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2024
2024. Carlos Vargas-Chavez, Lisandra Benitez-Alvarez, Gemma I Martinez-Redondo, Lucia Alvarez-Gonzalez, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Klara Eleftheriadi, Nuria Escudero, Nadege Guiglielmoni, Jean-Francois Flot, Marta Novo, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Aoife McLysaght, Rosa Fernandez. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.16.594344v1
2024. M. Sandoval- Velasco, O. Dudchenko, J. A. Rodríguez, C. Perez Estrada, M.Dehasque, C. Fontsere1, S. S.T. Mak, V.Plotnikov, R. Khan, D.Weisz, V.G. Contessoto, A.B. Oliveira Junior, A. Kalluchi, S. S. Batra, M. S. Shamim, N.C. Durand, B. O’Connell, R. E. Green, B.Shapiro, A.L. Roca, A. Gnirke, I.Garcia-Treviño, R.Coke, J. P. Flanagan, K. Pletch, A. Ruiz-Herrera, E. S. Lander, J. Rowley, J.N. Onichic, L. Dalén, M.A. Marti-Renom, M. T. P. Gilbert, E. Lieberman Aiden. Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.30.547175
2024. C. J. Hogg, R. J. Edwards, K. A. Farquharson, L. W. Silver, P. Brandies, E. Peel, M. Escalona, F. R. Jaya, R. Thavornkanlapachai, K. Batley, T. M. Bradford, J. K. Chang, Z. Chen, N. Deshpande, M. Dziminski, K. M. Ewart, O. W. Griffith, L. Marin-Gual, K. L. Moon, K. J. Travouillon, P. Waters, C. M. Whittington, M. R. Wilkins, K. M. Helgen, N. Lo, S. Y. W. Ho, A. Ruiz Herrera, R. Paltridge, J. A. M. Graves, M. Renfree, B. Shapiro, K. Ottewell, K. Rangers, K. Belov. Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial. Preprint: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3723914/v1
2024. G. Arrey, X. Liang, Y. Qin, L. Álvarez-González, M.C. Tümmler, J. Ma, S. Holt, P. Han, Y. Luo, A. Ruiz-Herrera, H. Pilegaard, B. Regenberg. Atlas of eccDNA reveals protection of age-dependent transcription-induced eccDNA by intron and isoform gene densities. Preprint: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4634357
2024. C. Marín-Garcia, L. Álvarez-González, S. Casillas, L. Marín-Gual, J. Picón, K. Yam, M. Garcias-Ramis, C. Vara, J. Ventura, A. Ruiz-Herrera. Multiple genomic landscapes of recombination and genomic divergence in wild populations of mouse mice with chromosomal fusions. Mol Biol Evol 41(4):msae063 (2024). DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae063
2023
2023. S. Alonso-Alonso, A. Esteve-Codina, B. Martin-Mur, L. Álvarez-González, A. Ruiz-Herrera J. Santaló, E. Ibáñez. Blastomeres of 8-cell mouse embryos differ in their ability to generate stem cells and produce lines with different transcriptional signatures. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023) doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1274660
2023. P.D. Waters, J.A.M. Graves, S.L. Whiteley, A. Georges, A. Ruiz-Herrera. The three dimensions of thermolabile sex determination. Bioessays 45 (2), 2200123. DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200123
2023. N.C. Lister, A.M. Milton, H. R. Patel, S. Waters, B. J. Hanrahan, K. L. McIntyre, A. M. Livernois, L.K. Wee, A. R. Ringel, S. Mundlos, M. I. Robson, L. Shearwin-Whyatt, F. Grutzner, J. A. Marshall Graves, A. Ruiz-Herrera, P. D. Waters. Incomplete transcriptional dosage compensation of vertebrate sex chromosomes is balanced by post-transcriptional compensation. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.23.529605v1.abstract
2023. Francisco Javier Valero-Regalón, Mireia Solé, Pablo López-Jiménez, María Valerio-de Arana, Marta Martín-Ruiz, Roberto de la Fuente, Laia Marín-Gual, Marilyn B Renfree, Geoff Shaw, Soledad Berrís, Raul Fernández-Donoso, Paul D Waters, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Rocio Gómez, Jesus Page. Divergent patterns of meiotic double strand breaks and synapsis initiation dynamics suggest an evolutionary shift in the meiosis program between American and Australian marsupials. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 11:1147610
2022
2022. Lucía Álvarez-González, Cristina Arias-Sardá, Laia Montes-Espuña, Laia Marín-Gual, Covadonga Vara, Nicholas C Lister, Yasmina Cuartero, Francisca Garcia, Janine Deakin, Marilyn B Renfree, Terence J Robinson, Marc A Martí-Renom, Paul D Waters, Marta Farré, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Principles of 3D chromosome folding and evolutionary genome reshuffling in mammals. Cell Reports 41, 111839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111839
2022. Lucía Álvarez-González, Frances Burden, Dadakhalandar Doddamani, Roberto Malinverni, Emma Leach, Cristina Marín-García, Laia Marín-Gual, Albert Gubern, Covadonga Vara, Andreu Paytuví-Gallart, Marcus Buschbeck, Peter JI Ellis, Marta Farré, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera.3D chromatin remodelling in the germ line modulates genome evolutionary plasticity. Nature Communications 13 (2608). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30296-6
2022. Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Paul D Waters. Fragile, unfaithful and persistent Ys—on how meiosis can shape sex chromosome evolution. Heredity 129 (1), 22-30. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-022-00532-2
2022. Laia Marín-Gual, Laura González-Rodelas, Gala Pujol, Covadonga Vara, Marta Martín-Ruiz, Soledad Berríos, Raúl Fernández-Donoso, Andrew Pask, Marilyn B Renfree, Jesús Page, Paul D Waters, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Strategies for meiotic sex chromosome dynamics and telomeric elongation in Marsupials. PLoS Genetics 18 (2), e1010040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010040
2022. Covadonga Vara, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Unpacking chromatin remodelling in germ cells: implications for development and evolution. Trends in Genetics, 38(5), pp. 422–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2021.10.007
2021
2021. Paul D Waters, Hardip R Patel, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Lucía Álvarez-González, Nicholas C Lister, Oleg Simakov, Tariq Ezaz, Parwinder Kaur, Celine Frere, Frank Grützner, Arthur Georges, Jennifer A Marshall Graves. Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (45), e2112494118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112494118
2021. Covadonga Vara, Andreu Paytuví-Gallart, Yasmina Cuartero, Lucía Álvarez-González, Laia Marín-Gual, Francisca Garcia, Beatriu Florit-Sabater, Laia Capilla, Rosa Ana Sanchéz-Guillén, Zaida Sarrate, Riccardo Aiese Cigliano, Walter Sanseverino, Jeremy B Searle, Jacint Ventura, Marc A Marti-Renom, François Le Dily, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. The impact of chromosomal fusions on 3D genome folding and recombination in the germ line. Nature communications 12 (1), 2981. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23270-1
2021. Terence J Robinson, Halina Cernohorska, Svatava Kubickova, Miluse Vozdova, Petra Musilova, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera.Chromosomal evolution in Raphicerus antelope suggests divergent X chromosomes may drive speciation through females, rather than males, contrary to Haldane‘s rule. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 3152. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82859-0