Greger Larson

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.

This study uses paleogenomes of dire wolves to resolve their evolutionary relationships and identify genes under diversifying selection.

The paper analyzes 1,001 wolf genomes to reveal distinct evolutionary lineages and genetic health issues across Europe, highlighting the need for region-specific conservation strategies.

The paper uses genomic and morphometric analyses to show that pigs in Wallacea and Oceania have diverse ancestries linked to Austronesian dispersal 4,000-3,000 years ago.

This study imputes ancient dog and wolf genomes to analyze inbreeding history over 10,000 years, finding lower inbreeding in ancient populations and associations between low ROH regions and olfaction/immune genes.

This study shows that small island populations of anoa and babirusa have higher genetic quality despite lower diversity, suggesting they should be prioritized for conservation over mainland translocations.

The paper constructs a cattle cell-type-specific regulatory variant atlas by integrating bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data, identifying eQTL and linking them to GWAS loci for breeding insights.

The ChickenGTEx project provides a multi-tissue reference of regulatory variants in chicken, analyzing their functional impacts and utility in genetics, genomics, and evolutionary studies.

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.

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.

HAYSTAC provides a Bayesian framework for accurate and efficient species identification in metagenomic data, outperforming existing tools in reducing false positives and handling degraded DNA.

The paper predicts the viability of archaic human hybrids using mitochondrial DNA divergence patterns to assess fertility differences between species pairs.