Licia Colli

From prehistory to present-day: How isolation shaped the distinct genomic makeup of Italian Alpine valleys

This study examines the genomic makeup of modern Italian Alpine valleys, showing they retain ancient Neolithic ancestry and show microgeographic genetic subclusters shaped by isolation and drift.

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation

This paper uses genotype imputation to analyze low coverage ancient goat genomes, revealing demographic patterns and genetic consequences of domestication.

A tailored variant filtering procedure for multi-breed and multi-species unbalanced animal SNP collections

The paper develops a tailored variant filtering method for multi-breed and multi-species SNP datasets to reduce bias from standard approaches.

The variability of goat microRNA genes is strongly shaped by functional constraints

The study identifies miRNA polymorphisms in goats, finding low variation in seed regions due to purifying selection and higher variation in regulatory regions of isolated populations.

The origin of domestication genes in goats

This study identifies introgression and selection events in goat domestication, linking them to immune and behavioral genes.

Phylogeny and distribution of Y-chromosomal haplotypes in domestic, ancient and wild goats

This study analyzes Y-chromosomal haplotypes in domestic, ancient, and wild goats to reconstruct their population history and phylogeographic patterns.

BITE: an R package for biodiversity analyses

BITE, an R package, wraps SNP quality control, Kolmogorov-Smirnov-checked representative subsampling, color-consistent ancestry plots, and bootstrap-supported TreeMix gene-flow trees for biodiversity genomics.