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Population Genetics, Hybridization and Speciation - POPGEN

     
   

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Articles in SCI journals

2017
 
Crawford JE, Alves JM, Palmer WJ, Day JP, Sylla M, Ramasamy R, Surendran SN, Black WC, Pain A, Jiggins FM (2017) Population genomics reveals that an anthropophilic population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Africa recently gave rise to American and Asian populations of this major disease vector. BMC Biology, 15:16.
Diaz-Rodriguez J, Gehara M, Marquez R, Vences M, Goncalves H, Sequeira F, Martinez-Solano I, Tejedo M (2017) Integration of molecular, bioacoustical and morphological data reveals two new cryptic species of Pelodytes (Anura, Pelodytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Zootaxa, 4243(1).
Marques JP, Sotelo G, Larsson T, Johannesson K, Panova M, Faria R (2017) Comparative mitogenomic analysis of three species of periwinkles: Littorina fabalisL. obtusata and L. saxatilis. Marine Genomics, 32: 41-47.
 
Nourisson C, Muñoz-Merida A, Carneiro M, Sequeira F (2017) De novo transcriptome assembly and polymorphism detection in two highly divergent evolutionary units of Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular Ecology Resources, 17(3): 546-549.
 
Toomey MB, Lopes RJ, Araujo PM, Johnson JD, Gazda MA, Afonso S, Mota PG, Koch RE, Hill GE, Corbo JC, Carneiro M (2017) High-density lipoprotein receptor SCARB1 is required for carotenoid coloration in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(20): 5219-5224.
 
2016
 
Boratynski Z, Arias JM, Garcia C, Mappes T, Mousseau TA, Moller AP, Pajares AJM, Piwczynski M, Tukalenko E (2016) Ionizing radiation from Chernobyl affects development of wild carrot plants. Scientific Reports, 6: 39282.
 
Carneiro M, Hu D, Archer J, Feng C, Afonso S, Chen C, Blanco-Aguilar JA, Garreau H, Boucher S, Ferreira PG, Ferrand N, Rubin CJ, Andersson L (2016) Dwarfism and Altered Craniofacial Development in Rabbits Is Caused by a 12.1 kb Deletion at the HMGA2 Locus. Genetics.
 
Carvalho J, Sotelo G, Galindo J, Faria R (2016) Genetic characterization of flat periwinkles (Littorinidae) from the Iberian Peninsula reveals interspecific hybridization and different degrees of differentiation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
 
Escoriza D, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez J, Ben Hassine J, Martínez-Solano I (2016) Genetic assessment of the threatened microendemic Pleurodeles poireti (Caudata, Salamandridae), with molecular evidence for hybridization with Pleurodeles nebulosus. Conservation Genetics.
 
Ferrero ME, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Davila JA, (2016) Climatic and geographic effects on the spatial genetic pattern of a landbird species (Alectoris rufa) on the Iberian Peninsula. Population Ecology, 58(3): 429-440.
 
Fontanesi L, Di Palma F, Flicek P, Smith AT, Thulin CG, Alves PC, the Lagomorph Genomics Consortium (including Abrantes J, Campos R, Carneiro M, Esteves PJ, Melo-Ferreira J) (2016) LaGomiCs—Lagomorph Genomics Consortium: An International Collaborative Effort for Sequencing the Genomes of an Entire Mammalian Order. Journal of Heredity, 
 
Groah SLG, Pérez-Losada M, Caldovic l, Ljungberg IH, Sprague BM, Castro-Nallar E, Chandel NJ, Hsieh MH, Pohl HG (2016) Redefining Healthy Urine: A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Metagenomic Study of People With and Without Bladder Dysfunction. The Journal of Urology.
 
Hahn A, Sanyal A, Perez GF, Colberg-Poley AM, Campos J, Rose MC, Perez-Losada M (2016) Different next generation sequencing platforms produce different microbial profiles and diversity in cystic fibrosis sputum. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 130: 95-99.
 
Lopes RJ, Johnson JD, Toomey MB, Ferreira MS, Araujo PM, Melo-Ferreira J, Andersson L, Hill GE, Corbo JC, Carneiro M (2016) Genetic Basis for Red Coloration in Birds. Current Biology, 26: 1-8
 
Mohammadi S, Afonso S, Adibi MA, Melo-Ferreira J, Campos R (2016) A new and highly divergent mitochondrial lineage in the Small Five-toed Jerboa, Allactaga elater, from Iran (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zoology in the Middle East, 62(3): 206-211.
 
Nourisson C, Muñoz-Merida A, Carneiro M, Sequeira F (2016) De novo transcriptome assembly and polymorphism detection in two highly divergent evolutionary units of Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular Ecology Resources.
 
Pereira RJ, Barreto FS, Pierce NT, Carneiro M, Burton RS (2016) Transcriptome-wide patterns of divergence during allopatric evolution. Molecular Ecology, 25(7): 1478-1493.
 
Pinho C, Faria R (2016) Magadi tilapia ecological specialization: filling the early gap in the speciation continuum. Molecular Ecology, 25(7): 1420-1422.
 
Sanchez-Montes G, Recuero E, Gutierrez-Rodriguez J, Gomez-Mestre I, Martinez-Solano I (2016) Species assignment in the Pelophylax ridibundus x P. perezi hybridogenetic complex based on 16 newly characterised microsatellite markers. Herpetological Journal, 26(2): 99-108.
 
Vaz Pinto P, Beja P, Ferrand N, Godinho R (2016) Hybridization following population collapse in a critically endangered antelope. Scientific Reports, 6:18788.
 
 
2015
 
Aira M, Bybee S, Perez-Losada M, Dominguez J (2015) Feeding on microbiomes: effects of detritivory on the taxonomic and phylogenetic bacterial composition of animal manures. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91(11).
 
Alves JM, Carneiro M, Afonso S, Lopes S, Garreau H, Boucher S, Allain D, Queney G, Esteves PJ, Bolet G, Ferrand N (2015) Levels and patterns of genetic diversity and population structure in domestic rabbits. PLOS ONE, 10(12): e0144687.
 
Arthofer W, Banbury BL, Carneiro M, Cicconardi F, Duda TF, Harris RB, Kang DS, Leache AD, Nolte V, Nourisson C, Palmieri N, Schlick-Steiner BC, Schlotterer C, Sequeira F, Sim C, Steiner FM, Vallinoto M, Weese DA (2015) Genomic Resources Notes Accepted 1 August 2014-30 September 2014. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(1): 228-229.
 
Barquin J, Benda LE, Villa F, Brown LE, Bonada N, Vieites DR, Battin TJ, Olden JD, Hughes SJ, Gray C, Woodward G (2015) Coupling virtual watersheds with ecosystem services assessment: a 21st century platform to support river research and management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2(6): 609-621.
Cáceres A, Melo M, Barlow J, Cardoso P, Maiato F, Mills MSL (2015) Threatened birds of the Angolan central escarpment: distribution and response to habitat change at Kumbira forest. Oryx, 49(4): 727-734.
Carneiro M, Piorno V, Carl-Johan R, Alves J, Ferrand N, Alves PC, Anderson L (2015) Candidate genes underlying heritable differences in reproductive seasonality between wild and domestic rabbits. Animal Genetics, 46(4): 418–425.
 
Carvalho J, Pereira C, Sotelo G, Costa D, Galindo J, Faria R (2015) De novo isolation of 17 microsatellite loci for flat periwinkles (Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata) and their application for species discrimination and hybridization studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 81(3):421-425
 
Chavez-Galarza J, Henriques D, Johnston JS, Carneiro M, Rufino J, Patton JC, Pinto MA (2015) Revisiting the Iberian honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) contact zone: maternal and genome-wide nuclear variations provide support for secondary contact from historical refugia. Molecular Ecology, 24(12): 2973-2992.
 
Díaz-Rodríguez J, Gonçalves H, Sequeira F, Sousa-Neves T, Tejedo M, Ferrand N, Martínez-Solano I (2015) Molecular evidence for cryptic candidate species in IberianPelodytes(Anura, Pelodytidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 83: 24-241.
 
Delgado E, Cuevas MT, Dominguez F, Vega Y, Cabello M, Fernandez-Garcia A, Perez-Losada M, Castro MA, Montero V, Sanchez M, Marino A, Alvarez H, Ordonez P, Ocampo A, Miralles C, Perez-Castro S, Lopez-Alvarez MJ, Rodriguez R, Trigo M, Diz-Aren J, Hinojosa C, Bachiller P, Hernaez-Crespo S, Cisterna R, Garduno E, Perez-Alvarez L, Thomson MM (2015) Phylogeny and Phylogeography of a Recent HIV-1 Subtype F Outbreak among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Spain Deriving from a Cluster with a Wide Geographic Circulation in Western Europe. PLOS ONE, 10(11): e0143325.
 
Dias G, Beltrán JF, Tejedo M, Benítez M, González-Miras E, Ferrand N, Gonçalves H (2015) Limited gene flow and high genetic diversity in the threatened Betic midwife toad (Alytes dickhilleni): evolutionary and conservation implications. Conservation Genetics, 16(2): 459-476.
 
Dominguez J, Aira M, Breinholt JW, Stojanovic M, James SW, Perez-Losada M (2015) Underground evolution: New roots for the old tree of lumbricid earthworms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 83:7-19.
 
Ferreira CC, Castro F, Piorno V, Barrio IC, Delibes-Mateos M, Rouco C, Minguez LE, Aparicio F, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Ramirez E, Iriarte C, Rios-Saldana CA, Canadilla J, Arias de Reyna L, Ferreras P, Alves PC, Villafuerte R (2015) Biometrical analysis reveals major differences between the two subspecies of the European rabbit. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(1): 106-116.
 
Gonçalves H, Maia-Carvalho B, Sousa-Neves T, García-París M, Sequeira F, Ferrand N, Martínez-Solano I (2015) Multilocus phylogeography of the common midwife toad,Alytes obstetricans(Anura, Alytidae): contrasting patterns of lineage diversification and genetic structure in the Iberian refugium. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
 
Jockusch EL, Martínez-Solano I, Timpe EK (2015) The Effects of Inference Method, Population Sampling, and Gene Sampling on Species Tree Inferences: An Empirical Study in Slender Salamanders (Plethodontidae:Batrachoseps). Systematic Biology 64(1): 66-83.
Kolora SR, Faria R, Weigert A, Nowick K, Schaffer S, Grimm A, Henle K, Sahyon A, Stadler P, Bleidorn C, Schlegel M (2015) The complete mitochondrial genome of Lacerta bilineata and comparison with its closely related congener L. viridis. Mitochondrial DNA
 
Kuznetsova VG, Maryanska-Nadachowska A, Anokhin B, Aguin-Pombo D (2015) Evidence for TTAGG telomere repeats and rRNA gene clusters in leafhoppers of the genusAlebra(Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Entomology, 112(2): 207-214.
 
Lauron EJ, Loiseau C, Bowie RCK, Spicer GS, Smith TB, Melo M, Sehgal RNM (2015) Coevolutionary patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae). Parasitology, 142(5):635-647.
 
Melo-Ferreira J, de Matos AL, Areal H, Lissovsky AA, Carneiro M, Esteves PJ (2015) The phylogeny of pikas (Ochotona) inferred from a multilocus coalescent approach. Mulecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 84: 240-244.
 
Piorno V, Villafuerte R, Branco M, Carneiro M, Ferrand N, Alves PC (2015) Low persistence in nature of captive reared rabbits after restocking operations. European Journal of Wildlife Research.
 
Santos S, Bond-Buckup G, Buckup L, Bartholomei-Santos ML, Perez-Losada M, Jara CG, Crandall KA (2015) Three new species of Aeglidae ( Aegla Leach, 1820) from Paraná State, Brazil. Journal of Crustacean Bilogy, 35(6): 839-849.
Santos X et al (2015) Síntesis de las introducciones de anfibios y reptiles en España. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española 26 (2), 226-243
 
Silva MC, Matias R, Wanless RM, Ryan PG, Stephenson BM, Bolton M, Ferrand N, Coelho MM (2015) Understanding the mechanisms of antitropical divergence in the seabird White-faced Storm-petrel (Procellariiformes:Pelagodroma marina) using a multilocus approach. Molecular Ecology, 24(12): 3122-3137.
Teixeira J, Martínez-Solano I, Buckley D, Tarroso P, García-París M, Ferrand N (2015) Genealogy of the nuclear β-fibrinogen intron 7 inLissotriton boscai(Caudata, Salamandridae):
concordance with mtDNA and implications for phylogeography and speciation. Contributions to Zoology, 84(3): 193-215.
  
 
2014
 
 Acevedo P, Melo-Ferreira J, Real R, Alves PC (2014) Evidence for niche similarities in the allopatric sister species Lepus castroviejoi and Lepus corsicanus. Journal of Biogeography, 41(5): 977–986.
 
Aguiar AMF, Aguin Pombo D, Gonçalves YM (2014) Identification, rearing and distribution of stick-insects of Madeira Island - an example of raising biodiversity awareness. Journal of Insect Science, vol.14, article 49.
 
Aguin-Pombo D, Valido L, Sousa F, Arraiol A (2014) Differences in wing venation between parthenogenetic and bisexual species of Empoasca leafhoppers from Madeira. Bulletin of Insectology, 67 (1)
 
Boratynski Z, Melo-Ferreira J, Alves PC, Berto S, Koskela E, Mappes T, Pentikäinen O, Tarroso P, Ylilauri M (2014) Molecular and ecological signs of mitochondrial adaptation: consequences for introgression? Heredity (online only, for now).
 
Brunes TO, Alexandrino J, Baeta D, Zina J, Haddad CFB, Sequeira F (2014) Species limits, phylogeographic and hybridization patterns in Neotropical leaf frogs (Phyllomedusinae). Zoologica Scripta, 43(6): 586-604.
 
Cáceres A, Melo M, Barlow J, Cardoso P, Maiato F, Mills MSL. (2014) Threatened birds of the Angolan central escarpment: distribution and response to habitat change at Kumbira forest. Oryx.
 
Carneiro M, Albert FW, Afonso S, Pereira RJ, Burbano H, Campos R, Melo-Ferreira J, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Villafuerte R, Nachman MW, Good JM, Ferrand N (2014) The Genomic Architecture of Population Divergence between Subspecies of the European Rabbit. PLoS genetics, 10(8): e1003519.
 
Carneiro M, Rubin CJ, Di Palma F, Albert FW, Alfoldi J, Barrio AM, Pielberg G, Rafati N, Sayyab S, Turner-Maier J, Younis S, Afonso S, Aken B, Alves JM, Barrell D, Bolet G, Boucher S, Burbano HA, Campos R, Chang JL, Duranthon V, Fontanesi L, Garreau H, Heiman D, Johnson J, Mage RG, Peng Z, Queney G, Rogel-Gaillard C, Ruffier M, Searle S, Villafuerte R, Xiong A, Young S, Forsberg-Nilsson K, Good JM, Lander ES, Ferrand N, Lindblad-Toh K, Andersson L (2014) Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication. Science (New York, N. Y. ), 345 (6200): 1074-1079.
 
Cheng E, Hodges KE, Melo-Ferreira J, Alves PC, Mills L (2014) Conservation implications of the evolutionary history and genetic diversity hotspots of the snowshoe hare. Molecular Ecology, 23(12): 2929-2942.
  
Faria J, Perez-Losada M, Cabezas P, Alexandrino P, Froufe E (2013) Multiplexing of Novel Microsatellite Loci for the Vulnerable Slipper Lobster Scyllarus arctus (Linnaeus, 1758). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 321: 119-123.
 
Faria R, Renaut S, Galindo J, Pinho C, Melo-Ferreira J, Melo M, Jones F, Salzburger W, Schluter D, Butlin R (2014) Advances in Ecological Speciation: an integrative approach. Molecular Ecology, 23(3): 513-521.
 
Faria R, Renaut S, Galindo J, Pinho C, Melo-Ferreira J, Melo M, Jones F, Salzburger W, Schluter D, Butlin R (2014) Advances in Ecological Speciation: an integrative approach. Molecular Ecology, 23(3): 513-521.
Fonseca MM, Harris DJ, Posada D (2014) Origin and length distribution of unidirectional prokaryotic overlapping genes. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics, 4: 19-27.
 
Gnezdilov VM, Aguin-Pombo D (2014) New species of the planthopper genus Conosimus associated with an endemic shrub in southern Spain. Journal of Insect Science, 14(92).
 
Gutiérrez-Rodríguez J, González EG, Martínez-Solano I (2014) Development and characterization of twelve new polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Iberian Ribbed newt, Pleurodeles waltl (Caudata: Salamandridae), with data on cross-amplification in P. nebulosus. Amphibia-Reptilia, 35(1): 129-134
 
Maia-Carvalho B, Gonçalves H, Ferrand N, Martínez-Solano I (2014) Multilocus assessment of phylogenetic relationships in Alytes (Anura, Alytidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 79, 270-278.
 
Maia-Carvalho B, Goncalves H, Martinez-Solano I, Gutierrez-Rodriguez J, Lopes S, Ferrand N, Sequeira F (2014) Intraspecific genetic variation in the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans): subspecies assignment using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 52(2): 170-175.
 
Melo-Ferreira J, Farelo L, Freitas H, Suchentrunk F, Boursot P, Alves PC (2014) Home loving boreal hare mitochondria survived several invasions in Iberia: the relative roles of recurrent hybridisation and allele surfing. Heredity. 112(3): 265-273.
 
Melo-Ferreira J, Seixas FA, Cheng E, Mills LS, Alves PC (2014) The hidden history of the snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus: extensive mitochondrial DNA introgression inferred from multilocus genetic variation. Molecular Ecology, (early version)
 
Melo-Ferreira J, Vilela J, Fonseca MM, da Fonseca RR, Boursot P, Alves PC (2014) The elusive nature of adaptive mitochondrial DNA evolution of an arctic lineage prone to frequent introgression. Genome Biology and Evolution.
 
Navarro A, Faria R (2014) Pool and conquer: new tricks for (c)old problems. Molecular Ecology, 23(7):1653-5.
 
Navarro A, Faria R (2014) Pool and conquer: new tricks for (c)old problems. Molecular Ecology, 23(7):1653-5.
 
Perez-Losada M, Hoeg JT, Simon-Blecher N, Achituv Y, Jones D, Crandall KA (2014) Molecular phylogeny, systematics and morphological evolution of the acorn barnacles (Thoracica: Sessilia: Balanomorpha). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 81; 147-158.
 
Seixas FA, Juste J, Campos PF, Carneiro M, Ferrand N, Alves PC, Melo-Ferreira J (2014) Colonization history of Mallorca Island by the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, and the Iberian hare, Lepus granatensis (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 111: 748-760.
 
Silva-Oliveira GC, Silva AB, Blanchard F, Nunes Z, Torres RA, Sampaio I, Vallinoto M (2014) Primers for the amplification of the MHC II beta chain exon 2 in the Atlantic goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara). Conservation Genetics Resources, 6(3): 523-525.
 
Thomé MTC, Alexandrino J, Lopes S, Haddad CFB, Sequeira F (2014) Research Note Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Brazilian Four-eyed Frogs (genus Pleurodema) endemic to the Caatinga biome. Genetics and Molecular Research GMR, 13(1):1604-8.
 
Tingley R, Vallinoto M, Sequeira F, Kearney MR (2014) Realized niche shift during a global biological invasion. Proceeding of the National academy of Sciences, vol. 111 (28): 10233-10238
 
  
2013
 
Arntzen JW, McAtear J, Recuero E, Ziermann JM, Ohler A, van Alphen J, Martínez-Solano I (2013) Morphological and genetic differentiation of Bufo toads: two cryptic species in Western Europe (Anura, Bufonidae). Contributions to Zoology, 82(4): 147-169.
 
Brunes TO, van de Vliet MS, Lopes S, Alexandrino J, Haddad CF, Sequeira F (2013) Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Neotropical leaf-frog Phyllomedusa burmeisteri and cross-species amplification. Genetics and Molecular Research, 12(1): 242-247.
 
Cama A, Bort J, Christel I, Vieites DR, Ferrer X (2013) Fishery management has a strong effect on the distribution of Audouin’s gull. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484: 279-286.
 
Carneiro M, Baird SJE, Afonso S, Ramirez E, Tarroso P, Villafuerte R, Teotónio H, Nachman MW, Ferrand N (2013) Steep clines within a highly permeable genome across a hybrid zone between two subspecies of the European rabbit. Molecular Ecology, 22(9): 2511-2525.
 
Cunha DB, Sodré D, Santos ACA, Schneider H, Sampaio I, Sequeira F, Vallinoto M (2013) A rapid method for species identification and interspecies introgression based on a PCR–RFLP: application to the closely related Neotropical toadsRhinella marina and R. schneideri (Anura: Bufonidae). Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(1): 227-229.
 
Fritz U, Branch WR, Gehring P-S, Harvey J, Kindler C, Meyer L, Du Preez L, Široký P, Vieites DR, Vences M (2013) Weak divergence among African, Malagasy and Seychellois hinged terrapins (Pelusios castanoides, P. subniger) and evidence for human-mediated oversea dispersal. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 13(2): 215-224.
 
Fusinatto LA, Alexandrino J, Haddad CFB, Brunes TO, Rocha CFD, Sequeira F (2013) Cryptic Genetic Diversity Is Paramount in Small-Bodied Amphibians of the Genus Euparkerella (Anura: Craugastoridae) Endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. PLoS ONE, 8 (11): e79504.
 
Fusinatto LA, Lopes S, Silva-Ferreira A, Alexandrino J, Haddad CF, Rocha CF, Sequeira F (2013) Development of microsatellite markers for the Neotropical endemic Brazilian Guanabara frog, Euparkerella brasiliensis, through 454 shotgun pyrosequencing. Genetics and Molecular Research: GMR, 12(1), 230-234.
 
García SD, Diz AP, Sá-Pinto A, Rolán-Alvarez E (2013)Proteomic and morphological divergence in micro-allopatric morphotypes of Melarhaphe neritoides in the absence of genetic differentiation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 475: 145-153.
 
Gayral P*, Melo-Ferreira J*, Glémin S, Bierne N, Carneiro M, Nabholz B, Lourenco J, Alves PC, Ballenghien M, Faivre N, Belkhir K, Cahais V, Loire E, Bernard A, Galtier N (2013) Reference-Free Population Genomics from Next-Generation Transcriptome Data and the Vertebrate–Invertebrate Gap. PLoS Genetics, 9(4): e1003457.
 
Joo D, Kwan YS, Song J, Pinho C, Hey J, Won YJ (2013) Identification of cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi using computer vision. PLoS ONE, 8 (10): e77686.
 
Korrodi-Gregório L, Abrantes J, Muller T, Melo-Ferreira J, Marcus K, da Cruz e Silva OAB, Fardilha M, Esteves PJ (2013) Not so pseudo: the evolutionary history of Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulatory Subunit 2 and related pseudogenes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13: 242.
 
Kuznetsova VG, Golub NV, Aguin-Pombo D (2013) Karyotypes, B-chromosomes and meiotic abnormalities in 13 populations of Alebra albostriella and A. wahlbergi (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae) from Greece. Comparative Cytogenetics, 7(4): 305-325.
 
Marco-Rius F, Sotelo G, Caballero P, Morán P (2013) Insights for planning an effective stocking program in anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 70(7): 1092-1100.
 
Mills MSL, Melo M, Vaz A (2013) The Namba mountains: new hope for Afromontane forest birds in Angola. Bird Conservation International, 23(2): 159-167.
 
Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, Agostini C, Albaladejo RG, Aparicio A, Arthofer W, Berrebi, P et al. (2013) Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 April 2013–31 May 2013. Molecular Ecology Resources, 13(5): 966-968.
 
Nowick K, Carneiro M, Faria R (2013) A prominent role of KRAB-ZNF transcription factors in mammalian speciation? Trends in Genetics, 29(3): 130-139.
 
Orozco-terWengel P, Chiari Y, Vieites DR, Pedrono M, Louis E (2013) Isolation and characterization of six polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Malagasy spider tortoise, Pyxis arachnoides and cross-amplification in Pyxis planicauda. Amphibia-Reptilia, 34(1): 125-128.
 
Pereira C, Couto A, Luís C, Costa D, Mourão S, Pinho C (2013) Twenty-one new sequence markers for population genetics, species delimitation and phylogenetics in wall lizards (Podarcis spp.). BMC Research Notes, 6(1): 299.
 
Sá-Pinto A, Martínez-Fernándes M, López-Fernández C, Ferreira Z, Pereira R, Gosálvez J, Rolán-Alvarez E (2013) Incipient post-zygotic barrier in a model system of ecological speciation with gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(12): 2750-2756.
 
Salvi D, Harris DJ, Kaliontzopoulou A, Carretero MA, Pinho C (2013) Persistence across Pleistocene Ice Ages in Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean refugia: phylogeographic insights from the common wall lizard. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13: 147.
 
Seixas F, Juste J, Campos PF, Carneiro M, Ferrand N, Alves PC, Melo-Ferreira J (2014) Colonization history of Majorca Island by the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and the Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis) inferred from molecular variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 111(4): 748-760.
 
Silva WT, Rodrigues-Filho LF, Sodre DCA, Souza RFC, Schneider H, Sampaio I, Vallinoto M (2013) Multiple substitutions and reduced genetic variability in sharks. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 49: 21-29.
 
Silva-Oliveira GC, Silva ABC, Oliveira Y, Nunes ZP, Torres RA, Sampaio I, Vallinoto M (2013) New nuclear primers for molecular studies of Epinephelidae fishes. Conservation Genetics Resources , 5(1): 165-168.
 
Sousa VMC, Carneiro M, Ferrand N, Hey J (2013) Identifying Loci Under Selection Against Gene Flow in Isolation with Migration Models. Genetics, 194(1): 211-233.
 
Sousa-Neves T, Aleixo A, Sequeira F (2013) Cryptic patterns of diversification of a widespread Amazonian Woodcreeper species complex (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) inferred from multilocus phylogenetic analysis: implications for historical biogeography and taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68(3): 410-424.
 
Vences M, Hauswaldt JS, Steinfartz S, Rupp O, Goesmann A, Künzel S, Orozco-terWengel P, Vieites DR, Nieto-Roman S, Haas S, Laugsch C, Bruchmann S, Pabijan M,. Ludewig A-K, Rudert D, Angelini C, Borkin LJ, Crochet PA, Crottini A, Dubois A, Ficetola GF, Galán P, Geniez P, Hachtel M, Jovanovic O, Litvinchuk SN, Lymberakis P, Ohler A Smirnov NA (2013) Radically different phylogeographies and patterns of genetic variation in two European brown frogs, genus Rana. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68(3): 657–670.
 
 
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