Publications

1. Ishida Y, Georgiadis NJ, Hondo T, Roca AL (2013) Triangulating the provenance of African elephants using mitochondrial DNA. Evol Appl 6: 253-265. (full text link)
2. Brandt JR, Brandt AL, Ammer FK, Roca AL, Serfass TL (2013) Impact of Population Expansion on Genetic Diversity and Structure of River Otters (Lontra canadensis) in Central North America. J Hered. (full text link)
3. Avila-Arcos MC, Ho SY, Ishida Y, Nikolaidis N, Tsangaras K, Honig K, Medina R, Rasmussen M, Fordyce SL, Calvignac-Spencer S, Willerslev E, Gilbert MT, Helgen KM, Roca AL, Greenwood AD (2013) One hundred twenty years of koala retrovirus evolution determined from museum skins. Mol Biol Evol 30: 299-304. (full text link)
4. Zhao K, Ishida Y, Oleksyk TK, Winkler CA, Roca AL (2012) Evidence for selection at HIV host susceptibility genes in a West Central African human population. BMC Evol Biol 12: 237. (full text link)
5. Tsangaras K, Avila-Arcos MC, Ishida Y, Helgen KM, Roca AL, Greenwood AD (2012) Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). BMC Genet 13: 92. (full text link)
6. Ishida Y, Roca AL, Fratpietro S, Greenwood AD (2012) Successful genotyping of microsatellites in the woolly mammoth. J Hered 103: 459-464. (full text link)
7. Brandt AL, Ishida Y, Georgiadis NJ, Roca AL (2012) Forest elephant mitochondrial genomes reveal that elephantid diversification in Africa tracked climate transitions. Mol Ecol 21: 1175-1189. (full text link)
8. Roca AL (2011) 10th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium 2010. Preface. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 143: 177-178.
9. Ishida Y, Oleksyk TK, Georgiadis NJ, David VA, Zhao K, Stephens RM, Kolokotronis SO, Roca AL (2011) Reconciling apparent conflicts between mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies in African elephants. PLoS One 6: e20642. (full text link)
10. Ishida Y, Demeke Y, van Coeverden de Groot PJ, Georgiadis NJ, Leggett KE, Fox VE, Roca AL (2011) Distinguishing forest and savanna African elephants using short nuclear DNA sequences. J Hered 102: 610-616. (full text link)
11. Rohland N, Reich D, Mallick S, Meyer M, Green RE, Georgiadis NJ, Roca AL, Hofreiter M (2010) Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants. PLoS Biol 8: e1000564. (full text link)
12. Polani S, Roca AL, Rosensteel BB, Kolokotronis SO, Bar-Gal GK (2010) Evolutionary dynamics of endogenous feline leukemia virus proliferation among species of the domestic cat lineage. Virology 405: 397-407. (full text link)
13. Roelke ME, Brown MA, Troyer JL, Winterbach H, Winterbach C, Hemson G, Smith D, Johnson RC, Pecon-Slattery J, Roca AL, Alexander KA, Klein L, Martelli P, Krishnasamy K, O’Brien SJ (2009) Pathological manifestations of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection in wild African lions. Virology 390: 1-12. (full text link)
14. Roca AL, Ishida Y, Nikolaidis N, Kolokotronis SO, Fratpietro S, Stewardson K, Hensley S, Tisdale M, Boeskorov G, Greenwood AD (2009) Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth. BMC Evol Biol 9: 232. (full text link)
15. Driscoll CA, Yamaguchi N, Bar-Gal GK, Roca AL, Luo S, Macdonald DW, O’Brien SJ (2009) Mitochondrial phylogeography illuminates the origin of the extinct caspian tiger and its relationship to the amur tiger. PLoS One 4: e4125. (full text link)
16. Roca AL (2008) The mastodon mitochondrial genome: a mammoth accomplishment. Trends Genet 24: 49-52. (full text link)
17. Brown MA, Cunningham MW, Roca AL, Troyer JL, Johnson WE, O’Brien SJ (2008) Genetic characterization of feline leukemia virus from Florida panthers. Emerg Infect Dis 14: 252-259. (full text link)
18. Roca AL, Georgiadis N, O’Brien SJ (2007) Cyto-nuclear genomic dissociation and the African elephant species question. Quat Int 169-170: 4-16. (full text link)
19. Pontius JU, Mullikin JC, Smith DR, Lindblad-Toh K, Gnerre S, Clamp M, Chang J, Stephens R, Neelam B, Volfovsky N, Schaffer AA, Agarwala R, Narfstrom K, Murphy WJ, Giger U, Roca AL, Antunes A, Menotti-Raymond M, Yuhki N, Pecon-Slattery J, Johnson WE, Bourque G, Tesler G, O’Brien SJ (2007) Initial sequence and comparative analysis of the cat genome. Genome Res 17: 1675-1689. (full text link)
20. Driscoll CA, Menotti-Raymond M, Roca AL, Hupe K, Johnson WE, Geffen E, Harley EH, Delibes M, Pontier D, Kitchener AC, Yamaguchi N, O’Brien S J, Macdonald DW (2007) The Near Eastern origin of cat domestication. Science 317: 519-523. (Pubmed link)
21. Capelli C, MacPhee RD, Roca AL, Brisighelli F, Georgiadis N, O’Brien SJ, Greenwood AD (2006) A nuclear DNA phylogeny of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Mol Phylogenet Evol 40: 620-627. (link)
22. Roca AL, O’Brien SJ (2005) Genomic inferences from Afrotheria and the evolution of elephants. Curr Opin Genet Dev 15: 652-659. (link)
23. Roca AL, Nash WG, Menninger JC, Murphy WJ, O’Brien SJ (2005) Insertional polymorphisms of endogenous feline leukemia viruses. J Virol 79: 3979-3986. (full text link)
24. Roca AL, Georgiadis N, O’Brien SJ (2005) Cytonuclear genomic dissociation in African elephant species. Nat Genet 37: 96-100. (link)
25. Roca AL, Pecon-Slattery J, O’Brien SJ (2004) Genomically intact endogenous feline leukemia viruses of recent origin. J Virol 78: 4370-4375. (full text link)
26. Roca AL, Bar-Gal GK, Eizirik E, Helgen KM, Maria R, Springer MS, O’Brien SJ, Murphy WJ (2004) Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores. Nature 429: 649-651. (Pubmed link)
27. Comstock KE, Georgiadis N, Pecon-Slattery J, Roca AL, Ostrander EA, O’Brien SJ, Wasser SK (2002) Patterns of molecular genetic variation among African elephant populations. Mol Ecol 11: 2489-2498. (full text link)
28. Roca AL, Georgiadis N, Pecon-Slattery J, O’Brien SJ (2001) Genetic evidence for two species of elephant in Africa. Science 293: 1473-1477. (full text link)
29. Sauman I, Tsai T, Roca AL, Reppert SM (1996) Period protein is necessary for circadian control of egg hatching behavior in the silkmoth Antheraea pernyi. Neuron 17: 901-909. (full text link)
30. Roca AL, Godson C, Weaver DR, Reppert SM (1996) Structure, characterization, and expression of the gene encoding the mouse Mel1a melatonin receptor. Endocrinology 137: 3469-3477. (full text link)
31. Weaver DR, Roca AL, Reppert SM (1995) c-fos and jun-B mRNAs are transiently expressed in fetal rodent suprachiasmatic nucleus following dopaminergic stimulation. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 85: 293-297. (link)
32. Slaugenhaupt SA, Roca AL, Liebert CB, Altherr MR, Gusella JF, Reppert SM (1995) Mapping of the gene for the Mel1a-melatonin receptor to human chromosome 4 (MTNR1A) and mouse chromosome 8 (Mtnr1a). Genomics 27: 355-357. (link)
33. Reppert SM, Tsai T, Roca AL, Sauman I (1994) Cloning of a structural and functional homolog of the circadian clock gene period from the giant silkmoth Antheraea pernyi. Neuron 13: 1167-1176. (link)
34. Davar G, Kramer MF, Garber D, Roca AL, Andersen JK, Bebrin W, Coen DM, Kosz-Vnenchak M, Knipe DM, Breakefield XO, et al. (1994) Comparative efficacy of expression of genes delivered to mouse sensory neurons with herpes virus vectors. J Comp Neurol 339: 3-11. (full text link)
35. Davar G, Kramer MF, Garber D, Roca AL, Andersen JK, Bebrin W, Coen DM, Kosz-Vnenchak M, Knipe DM, Breakefield XO, et al. (1994) Gene transfer to sensory neurons using herpes virus vectors. Gene Ther 1 Suppl 1: S24. (Pubmed link)
36. Tobet SA, Roca AL, Crandall JE (1993) Cellular organization in rat somatosensory cortex: effects of sex and laterality. Exp Neurol 121: 65-76. (full text link)
37. Roca AL, Weaver DR, Reppert SM (1993) Serotonin receptor gene expression in the rat suprachiasmatic nuclei. Brain Res 608: 159-165. (full text link)