Joel M. Alves

The paper quantifies and localizes nuclear introgression in two hare species by combining demographic, phylogenomic, and polarisation-based methods, revealing extensive gene flow from mountain hare.

The paper shows MHC-I diversity allowed wild rabbits to rapidly adapt to the myxoma virus pandemic through evolutionary shifts in allele frequencies.

This paper reports the genome of Pavonine herpesvirus 1, a novel Mardivirus from peafowl, showing it lacks oncogenic genes found in Mareks disease virus.

The paper quantifies how gene flow and selection shape spatial genomic structure over time in Drosophila melanogaster, finding widespread homogenization and preservation of adaptive loci.

The paper identifies leopard cats as the earliest felines in Chinese human settlements, predating domestic cats by over 2,500 years, and traces the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.