2011 Publications

Abellán P, Benetti CJ, Angus RB, Ribera I. 2011. A review of Quaternary range shifts in European aquatic Coleoptera. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20(1):87-100. DOI:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00572.x

Abellán P, Ribera I. 2011. Geographic location and phylogeny are the main determinants of the size of the geographical range in aquatic beetles. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1):344. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-344

Andújar C, Hernando C, Ribera I. 2011. A new endogean, anophthalmous species of parazuphium jeannel from northern Morocco (coleoptera, carabidae), with new molecular data for the tribe zuphiini. ZooKeys, 103:49-62. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.103.1124

Barata M, Perera A, Harris DJ, Meijden AVD, Carranza S, Ceacero F, García-muñoz E, Gonçalves D, Henriques S, Jorge F, Marshall JC, Pedrajas L, Sousa P. 2011. New observations of amphibians and reptiles in Morocco, with a special emphasis on the eastern region. Herpetological Bulletin, 116(116):4-14

Batini C, Lopes J, Behar DM, Calafell F, Jorde LB, van der Veen L, Quintana-Murci L, Spedini G, Destro-Bisol G, Comas D. 2011. Insights into the demographic history of African pygmies from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(2):1099-1110. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msq294

Batini C, Ferri G, Destro-Bisol G, Brisighelli F, Luiselli D, Sánchez-Diz P, Rocha J, Simonson T, Brehm A, Montano V, Elwali NE, Spedini G, D'Amato ME, Myres N, Ebbesen P, Comas D, Capelli C. 2011. Signatures of the preagricultural peopling processes in sub-saharan africa as revealed by the phylogeography of early y chromosome lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(9):2603-2613. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msr089

Bauer AM, Parham JF, Brown RM, Stuart BL, Grismer L, Papenfuss TJ, Böhme W, Savage JM, Carranza S, Grismer JL, Wagner P, Schmitz A, Ananjeva NB, Inger RF. 2011. Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1705):490-492. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.1330

Bellés X. 2011. When inordinate tissue growth is beneficial: Improving silk production by increasing silk gland size. Cell Research, 21(6):862-863. DOI:10.1038/cr.2011.68

Bortolin F, Piulachs MD, Congiu L, Fusco G. 2011. Cloning and expression pattern of the ecdysone receptor and retinoid X receptor from the centipede Lithobius peregrinus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 174(1):60-69. DOI:10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.08.008

Campbell K, Whissell G, Franch-Marro X, Batlle E, Casanova J. 2011. Specific GATA Factors Act as Conserved Inducers of an Endodermal-EMT. Developmental Cell, 21(6):1051-1061. DOI:10.1016/j.devcel.2011.10.005

Capelli C, Batini C, Ferri G, Destro-Bisol G, Brisighelli F, Luiselli D, Sanchez-Diz P, Rocha J, Jorde L, Brehm A, Montano V, Elwali NE, Spedini G, D'Amato ME, Myres N, Ebbesen P, Comas D. 2011. Early Y chromosome lineages in Africa : the origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144

Capelli C, Batini C, Ferri G, Destro-Bisol G, Brisighelli F, Luiselli D, Sanchez-Diz P, Rocha J, Jorde L, Brehm A, Montano V, Elwali NE, Spedini G, D'Amato ME, Myres N, Ebbesen P, Comas D. 2011. Signatures of demographic bottlenecks in European wolf populations. Conservation Genetics, 12(3):701-712. DOI:10.1007/s10592-010-0177-6

Casals F, Sikora M, Laayouni H, Montanucci L, Muntasell A, Lazarus R, Calafell F, Awadalla P, Netea MG, Bertranpetit J. 2011. Genetic adaptation of the antibacterial human innate immunity network. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-202

Clynen E, Ciudad L, Bellés X, Piulachs MD. 2011. Conservation of fruitless’ role as master regulator of male courtship behaviour from cockroaches to flies. Development Genes and Evolution, 221(1):43-48. DOI:10.1007/s00427-011-0352-x

Corominas-Murtra B, Rodríguez-Caso C, Goñi J, Solé R. 2011. Measuring the hierarchy of feedforward networks. Chaos, 21(1). DOI:10.1063/1.3562548

Corominas-Murtra B, Fortuny J, Solé R V. 2011. Emergence of Zipf’s law in the evolution of communication. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 83(3):1-7. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036115

Cristino AS, Tanaka ED, Rubio M, Piulachs MD, Belles X. 2011. Deep sequencing of organ- and stage-specific micrornas in the evolutionarily basal insect Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). PLoS ONE, 6(4). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0019350

Dall’Olio GM, Jassal B, Montanucci L, Gagneux P, Bertranpetit J, Laayouni H. 2011. The annotation of the asparagine N-linked glycosylation pathway in the Reactome database. Glycobiology, 21(11):1395-1400. DOI:10.1093/glycob/cwq21

Dall'Olio GM, Marino J, Schubert M, Keys KL, Stefan MI, Gillespie CS, Poulain P, Shameer K, Sugar R, Invergo BM, Jensen LJ, Bertranpetit J, Laayouni H. 2011. Ten simple rules for getting help from online scientific communities. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(9):10-12. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002202

Dapporto L, Schmitt T, Vila R, Scalercio S, Biermann H, Dincǎ V, Gayubo SF, González JA, Lo Cascio P, Dennis RLH. 2011. Phylogenetic island disequilibrium: Evidence for ongoing long-term population dynamics in two Mediterranean butterflies. Journal of Biogeography, 38(5):854-867. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02452.x

de Mendoza A, Ruiz-Trillo I. 2011. New genomes, new taxa and deep questions in the eukaryotic tree of life: A meeting report on the EMBO comparative genomics conference. EvoDevo, 2(1):2-4. DOI:10.1186/2041-9139-2-22

Dincǎ V, Dapporto L, Vila R. 2011. A combined genetic-morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina common blue butterflies. Molecular Ecology, 20(18):3921-3935. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05223.x

Dincǎ V, Lukhtanov VA, Talavera G, Vila R. 2011. Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies. Nature Communications, 2(1). DOI:10.1038/ncomms1329

Dincă V, Zakharov E V., Hebert PDN, Vila R. 2011. Complete DNA barcode reference library for a country’s butterfly fauna reveals high performance for temperate Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1704):347-355. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.1089

Ebenesersdóttir SS, Sigurdsson Á, Sánchez-Quinto F, Lalueza-Fox C, Stefánsson K, Helgason A. 2011. A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup C1 found in icelanders: Evidence of pre-columbian contact? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144(1):92-99. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.21419

Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Martinez-Cruz B, Khodjet-El-Khil H, Mendizabal I, Benammar-Elgaaied A, Comas D. 2011. Genetic structure of Tunisian ethnic groups revealed by paternal lineages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 146(2):271-280. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.21581

Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Rodríguez-Botigué L, Naoui N, Benammar-Elgaaied A, Calafell F, Comas D. 2011. Mitochondrial DNA structure in North Africa reveals a genetic discontinuity in the Nile Valley. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 145(1):107-117. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.21472

Faille A, Casale A, Ribera I. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships of Western Mediterranean subterranean Trechini groundbeetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Zoologica Scripta, 40(3):282-295. DOI:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00467.x

Fernandes As, Passos Mis, Hamada N. 2011. Stegoelmis Hinton, 1939 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) in Brazil: two new species and a key to the Brazilian species. Zootaxa, 2921(1):56. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.2921.1.6

Folguera G, Bastías DA, Caers J, Rojas JM, Piulachs MD, Bellés X, Bozinovic F. 2011. Seabirds and the Circulation of Lyme Borreliosis Bacteria in the North Pacific. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 11(12):1521-1527. DOI:10.1089/vbz.2010.0267

Flores CO, Meyer JR, Valverde S, Farr L, Weitz JS. 2011. Statistical structure of host-phage interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(28):1-10. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1101595108

Folguera G, Bastías DA, Caers J, Rojas JM, Piulachs MD, Bellés X, Bozinovic F. 2011. An experimental test of the role of environmental temperature variability on ectotherm molecular, physiological and life-history traits: Implications for global warming. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 159(3):242-246. DOI:10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.03.002

Fresneda J, Grebennikov V V., Ribera I. 2011. The phylogenetic and geographic limits of Leptodirini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae), with a description of Sciaphyes shestakovi sp. n. from the Russian Far East. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 69(2):99-123

Gaieski JB, Owings AC, Vilar MG, Dulik MC, Gaieski DF, Gittelman RM, Lindo J, Gau L, Schurr TG; Genographic Consortium. 2011. Genetic ancestry and indigenous heritage in a Native American Descendant Community in Bermuda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 146(3):392-405. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.21588

García-Garcerà M, Gigli E, Sanchez-Quinto F, Ramirez O, Calafell F, Civit S, Lalueza-Fox C. 2011. Fragmentation of contaminant and endogenous dna in ancient samples determined by shotgun sequencing; prospects for human palaeogenomics. PLoS ONE, 6(8). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0024161

Gazave E, Darré F, Morcillo-Suarez C, Petit-Marty N, Carreño A, Marigorta UM, Ryder OA, Blancher A, Rocchi M, Bosch E, Baker C, Marquès-Bonet T, Eichler EE, Navarro A. 2011. Copy number variation analysis in the great apes reveals species-specific patterns of structural variation. Genome Research, 21(10):1626-1639. DOI:10.1101/gr.117242.110

Ge D, Chesters D, Gómez-Zurita J, Zhang L, Yang X, Vogler AP. 2011. Anti-predator defence drives parallel morphological evolution in flea beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1715):2133-2141. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.1500

Gómez-Díaz E, Boulinier T, Sertour N, Cornet M, Ferquel E, McCoy KD. 2011. Genetic structure of marine Borrelia garinii and population admixture with the terrestrial cycle of Lyme borreliosis. Environmental Microbiology, 13(9):2453-2467. DOI:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02515.x

Gomez-Zurita J. 2011. Rhyparida foaensis (Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007), comb. n. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and implications for the colonization of New Caledonia. ZooKeys, 157(December 2011):33-44. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.157.1320

Gómez-Zurita, J. 2011. A new species of Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) from New Caledonia: Oulema (Oulema) taophiloides sp. nov. Zootaxa 2870: 63-68.

Gómez-Zurita, J. 2011. Revision of New Caledonian Eumolpinae described by K. M. Heller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 3060: 31-46.

Haber M, Platt DE, Badro DA, Xue Y, El-Sibai M, Bonab MA, Youhanna SC, Saade S, Soria-Hernanz DF, Royyuru A, Wells RS, Tyler-Smith C, Zalloua PA; Genographic Consortium. 2011. Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: The Maronites in Lebanon. European Journal of Human Genetics, 19(3):334-340. DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2010.177

Henn BM, Gignoux CR, Jobin M, Granka JM, Macpherson JM, Kidd JM, Rodríguez-Botigué L, Ramachandran S, Hon L, Brisbin A, Lin AA, Underhill PA, Comas D, Kidd KK, Norman PJ, Parham P, Bustamante CD, Mountain JL, Feldman MW. 2011. Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(13):5154-5162. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1017511108

Hernández-Roldán JL, Múrria C, Romo H, Talavera G, Zakharov E, Hebert PDN, Vila R. 2011. Tracing the origin of disjunct distributions: A case of biogeographical convergence in Pyrgus butterflies. Journal of Biogeography. 2011;38(10):2006-2020. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02547.x

Herraiz A, Chauvigné F, Cerdà J, Bellés X, Piulachs MD. 2011. Identification and functional characterization of an ovarian aquaporin from the cockroach Blattella germanica L. (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 214(21):3630-3638. DOI:10.1242/jeb.057406

Hidalgo-Galiana A, Ribera I. 2011. Late Miocene diversification of the genus Hydrochus (Coleoptera, Hydrochidae) in the west Mediterranean area. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 59(2):377-385. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.01.018

Hurle B, Marques-Bonet T, Antonacci F, Hughes I, Ryan JF; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Eichler EE, Ornitz DM, Green ED. 2011. Lineage-specific evolution of the vertebrate Otopetrin gene family revealed by comparative genomic analyses. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1):1-18. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-23

Irles P, Piulachs MD. 2011. Citrus, a key insect eggshell protein. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 41(2):101-108. DOI:10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.11.001

Javed A, Pybus M, Melé M, Utro F, Bertranpetit J, Calafell F, Parida L. 2011. IRiS: Construction of ARG networks at genomic scales. Bioinformatics, 27(17):2448-2450. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr423

Junger B, Faille A. 2011. Remarkable discovery in a cave of south west Morocco: Siagona taggadertensis n.sp. (Carabidae: Siagoninae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (NS), 47(1-2):162-167. DOI:10.1080/00379271.2011.10697708

Laayouni H, Montanucci L, Sikora M, Melé M, Dall'Olio GM, Lorente-Galdos B, McGee KM, Graffelman J, Awadalla P, Bosch E, Comas D, Navarro A, Calafell F, Casals F, Bertranpetit J. 2011. Similarity in recombination rate estimates highly correlates with genetic differentiation in humans. PLoS ONE, 6(3). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0017913

Lalueza-Fox C, Gilbert MTP. 2011. Paleogenomics of archaic hominins. Current Biology, 21(24):R1002-R1009. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.021

Lalueza-Fox C, Gigli E, Bini C, Calafell F, Luiselli D, Pelotti S, Pettener D. 2011. Genetic analysis of the presumptive blood from Louis XVI, king of France. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 5(5):459-463. DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.09.007

Lalueza-Fox C, Rosas A, Estalrrich A, Gigli E, Campos PF, García-Tabernero A, García-Vargas S, Sánchez-Quinto F, Ramírez O, Civit S, Bastir M, Huguet R, Santamaría D, Gilbert MT, Willerslev E, de la Rasilla M. 2011. Genetic evidence for patrilocal mating behavior among Neandertal groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(1):250-253. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1011553108

Locke DP, Hillier LW, Warren WC, Worley KC, Nazareth LV, Muzny DM, Yang SP, Wang Z, Chinwalla AT, Minx P, Mitreva M, Cook L, Delehaunty KD, Fronick C, Schmidt H, Fulton LA, Fulton RS, Nelson JO, Magrini V, Pohl C, Graves TA, Markovic C, Cree A, Dinh HH, Hume J, Kovar CL, Fowler GR, Lunter G, Meader S, Heger A, Ponting CP, Marques-Bonet T, Alkan C, Chen L, Cheng Z, Kidd JM, Eichler EE, White S, Searle S, Vilella AJ, Chen Y, Flicek P, Ma J, Raney B, Suh B, Burhans R, Herrero J, Haussler D, Faria R, Fernando O, Darré F, Farré D, Gazave E, Oliva M, Navarro A, Roberto R, Capozzi O, Archidiacono N, Della Valle G, Purgato S, Rocchi M, Konkel MK, Walker JA, Ullmer B, Batzer MA, Smit AF, Hubley R, Casola C, Schrider DR, Hahn MW, Quesada V, Puente XS, Ordoñez GR, López-Otín C, Vinar T, Brejova B, Ratan A, Harris RS, Miller W, Kosiol C, Lawson HA, Taliwal V, Martins AL, Siepel A, Roychoudhury A, Ma X, Degenhardt J, Bustamante CD, Gutenkunst RN, Mailund T, Dutheil JY, Hobolth A, Schierup MH, Ryder OA, Yoshinaga Y, de Jong PJ, Weinstock GM, Rogers J, Mardis ER, Gibbs RA, Wilson RK. 2011. Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes. Nature, 469(7331):529-533. DOI:10.1038/nature09687

Lozano J, Belles X. 2011. Conserved repressive function of Krüppel homolog 1 on insect metamorphosis in hemimetabolous and holometabolous species. Scientific Reports, 1:1-7. DOI:10.1038/srep00163

Lukhtanov VA, Dinc V, Talavera G, Vila R. 2011. Unprecedented within-species chromosome number cline in the Wood White butterfly Leptidea sinapis and its significance for karyotype evolution and speciation. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-109

Maestro JL, Tobe SS, Belles X. 2011. Leucomyosuppressin modulates cardiac rhythm in the cockroach Blattella germanica. Journal of Insect Physiology, 57(12):1677-1681. DOI:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.09.001

Marigorta UM, Lao O, Casals F, Calafell F, Morcillo-Suárez C, Faria R, Bosch E, Serra F, Bertranpetit J, Dopazo H, Navarro A. 2011. Recent human evolution has shaped geographical differences in susceptibility to disease. BMC Genomics, 12. DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-12-5

Malhotra S, Morcillo-Suárez C, Brassat D, Goertsches R, Lechner-Scott J, Urcelay E, Fernández O, Drulovic J, García-Merino A, Martinelli Boneschi F, Chan A, Vandenbroeck K, Navarro A, Bustamante MF, Río J, Akkad DA, Giacalone G, Sánchez AJ, Leyva L, Alvarez-Lafuente R, Zettl UK, Oksenberg J, Montalban X, Comabella M. 2011. IL28B polymorphisms are not associated with the response to interferon-beta in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 239(1-2):101-104. DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2011.08.004

Martínez-Cruz B, Vitalis R, Ségurel L, Austerlitz F, Georges M, Théry S, Quintana-Murci L, Hegay T, Aldashev A, Nasyrova F, Heyer E. 2011. In the heartland of Eurasia: The multilocus genetic landscape of Central Asian populations. European Journal of Human Genetics, 19(2):216-223. DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2010.153

Martínez-Silvestre A, Amat F, Bargalló F, Carranza S. 2011. Incidence of pigmented skin tumors in a population of wild Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 47(2):410-414. DOI:10.7589/0090-3558-47.2.410

Mendizabal I, Valente C, Gusmão A, Alves C, Gomes V, Goios A, Parson W, Calafell F, Alvarez L, Amorim A, Gusmão L, Comas D, Prata MJ. 2011. Reconstructing the Indian origin and dispersal of the european Roma: A maternal genetic perspective. PLoS ONE, 6(1):1-10. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0015988

Miñones-Moyano E, Porta S, Escaramís G, Rabionet R, Iraola S, Kagerbauer B, Espinosa-Parrilla Y, Ferrer I, Estivill X, Martí E. 2011. MicroRNA profiling of Parkinson’s disease brains identifies early downregulation of miR-34b/c which modulate mitochondrial function. Human Molecular Genetics, 20(15):3067-3078. DOI:10.1093/hmg/ddr210

Miralles A, Vasconcelos R, Perera A, Harris DJ, Carranza S. 2011. An integrative taxonomic revision of the Cape Verdean skinks (Squamata, Scincidae). Zoologica Scripta, 40(1):16-44. DOI:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00453.x

Montano V, Ferri G, Marcari V, Batini C, Anyaele O, Destro-Bisol G, Comas D. 2011. The Bantu expansion revisited: A new analysis of y chromosome variation in Central Western Africa. Molecular Ecology, 20(13):2693-2708. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05130.x

Montanucci L, Laayouni H, Dall’Olio GM, Bertranpetit J. 2011. Molecular evolution and network-level analysis of the N-glycosylation metabolic pathway across primates. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(1):813-823. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msq259

Muiños-Gimeno M, Espinosa-Parrilla Y, Guidi M, Kagerbauer B, Sipilä T, Maron E, Pettai K, Kananen L, Navinés R, Martín-Santos R, Gratacòs M, Metspalu A, Hovatta I, Estivill X. 2011. Human microRNAs miR-22, miR-138-2, miR-148a, and miR-488 are associated with panic disorder and regulate several anxiety candidate genes and related pathways. Biological Psychiatry, 69(6):526-533. DOI:10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.10.010

Muñiz-Fernandez F, Carreño-Torres A, Morcillo-Suarez C, Navarro A. 2011. Genome-wide association studies pipeline (GWASpi): A desktop application for genome-wide SNP analysis and management. Bioinformatics, 27(13):1871-1872. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr301

Myles S, Lea RA, Ohashi J, Chambers GK, Weiss JG, Hardouin E, Engelken J, Macartney-Coxson DP, Eccles DA, Naka I, Kimura R, Inaoka T, Matsumura Y, Stoneking M. 2011. Testing the thrifty gene hypothesis: The Gly482Ser variant in PPARGC1A is associated with BMI in Tongans. BMC Medical Genetics, 12. DOI:10.1186/1471-2350-12-10

Navarro A, Morcillo-Suárez C, Montalban X, Comabella M. 2011. Re: CASP8 in MS. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 230(1-2):193. DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.09.004

Parnell LD, Lindenbaum P, Shameer K, Dall'Olio GM, Swan DC, Jensen LJ, Cockell SJ, Pedersen BS, Mangan ME, Miller CA, Albert I. 2011. BioStar: An online question & answer resource for the bioinformatics community. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(10):8-12. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002216

Piñeyro D, López-Panadès E, Lucena-Pérez M, Casacuberta E. 2011. Transcriptional analysis of the HeT-A retrotransposon in mutant and wild type stocks reveals high sequence variability at Drosophila telomeres and other unusual features. BMC Genomics, 12. DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-12-573

Pleguezuelos JM, Mora E, de Pous P, Escoriza D, Metallinou M, Donaire D, Comas M, Carranza S. 2011. Elusive but widespread? The potential distribution and genetic variation of Hyalosaurus koellikeri (Günther, 1873) in the Maghreb. Amphibia-Reptilia, 32(3):385-397. DOI:10.1163/017353711X587732

Putku M, Kepp K, Org E, Sõber S, Comas D, Viigimaa M, Veldre G, Juhanson P, Hallast P, Tõnisson N; HYPertension in ESTonia (HYPEST), Shaw-Hawkins S, Caulfield MJ; BRItish Genetics of HyperTension (BRIGHT), Khusnutdinova E, Kožich V, Munroe PB, Laan M. 2011. Novel polymorphic AluYb8 insertion in the WNK1 gene is associated with blood pressure variation in Europeans. Human Mutation, 32(7):806-814. DOI:10.1002/humu.21508

Rato C, Carranza S, Harris DJ. 2011. When selection deceives phylogeographic interpretation: The case of the Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58(2):365-373. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.004

Regot S, Macia J, Conde N, Furukawa K, Kjellén J, Peeters T, Hohmann S, de Nadal E, Posas F, Solé R. 2011. Distributed biological computation with multicellular engineered networks. Nature, 469(7329):207-211. DOI:10.1038/nature09679

Ribera I, Castro A, Díaz JA, Garrido J, Izquierdo A, Jäch MA, Valladares LF. 2011. The geography of speciation in narrow-range endemics of the “Haenydra” lineage (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, Hydraena). Journal of Biogeography. 2011;38(3):502-516. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02417.x

Rodríguez R, Ramírez O, Valdiosera CE, García N, Alda F, Madurell-Malapeira J, Marmi J, Doadrio I, Willerslev E, Götherström A, Arsuaga JL, Thomas MG, Lalueza-Fox C, Dalén L. 2011. 50,000 years of genetic uniformity in the critically endangered Iberian lynx. Molecular Ecology, 20(18):3785-3795. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05231.x

Roscales JL, Gómez-Díaz E, Neves V, González-Solís J. 2011. Trophic versus geographic structure in stable isotope signatures of pelagic seabirds breeding in the Northeast Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 434(2007):1-13. DOI:10.3354/meps09211

Salomon J, Espinosa-Parrilla Y, Goulet O, Al-Qabandi W, Guigue P, Canioni D, Bruneau J, Alzahrani F, Almuhsen S, Cerf-Bensussan N, Jeanpierre M, Brousse N, Lyonnet S, Munnich A, Smahi A. 2011. A founder effect at the EPCAM locus in Congenital Tufting Enteropathy in the Arabic Gulf. European Journal of Medical Genetics, 54(3):319-322. DOI:10.1016/j.ejmg.2011.01.009

Sánchez-Gracia A, Rozas J. 2011. Molecular population genetics of the OBP83 genomic region in Drosophila subobscura and D. guanche: Contrasting the effects of natural selection and gene arrangement expansion in the patterns of nucleotide variation. Heredity, 106(1):191-201. DOI:10.1038/hdy.2010.26

Sikora M, Laayouni H, Calafell F, Comas D, Bertranpetit J. 2011. A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of sub-Saharan African populations. European Journal of Human Genetics, 19(1):84-88. DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2010.141

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