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Alfred L Roca

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Contact Information

1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, School of Information Sciences
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Affiliate, Illinois Natural History Survey

Recent Publications

Au, W. C., Dures, S. G., Ishida, Y., Green, C. E., Zhao, K., Ogden, R., & Roca, A. L. (2024). Lion Localizer: a software tool for inferring the provenance of lions (Panthera leo) using mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Heredity, 115(2), 166-172. Article esad072. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad072

de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Simeonovski, V. A., Gitahi, N., Mwebi, O., Agwanda, B. R., Catchen, J. M., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic lions. Current Biology, 34(21), 5104-5111.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.029

de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Rivera-Colón, A. G., Simeonovski, V. A., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Yamaguchi, N., Witt, K. E., Catchen, J., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Genomic analysis supports Cape Lion population connectivity prior to colonial eradication and extinction. Journal of Heredity, 115(2), 155-165. Article esad081. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad081

de Flamingh, A., Alexander, N., Perrin-Stowe, T. I. N., Donnelly, C., Guldemond, R. A. R., Schooley, R. L., van Aarde, R. J., & Roca, A. L. (2024). Integrating habitat suitability modeling with gene flow improves delineation of landscape connections among African savanna elephants. Biodiversity and Conservation, 33(11), 3231-3252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02910-0

Sandoval-Velasco, M., Dudchenko, O., Rodríguez, J. A., Pérez Estrada, C., Dehasque, M., Fontsere, C., Mak, S. S. T., Khan, R., Contessoto, V. G., Oliveira Junior, A. B., Kalluchi, A., Zubillaga Herrera, B. J., Jeong, J., Roy, R. P., Christopher, I., Weisz, D., Omer, A. D., Batra, S. S., Shamim, M. S., ... Aiden, E. L. (2024). Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample. Cell, 187(14), 3541-3562.e51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.06.002

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