Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
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
Benjamin, N. R., Madrigal, G., Ishida, Y., Catchen, J., Allen, K. L., Pepin, B., & Roca, A. L. (2026). Genomic Validation of PERV-C-Free Pigs to Support Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation, 33(1), Article e70109. https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.70109
De Cahsan, B., Sandoval Velasco, M., Westbury, M. V., Duchêne, D. A., Strander Sinding, M. H., Morales, H. E., Kalthoff, D. C., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Portela Miguez, R., Roca, A. L., Greenwood, A. D., Johnson, R. N., Lott, M. J., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular biology and evolution, 42(4), Article msaf057. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf057
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