2012 Publications

Andujar, C., Serrano, J., Gomez-Zurita, J. 2012. Winding up the molecular clock in the genus carabus (coleoptera: Carabidae): assessment of methodological decisions on rate and node age estimation. BMC Evol Biol 12: 40-40.

Andújar, C., Gómez-Zurita, J.,Rasplus, J.Y.,Serrano, J. (2012). Molecular systematics and evolution of the subgenus Mesocarabus Thomson, 1875 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Carabus), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166(4): 787-804

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 39(5): 984-994.

ArunKumar, G. Soria-Hernández, D. F.Kavitha, V. J.Arun, V. S.Syama, A.Ashokan, K. S.Gandhirajan, K. T.Vijayakumar, K.Narayanan, M.Jayalakshmi, M.Ziegle, J. S.Royyuru, A. K.Parida, L.Wells, R. S.Renfrew, C.Schurr, T. G.Smith, C. T.Platt, D. E.Pitchappan, R.Genographic, Consortium 2012. Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System. PLoS ONE 7(11).

Barata, M., Perera, A., MartÍNez-FreirÍA, F. Harris, D. J. 2012. Cryptic diversity within the Moroccan endemic day geckos Quedenfeldtia (Squamata: Gekkonidae): a multidisciplinary approach using genetic, morphological and ecological data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 828-850.

Barata, M., Carranza, S., Harris, D. 2012. Extreme genetic diversity in the lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Werner, 1929): A montane cryptic species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 167.

Barros-Dios, J. M. R.-R., A.;Perez-Rios, M.;Castro-Bernardez, M.;Abal-Arca, J.;Tojo-Castro, M. (2012). Residential Radon Exposure, Histologic Types, and Lung Cancer Risk. A Case-Control Study in Galicia, Spain. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 21(6): 951-958.

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

Bellés, X. 2012. Ptinus bertranpetiti, a new species of spider beetle from Socotra Island (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2): 219-222.

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 61(5): 851-869.

Bertinetto, F. E., Calafell, F.,Roggero, S.,Chidichimo, R.,Garino, E., Marcuccio, C.,Coppo, R.,Scolari, F.,Frasca, G. M.,Savoldi, S.,Schena, F. P.,Amoroso, A.,European Ig, A. Nephropathy (2012). Search for genetic association between IgA nephropathy and candidate genes selected by function or by gene mapping at loci IGAN2 and IGAN3. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 27(6): 2328-2337.

Boher, F., Trefault, N., Piulachs, M. D., Bellés, X., Godoy-Herrera, R., Bozinovic, F. 2012. Biogeographic origin and thermal acclimation interact to determine survival and hsp90 expression in Drosophila species submitted to thermal stress. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 162 391-396

Burbano, H. A., Green, R. E.,Maricic, T.,Lalueza-Fox, C.,de la Rasilla, M.,Rosas, A.,Kelso, J.,Pollard, K. S.,Lachmann, M.,Pääbo, S. (2012). Analysis of Human Accelerated DNA Regions Using Archaic Hominin Genomes. PLoS ONE 7(3): e32877.

Calvete, O., González, J., Betrán, E. Ruiz, A. 2012. Segmental Duplication, Microinversion, and Gene Loss Associated with a Complex Inversion Breakpoint Region in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(7): 1875-1889.

Campbell, C. L., Palamara, P. F.,Dubrovsky, M.,Botigué, L. R.,Fellous, M.,Atzmon, G.,Oddoux, C.,Pearlman, A.,Hao, L.,Henn, B. M.,Burns, E.,Bustamante,C.D.,Comas,D.,Friedman, E.,Pe'er, I.,Ostrer, H. 2012. North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(34): 13865-11870.

Canto, E., Reverter, F.,Morcillo-Suarez, C.,Matesanz, F.,Fernandez, O.,Izquierdo, G.,Vandenbroeck, K.,Rodriguez-Antiguedad, A.,Urcelay, E.,Arroyo, R.,Otaegui,D.,Olascoaga,J.,Saiz, A.,Navarro, A.,Sanchez, A.,Dominguez, C.,Caminero, A.,Horga, A.,Tintore, M.,Montalban, X.,Comabella, M., (2012). Chitinase 3-like 1 plasma levels are increased in patients with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal 18(7): 983-990.

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

Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N. 2012. A review of the geckos of the genus Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Oman based on morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear data, with descriptions of eight new species Zootaxa 3378: 1-95.

Casals, F., Bertranpetit, J. 2012. Human Genetic Variation, Shared and Private. Science 337: 39-40.

Chaumot, A., Da Lage, J.L.,Maestro, O.,Martin, D.,Iwema, T.,Brunet, F.,Belles, X.,Laudet, V.,Bonneton, F. 2012. Molecular adaptation and resilience of the insect's nuclear receptor USP. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12(1): 199.

Dall'Olio, G., Laayouni, H., Luisi, P., Sikora, M., Montanucci, L., Bertranpetit, J. 2012. Distribution of events of positive selection and population differentiation in a metabolic pathway: the case of asparagine N-glycosylation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12(1): 98.

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.18: 1066-1076.

Dickhaus T., Straßburger. K., Schunk D, Morcillo-Suarez, C., Illig T., Navarro A. 2012. How to analyze many contingency tables simultaneously in genetic association studies. Statistical Applications in Geneticsand Molecular Biology. 11 (4)

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.

Dulik,MC., Owings, A. C.,Gaieski, J., B,.Vilar, M., G.,Andre, A.,Lennie, C.,Mackenzie, M A.,Kritsch, I.,Snowshoe, S.,Wright, R.,Martin, J.,Gibson, N.,Andrews, T.D.,Schurr, T.G., and T. G. Consortium. 2012. Y-chromosome analysis reveals genetic divergence and new founding native lineages in Athapaskan- and Eskimoan-speaking populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (22):8471-8476

Faria, R., Weiss, S.,Alexandrino, P. 2012. Comparative phylogeography and demographic history of European shads (Alosa alosa and A. fallax) inferred from mitochondrial DNA. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12(1): 194

Fernandes, A. S. and N. Hamada (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.

Frayer, D. W., Fiore, I.,Lalueza-Fox, C.,Radovcic, J.,Bondioli, L. (2012). Replay to Benitez-Burraco & Longa: when is enough, enough? Journal of Anthropological Sciences 90: 193-197.

Garbutt, J.S., Bellés, X., Richards, E.H., Reynolds, S.E. 2012 Persistence of double-stranded RNA in insect hemolymph as a potential determiner of RNA interference success: Evidence from Manduca sexta and Blattella germanica. Journal of Insect Physiology. Ahead of print; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.05.013

Gallardo, D. P., R. N.Quintanilla, R.Ramirez, O.Almuzara, D.Noguera, J. L.Amills, M. 2012. Quantitative trait loci analysis of a Duroc commercial population highlights differences in the genetic determination of meat quality traits at two different muscles. Animal Genetics 43(6): 800-804.

Garcia-Etxebarria, K., Jugo, B. M. Detection and characterization of endogenous retroviruses in the horse genome by in silico analysis. Virology

Garcia-Garcerà, M., Coscollà,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 14(8): 2087-2098.

Garcia-Mas, J., Benjak, A.,Sanseverino, W.,Bourgeois, M.,Mir, G.,Gonzalez, V. M.,Henaff, E.,Camara, F.,Cozzuto, L.,Lowy, E.,Alioto, T.,Capella-Gutierrez,S.,Blanca,J.,Canizares, J.,Ziarsolo, P.,Gonzalez-Ibeas, D.,Rodriguez-Moreno, L.,Droege, M.,Du, L.,Alvarez-Tejado, M.,Lorente-Galdos, B.,Mele, M.,Yang, L. M.,Weng, Y. Q.,Navarro, A.,Marques-Bonet, T.,Aranda, M. A.,Nuez, F.,Pico, B.,Gabaldon, T.,Roma, G.,Guigo, R.,Casacuberta, J. M.,Arus, P.,Puigdomenech, P. (2012). The genome of melon (Cucumis melo L.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(29): 11872-11877.

Garcia Porta, J. L., 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 63(1): 113-130.

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., Jordà, M.,Peinado, M.A.,Rivero, A. 2012. Epigenetics of Host-Pathogen Interactions: The Road Ahead and the Road Behind. PLoS Pathogens 8(11): e1003007

Gómez-Díaz, E., Sindaco, R., Pupin, F., Fasola, M., Carranza, S. 2012. Origin and in situ diversification in Hemidactylus geckos of the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Ecology 21(16): 4074-4092.

Gómez-Díaz,E., Morris-Pocock, J. A.,González-Solís, J.,McCoy, K. D. 2012. Trans-oceanic host dispersal explains high seabird tick diversity on Cape Verde islands. Biology Letters. 8 (4):616-619

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

González-Ruiz, M., Santos, C.,Jordana, X.,Simón, M.,Lalueza-Fox, C.,Gigli, E.,Aluja, M.P.,Malgosa, A. (2012). Tracing the Origin of the East-West Population Admixture in the Altai Region (Central Asia). PLoS ONE 7(11):

Grillo, M. F., M.de Miguel, C.Franch-Marro, X.Casanova, J. (2012). Conserved and divergent elements in Torso RTK activation in Drosophila development. Scientific Reports 2.

Haber, M., Platt, DE., Ashrafian Bonab, M., Youhanna SC, Soria-Hernanz DF, Martínez-Cruz B, Douaihy B, Ghassibe-Sabbagh M, Rafatpanah H, Ghanbari M, Whale J, Balanovsky O, Wells RS, Comas, D., Tyler-Smith C, Zalloua PA; Genographic Consortium. 2012. Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events. PLoS One. 7 (3)

Haber, M. Y., S. C.Balanovsky, O.Saade, S.Martinez-Cruz, B.Ghassibe-Sabbagh, M.Shasha, N.Osman, R.el Bayeh, H.Koshel, S.Zaporozhchenko, V.Balanovska, E.Soria-Hernanz, D. F.Platt, D. E.Zalloua, P. A. (2012). mtDNA Lineages Reveal Coronary Artery Disease-Associated Structures in the Lebanese Population. Annals of Human Genetics 76: 1-8.

Hardy, K. B., S.Collins, M. J.Estalrrich, A.Brothwell, D.Copeland, L.Garcia-Tabernero, A.Garcia-Vargas, S.de la Rasilla, M.Lalueza-Fox, C.Huguet, R.Bastir, M.Santamaria,D.Madella, M.Wilson, J.Cortes, A. F.Rosas, A. (2012). Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus. Naturwissenschaften 99(8): 617-626.

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

Hernández-Roldán, J. L., Munguira, M.L., Wolfgang Wagner, W.,  Vila, R. 2012. Comparative analysis and taxonomic use of the morphology of immature stages and natural history traits in European species of Pyrgus Hübner (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae). Zootaxa 3470: 1-71.

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

Hidalgo, J., Seoane, L. F., Cortes, J. M., Munoz, M. A. (2012). Stochastic Amplification of Fluctuations in Cortical Up-States. PLoS ONE 7(8).           

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.  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.

Kang, L.,Lu, Y.,Wang, C.,Hu, K.,Chen, F.,Liu, K.,iLi, S.,Jin, L.,Li, H.,iThe Genographic, Consortium. 2012. Y-chromosome O3 Haplogroup Diversity in Sino-Tibetan Populations Reveals Two Migration Routes into the Eastern Himalayas. Annals of Human Genetics. 76 (1):92-99

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.

Lalueza-Fox, C. G., E.Sanchez-Quinto, E.de la Rasilla, M.Fortea, J.Rosas, A. (2012). Issues from Neandertal genomics: Diversity, adaptation and hybridisation revised from the El Sidron case study. Quaternary International 247: 10-14.

Lalueza-Fox, C., Rosas, A.,de la Rasilla, M. (2012). Palaeogenetic research at the El Sidron Neanderthal site. Annals of Anatomy-Anatomischer Anzeiger 194(1): 133-137.

Llorente, G. A., Vidal.-García., M.,Garriga, N.,Carranza, S.,Pleguezuelos, J. M.,Santos, X. 2012. Lessons from a complex biogeographical scenario: morphological characters match mitochondrial lineages within Iberian Coronella austriaca (Reptilia: Colubridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106(1): 210-223.

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 29(7):1797-806

Lorente-Galdos, B.Medina, I.Morcillo-Suarez, C.Heredia, T.Carreno-Torres, A.Sangros, R.Alegre, J.Pita, G.Vellalta, G.Malats, N.Pisano, D. G.Dopazo, J.Navarro, A. (2012). Select Your SNPs (SYSNPs): a web tool for automatic and massive selection of SNPs. International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 6(3): 324-334.     

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.

Lu,Y., Wang, C., Qin, Z., Wen, B., Farina, SE., Jin, L.,Li, H.,  Genographic Consortium. 2012. Mitochondrial origin of the matrilocal Mosuo people in China. Mitochondrial DNA. 23 (1):13-19

Luisi, P. A.-P., D.Dall'Olio, G. M.Sikora, M.Bertranpetit, J.Laayouni, H. (2012). Network-Level and Population Genetics Analysis of the Insulin/TOR Signal Transduction Pathway Across Human Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(5): 1379-1392.           

Macia, J. P., F.Sole, R. V. (2012). Distributed computation: the new wave of synthetic biology devices. Trends in Biotechnology 30(6): 342-349.

Macia, J. S., R. V.Elena, S. F. (2012). The causes of epistasis in genetic networks. Evolution 66(2): 586-596.           

Maia, C., João P M., Gómez-Díaz, E.,Harris, D. J. (2012). Apicomplexa primers amplify Proteromonas (Stramenopiles, Slopalinida, Proteromonadidae) in tissue and blood samples from lizards. Acta Parasitologica 57(4): 337-341.

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.

Mannino, M., Catalano, G., Talamo, S., Mannino, G., Di Salvo, R.,  Schimmenti, V., Lalueza_Fox, C., Messina, A., Petruso, D., Caramelli, D., Richards,MP.,Sineo, L. 2012. Origin and Diet of the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily). PLoS ONE 7(11).

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. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss091  

Martinez-Cruz, B., Ioana, M., Calafell, F., Arauna, L. R., Sanz, P., Ionescu, R., Boengiu, S., Kalaydjieva, L., Pamjav, H., Makukh, H., Plantinga, T., van der Meer, J. W. M., Comas, D., Netea, M. G., the Genographic, C. 2012. Y-Chromosome Analysis in Individuals Bearing the Basarab Name of the First Dynasty of Wallachian Kings. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41803.

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.

Mendizabal, I.,Marigorta, U.M., Lao, O., Comas, D. 2012. Adaptive evolution of loci covarying with the human African Pygmy phenotype. Human Genetics 131(8): 1305-1317.

Mendizabal, I., Lao, O.,Marigorta, U. M.,Wollstein, A.,Gusmão, L.,Ferak, V.,Ioana, M.,Jordanova, A.,Kaneva, R.,Kouvatsi, A.,Ku inskas, V.,Makukh, H.,Metspalu, A.,Netea, M. G.,de Pablo, R.,Pamjav, H.,Radojkovic, D.,Rolleston, S. J H.,Sertic, J.,Macek, M.,Comas, D.,Kayser, M. 2012. Reconstructing the Population History of European Romani from Genome-wide Data. Current biology : CB 22(24): 2342-2349

Metallinou,M., Arnold, N.,Crochet, P.A.,Geniez, P.,Brito, J.,Lymberakis, P.,Baha El Din, S.,Sindaco, R.,Robinson, M.,Carranza, S. 2012. Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: Systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12 (1):258

Noel, V. L., E.Gomez-Diaz, E. Risterucci, A. M.McCoy, K. D. (2012). Isolation and characterization of new polymorphic microsatellite markers for the tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodidae). Acarologia 52(2): 123-128.           

Ord, T. J., Garcia-Porta, J. 2012. Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367: 1811-1828.

Patillon, B., Luisi, P.;Blanche, H.;Patin, E.;Cann, H.M., Génin, E.;Sabbagh, A. 2012. Positive Selection in the Chromosome 16 VKORC1 Genomic Region Has Contributed to the Variability of Anticoagulant Response in Humans. PLoS ONE. 7 (12)

Petit, N., Pineyro, D.,Lopez-Panades, E.,Casacuberta, E.,Navarro, A. (2012). HeT-A_pi1, a piRNA Target Sequence in the Drosophila Telomeric Retrotransposon HeT-A, Is Extremely Conserved across Copies and Species. PLoS ONE 7(5).

Pimenoff,V.,Laval, G.,Comas, D.,Palo, J.U.,Gut, I.,Cann, H.,Excoffier, L.,Sajantila, A. 2012. Similarity in recombination rate and linkage disequilibrium at CYP2C and CYP2D cytochrome P450 gene regions among Europeans indicates signs of selection and no advantage of using tagSNPs in population isolates. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 22 (12):846-857

Prufer, K., Munch, K., Hellmann, I., Akagi, K., Miller, J. R., Walenz, B., Koren, S., Sutton, G., Kodira, C., Winer, R., Knight, J. R., Mullikin, J. C., Meader, S. J., Ponting, C. P., Lunter, G., Higashino, S., Hobolth, A., Dutheil, J., Karakoc, E., Alkan, C., Sajjadian, S., Catacchio, C. R., Ventura, M., Marques-Bonet, T., Eichler, E. E., Andre, C., Atencia, R., Mugisha, L., Junhold, J., Patterson, N., Siebauer, M., Good, J. M., Fischer, A., Ptak, S. E., Lachmann, M., Symer, D. E., Mailund, T., Schierup, M. H., Andres, A. M., Kelso, J., Paabo, S. 2012. The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Nature advance online publication: doi:10.1038/nature11128.

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

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.

Reyes-Palomares, A., R. Montañez, R., Sánchez Jiménez, F., Medina, M.A.(2012). A combined model of hepatic polyamine and sulfur amino acid metabolism to analyze S-adenosyl methionine availability. Amino Acids 42(2-3): 597-610.

Rosas, A. E., A.Garcia-Tabernero, A.Bastir, M.Garcia-Vargas, S.Sanchez-Meseguer, A.Huguet, R.Lalueza-Fox, C.Pena-Melian, A.Kranioti, E. F.Santamaria, D.de la Rasilla, M.Fortea, J. (2012). The Neandertals from El Sidron (Asturias, Spain). Updating of a new sample. Anthropologie 116(1): 57-76.       

Rubio, M., de Horna, A., Belles, X. 2012. MicroRNAs in metamorphic and non-metamorphic transitions in hemimetabolan insect metamorphosis. BMC Genomics 13: 386.

Salgado, J. M. L., C. G.Labrada, L.Fresneda, J.Ribera, I. 2012. A revision of the genus Cantabrogeus Salgado, 2000, with description of three new hypogean species endemic to the Cantabrian mountains (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini). Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 35(1): 27-50.           

Sanchez-Fernandez, D., Aragon, P.,Bilton, D. T.,Lobo, J. M. (2012). Assessing the Congruence of Thermal Niche Estimations Derived from Distribution and Physiological Data. A Test Using Diving Beetles. PLoS ONE 7(10).

Sánchez-Fernández, D., Lobo, 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 21(10): 988-997.

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. 

Sánchez-Quinto, F., Schroeder, H., Ramirez, O., Ávila-Arcos, María C., Pybus, M., Olalde, I., Velazquez, Amhed M. V., Marcos, María Encina P., Encinas, Julio Manuel V., Bertranpetit, J., Orlando, L., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Lalueza-Fox, C. 2012. Genomic Affinities of Two 7,000-Year-Old Iberian Hunter-Gatherers. Current biology : CB 22(16): 1494-1499.

Sánchez-Quinto, F., Botigué, L. R., Civit, S., Arenas, C., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Bustamante, C. D., Comas, D., Lalueza-Fox, C. 2012. North African Populations Carry the Signature of Admixture with Neandertals. PLoS One.10,e47765.

Sandoval, K. M.-E., A.Mendizabal, I.Underhill, P. A.Lopez-Valenzuela, M.Penaloza-Espinosa, R.Lopez-Lopez, M.Buentello-Malo, L.Avelino, H.Calafell, F.Comas, D. 2012. Y-chromosome diversity in Native Mexicans reveals continental transition of genetic structure in the Americas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148(3): 395-405.

Santos, X., Rato, C.,Carranza, S.,Carretero, M. A.,Pleguezuelos, J. M. 2012. Complex phylogeography in the Southern Smooth Snake (Coronella girondica) supported by mtDNA sequences. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50(3): 210-219.

Santos, X., Rato, C.,Carranza, S.,Carretero, M. A., González de la Vega, J. P., Pleguezuelos, J. M. 2012. Morphology matches mtDNA lineages in the southern smooth snake (Coronella girondica) from Iberia. Zoology 115(6): 398-404.

Scally, A. D., J. Y.Hillier, L. W.Jordan, G. E.Goodhead, I.Herrero, J.Hobolth, A.Lappalainen, T.Mailund, T.Marques-Bonet, T.McCarthy, S.Montgomery, S. H.Schwalie, P. C.Tang, Y. A.Ward, M. C.Xue, Y. L.Yngvadottir, B.Alkan, C.Andersen, L. N.Ayub, Q.Ball, E. V.Beal, K.Bradley, B. J.Chen, Y.Clee, C. M.Fitzgerald, S.Graves, T. A.Gu, Y.Heath, P.Heger, A.Karakoc, E.Kolb-Kokocinski, A.Laird, G.K.Lunter,G.Meader, S.Mort, M.Mullikin, J. C.Munch, K.O'Connor, T. D.Phillips, A. D.Prado-Martinez, J.Rogers, A. S.Sajjadian, S.Schmidt, D.Shaw, K.Simpson, J. T.Stenson,P.D.Turner, D. J.Vigilant, L.Vilella, A. J.Whitener, W.Zhu, B. L.Cooper, D. N.de Jong, P.Dermitzakis, E. T.Eichler, E. E.Flicek, P.Goldman, N.Mundy, N. I.Ning, Z. M.Odom, D. T.Ponting, C. P.Quail, M. A.Ryder, O. A.Searle, S. M.Warren, W. C.Wilson, R. K.Schierup, M. H.Rogers, J.Tyler-Smith, C.Durbin, R. 2012. Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence. Nature 483(7388): 169-175.           

Schultheiss, K. P., Suga, H., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Miller, W. T. 2012. Lack of Csk-Mediated Negative Regulation in a Unicellular Src Kinase. Biochemistry 51(41): 8267-8277. 

Schurr,TG. Dulik, MC.,Owings, A. C.,Zhadanov, S. I.,Gaieski, J. B,.Vilar, M.l G.,Ramos, J.,Moss, M. B.,Natkong, F.,The Genographic, Consortium. 2012. Clan, language, and migration history has shaped genetic diversity in Haida and Tlingit populations from Southeast Alaska. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148 (3):422-435

Sebé-Pedrós, A., Zheng, Y.,Ruiz-Trillo, I.,Pan, D. 2012. Premetazoan Origin of the Hippo Signaling Pathway. Cell Reports 1(1): 13-20.

Shadwick, J. D. L., Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. A genomic survey shows that the haloarchaeal type tyrosyl tRNA synthetase is not a synapomorphy of opisthokonts. European Journal of Protistology. 48 (1):89-93

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.

Silva-Sousa, R., López-Panadès, E.,Piñeyro, D.,Casacuberta, E. 2012. The Chromosomal Proteins JIL-1 and Z4/Putzig Regulate the Telomeric Chromatin in Drosophila melanogaster PLoS Genet 8(12): e1003153.

Sindaco, R., Metallinou, M., Pupin, F., Fasola, M., Carranza, S. 2012. Forgotten in the ocean: systematics, biogeography and evolution of the Trachylepis skinks of the Socotra Archipelago. Zoologica Scripta 41: 346-362.

Soria-Carrasco, V., Castresana, J. 2012. Diversification rates and the latitudinal gradient of diversity in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4148-4155

Steels, L. 2012. Interactions between cultural, social and biological explanations for language evolution. Physics of Life Reviews 9(1): 5-8.           

Stekolnikov A., Carranza S. & Gómez-Díaz E. (2012). A new genus and species of Apoloniinae (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Oman. Zootaxa 3499: 74-80.

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.

Suga, H., VanHook, A. M. (2012). Science Signaling Podcast: 1 May 2012. Sci. Signal. 5(222): pc9-.

Sun, M. G. F., Sikora, M.,Costanzo, M.,Boone, C.,Kim, P. M. (012. Network Evolution: Rewiring and Signatures of Conservation in Signaling. Plos Computational Biology. 8(3).           

Süren-Castillo, S., Abrisqueta, M., Maestro, J. L. 2012. FoxO inhibits juvenile hormone biosynthesis and vitellogenin production in the German cockroach.  Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 491-498.

Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V. A.,Pierce, N. E.,Vila, R. 2012. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics: 1-27

Talevich, E., Invergo, B., Cock, P., Chapman, B. 2012. Bio.Phylo: A unified toolkit for processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic trees in biopython. BMC Bioinformatics 13: 209.

Tanaka, E.D., Piulachs, M.-D. 2012. Dicer-1 is a key enzyme in the regulation of oogenesis in panoistic ovaries. Biology of the Cell 104(8): 452-461.

Torruella,G., Derelle, R.,Paps, J., Lang, B. F.,Roger, A. J.,Shalchian-Tabrizi, K.,Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Opisthokonta Based on Phylogenomic Analyses of Conserved Single-Copy Protein Domains. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29 (2):531-544

Trizzino, M., JÄCh, Manfred A, Audisio, P., Alonso, R., Ribera, I. 2012. A molecular phylogeny of the cosmopolitan hyperdiverse genus Hydraena Kugelann (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Systematic Entomology. Ahead of print DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00654.

Valverde, S., Solé, R.V.,  Elena, S.F. 2012. Evolved Modular Epistasis in Artificial Organisms. Artificial Life 13: 111-115.

Van Trijp, R. and L. Steels (2012). Multilevel Alignment Maintains Language Systematicity. Advances in Complex Systems 15(03n04): 1250039.

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.

Vasconcelos, R., Brito, J.C., Carvalho, S B. Carranza, S.,  Harris, J.D., . 2012. Identifying priority areas for island endemics using genetic versus specific diversity - The case of terrestrial reptiles of the Cape Verde Islands. Biological Conservation 153: 276-286.

Vasconcelos, R., Santos, X., Carretero, M. A. 2012. High temperatures constrain microhabitat selection and activity patterns of the insular Cape Verde wall gecko. Journal of Arid Environments 81: 18-25.

Ventura, M., Catacchio, C.,Sajjadian, S.,Vives, L.,Sudmant, P.,Marques-Bonet, T.,Graves, T.,Wilson, R.,Eichler, E. 2012. The evolution of African great ape subtelomeric heterochromatin and the fusion of human chromosome 2. Genome Research 22(6): 1036-1049. 

Zhu, Y., Bergland, A. O., González, J., Petrov, D. A. 2012. Empirical Validation of Pooled Whole Genome Population Re-Sequencing in Drosophila melanogaster PLoS ONE 7: e41901.

2012 BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

Belles, X.,  Cristino, A.S.,  Tanaka, E.D., Rubio, M., Piulachs, M.D., 2012. Insect MicroRNAs: From Molecular Mechanisms to Biological Roles.In: Insect Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. I. G. Lawrence.(ed). San Diego. p.p. 30-56

Beuls, K., Steels, L., Hoefer, S. 2012. The emergence of internal agreement systems In: Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution. Steels, L.(ed). Jonn Benjamins Pub., Amsterdam. p.p. 233-256

Carranza, J. 2012. Saurópsidos. In: Al árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.) pp.424-433. Madrid

Castresana, J. 2012. Deutoróstomos. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp.352-359. Madrid

Gonzalez J., Petrov D. A. 2012. Evolution of Genome Content: Population Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Flies and Humans. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol 855: 361-383. Ed Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.

Millán, A., Abellán, P., Sánchez-Fernández, D., Picazo, F., Velasco, J., Lobo, J.M., Ribera, I. 2012. Efectividad de la red de Parques Nacionales peninsulares en la conservación de la biodiversidad acuática. In: Ramírez, L., Asensio, B. (Edts). Proyectos de investigación en Parques Nacionales: 2008-2011. Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, Madrid, pp 151-181.

Muñiz Fernandez,F., Carreño Torres, A.,Morcillo-Suarez, C.,Navarro, A,. 2012. Application of Array-Oriented Scientific Data Formats (NetCDF) to Genotype Data, GWASpi as an Example.In: Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine. A. Freitas and A. Navarro.(ed). p.p. 8-20. Berlin Heidelberg

Navarro, A. 2012. Genes, dinero y Darwin: una nueva aproximación al estudio de la evolución humana. In: Visiones del ser humano- Del pasado al presente. A. Mateos-Cachorro, Perote-Alejandre, A.(ed).CNIHE, Burgos, p.p. 13-21 

Ribera, I. 2012. Hexápodos. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.) pp.280-291. Madrid

Ribera, I., Beutel R.G. 2012. Coleópteros. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp.312-321. Madrid

Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, N., Moreira, D.,Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. Protistas. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución  de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp.42-55. Madrid

Ruitort, M., Paps, J., Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. Bilaterados. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución  de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp.188-195. Madrid

Ruiz-Trillo, I. 2012. Eucariotas. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp. 34-41. Madrid

Solé R. 2012. Vidas Sintéticas. Colección Metatemas. Tusquets editores S.A. Barcelona

Steels, L. 2012. Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar.LNAI 7249.Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Steels, L. 2012. Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution.John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Steels,L., Hild, M. 2012. Language Grounding in Robots. Springer US. New York.

Steels, L. 2012. Introduction:Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution. In Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution. Steels L. Ed. In: Advances in interaction studies. Ed .John Benjamin publishing company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Vol 3, 1-37.          

Silva-Sousa R, López-Panades E, Casacuberta E. Drosophila Telomeres: an Example of Co-Evolution with Transposable Elements. Garrido-Ramos MA (ed): In Repetitive DNA. Genome Dyn. Basel, Karger, 2012, vol 7, pp 46-67 (DOI: 10.1159/000337127)

Spranger, M., Loetzch, M.,Steels, L. 2012. A Perceptual System for Language Game Experiments.In: Language Grounding in Robots. M. Hild, Steels, L.(ed). Springer US. New York. p.p. 89-110

Spranger,M., Pauw, S.,Loetzsch, M.,Steels, L. 2012. Open-ended Procedural Semantics.In: Language Grounding in Robots. M. Hild, Steels, L.(ed).Springer US.  New York. p.p. 153-172

Steels,L. Spranger, M.,Van Trijp, R.,Höfer, S.,Hild,M.,. 2012. Emergent Action Language on Real Robots. In: Language Grounding in Robots. M. Hild, Steels, L.(ed). Springer-Verlag, New York.p.p. 255-276

Steels,L., Spranger, M. 2012. Emergent mirror systems for body language In: Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution . L. Steels, L. (ed).John Benjamins Pub., Amsterdam. p.p. 87-109

Steels,L., Spranger, M. 2012. Emergent functional grammar for space. In: Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution . L. Steels.(ed). Jonh Benjamins Pub., Amsterdam. p.p. 207-232

Steels, L.,de Beule, J.,Wellens, P. 2012. Fluid Construction Grammar on Real Robots.In: Language Grounding in Robots. M. Hild, Steels, L.(ed). Springer US.     New York. p.p. 195-213

Steels, L., Loetzsch M. 2012.  The Grounded Naming Game. In: Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution. Steels L. Ed. In: Advances in interaction studies. Ed .John Benjamin publishing company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Vol 3, 41-59. 

L. Steels. 2012. Grounding Language through Evolutionary Language Games In: Language Grounding in Robots M. Hild, Steels, L. (ed). Springer-Verlag, New York. pp 1-22

Vila, R. 2012. Lepidópteros. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. Vargas, P., Zardoya, R.(eds.)  pp.342-351. Madrid.

2012 OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Aguadé, M., Bertranpetit J., Peretó J. 2012. Genomes i Evolució: Impacte en la biologia actual. En: La biologia d'ahir i d'avui. Reflexions amb motiu del centenari de la Societat Catalana de Biologia, Piferrer F. Ed. En: Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Biologia. 63:101-122.

Arrizabalaga,A., Stefanescu, C.,  Vallhonrat, F., Dantart,J., Vila,R., Jubany,J.,  Sesma,JM.,  Viader,S.,  Dinca, V. 2012. Proposta de noms comuns per a les papallones diürnes (ropalòcers) catalanes. Butll. Soc. Cat. Lepcynthia. 103:5-28

Bellés, X. 2012. En torno a la biodiversidad: Una mirada a la biología de la conservación desde la biología evolutiva. Cuadernos de la Fundación General del CSIC. Lychnos 9:57-61

Freitas, A. T., Navarro, A. 2012. Bioinformatics in Personalized Medicine.Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heildelberg.

Gómez-Díaz, E., González-Solís, J. 2012. Una historia de evolución conjunta: Te llevo a todas partes los piojos y las aves marinas. Quercus 311: 38-44.

Carles Lalueza-Fox. 2012. Current Biology Vol 22 No 19; Magazine Q & A.

Lalueza-Fox, C. 2012. Neandertal paleogenomics and the origins of language. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147(54): 188-188.

de Pous,P., Speybroeck, J., Bogaerts, S., Pasmans, F., Beukema, W. . 2012. A contribution to the atlas of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Sardinia. Herpetology Notes. 5:391-305

de Pous, P., Beukkema, W.;Dingemans, D.;Donaire, D.;Geniez, P.;El Mouden, E.H. 2012. Distribution review, habitat suitability and conservation of the endangered and endemic Moroccan spadefoot toad (Pelobates varaldii). Basic and Applied Herpetology. 26:57-71

Ribera, I., Hernando, C., Aguilera, P. 2012. Coleópteros acuáticos del humedal de laku (Araba). Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava 23 (2009-2010): 215-222.

Salgado, J.M., Luque, C.G.,Labrada, L., Fresneda, J., Ribera, I. 2012. Reviisión del género Cantabrogeus Salgado, 2000, con la descripción de tres nuevas especies hipogeas endémicas de la Cordillera Cantábrica (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini). Animal Biodiversity And Conservation 35: 27-50.

Steels, L. 2012. Evolutionary Language Games as a paradigm for Integrated AI research. In: 2012 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Press.