Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

*co-first authors, †Students

• 2026Vera Covarrubias B*, Kamminga JM*†, Muchlinski MN, Munds RA, Villero Núñez V, Bauman Surratt S, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Montague MJ, Higham JP, Melin AD, Veilleux CC. Investigating mechanoreceptor variability and morphometric proxies in rhesus macaques: Implications for primate precision touch studies. Anatomical Record 309: 1005–1024.
• 2025Fernandes AG, Poirier AC, Veilleux CC, Melin AD. Contributions and future potential of animal models for geroscience research on sensory systems. GeroScience 47: 61–83.
• 2024Veilleux CC, Tecot SR, Lewis RJ. Fat storage and drought tolerance in a seasonally-adapted primate: Implications for models of global climate change. Integrative Conservation 3: 168–182.Chosen for cover story of issue
• 2023Veilleux CC*, Garrett EC*, Pajic P*, Saitou M, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gokcumen O, Melin AD. Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes. Communications Biology 6: 683.
• 2022Veilleux CC, Dominy NJ, Melin AD. Sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited. Invited review. Evolutionary Anthropology 31: 281–301.
• 2022Melin AD*, Veilleux CC*, Janiak M, Hiramatsu C, Sánchez-Solano K, Webb S, Williamson R, Mah M, Murillo-Chacon E, Schaffner C, Hernández-Salazar L, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Anatomy and dietary specialization influence sensory behaviour among sympatric primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 289: 20220847.
• 2021Veilleux CC, Kawamura S, Montague MJ, Hiwatashi T, Matsushita Y, Fernandez-Duque E, Link A, Di Fiore A, Snodderly DM. Color vision and niche partitioning in a diverse neotropical primate community in lowland Amazonian Ecuador. Ecology and Evolution 11: 5742–5758.
• 2019Jacobs RL, Veilleux CC, Louis EE, Frankel DC, Irwin MT, Melin AD, Bradley BJ. Less is more: Lemurs (Eulemur spp.) potentially benefit from loss of trichromatic vision. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 22.
• 2016Veilleux CC, Scarry CJ, Di Fiore A, Kirk EC, Bolnick DA, Lewis RJ. Group benefit associated with polymorphic trichromacy in a Malagasy primate (Propithecus verreauxi). Scientific Reports 6: 38418. (pdf)
• 2016Guevara EE, Veilleux CC, Saltonstall K, Caccone A, Mundy NI, Bradley BJ. Potential arms race in the coevolution of primates and angiosperms: brazzein sweet proteins and gorilla taste receptors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161: 181–185.
• 2014Veilleux CC, Kirk EC. Visual acuity in mammals: effects of eye size and ecology. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 83: 43–53.Chosen as “Editor's Choice” article
• 2014Veilleux CC, Jacobs RL, Cummings ME, Louis EE, Bolnick DA. Opsin genes and visual ecology in a nocturnal folivorous lemur. Invited Article. International Journal of Primatology 35: 88–107. (pdf)
• 2013Veilleux CC, Louis EE, Bolnick DA. Nocturnal light environments influence color vision and signatures of selection on the OPN1SW opsin gene in nocturnal lemurs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30: 1420–1437. (pdf)
• 2012Veilleux CC, Cummings ME. Nocturnal light environments and species ecology: implications for nocturnal color vision in forests. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 4085–4096. (pdf)
• 2011Veilleux CC, Lewis RJ. Effects of habitat light intensity on mammalian eye shape. Anatomical Record 294: 905–914. (pdf)
• 2009Veilleux CC, Bolnick DA. Opsin gene polymorphism predicts trichromacy in a cathemeral lemur. American Journal of Primatology 71: 86–90. (pdf)
• 2009Veilleux CC, Kirk EC. Visual acuity in a cathemeral strepsirrhine (Eulemur macaco flavifrons). American Journal of Primatology 71: 342–352. (pdf)

Invited Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• In PressVeilleux CC. Optics of mammalian vision. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, editor SM Sherman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2024Melin AD, Veilleux CC. Primate senses: finding and evaluating food. In How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order, editors JE Lambert, MAH Bryer, & J Rothman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 95–113.
• 2023Veilleux CC, Heesy CP. Visual system of the only nocturnal anthropoid, Aotus — the owl monkey. In Owl Monkeys — Biology, Adaptive Radiation, and Behavioral Ecology of the Only Nocturnal Primate in the Americas, editor E Fernandez-Duque. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, pp. 203–249.
• 2020Veilleux CC. Seeing in the dark: Visual function and ecology in lorises and pottos. In Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos, editors KAI Nekaris & AM Burrows. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 174–186.
• 2019Veilleux CC. Sensory polymorphisms and dietary adaptation. In A Companion to Anthropological Genetics, editor Dennis O'Rourke. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 233–250.
• 2018Veilleux CC. Primate color vision, genetics of. Invited peer-reviewed encyclopedia article in The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, editor Wenda Trevathan. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
• 2017Veilleux CC. Genetics of primate color vision. Invited peer-reviewed encyclopedia article in The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, editor Agustin Fuentes. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.