2012 Publications

Andújar C, Serrano J, Gámez-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 Evolutionary Biology, 12(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-40

Andújar C, Gómez-Zurita J, Rasplus JY, 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. DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00866.x

Arribas P, Velasco J, Abellán P, Sánchez-Fernández D, Andújar C, Calosi P, Millán A, Ribera I, Bilton DT. 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. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02641.x

Arunkumar G, Soria-Hernanz DF, Kavitha VJ, Arun VS, Syama A, Ashokan KS, Gandhirajan KT, Vijayakumar K, Narayanan M, Jayalakshmi M, Ziegle JS, Royyuru AK, Parida L, Wells RS, Renfrew C, Schurr TG, Smith CT, Platt DE, Pitchappan R; Genographic Consortium. 2012. Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System. PLoS ONE, 7(11). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0050269

Barata M, Carranza S, Harris DJ. 2012. Extreme genetic diversity in the lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Werner, 1929): A montane cryptic species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-167

Behar DM, Harmant C, Manry J, van Oven M, Haak W, Martinez-Cruz B, Salaberria J, Oyharçabal B, Bauduer F, Comas D, Quintana-Murci L; Genographic Consortium. 2012. The Basque paradigm: Genetic evidence of a maternal continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian region since pre-neolithic times. American Journal of Human Genetics, 90(3):486-493. DOI:10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.002

Bergsten J, Bilton DT, Fujisawa T, Elliott M, Monaghan MT, Balke M, Hendrich L, Geijer J, Herrmann J, Foster GN, Ribera I, Nilsson AN, Barraclough TG, Vogler AP. 2012. The effect of geographical scale of sampling on DNA barcoding. Systematic Biology, 61(5):851-869. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/sys037

Bertinetto FE, Calafell F, Roggero S, Chidichimo R, Garino E, Marcuccio C, Coppo R, Scolari F, Frascá GM, Savoldi S, Schena FP, Amoroso A; European IgA Nephropathy Consortium. 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. DOI:10.1093/ndt/gfr633

Boher F, Trefault N, Piulachs MD, 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 - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 162 (4):391-396. DOI:10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.04.017

Burbano HA, Green RE, Maricic T, Lalueza-Fox C, de la Rasilla M, Rosas A, Kelso J, Pollard KS, Lachmann M, Pääbo S. 2012. Analysis of human accelerated DNA regions using archaic hominin genomes. PLoS ONE, 7(3):1-8. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0032877

Campbell CL, Palamara PF, Dubrovsky M, Botigué LR, Fellous M, Atzmon G, Oddoux C, Pearlman A, Hao L, Henn BM, Burns E, Bustamante CD, 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 of the United States of America, 109(34):13865-13870. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1204840109

Cánovas A, Pena RN, Gallardo D, Ramírez O, Amills M, Quintanilla R. 2012. Segregation of regulatory polymorphisms with effects on the gluteus medius transcriptome in a purebred pig population. PLoS ONE, 7(4):1-12. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0035583

Cantó E, Reverter F, Morcillo-Suárez C, Matesanz F, Fernández O, Izquierdo G, Vandenbroeck K, Rodríguez-Antigüedad A, Urcelay E, Arroyo R, Otaegui D, Olascoaga J, Saiz A, Navarro A, Sanchez A, Domínguez C, Caminero A, Horga A, Tintoré 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. DOI:10.1177/1352458511433063

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(2):811-823. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msr251

Carranza S, Arnold EN. 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):1. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3378.1.1.

Casals F, Bertranpetit J. 2012. Human genetic variation, shared and private. Science, 336(6090):39-40. DOI:10.1126/science.1224528

Dall’Olio GM, 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):1-13. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-98

Dapporto L, Bruschini C, Dincǎ V, Vila R, Dennis RLH. 2012. Identifying zones of phenetic compression in West Mediterranean butterflies (Satyrinae): Refugia, invasion and hybridization. Diversity and Distributions, 18(11):1066-1076. DOI:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00903.x

de Pous P, Beukema W, Dingemans D, Donaire D, Geniez P, El Mouden EH. 2012. Distribution review, habitat suitability and conservation of the endangered and endemic Moroccan spadefoot toad (Pelobates varaldii). Basic and Applied Herpetology, 26(January):57-71. DOI:10.11160/bah.11015

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(September):391-405

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 Genetics and Molecular Biology, 11(4). DOI:10.1515/1544-6115.1776

Dietrich M, Kempf F, Gómez-Díaz E, Kitaysky AS, Hipfner JM, Boulinier T, Mccoy KD. 2012. Inter-oceanic variation in patterns of host-associated divergence in a seabird ectoparasite. Journal of Biogeography, 39(3):545-555. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02620.x

Donato Tanaka E, Piulachs MD. 2012. Dicer-1 is a key enzyme in the regulation of oogenesis in panoistic ovaries. Biology of the Cell, 104(8):452-461. DOI:10.1111/boc.201100044

Dulik MC, Owings AC, Gaieski JB, Vilar MG, Andre A, Lennie C, Mackenzie MA, Kritsch I, Snowshoe S, Wright R, Martin J, Gibson N, Andrews TD, Schurr TG; Genographic 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 of the United States of America, 109(22):8471-8476. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1118760109

Fernandes AS, 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. DOI:10.1080/00222933.2011.651643

Frayer DW, Fiore I, Lalueza-Fox C, Radovĉić J, Bondioli L. 2012. Replay to Benítez-Burraco & longa: When is enough, enough?. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 90:193-197. DOI:10.4436/]ass.90003

Gallardo D, Pena RN, Quintanilla R, Ramírez O, Almuzara D, Noguera JL, 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. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02333.x

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. DOI:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02756.x

Garcia-Mas J, Benjak A, Sanseverino W, Bourgeois M, Mir G, González VM, Hénaff E, Câmara F, Cozzuto L, Lowy E, Alioto T, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Blanca J, Cañizares J, Ziarsolo P, Gonzalez-Ibeas D, Rodríguez-Moreno L, Droege M, Du L, Alvarez-Tejado M, Lorente-Galdos B, Melé M, Yang L, Weng Y, Navarro A, Marques-Bonet T, Aranda MA, Nuez F, Picó B, Gabaldón T, Roma G, Guigó R, Casacuberta JM, Arús P, Puigdomènech 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. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1205415109

Garcia-Porta J, Litvinchuk SN, Crochet PA, Romano A, Geniez PH, 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. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.019

Gebiola M, Gómez-Zurita J, Monti MM, Navone P, Bernardo U. 2012. Integration of molecular, ecological, morphological and endosymbiont data for species delimitation within the Pnigalio soemius complex (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Molecular Ecology, 21(5):1190-1208. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05428.x

Ge D, Gómez-Zurita J, Chesters D, Yang X, Vogler AP. 2012. Suprageneric systematics of flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) inferred from multilocus sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62(3):793-805. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.028

Gómez-Díaz E, Morris-Pocock JA, González-Solís J, McCoy KD. 2012. Trans-oceanic host dispersal explains high seabird tick diversity on Cape Verde islands. Biology Letters, 8(4):616-619. DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0179

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. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05672.x

Gómez-Díaz E, Jordà M, Peinado MA, Rivero A. 2012. Epigenetics of Host-Pathogen Interactions: The Road Ahead and the Road Behind. PLoS Pathogens, 8(11). DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003007

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(1):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 MP, Malgosa A. 2012. Tracing the Origin of the East-West Population Admixture in the Altai Region (Central Asia). PLoS ONE, 7(11):3-13. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0048904

Grillo M, Furriols M, De Miguel C, Franch-Marro X, Casanova J. 2012. Conserved and divergent elements in Torso RTK activation in Drosophila development. Scientific Reports, 2:1-7. DOI:10.1038/srep00762

Haber M, Youhanna SC, Balanovsky O, Saade S, Martínez-Cruz B, Ghassibe-Sabbagh M, Shasha N, Osman R, el Bayeh H, Koshel S, Zaporozhchenko V, Balanovska E, Soria-Hernanz DF, Platt DE, Zalloua PA. 2012. mtDNA Lineages Reveal Coronary Artery Disease-Associated Structures in the Lebanese Population. Annals of Human Genetics, 76(1):1-8. DOI:10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00682.x

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). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0034288

Hardy K, Buckley S, Collins MJ, Estalrrich A, Brothwell D, Copeland L, García-Tabernero A, García-Vargas S, de la Rasilla M, Lalueza-Fox C, Huguet R, Bastir M, Santamaría D, Madella M, Wilson J, Cortés AF, Rosas A. 2012. Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus. Naturwissenschaften, 99(8):617-626. DOI:10.1007/s00114-012-0942-0

Henn BM, Botigué LR, Gravel S, Wang W, Brisbin A, Byrnes JK, Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Zalloua PA, Moreno-Estrada A, Bertranpetit J, Bustamante CD, Comas D. 2012. Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations. PLoS Genetics, 8(1). DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397

Hernández-Roldán JL, Munguira ML, 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, 71(3470):1-71. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3470.1.1. 

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. memnoniusand related groups (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Zootaxa, 3173(1):37. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3173.1.2

Huang JH, Bellés X, Lee HJ. 2012. Functional characterization of hypertrehalosemic hormone receptor in relation to hemolymph trehalose and to oxidative stress in the cockroach Blattella germanica. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 3(JAN):1-11. DOI:10.3389/fendo.2011.00114

Javed A, Melé M, Pybus M, Zalloua P, Haber M, Comas D, Netea MG, Balanovsky O, Balanovska E, Jin L, Yang Y, Arunkumar G, Pitchappan R, Bertranpetit J, Calafell F, Parida L; Genographic Consortium. 2012. Recombination networks as genetic markers in a human variation study of the Old World. Human Genetics, 131(4):601-613. DOI:10.1007/s00439-011-1104-8

Kang L, Lu Y, Wang C, Hu K, Chen F, Liu K, Li S, Jin L, Li H; 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. DOI:10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00690.x

Lalueza-Fox C, Rosas A, Rasilla M de la. 2012. Palaeogenetic research at the El Sidrón Neanderthal site. Annals of Anatomy, 194(1):133-137. DOI:10.1016/j.aanat.2011.01.014

Lalueza-Fox C, Gigli E, Sánchez-Quinto F, de la Rasilla M, Fortea J, Rosas A. 2012. Issues from Neandertal genomics: Diversity, adaptation and hybridisation revised from the El Sidrón case study. Quaternary International, 247(1):10-14. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.012

Llorente GA, Vidal-García M, Garriga N, Carranza S, Pleguezuelos JM, 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. DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01844.x

Lorente-Galdos B, Medina I, Morcillo-Suarez C, Heredia T, Carreño-Torres A, Sangrós R, Alegre J, Pita G, Vellalta G, Malats N, Pisano DG, 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. DOI:10.1504/IJDMB.2012.049249

Lopez-Valenzuela M, Ramírez O, Rosas A, García-Vargas S, de la 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):1797-1806. DOI:10.1093/molbev/mss023

Lozano J, Gomez-Orte E, Lee HJ, 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, 222(4):229-235. DOI:10.1007/s00427-012-0404-x

Luisi P, Alvarez-Ponce D, Dall’Olio GM, 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. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msr298

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. DOI:10.3109/19401736.2011.643875

Macía J, Solé R V., Elena SF. 2012. The causes of epistasis in genetic networks. Evolution, 66(2):586-596. DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01451.x

Macía J, Posas F, Solé R V. 2012. Distributed computation: The new wave of synthetic biology devices. Trends in Biotechnology, 30(6):342-349. DOI:10.1016/j.tibtech.2012.03.006

Maia JPMC, Gómez-Díaz E, Harris DJ. 2012. Apicomplexa primers amplify Proteromonas (Stramenopiles, Slopalinida, Proteromonadidae) in tissue and blood samples from lizards. Acta Parasitologica, 57(4):337-341. DOI:10.2478/s11686-012-0048-z

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(1):322-330. DOI:10.1016/j.mce.2011.09.025

Mannino MA, 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). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0049802

Martínez-Cruz B, Harmant C, Platt DE, Haak W, Manry J, Ramos-Luis E, Soria-Hernanz DF, Bauduer F, Salaberria J, Oyharçabal B, Quintana-Murci L, Comas D; Genographic Consortium. 2012. Evidence of pre-roman tribal genetic structure in basques from uniparentally inherited markers. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29(9):2211-2222. DOI:10.1093/molbev/mss091

Martinez-Cruz B, Ioana M, Calafell F, Arauna LR, Sanz P, Ionescu R, Boengiu S, Kalaydjieva L, Pamjav H, Makukh H, Plantinga T, van der Meer JW, Comas D, Netea MG; Genographic Consortium. 2012. Y-chromosome analysis in individuals bearing the Basarab name of the first dynasty of Wallachian kings. PLoS ONE, 7(7). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0041803

Martínez-González LJ, Martínez-Espín E, Álvarez JC, Albardaner F, Rickards O, Martínez-Labarga C, Calafell F, Lorente JA. 2012. Surname and y chromosome in Southern Europe: A case study with Colom/Colombo. European Journal of Human Genetics, 20(2):211-216. DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2011.162

Melé M, Javed A, Pybus M, Zalloua P, Haber M, Comas D, Netea MG, Balanovsky O, Balanovska E, Jin L, Yang Y, Pitchappan RM, Arunkumar G, Parida L, Calafell F, Bertranpetit J; Genographic Consortium. 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. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msr213

Mendizabal I, Lao O, Marigorta UM, Wollstein A, Gusmão L, Ferak V, Ioana M, Jordanova A, Kaneva R, Kouvatsi A, Kučinskas V, Makukh H, Metspalu A, Netea MG, de Pablo R, Pamjav H, Radojkovic D, Rolleston SJ, Sertic J, Macek M Jr, Comas D, Kayser M. 2012. Reconstructing the population history of European Romani from genome-wide data. Current Biology, 22(24):2342-2349. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.039

Mendizabal I, Marigorta UM, Lao O, Comas D. 2012. Adaptive evolution of loci covarying with the human African Pygmy phenotype. Human Genetics, 131(8):1305-1317. DOI:10.1007/s00439-012-1157-3

Metallinou M, Arnold EN, Crochet PA, Geniez P, Brito JC, 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). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-258

Noel V, Leger E, Gómez-Díaz E, Risterucci AM, McCoy KD. 2012. Isolation and characterization of new polymorphic microsatellite markers for the tick ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae). Acarologia, 52(2):123-128. DOI:10.1051/acarologia/20122041

Ord TJ, 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(1597):1811-1828. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2011.0215

Petit N, Piñeyro D, López-Panadès 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):1-11. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0037405

Pimenoff VN, Laval G, Comas D, Palo JU, 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. DOI:10.1097/FPC.0b013e32835a3a6d

Prüfer K, Munch K, Hellmann I, Akagi K, Miller JR, Walenz B, Koren S, Sutton G, Kodira C, Winer R, Knight JR, Mullikin JC, Meader SJ, Ponting CP, Lunter G, Higashino S, Hobolth A, Dutheil J, Karakoç E, Alkan C, Sajjadian S, Catacchio CR, Ventura M, Marques-Bonet T, Eichler EE, André C, Atencia R, Mugisha L, Junhold J, Patterson N, Siebauer M, Good JM, Fischer A, Ptak SE, Lachmann M, Symer DE, Mailund T, Schierup MH, Andrés AM, Kelso J, Pääbo S. 2012. The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Nature, 486(7404):527-531. DOI:10.1038/nature11128

Przewoźny M, Fernandes AS. 2012. Portelmis guianensis sp. nov. from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Zootaxa, 63(3196):58-63. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3196.1.3

Rato C, Carranza S, Harris DJ. 2012. Evolutionary history of the genus Tarentola (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, estimated using multilocus sequence data. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-14

Rosas A, Estalrrich A, García-Tabernero A, Bastir M, García-Vargas S, Sánchez-Meseguer A, Huguet R, Lalueza-Fox C, Peña-Melián Á, Kranioti EF, Santamaría D, De la Rasilla M, Fortea J. 2012. Les Néandertaliens d’El Sidrón (Asturies, Espagne). Actualisation d’un nouvel échantillon. Anthropologie, 116(1):57-76. DOI:10.1016/j.anthro.2011.12.003

Rubio M, de Horna A, Belles X. 2012. MicroRNAs in metamorphic and non-metamorphic transitions in hemimetabolan insect metamorphosis. BMC Genomics, 13(1). DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-13-386

Sánchez-Fernández D, Aragón P, Bilton DT, Lobo JM. 2012. Assessing the Congruence of Thermal Niche Estimations Derived from Distribution and Physiological Data. A Test Using Diving Beetles. PLoS ONE, 7(10). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0048163

Sánchez-Fernández D, Lobo JM, 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. 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). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0030239

Sánchez-Quinto F, Schroeder H, Ramirez O, Avila-Arcos MC, Pybus M, Olalde I, Velazquez AM, Marcos ME, Encinas JM, Bertranpetit J, Orlando L, Gilbert MT, Lalueza-Fox C. 2012. Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers. Current Biology, 22(16):1494-1499. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.005

Sánchez-Quinto F, Botigué LR, Civit S, Arenas C, Avila-Arcos MC, Bustamante CD, Comas D, Lalueza-Fox C. 2012. North African Populations Carry the Signature of Admixture with Neandertals. PLoS ONE, 7(10):1-6. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0047765

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