Conor Rossi

The paper analyzes palaeogenomes of Neolithic sheep and goats to show that Mediterranean dispersal caused genetic bottlenecks, reducing effective population sizes and increasing homozygosity in Iberian livestock.

This study generates the first banteng reference genome and analyzes 78 resequenced samples to explore its domestication history and genetic structure.

The paper discovers a new Capra lineage from ancient genomes in Turkey's Taurus Mountains, related to modern Caucasian tur species and showing genetic introgression in domestic goats.

The paper reports the whole genome sequencing of a 1600-year-old mummified sheep from a salt mine, showing exceptional DNA preservation and linking it to modern Southwest Asian breeds.