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Romolo Caniglia

Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca AmbientaleORCID 0000-0002-3641-9490Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 2 Genetics· 1 Genomics· 1

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Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Elena FabbriiD· 3 shared Federica MattucciiD· 3 shared Astrid Vik StrøneniD· 2 shared Daniele BattilaniiD· 2 shared Diana LoboiD· 2 shared Marco GalaverniiD· 2 shared Raquel GodinhoiD· 2 shared Agatino M. Siracusa· 1 shared

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Wolves in black: multiple introgressions and natural selection may explain melanism in Italian wolves

Giulia Fabbri, Daniele Battilani, Federica Mattucci, Marco Galaverni, Astrid Vik Strønen, Marco Musiani, Raquel Godinho, Diana Lobo, Massimo Scandura, Ettore Randi, Elena Fabbri, Romolo Caniglia

The paper investigates the genomic basis of melanism in Italian wolves, finding evidence of multiple introgression events and balancing selection involving the KB allele from domestic dogs.

bioRxiv · May 9, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Misleading Success: Genomes Reveal Critical Risks to European Gray Wolves

Sara Ravagni, Daniele Battilani, Isabel Salado, Diana Lobo, Carlos Sarabia, Carlos Leiva, Romolo Caniglia, Elena Fabbri, Paolo Ciucci, Matteo Girardi, Francisco Iglesias-Santos, Josip Kusak, Federica Mattucci, Morteza Naderi, Carsten Nowak, , Cristiano Vernesi

The paper uses genomic data to show that European gray wolves face significant conservation risks despite population growth.

bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

The dispersal of domestic cats from Northern Africa and their introduction to Europe over the last two millennia

M. De Martino, Bea De Cupere, Valentina Rovelli, Patrizia Serventi, Marica Baldoni, Tullia Di Corcia, Sheila Geiger, Francesca Alhaique, Paulo C. Alves, Hijlke Buitenhuis, Emanuela Ceccaroni, Eugenio Cerilli, Jacopo De Grossi-Mazzorin, Cleia Detry, Marion Dowd, , Claudio Ottoni

This study uses ancient and modern cat genomes to show domestic cats reached Europe within the last 2,000 years from North Africa, not with Neolithic farmers, and identifies an earlier wildcat introduction to Sardinia.

bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

The Sicilian wolf: genetic identity of a recently extinct insular population

Francesco M. Angelici, Marta Maria Ciucani, Sabrina Angelini, Flavia Annesi, Romolo Caniglia, Riccardo Castiglia, Elena Fabbri, Marco Galaverni, D. Palumbo, Gloria Ravegnini, Lorenzo Rossi, Agatino M. Siracusa, Elisabetta Cilli

The paper analyzes the mitochondrial DNA of Sicilian wolf specimens to determine their genetic identity and relationship to other wolf populations.

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE · Jun 1, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics