Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Animal Sciences
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
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
Rando, H., Alexander, E. P., Preckler-Quisquater, S., Quinn, C. B., Stutchman, J. T., Johnson, J. L., Bastounes, E. R., Horecka, B., Black, K. L., Robson, M. P., Shepeleva, D. V., Herbeck, Y. E., Kharlamova, A. V., Trut, L. N., Pauli, J. N., Sacks, B. N., & Kukekova, A. V. (2024). Missing History of a Modern Domesticate: Historical Demographics and Genetic Diversity in Farm-bred Red Fox Populations. Journal of Heredity, 115(4), 411-423. Article esae022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae022