Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Animal Sciences
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Kukekova, A. V., Lesch, R., & Parker, H. G. (2026). Evolution and Domestication of the Dog. In A. G. Jiménez, & S. R. Urfer (Eds.), Canine Science: An Interdisciplinary Look at Our Best Friend (pp. 27-53). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-31515-1_2
Puetz, L. C., O. Delmont, T., Mitchell, A. L., Finn, R. D., Zhang, G., Shepeleva, D. V., Kharlamova, A. V., Kukekova, A. V., Trut, L. N., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2026). Gut microbiome community structure correlates with different behavioral phenotypes in the Belyaev Farm-Fox Experiment. Communications biology, 9(1), Article 453. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09717-5
Espinosa, J., Zapata, I., Alvarez, C. E., Serpell, J. A., Kukekova, A. V., & Hecht, E. E. (2025). Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 32590. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18226-0
De Miguel, R., Hague, D. W., Johnson, J. L., Zilinger, A. M., Kukekova, A., & Lezmi, S. (2024). Congenital spongiform leukodystrophy in 2 female littermate German shepherd puppies. Journal of veterinary internal medicine, 38(3), 1730-1736. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.17055
Louie, A. Y., Drnevich, J., Johnson, J. L., Woodard, M., Kukekova, A. V., Johnson, R. W., & Steelman, A. J. (2024). Respiratory infection with influenza A virus delays remyelination and alters oligodendrocyte metabolism. iScience, 27(8), Article 110464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110464