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2025

  • Mondal M., André M., Pathak A. K., Brucato N., Ricaut F.-X., Metspalu M., Eriksson A. 2025. “Resolving out of Africa event for Papua New Guinean population using neural network”. bioRxiv 2024.09.19.613861; doi: 10.1101/2024.09.19.613861

2024

  • André M., Brucato N., Hudjasov G., Pankratov V., Yermakovich D., Montinaro F., Kreevan R., Kariwiga, Muke J., Boland A., Deleuze J.-F., Meyer V., Evans N., Cox M.P., Leavesley M., Dannemann M., Org T., Metspalu M., Mondal M., Ricaut F.-X. 2024. “Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels”. Nature Communications 15(1), 3352. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47735-1
  • Yermakovich D., André M., Brucato N., Kariwiga J., Leavesley M., Pankratov V., Mondal M., Ricaut F.-X., M. Dannemann. 2024. “Denisovan admixture facilitated environmental adaptation in Papua New Guinean populations”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 121(26):e2405889121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2405889121
  • Brucato N., Lisant V., Kinipi C., Kik A., Besnard G., Leavesley M., Ricaut F.-X. 2024. “Influence of betel nut chewing on oral microbiome in Papua New Guinea”. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eoae030. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoae030
  • Seguin M., Araujo A., Plutniak S., Babalu A., Ricaut F.-X. 2024. “Excavation data from Eripe 1 rock shelter, Papua New Guinea”. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11649250

2023

  • Tsang R., Katuk S., May S., Tacon P., Ricaut F.-X., Leavesley M. 2023. “Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea”. Archaeology in Oceania 58(1) p 115–130. doi: 10.1002/arco.5287

2022

  • Vespasiani D.M., Jacobs G.S., Cook L.E., Brucato N, Leavesley M., Kinipi C., Ricaut F.-X., Cox M.P., Gallego Romero I. 2022. “Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans”. PLOS Genetics. 18(12):e1010470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010470
  • Pedro N., Brucato N., Cavadas B., Lisant V., Camacho R., Kinipi C., Leavesley M., Pereira L., Ricaut F.-X. 2022. “First insight into oral microbiome diversity in Papua New Guineans reveals a specific regional signature”. Molecular Ecology 2022 Sep 24. doi: 10.1111/mec.16702
  • Brucato N., André M., Hudjashov G., Mondal M., Cox M.P., Leavesley M., Ricaut F.-X. 2022. “Chronology of natural selection in Oceanian genomes”. iScience 25(7):104583 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104583
  • Tsang R., Katuk S., May S.K., Taçon P.S.C., Ricaut F.-X., Leavesley M.G. 2022. “Rock art and (re)production of narratives: A cassowary bone dagger stencil perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal p 1-19. doi:10.1017/S0959774322000026
  • Karmin M., Flores R.J., Saag L., Hudjashov G., Brucato N., Crenna-Darusallam C., Larena M., Endicott P.L., Jakobsson M., Lansing S., Sudoyo H., Leavesley M., Metspalu M., Ricaut F.-X, Cox M.P. 2022 “Episodes of diversification and isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian male lineages“. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Volume 39, Issue 3 (msac045). doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac045

2021

  • Tsang R., Brady L.M. Katuk S., Taçon P.S.C., Ricaut F.X., M.G. Leavesley. 2021. “Agency, affect and archaeologist: transforming place with rock art in Auwim, upper Karawari Arafundi Region, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea”. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) – Volume 38, Number 2, pp. 183-194. doi:10.3316/INFORMIT.097295708346638
  • Brucato N., André M., Tsang R., Saag L., Kariwiga J., Sesuki K., Beni T., Pomat W., Muke J., Meyer V., Boland A., Deleuze J.-F., Sudoyo H., Mondal M., Pagani L., Gallego Romero I., Metspalu M., Cox M.P., Leavesley M., Ricaut F.-X. 2021. “Papua New Guinean genomes reveal the complex settlement of north Sahul”, Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab238.
  • André M., N. Brucato, S. Plutniak, J. Kariwiga, J. Muke, A. Morez, M. Leavesley, M. Mondal, F.-X. Ricaut. 2021. “Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea”. PLOS ONE 16(7): e0253921. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253921
  • Raimondeau P., Manzi S., Brucato N., Kinipi C., Leavesley M., Ricaut F.-X., Besnard G. 2021. “Genome skims analysis of betel palms (Areca spp., Arecaceae) and development of a profiling method to assess their plastome diversity”. Gene. Jul 15:145845. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.145845. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34274465.

 

2020

  • Forestier, H., J. Kariwiga, H. Baills, R. Tsang, S. Puaud, K. Miampa, S. Plutniak, A. Kuaso, F. -X. Ricaut, M. G. Leavesley. 2020. “30 years after P. Gorecki and D. S. Gillieson in Papua New Guinea: New Data on the Holocene Settlement of East Sepik, Upper Karawari-Arafundi Region” in N. Hidalgo Tan (ed.) Advancing Southeast Asian Archaeology 2019, Bangkok: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts, p. 184-200, ISBN: 978-616-7961-48-4.
  • Forestier H., Beni T., Baills H., Ricaut F.-X., Leavesley M.G. 2020. “Lithic drill points: an ethno-historic case study from Motopure Island (Papua New Guinea)”. In: Hermann A., Valentin F., Sand C., Nolet E. (Eds.), Networks and Monumentality in the Pacific, Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (Paris). Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, p. 35-48.
  • Gheddar L., Ricaut F.-X., Ameline A., Brucato N., Tsang R., Leavesley M.G, Raul J. S., Kintz P. 2020. “Testing for Betel Nut Alkaloids in Hair of Papuans Abusers using UPLC-MS/MS and UPLC-Q-Tof-MS”. Journal of Analytical Toxicology 7 :44(1): p. 41-48. doi: 10.1093/jat/bkz045.
  • Pedro N., Brucato N., Fernandes V., André M., Saag L., Pomat W., Besse C., Boland A., Deleuze J.-F., Clarkson C., Sudoyo H., Metspalu M., Stoneking M., Cox M. P., Leavesley M.G., Pereira L., Ricaut F.-X. 2020. “Papuan mitochondrial genomes and the settlement of Sahul”. Journal of Human Genetics 65 (10), p. 875-887. doi: 10.1038/s10038-020-0781-3.
  • Tsang R., Pleiber W., Kariwiga J., Plutniak S., Forestier H., Taçon P. S.C.,Ricaut F.-X., M.G. Leavesley. 2020. “Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behaviour: a case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea”. The Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1834472.