Alfred L Roca

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

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

Neumann, G. B., Tarlinton, R., Korkuć, P., Gaffney, P. M., Viaud-Martinez, K. A., Urbaniak, S., Nobuta, K., Dayaram, A., Mulot, B., Ternes, K., Alquezar-Planas, D. E., Roca, A. L., Jern, P., Singleton, C. L., & Greenwood, A. D. (2026). Multi-generational koala pedigree analysis reveals rapid changes in heritable provirus load associated with life history traits. Nature communications, 17(1), Article 345. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66312-8

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

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