birds and haemosporidian parasites. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal/pone.012154. 
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2013
(1) Lutz, HL, Weckstein, JD, Patané, JL, Bates, JM, Aleixo, A. 2013. Biogeography and spatio-temporal diversification of Selenidera and Andigena toucans (Aves:Ramphastidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69, 873 – 883. 
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