Sistemàtica, biogeografia i evolució dels rèptils i amfibis
Gràcies a les filogènies de rèptils i amfibis, el grup de recerca estudia com la biodiversitat es genera i es mantén. També n’estudia els patrons biogeogràfics i evolutius amb l’objectiu de revisar la taxonomia de rèptils i amfibis, així com per conservar-los. Tot i que la recerca que duu a terme inclou una gran diversitat de grups de rèptils i amfibis, el seu principal interès són les faunes de la conca del Mediterrani i Aràbia, incloent-hi algunes illes oceàniques i continentals, com és el cas de les Illes Canàries, Cap Verd i l’Arxipèlag de Socotra.
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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