2015 Publications

Abellán P, Sánchez-Fernández D. 2015. A gap analysis comparing the effectiveness of Natura 2000 and national protected area networks in representing European amphibians and reptiles. Biodiversity and Conservation, 24(6):1377-1390. DOI:10.1007/s10531-015-0862-3

Alzayady KJ, Sebe-Pedros A, Chandrasekhar R, Wang L, Ruiz-Trillo I, Yule DI. 2015. Tracing the evolutionary history of inositol, 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor: Insights from analyses of capsaspora owczarzaki Ca2+ release channel orthologs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(9):2236-2253. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msv098

Aragón P, Sánchez-Fernández D, Abellán P, Varela S. 2015. Effects of temporal bias on the assessment of an ecological perturbation: A case study of the Prestige oil spill. Environmental Research Letters, 10(9). DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094006

Avena-Koenigsberger A, Goñi J, Soleeé R, Sporns O. 2015. Network morphospace. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12(103). DOI:10.1098/rsif.2014.0881

Barata M, Perera A, Harris DJ. 2015. Cryptic variation in the Moroccan high altitude lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Squamata: Lacertidae). African Journal of Herpetology, 64(1):1-17. DOI:10.1080/21564574.2014.967815

Bekada A, Arauna LR, Deba T, Calafell F, Benhamamouch S, Comas D. 2015. Genetic heterogeneity in Algerian human populations. PLoS ONE, 10(9):1-15. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0138453

Bellati A, Carranza S, Garcia-Porta J, Fasola M, Sindaco R. 2015. Cryptic diversity within the Anatololacerta species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) in the Anatolian Peninsula: Evidence from a multi-locus approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82:219-233. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.003

Belles X, Piulachs MD. 2015. Ecdysone signalling and ovarian development in insects: From stem cells to ovarian follicle formation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1849(2):181-186. DOI:10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.025

Belles X, Ylla G. 2015. Towards understanding the molecular basis of cockroach tergal gland morphogenesis. A transcriptomic approach. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 63:104-112. DOI:10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.06.008

Bilgin Sonay T, Carvalho T, Robinson MD, Greminger MP, Krützen M, Comas D, Highnam G, Mittelman D, Sharp A, Marques-Bonet T, Wagner A. 2015. Tandem repeat variation in human and great ape populations and its impact on gene expression divergence. Genome Research, 25(11):1591-1599. DOI:10.1101/gr.190868.115

Bustamante MF, Morcillo-Suárez C, Malhotra S, Rio J, Leyva L, Fernández O, Zettl UK, Killestein J, Brassat D, García-Merino JA, Sánchez AJ, Urcelay E, Alvarez-Lafuente R, Villar LM, Alvarez-Cermeño JC, Farré X, Lechner-Scott J, Vandenbroeck K, Rodríguez-Antigüedad A, Drulovic JS, Martinelli Boneschi F, Chan A, Oksenberg J, Navarro A, Montalban X, Comabella M. 2015. Pharmacogenomic study in patients with multiple sclerosis Responders and nonresponders to IFN-β. Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation, 2(5):e154. DOI:10.1212/NXI.0000000000000154

Carot-Sans G, Muñoz L, Piulachs MD, Guerrero A, Rosell G. 2015. Identification and characterization of a fatty acyl reductase from a Spodoptera littoralis female gland involved in pheromone biosynthesis. Insect Molecular Biology, 24(1):82-92. DOI:10.1111/imb.12138

Carranza S, Oromí N, Amat F, Sanuy D. 2015. Sexual dimorphism and age structure of the Montseny newt (Calotriton arnoldi). Amphibia Reptilia, 36(3):245-252. DOI:10.1163/15685381-00003000

Dall’Olio GM, Vahdati AR, Bertranpetit J, Wagner A, Laayouni H. 2015. VCF2Networks: Applying genotype networks to single-nucleotide variants data. Bioinformatics, 31(3):438-439. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu650

del Campo J, Mallo D, Massana R, de Vargas C, Richards TA, Ruiz-Trillo I. 2015. Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the European coast analysed using high-throughput sequencing. Environmental Microbiology, 17(9):3195-3207. DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.12759

de Mendoza A, Suga H, Permanyer J, Irimia M, Ruiz-Trillo I. 2015. Complex transcriptional regulation and independent evolution of fungal-like traits in a relative of animals. eLife, 4:1-26. DOI:10.7554/elife.08904

Derelle R, Torruella G, Klimeš V, Brinkmann H, Kim E, Vlček Č, Lang BF, Eliáš M. 2015. Bacterial proteins pinpoint a single eukaryotic root. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(7):E693-E699. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1420657112

Der Sarkissian C, Ermini L, Schubert M, Yang MA, Librado P, Fumagalli M, Jónsson H, Bar-Gal GK, Albrechtsen A, Vieira FG, Petersen B, Ginolhac A, Seguin-Orlando A, Magnussen K, Fages A, Gamba C, Lorente-Galdos B, Polani S, Steiner C, Neuditschko M, Jagannathan V, Feh C, Greenblatt CL, Ludwig A, Abramson NI, Zimmermann W, Schafberg R, Tikhonov A, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Willerslev E, Marques-Bonet T, Ryder OA, McCue M, Rieder S, Leeb T, Slatkin M, Orlando L. 2015. Evolutionary genomics and conservation of the endangered Przewalski’s horse. Current Biology, 25(19):2577-2583. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.032

Dillon MB, Schulten V, Oseroff C, Paul S, Dullanty LM, Frazier A, Belles X, Piulachs MD, Visness C, Bacharier L, Bloomberg GR, Busse P, Sidney J, Peters B, Sette A. 2015. Different Bla-g T cell antigens dominate responses in asthma versus rhinitis subjects. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 45(12):1856-1867. DOI:10.1111/cea.12643

Dincă V, Montagud S, Talavera G, Hernández-Roldán J, Munguira ML, García-Barros E, Hebert PD, Vila R. 2015. DNA barcode reference library for Iberian butterflies enables a continental-scale preview of potential cryptic diversity. Scientific Reports, 5(January):1-12. DOI:10.1038/srep12395

Dobon B, Hassan HY, Laayouni H, Luisi P, Ricaño-Ponce I, Zhernakova A, Wijmenga C, Tahir H, Comas D, Netea MG, Bertranpetit J. 2015. The genetics of East African populations: A Nilo-Saharan component in the African genetic landscape. Scientific Reports, 5(November 2014):1-11. DOI:10.1038/srep09996

Duarte J, Rodrigues C, Januário C, Martins N, Sardanyés J. 2015. How Complex, Probable, and Predictable is Genetically Driven Red Queen Chaos?. Acta Biotheoretica, 63(4):341-361. DOI:10.1007/s10441-015-9254-z

Elshaer N, Piulachs MD. 2015. Crosstalk of EGFR signalling with Notch and Hippo pathways to regulate cell specification, migration and proliferation in cockroach panoistic ovaries. Biology of the Cell, 107(8):273-285. DOI:10.1111/boc.201500003

Espeland M, Hall JP, DeVries PJ, Lees DC, Cornwall M, Hsu YF, Wu LW, Campbell DL, Talavera G, Vila R, Salzman S, Ruehr S, Lohman DJ, Pierce NE. 2015. Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93:296-306. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006

Faille A, Bourdeau C, Belles X, Fresneda J. 2015. Allopatric speciation illustrated: The hypogean genus Geotrechus Jeannel, 1919 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini), with description of four new species from the Eastern Pyrenees (Spain). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 73(3):439-455.

Ferrando A, Manunza A, Jordana J, Capote J, Pons A, Pais J, Delgado T, Atoche P, Cabrera B, Martínez A, Landi V, Delgado JV, Argüello A, Vidal O, Lalueza-Fox C, Ramírez O, Amills M. 2015. A mitochondrial analysis reveals distinct founder effect signatures in Canarian and Balearic goats. Animal Genetics, 46(4):452-456. DOI:10.1111/age.12302

Garcia-Etxebarria K, Bracho MA, Galán JC, Pumarola T, Castilla J, Ortiz de Lejarazu R, Rodríguez-Dominguez M, Quintela I, Bonet N, Garcia-Garcerà M, Domínguez A, González-Candelas F, Calafell F; CIBERESP Cases and Controls in Pandemic Influenza Working Group. 2015. No major host genetic risk factor contributed to A(H1N1)2009 influenza severity. PLoS ONE, 10(9):1-10. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135983

Gineau L, Luisi P, Castelli EC, Milet J, Courtin D, Cagnin N, Patillon B, Laayouni H, Moreau P, Donadi EA, Garcia A, Sabbagh A. 2015. Balancing immunity and tolerance: Genetic footprint of natural selection in the transcriptional regulatory region of HLA-G. Genes and Immunity, 16(1):57-70. DOI:10.1038/gene.2014.63

Gómez-Zurita J. 2015. What is the Leaf Beetle Calligrapha scalaris (Leconte)?. Breviora, 541(1):1-19. DOI:10.3099/mcz11.1

Gómez-Zurita J. 2015. Systematic revision of the genus Calligrapha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) in Central America: The group of Calligrapha argus Stål. Zootaxa, 3922(1):1. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3922.1.1

Gonçalves-Souza T, Araújo MS, Barbosa EP, Lopes SM, Kaminski LA, Shimizu GH, Santos AJ, Romero GQ. 2015. Fine-scale Beta-diversity Patterns Across Multiple Arthropod Taxa Over a Neotropical Latitudinal Gradient. Biotropica, 47(5):588-594. DOI:10.1111/btp.12242

Grau-Bové X, Ruiz-Trillo I, Rodriguez-Pascual F. 2015. Origin and evolution of lysyl oxidases. Scientific Reports, 5:1-11. DOI:10.1038/srep10568

Grau-Bové X, Sebé-Pedrós A, Ruiz-Trillo I. 2015. The eukaryotic ancestor had a complex ubiquitin signaling system of archaeal origin. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(3):726-739. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msu334

Guillamon A, Fontich E, Sardanyés J. 2015. Bifurcations analysis of oscillating hypercycles. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 387:23-30. DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.09.018

Gutiérrez-Cánovas C, Sánchez-Fernández D, Velasco J, Millán A, Bonada N. 2015. Similarity in the difference: changes in community functional features along natural and anthropogenic stress gradients. Ecology, 96(9):2458-2466. DOI:10.1890/14-1447.1

Harris DJ, Borges-Nojosa DM, Maia JP. 2015. Prevalence and diversity of hepatozoon in native and exotic geckos from Brazil. Journal of Parasitology, 101(1):80-85. DOI:10.1645/14-522.1

Herboso L, Oliveira MM, Talamillo A, Pérez C, González M, Martín D, Sutherland JD, Shingleton AW, Mirth CK, Barrio R. 2015. Ecdysone promotes growth of imaginal discs through the regulation of Thor in D. melanogaster. Scientific Reports, 5(June):1-14. DOI:10.1038/srep12383

Hernando-Herraez I, Heyn H, Fernandez-Callejo M, Vidal E, Fernandez-Bellon H, Prado-Martinez J, Sharp AJ, Esteller M, Marques-Bonet T. 2015. The interplay between DNA methylation and sequence divergence in recent human evolution. Nucleic Acids Research, 43(17):8204-8214. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkv693

Hughes DA, Kircher M, He Z, Guo S, Fairbrother GL, Moreno CS, Khaitovich P, Stoneking M. 2015. Evaluating intra- and inter-individual variation in the human placental transcriptome. Genome Biology, 16(1):1-18. DOI:10.1186/s13059-015-0627-z

Igea J, Aymerich P, Bannikova AA, Gosálbez J, Castresana J. 2015. Multilocus species trees and species delimitation in a temporal context: Application to the water shrews of the genus Neomys. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15(1):1-16. DOI:10.1186/s12862-015-0485-z

Jindra M, Bellés X, Shinoda T. 2015. Molecular basis of juvenile hormone signaling. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 11:39-46. DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2015.08.004

Kaliszewska ZA, Lohman DJ, Sommer K, Adelson G, Rand DB, Mathew J, Talavera G, Pierce NE. 2015. When caterpillars attack: Biogeography and life history evolution of the Miletinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Evolution, 69(3):571-588. DOI:10.1111/evo.12599

Kaminski LA, Dell’Erba R, Barbosa EP, Freitas AVL. 2015. New distribution records and notes on the habitat of Magneuptychia flavofascia Zacca & Siewert, 2014 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Check List, 11(4). DOI:10.15560/11.4.1692

Knapp M, Lalueza-Fox C, Hofreiter M. 2015. Re-inventing ancient human DNA. Investigative Genetics, 6(1). DOI:10.1186/s13323-015-0020-4

Lappalainen I, Almeida-King J, Kumanduri V, Senf A, Spalding JD, Ur-Rehman S, Saunders G, Kandasamy J, Caccamo M, Leinonen R, Vaughan B, Laurent T, Rowland F, Marin-Garcia P, Barker J, Jokinen P, Torres AC, de Argila JR, Llobet OM, Medina I, Puy MS, Alberich M, de la Torre S, Navarro A, Paschall J, Flicek P. 2015. The European Genome-phenome Archive of human data consented for biomedical research. Nature Genetics, 47(7):692-695. DOI:10.1038/ng.3312

Lari M, Di Vincenzo F, Borsato A, Ghirotto S, Micheli M, Balsamo C, Collina C, De Bellis G, Frisia S, Giacobini G, Gigli E, Hellstrom JC, Lannino A, Modi A, Pietrelli A, Pilli E, Profico A, Ramirez O, Rizzi E, Vai S, Venturo D, Piperno M, Lalueza-Fox C, Barbujani G, Caramelli D, Manzi G. 2015. The Neanderthal in the karst: First dating, morphometric, and paleogenetic data on the fossil skeleton from Altamura (Italy). Journal of Human Evolution, 82:88-94. DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.007

Lisón F, Sánchez-Fernández D, Calvo JF. 2015. Are species listed in the Annex II of the Habitats Directive better represented in Natura 2000 network than the remaining species? A test using Spanish bats. Biodiversity and Conservation, 24(10):2459-2473. DOI:10.1007/s10531-015-0937-1

López-Panadès E, Gavis ER, Casacuberta E. 2015. Specific localization of the Drosophila telomere transposon proteins and RNAs, give insight in their behavior, control and telomere biology in this organism. PLoS ONE, 10(6):1-17. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0128573

Lozano J, Montañez R, Belles X. 2015. MiR-2 family regulates insect metamorphosis by controlling the juvenile hormone signaling pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(12):3740-3745. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1418522112

Luisi P, Alvarez-Ponce D, Pybus M, Fares MA, Bertranpetit J, Laayouni H. 2015. Recent positive selection has acted on genes encoding proteins with more interactions within the whole human interactome. Genome Biology and Evolution, 7(4):1141-1154. DOI:10.1093/gbe/evv055

Mathieson I, Lazaridis I, Rohland N, Mallick S, Patterson N, Roodenberg SA, Harney E, Stewardson K, Fernandes D, Novak M, Sirak K, Gamba C, Jones ER, Llamas B, Dryomov S, Pickrell J, Arsuaga JL, de Castro JM, Carbonell E, Gerritsen F, Khokhlov A, Kuznetsov P, Lozano M, Meller H, Mochalov O, Moiseyev V, Guerra MA, Roodenberg J, Vergès JM, Krause J, Cooper A, Alt KW, Brown D, Anthony D, Lalueza-Fox C, Haak W, Pinhasi R, Reich D. 2015. Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians. Nature, 528(7583):499-503. DOI:10.1038/nature16152

Metallinou M, Červenka J, Crochet PA, Kratochvíl L, Wilms T, Geniez P, Shobrak MY, Brito JC, Carranza S. 2015. Species on the rocks: Systematics and biogeography of the rock-dwelling Ptyodactylus geckos (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) in North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 85:208-220. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.02.010

Montagna M, Gómez-Zurita J, Giorgi A, Epis S, Lozzia G, Bandi C. 2015. Metamicrobiomics in herbivore beetles of the genus Cryptocephalus (Chrysomelidae): Toward the understanding of ecological determinants in insect symbiosis. Insect Science, 22(3):340-352. DOI:10.1111/1744-7917.12143

Montelongo T, Gómez-Zurita J. 2015. Nonrandom patterns of genetic admixture expose the complex historical hybrid origin of unisexual leaf beetle species in the genus Calligrapha. American Naturalist, 185(1):113-134. DOI:10.1086/678408

Montes A, Roca G, Sabate S, Lao JI, Navarro A, Cantillo J, Canet J; GENDOLCAT Study Group. 2015. Genetic and Clinical Factors Associated with Chronic Postsurgical Pain after Hernia Repair, Hysterectomy, and Thoracotomy: A Two-year Multicenter Cohort Study. Anesthesiology, 122(5):1123-1141. DOI:10.1097/ALN.0000000000000611

Olalde I, Capote J, Del-Arco MC, Atoche P, Delgado T, González-Anton R, Pais J, Amills M, Lalueza-Fox C, Ramírez O. 2015. Ancient DNA sheds light on the ancestry of pre-hispanic Canarian pigs. Genetics Selection Evolution, 47(1):1-5. DOI:10.1186/s12711-015-0115-7

Olalde I, Schroeder H, Sandoval-Velasco M, Vinner L, Lobón I, Ramirez O, Civit S, García Borja P, Salazar-García DC, Talamo S, María Fullola J, Xavier Oms F, Pedro M, Martínez P, Sanz M, Daura J, Zilhão J, Marquès-Bonet T, Gilbert MT, Lalueza-Fox C. 2015. A common genetic origin for early farmers from mediterranean cardial and central european LBK cultures. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(12):3132-3142. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msv181

Oliveira KN, Coley PD, Kursar TA, Kaminski LA, Moreira MZ, Campos RI. 2015. The effect of symbiotic ant colonies on plant growth: A test using an Azteca-Cecropia system. PLoS ONE, 10(3):1-13. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0120351

Ons S, Bellés X, Maestro JL. 2015. Orcokinins contribute to the regulation of vitellogenin transcription in the cockroach Blattella germanica. Journal of Insect Physiology, 82:129-133. DOI:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.10.002

Ord TJ, Klomp DA, Garcia-Porta J, Hagman M. 2015. Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(11):1948-1964. DOI:10.1111/jeb.12709

Papadopoulou A, Chesters D, Coronado I, De la Cadena G, Cardoso A, Reyes JC, Maes JM, Rueda RM, Gómez-Zurita J. 2015. Automated DNA-based plant identification for large-scale biodiversity assessment. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(1):136-152. DOI:10.1111/1755-0998.12256

Pybus M, Luisi P, Dall'Olio GM, Uzkudun M, Laayouni H, Bertranpetit J, Engelken J. 2015. Hierarchical boosting: A machine-learning framework to detect and classify hard selective sweeps in human populations. Bioinformatics, 31(24):3946-3952. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv493

Ramírez O, Burgos-Paz W, Casas E, Ballester M, Bianco E, Olalde I, Santpere G, Novella V, Gut M, Lalueza-Fox C, Saña M, Pérez-Enciso M. 2015. Genome data from a sixteenth century pig illuminate modern breed relationships. Heredity, 114(2):175-184. DOI:10.1038/hdy.2014.81

Riyahi S, Sánchez-Delgado M, Calafell F, Monk D, Senar JC. 2015. Combined epigenetic and intraspecific variation of the DRD4 and SERT genes influence novelty seeking behavior in great tit Parus major. Epigenetics, 10(6):516-525. DOI:10.1080/15592294.2015.1046027

Rizzo V, Sánchez-Fernández D, Fresneda J, Cieslak A, Ribera I. 2015. Lack of evolutionary adjustment to ambient temperature in highly specialized cave beetles Evolutionary ecology and behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15(1):1-9. DOI:10.1186/s12862-015-0288-2

Rizzo V, Comas J. 2015. A new species of Troglocharinus Reitter, 1908 (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini) from southern Catalonia, with a molecular phylogeny of the related species group Zootaxa, 3946(1):104. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.4

Ruiz S, Lopez-Contreras AJ, Gabut M, Marion RM, Gutierrez-Martinez P, Bua S, Ramirez O, Olalde I, Rodrigo-Perez S, Li H, Marques-Bonet T, Serrano M, Blasco MA, Batada NN, Fernandez-Capetillo O. 2015. Limiting replication stress during somatic cell reprogramming reduces genomic instability in induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature Communications, 6:1-8. DOI:10.1038/ncomms9036

Sánchez-Fernández D, Abellán P. 2015. Using null models to identify under-represented species in protected areas: A case study using European amphibians and reptiles. Biological Conservation, 184:290-299. DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.006

Sánchez-Fernández D, Millán A, Abellán P, Picazo F, Carbonell JA, Ribera I. 2015. Atlas of iberian water beetles (ESACIB database). ZooKeys, 2015(520):147-154. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.520.6048

Sánchez-Quinto F, Lalueza-Fox C. 2015. Almost 20 years of Neanderthal palaeogenetics: Adaptation, admixture, diversity, demography and extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1660). DOI:10.1098/rstb.2013.0374

Santpere G, Carnero-Montoro E, Petit N, Serra F, Hvilsom C, Rambla J, Heredia-Genestar JM, Halligan DL, Dopazo H, Navarro A, Bosch E. 2015. Analysis of five gene sets in chimpanzees suggests decoupling between the action of selection on protein-coding and on noncoding elements. Genome Biology and Evolution, 7(6):1490-1505. DOI:10.1093/gbe/evv082

Sardanyés J, Rodrigues C, Januário C, Martins N, Gil-Gómez G, Duarte J. 2015. Activation of effector immune cells promotes tumor stochastic extinction: A homotopy analysis approach. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 252:484-495. DOI:10.1016/j.amc.2014.12.005

Sardanyés J, Bonforti A, Conde N, Solé R, Macia J. 2015. Computational implementation of a tunable multicellular memory circuit for engineered eukaryotic consortia. Frontiers in Physiology, 6(oct):1-13. DOI:10.3389/fphys.2015.00281

Seoane LF, Solé R. 2015. Phase transitions in Pareto optimal complex networks. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 92(3):1-12. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032807

Shirt-Ediss B, Solé R V, Ruiz-Mirazo K. 2015. Emergent chemical behavior in variable-volume protocells. Life, 5(1):181-211. DOI:10.3390/life5010181

Šíchová J, Voleníková A, Dincă V, Nguyen P, Vila R, Sahara K, Marec F. 2015. Dynamic karyotype evolution and unique sex determination systems in Leptidea wood white butterflies Speciation and evolutionary genetics. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15(1):1-16. DOI:10.1186/s12862-015-0375-4

Šmíd J, Moravec J, Kratochvíl L, Nasher AK, Mazuch T, Gvoždík V, Carranza S. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the Hemidactylus robustus species group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) with descriptions of three new species from Yemen and Ethiopia. Systematics and Biodiversity, 13(4):346-368. DOI:10.1080/14772000.2014.996264

Šmíd J, Martínez G, Gebhart J, Aznar J, Gállego J, Göçmen B, De Pous P, Tamar K, Carranza S. 2015. Phylogeny of the genus Rhynchocalamus (Reptilia; Colubridae) with a first record from the Sultanate of Oman. Zootaxa, 4033(3):380-392. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4033.3.4

Solé-Morata N, Bertranpetit J, Comas D, Calafell F. 2015. Y-chromosome diversity in Catalan suRNAme samples: Insights into suRNAme origin and frequency. European Journal of Human Genetics, 23(11):1549-1557. DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2015.14

Solé RV, Montañez R, Duran-Nebreda S. 2015. Synthetic circuit designs for earth terraformation. Biology Direct, 10(1):1-10. DOI:10.1186/s13062-015-0064-7

Solé R. 2015. Bioengineering the biosphere? Ecological Complexity, 22:40-49. DOI:10.1016/j.ecocom.2015.01.005

Sudmant PH, Mallick S, Nelson BJ, Hormozdiari F, Krumm N, Huddleston J, Coe BP, Baker C, Nordenfelt S, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Posukh OL, Sahakyan H, Watkins WS, Yepiskoposyan L, Abdullah MS, Bravi CM, Capelli C, Hervig T, Wee JT, Tyler-Smith C, van Driem G, Romero IG, Jha AR, Karachanak-Yankova S, Toncheva D, Comas D, Henn B, Kivisild T, Ruiz-Linares A, Sajantila A, Metspalu E, Parik J, Villems R, Starikovskaya EB, Ayodo G, Beall CM, Di Rienzo A, Hammer MF, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Klitz W, Winkler C, Labuda D, Metspalu M, Tishkoff SA, Dryomov S, Sukernik R, Patterson N, Reich D, Eichler EE. 2015. Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation. Science, 349(6253). DOI:10.1126/science.aab3761

Talavera G, Espadaler X, Vila R. 2015. Discovered just before extinction? The first endemic ant from the Balearic Islands (Lasius balearicus sp. nov.) is endangered by climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 42(3):589-601. DOI:10.1111/jbi.12438

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