Andrea Benazzo

The paper investigates how genetic variation in common bean affects plant-plant interactions with maize, showing that effects depend on neighbor identity and environmental context.

The paper examines the relationship between genomic variation and genetic load in small island populations, finding that low genetic diversity does not always correlate with high genetic load.

The paper examines genomic diversity and adaptation in Apennine brown bears, finding unique genetic signatures linked to reduced aggressiveness, possibly due to human-induced selection.

The paper infers human pigmentation traits from ancient DNA by evaluating genotype likelihoods across 348 ancient Eurasian genomes, revealing non-linear and slow changes in skin, eye, and hair color over 45,000 years.

This study identifies adaptive gene loss in common bean populations during range expansion and domestication, showing gene loss as a key adaptive trait.

Low-ABC improves demographic inference from low-coverage whole-genome data by using genotype likelihoods instead of called genotypes, enabling reliable analysis of population history.

The paper identifies genotype-environment associations and adaptive variation in chickpea along historical Silk Road routes, highlighting genes related to heat and drought tolerance.

This study uses chloroplast and nuclear genomes to trace the evolutionary history of common beans, supporting a Mesoamerican origin and rejecting a new species classification.

The paper traces the evolutionary history of European common beans, showing Andean origins and adaptive introgression shaping their genomic diversity.

The paper analyzes ancient and modern common bean genomes to show that genetic diversity was preserved during early domestication, with significant erosion occurring only recently.

This paper introduces an ABC framework using FDSS to infer complex population histories from whole-genome data, showing its effectiveness in distinguishing evolutionary models.

The paper examines the genetic diversity of CHC22 clathrin and its impact on glucose metabolism, finding that a variant is less effective at controlling GLUT4 traffic and is more common in farming populations.