2012 Publications

Arribas, P., Velasco, J., Abellán, P., Sánchez-Fernández, D., Andújar, C., Calosi, P., Millán, A., Ribera, I., Bilton, D. T. 2012. Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Journal of Biogeography. Ahead of print doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02641.x

Behar, Doron M., Harmant, C., Manry, J., van Oven, M., Haak, W., Martinez-Cruz, B., Salaberria, J., Oyharçabal, B., Bauduer, F., Comas, D., Quintana-Murci, L. and the Genoghaphic Consortium. 2012. The Basque Paradigm: Genetic Evidence of a Maternal Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region since Pre-Neolithic Times. The American Journal of Human Genetics 90: 486-493

Bergsten, J., Bilton, D. T., Fujisawa, T., Elliott, M., Monaghan, M. T., Balke, M., Hendrich, L., Geijer, J., Herrmann, J., Foster, G. N., Ribera, I., Nilsson, A. N., Barraclough, T. G., Vogler, A. P. 2012. The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding. Systematic Biology. Ahead of print; doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys037. 

Carnero-Montoro, E., Bonet, L., Engelken, J., Bielig, T., Martínez-Florensa, M.,  Lozano, F., Bosch E. 2012. Evolutionary and Functional Evidence for Positive Selection at the Human CD5 Immune Receptor Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29: 811-823

Carnicer, J., Stefanescu, C., Vila, R., Dincă, V., Font, X. Peñuelas, J. 2012. A unified framework for diversity gradients: the adaptive trait continuum. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Ahead of print; DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00762.x.

Dapporto, L., Bruschini C., Dinca V., Vila R., Dennis R.L.H. 2012. Identifying zones of phenetic compression in West Mediterranean butterflies (Satyrinae): refugia, invasion and hybridization. Diversity and Distributions. Ahead of print ; doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00903.x

Dietrich M., Kempf F., Gómez-Díaz E., Kitaysky A.S., Hipfner J.M., Boulinier T., & McCoy K.D. 2012. Inter-oceanic variation in patterns of host-associated divergence in a seabird ectoparasite. Journal of Biogeography, 39: 545-555.

Garcia-Garcerà, M. C., M. Garcia-Etxebarria, K. Martín-Caballero, J. González-Candelas, F Latorre, A. Calafell, F. 2012. Staphylococcus prevails in the skin microbiota of long-term immunodeficient mice. Environmental Microbiology . Ahead of print.doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02756.x

Garcia-Porta J.,  Litvinchuk  S.N., Crochet   P.A., Romano A., Geniez P.H., Lo-Valvo  M.,  Lymberakis P., Carranza  S. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the west-palearctic common toads (Bufo bufo species complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Ahead of print; doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.019

Ge, D., Chesters, D., Gomez-Zurita, J., Zhang, L., Yang, X., Vogler, A. P. 2012. Suprageneric systematics of flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) inferred from multilocus sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(3): 793-805. 

Gebiola, M. Gómez-Zurita J., Monti M., Navone, P. and Bernardo U. 2012. Integration of molecular, ecological, morphological and endosymbiont data for species delimitation within the Pnigalio soemius complex (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Molecular Ecology, 21: 1190-1208.

Gómez-Díaz, E., Morris-Pocock, J., González-Solís, J., McCoy, D. Trans-oceanic host dispersal explains seabird tick diversity on Cape Verde islands. 2012. Biology Letters. Ahead of Print; doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0179

Gómez-Zurita, J., Sassi, D., Cardoso, A., Balke, M. 2012. Evolution of Cryptocephalus leaf beetles related to C. sericeus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the role of hybridization in generating species mtDNA paraphyly. Zoologica Scripta 41: 47-67. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00500.x

Henn BM , Botigué LR , Gravel S , Wang W , Brisbin A , et al. 2012. Genomic Ancestry of North Africans Supports Back-to-Africa Migrations. PLoS Genetics 8 (1): e1002397. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397

Hernando, C., Aguilera, P., Castro, A., Ribera I. 2012. A new interstitial species of the Hydroporus ferrugineus group from north-western Turkey, with a molecular phylogeny of the H. memnonius and related groups (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Zootaxa 3173: 37-53

Huang, J.-H., Belles, X., Lee, H.-J. 2012. Functional characterization of hypertrehalosemic hormone receptor in relation to hemolymph trehalose and to oxidative stress in the cockroach Blattella germanica. Frontiers in Endocrinology 2 art.114. Ahead of print;  doi: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00114

Javed, A., Melè, M., Pybus, M., Zalloua, P., Haber, M., Comas, D., Netea, M., Balanovsky, O., Balanovska, E., Jin, L., Yang, Y., Arunkumar G., Pitchappan, R.M., Bertranpetit, J., Calafell, F., Parida, L., and The Genographic Consortium. 2012. Recombination networks as genetic markers: a human variation study of the Old World.  Human Genetics 131(4):601-613.

Khan, Z., Santpere, G., Traveset, A. 2012. Breeding system and ecological traits of the critically endangered endemic plant Limonium barceloi (Gil and Llorens) (Plumbaginaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 1-10.

Lopez-Valenzuela, M., Ramírez, O., Rosas, A., García-Vargas, S., Rasilla, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., Espinosa-Parrilla, Y. 2012. An ancestral miR-1304 allele present in Neanderthals regulates genes involved in enamel formation and could explain dental differences with modern humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Ahead of print;doi:10.1093/molbev/mss023.

Lozano, J., Gomez-Orte, E., Lee, H.-J., Belles, X. 2012. Super-induction of Dicer-2 expression by alien double-stranded RNAs: an evolutionary ancient response to viral infection? Development Genes and Evolution 1-7.

Mané-Padrós,D. ; Borràs-Castells, F.;  Belles, X, ;  Martín. D. 2012. Nuclear receptor HR4 plays an essential role in the ecdysteroid-triggered gene cascade in the development of the hemimetabolous insect Blattella germanica. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 348, 322-330.

Martínez-Cruz B., Harmant C., Platt D.E., Haak W., Manry J., Ramos-Luis E.,Soria-Hernanz D.F., Bauduer F., Salaberria J.,Oyharçabal B., Quintana-Murci L, Comas D. and the, Consortium., G. 2012. Evidence of pre-Roman tribal genetic structure in Basques from uniparentally inherited markers. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Ahead of print. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss091  

Martınez-Gonzalez L.J., M.-E., Alvarez J.,  Albardaner F., and O. Rickards, Martınez-Labarga,  C.  Calafell F., Lorente J.A.  2012. Surname and Y chromosome in Southern Europe: a case study with Colom/Colombo. European Journal of Human Genetics 20: 211-216.

Mele, M., Javed, A., Pybus, M., Zalloua, P., Haber, M., Comas, D., Netea, M. G., Balanovsky, O., Balanovska, E., Jin, L., Yang, Y., Pitchappan, R., Arunkumar, G., Parida, L., Calafell, F., Bertranpetit, J. 2012. Recombination gives a new insight in the effective population size and the history of the Old World human populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29 (1): 25-30.

Sánchez-Fernández D., L. J. M., Millán A., Ribera I. . 2012. Habitat type mediates equilibrium with climatic conditions in the distribution of Iberian diving beetles. Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ahead of print; DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00743.x

Sánchez-Gracia A. , Castresana J.  2012. Impact of Deep Coalescence on the Reliability of Species Tree Inference from Different Types of DNA Markers in Mammals. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30239. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030239. 

Sebe-Pedro s, A., Zheng, Y., Ruiz-Trillo,I., Pan D. 2012. Premetazoan Origin of the Hippo Signaling Pathway. Cell Reports . Ahead of print, doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2011.11.004

Rato, C., Carranza, S., Harris, D. 2012. Evolutionary history of the genus Tarentola (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, estimated using multilocus sequence data. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 14.  

Silva Fernandes, A., Hamada, N. 2012. Description and notes on the bionomics of a new species of Potamophilops Grouvelle, 1896 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Larainae),from the Cerrado biome in Brazil. Journal of Natural History 46:11-12, 717-727.

Suga, H., Dacre, M., de Mendoza, A., Shalchian-Tabrizi, K., Manning, G., Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. Genomic Survey of Premetazoans Shows Deep Conservation of Cytoplasmic Tyrosine Kinases and Multiple Radiations of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases. Science Signaling 5: ra35.

Vasconcelos R., P. A., geniez P., Harris, J., Carranza S. 2012. An integrative taxonomic revision of the Tarentola geckos (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) of the Cape Verde Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2012: 328-360.

Przewozny, M., Fernandes A. S. 2012. Portelmis guianensis sp. nov. from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Zootaxa 3196: 58-63

Tanaka ED, Piulachs MD. 2012. Dicer-1 is a key enzyme in the regulation of oogenesis in panoistic ovaries.  Biology of the Cell. Ahead of print; DOI: 10.1111/boc.201100044.

Ventura M, Catacchio C, Sajjadian S, Vives L, Sudmant P, Marques-Bonet T, Graves TA, Wilson RK, Eichler EE. The evolution of African great ape subtelomeric heterochromatin and the fusion of human chromosome 2. Genome Res. Ahead of print; doi: 10.1101/gr.136556.111