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86
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30456
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583
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87

Overview

Andrea Manica is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, Manica's work often addresses ecology, genetics, atmospheric science, anthropology, and paleontology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, wildlife ecology and conservation, geology and paleoclimatology research, species distribution and climate change, forensic and genetic research, genetic diversity and population structure, as well as archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Manica's publication record includes papers in a variety of journals and research venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Representative recent papers authored by or including Andrea Manica include:

  • "Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2," 2021, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph," 2020, published in Genome Biology
  • "Korean Genome Project: 1094 Korean personal genomes with clinical information," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production," 2022, published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "High-resolution terrestrial climate, bioclimate and vegetation for the last 120,000 years," 2020, published in Scientific Data

Andrea Manica frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Robert Beyer, Michela Leonardi, Mario Krapp, Emily G. Mitchell, and Eleanor M. L. Scerri. The collaboration with Robert Beyer appears most frequently, with 28 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

    Bodo Linz;Francois Balloux;Yoshan Moodley;Andrea Manica

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Morten Rasmussen;Xiaosen Guo;Yong Wang;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates

    Luca Börger;Luca Börger;Luca Börger;Novella Franconi;Giampiero De Michele;Alberto Gantz

  • Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

    Andrew Balmford;Jonathan M. H. Green;Michael Anderson;James Beresford

  • A global perspective on trends in nature-based tourism.

    Andrew Balmford;James Beresford;Jonathan Green;Robin Naidoo

  • Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow in Heliconius butterflies

    Simon H. Martin;Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra;Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra;Nicola J. Nadeau;Camilo Salazar

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Michael C. Westaway;Craig Muller;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Morten Arendt Rendt Rasmussen;Sarah L. Anzick;Michael R. Waters;Pontus Skoglund

  • A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures.

    Jonas Geldmann;Andrea Manica;Neil D Burgess;Lauren Coad

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Matthias Steinrücken;Matthias Steinrücken;Kelley Harris;Stephan Schiffels

  • Pathogen-Driven Selection and Worldwide HLA Class I Diversity

    Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;Marie Charpentier;Jean François Guégan

  • Geography predicts neutral genetic diversity of human populations.

    Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;François Balloux

  • Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

    Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Daniel John Lawson;Evelyn Jagoda;Evelyn Jagoda;Alexander Mörseburg

  • A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

    Monika Karmin;Monika Karmin;Lauri Saag;Lauri Saag;Mário Vicente;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres

  • Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

    Eppie R. Jones;Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes;Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes;Sarah Connell;Veronika Siska

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  • A geographically explicit genetic model of worldwide human-settlement history.

    Hua Liu;Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;François Balloux

  • Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

    Andaine Seguin-Orlando;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Martin Sikora;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

  • The effect of ancient population bottlenecks on human phenotypic variation

    Andrea Manica;William Amos;François Balloux;Tsunehiko Hanihara

  • Consistent individual differences drive collective behavior and group functioning of schooling fish

    Jolle Wolter Jolles;Jolle Wolter Jolles;Jolle Wolter Jolles;Neeltje J. Boogert;Vivek Hari Sridhar;Iain D. Couzin;Iain D. Couzin

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and Why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Francois Balloux
Francois Balloux University College London
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Rufus A. Johnstone
Rufus A. Johnstone University of Cambridge
Ana S. L. Rodrigues
Ana S. L. Rodrigues University of Montpellier
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu

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