Jesús Eduardo Maldonado

President Roosevelt's lions reveal a century of population fragmentation in Africa's largest carnivore

The paper uses whole-genome sequencing of historical and recent lion populations to show population fragmentation and genetic diversity loss in East Africa over the past century.

Genomic Resources for Asian (Elephas maximus) and African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Conservation and Health Research

The paper provides genomic resources for Asian and African savannah elephants to aid conservation and health research through genome sequencing, mutation rate estimation, demographic reconstruction, and a capture assay for genotyping.

Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in elephants

This paper develops epigenetic clocks for African and Asian elephants using DNA methylation data to estimate age and identify age-related CpGs and their associated genes.

Abundance, density, and social structure of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in a human-modified landscape in southwestern Gabon

This study estimates population size and density of African forest elephants in southwestern Gabon using genetic capture-recapture and analyzes social structure through network analysis, finding lower population estimates than previously reported.