Journal covers
2023
2023. PD. 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. Nicholas C Lister, Ashley M Milton, Hardip R Patel, Shafagh Waters, Benjamin J Hanrahan, Kim L McIntyre, Alexandra M Livernois, Lee Kian Wee, Alessa R Ringel, Stefan Mundlos, Michael I Robson, Linda Shearwin-Whyatt, Frank Grutzner, Jennifer A Marshall Graves, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Paul 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. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.13.527877v1.abstract
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
2020
- 2020, Marta Farré i Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. The Plasticity of Genome Architecture. Genes, Special Issue Mechanisms Driving Karyotype Evolution and Genomic Architecture 11
- 2020, Marta Godia, Alex Clop, Armand Sánzhez, Anna Castelló, Joan E. Rogríguez-Gila, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, i Joaquim Casellas. Whole genome sequencing identifies Allelic Ratio Distortion in sperm involving genes related to spermatogenesis in a swine model.. DNA Research 27
- 2020, Francisca Garcia, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Jose A. Godoy, Francisco Cortés, Albert Lozano, Jacinto Román, Javier Calzada, i Luis Biedma. Chromosomal differentiation in genetically isolated populations of the marsh-specialist Crocidura suaveolens (Mammalia: Soricidae). Genes 11
- 2020, Paul D. Waters i Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Meiotic Executioner Genes Protect the Y from Extinction. Trends in Genetics 36
2019
- 2019, Eleonora Cappelletti, Elena Giulotto, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Solomon G. Nergadze, Kevin F. Sullivan, Teri A. Masterson, Covadonga Vara, Marco Santagostino, Marina Bambi, Claudia Badiale, i Francesca M. Piras. CENP-A binding domains and recombination patterns in horse spermatocytes.
- 2019, Deakin, Janine E, Ezaz, Tariq, Wapstra, Erik, Srikulnath, Kornsorn, Rovatsos, Michail, Miura, Ikuo, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Grutzner, Frank, Griffin, Darren, Marshall Graves, Jennifer A, Fukui, Kichi, Eldridge, Mark D B, Cioffi, Marcelo B, Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, O’Neill, Rachel, i Potter, Sally. Chromosomics: Bridging the Gap between Genomes and Chromosomes.. Genes (Basel) 10
- 2019, Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, Vara, Covadonga, Marti-Renom, Marc A, Waters, Paul D, Heyn, Holger, Pendás, Alberto M, Fornas, Oscar, Sanseverino, Walter, Aiese Cigliano, Riccardo, Moutinho, Catia, Julià, Eva, Gómez-H, Laura, Salvà-Castro, Judit, Garcia, Francisca, Le Dily, François, Cuartero, Yasmina, i Paytuví-Gallart, Andreu. Three-Dimensional Genomic Structure and Cohesin Occupancy Correlate with Transcriptional Activity during Spermatogenesis.. Cell Rep 28 352-367.e9
- 2019, Vara, C, Ruiz-Herrera, A, Mathias, ML, Searle, JB, Ventura, J, Bello-Rodríguez, J, Florit-Sabater, B, Albert-Lizandra, G, Gabriel, SI, Sánchez-Guillén, RA, Ledda, A, Ferretti, L, i Capilla, L. PRDM9 diversity at fine geographical scale reveals contrasting evolutionary patterns and functional constraints in natural populations of house mice. Molecular Biology and Evolution
- 2019, Shunxin Wang, Liangran Zhang, Nancy Kleckner, Zijiang Chen, Denise Zickler, Hongbin Liu, Yongliang Shang, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Fei Sun, i Carl Veller. Per-Nucleus Crossover Covariation and Implications for Evolution. Cell 177 1-13
2018
- 2018, Ruiz-Herrera, A, Ventura, J, Searle, JB, Albert-Lizandra, G, Vara, C, i Capilla, A. The plasticity of meiotic recombination and its implications for mammalian genome evolution. COMPARATIVE CYTOGENETICS
2017
- 2017, Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, Rubes, J, Robinson, Terence J, Sipek, Jaroslav, Hernández-Marsal, Adrià, Vara, Covadonga, Frohlich, Jan, Capilla, Laia, Sebestova, Hana, Fernández, Jonathan, i Vozdova, Miluse. Recombination correlates with synaptonemal complex length and chromatin loop size in bovids—insights into mammalian meiotic chromosomal organization. Chromosoma doi: 10.1007/s00412-016-0624-3
- 2017, Vicente-Salvador, David, Cáceres, Mario, Ignacio Lucas-Lledó, José, Aguado, Cristina, Estivill, Xavier, Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, Martínez-Fundichely, Alexander, Izquierdo, David, Noguera, Isaac, Giner-Delgado, Carla, Pacheco, Sarai, Gayà-Vidal, Magdalena, i Puig, Marta. Detailed analysis of inversions predicted between two human genomes: errors, real polymorphisms, and their origin and population distribution. Human Molecular Genetics 26(3):567-581
2016
- 2016, Godoy, JL, Alioto, T, Gabaldón, T, Albà, MM, Mailund, T, Notredame, C, Roma, G, Marques-Bonet, T, Ruiz-Herrera, A, Murphy, WJ, Guigó, R, García, JL, Gut, I, Valencia, A, López-Otín, C, Andrés-Nieto, M, Lorente-Galdos, B, Gut, M, Blanc, J, Galán, B, Derdak, S, Arango, JR, Soriano, L, Casas-Marce, M, Reverter, F, Ruiz-Orera, J, Rodriguez-Ales, JL, Tress, ML, Erb, I, Cozzuto, L, Lawry, E, Camara, F, Rodríguez, JM, Capella-Gutiérrez, S, Abascal, F, Ribeca, P, Frías, L, Rubio-Camarillo, M, García, F, Li, G, Quilez, J, Quesada, V, Prieto, P, Cheng, JY, Martínez-Cruz, B, Marcet-Houben, M, Vlasova, A, Villanueva-Cañas, JL, Cruz, F, i Carvelo, A. Extreme genomic erosion after recurrent demographic bottlenecks in the highly endangered Iberian lynx. Genome Biology 17
- 2016, Laia Capilla, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Denis M Larkin, Jacint Ventura, Roberto Malinverni, Andreu Paytuví-Gallart, Marta Farré, i Rosa Ana Sánchez-Guillén. Mammalian comparative genomics reveals genetic and epigenetic features associated with genome reshuffling in Rodentia. Genome Biology and Evolution 8(12):3703-3717
- 2016, LS Stevison, JD Wall, MF Hammer, CD Bustamante, Great Ape Genome Project, KF McManus, KR Veeramah, JL Kelley, JM Kidd, i AE Woerner. The Time Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes. Mol Biol Evol 33(4):928-45.
- 2016, Laia Capilla, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, i Montserrat Garcia-Caldés. Meiotic recombination in mammals: a toolbox for evolution. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 150 1-16
- 2016, Miluse Vozdova, Jiri Rubes, Svatava Kubickova, Hana Sebestova, Jan Frohlich, Halina Cernohorska, Jonathan Fernandez, i Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Meiotic behaviour of evolutionary sex-autosome translocations in Bovidae. Chromosome Research 24 325-338
- 2016, Reig-Viader, Rita, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, i Garcia-Caldes, Montserrat. Telomere homeostasis in mammalian germ cells: a review. Chromosoma 125 337-351
2015
- 2015, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera. Chromosomal Rearrangements in Primates. eLS (in press)
- 2015, Marta Farrè, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, i Terence J Robinson. An Integrative Breakage Model of Genome Architecture, Reshuffling and Evolution. BioEssays 37(5):479-88
- 2015, JM Argyris, J Garcia-Mas, S. Ramos-Onsins, M Pujol, J Morata, W Sanseverino, P Madriz Masis, i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Targeted SNP selection for improving the anchoring of the melon ( Cucumis melo L.) scaffold genome assembly. BMC Genomics 16(1):4.
- 2015, RA Sánchez-Guillén, A. Ruiz-Herrera, Ventura, J, M Andrés-Nieto, C Pardo-Camacho, M Martínez-Plana, R. Reig-Viader, i L. Capilla. On the origin of Robertsonian fusions in nature: evidence of telomere shortening in wild house mice. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28(1):241-9
2014
- 2014, R. Reig-Viader, A. Ruiz-Herrera, M. Garcia-Caldes, Aguita, B, F. Garcia, Vila-Cejudo, M, i L. Capilla. Telomere homeostasis is compromised in spermatocytes from patients with idiopathic infertility. Fertility and Sterility
- 2014, L. Capilla, A. Ruiz-Herrera, Ventura, J, M. Oliver-Bonet, Alemany-Schmidt, A, i Medarde, N. Genetic recombination variation in wild Robertsonian mice: on the role of chromosomal fusions and Prdm9 allelic backgound.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- 2014, Reig-Viader, Rita, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Montserrat Garcia-Caldés, Elena Giulotto, Sabaté, Montserrat, Buscà, Rafael, Vitelli, Valerio, i Vila-Cejudo, Marta. Telomeric repeat-containing RNA (TERRA) and telomerase are components of telomeres during mammalian gametogenesis. Biology of Reproduction
- 2014, M. Farré i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Role of chromosomal reorganisations in the human-chimpanzee speciation. eLS
- 2014, Aguado, C, et al, Villatoro, S, i Gayá-Vidal, M. Large-scale validation and genotyping of human polymorphic inversions mediated by inverted repeats a high degree of recurrence. PLOS Genet 10(3)
2013
- 2013, F. Hormozdiari, et al, J Prado-Martinez, i MK Konkel. Rates and patterns of great ape retrotransposition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(33)
- 2013, J. Segura, A. Ruiz-Herrera, M. Garcia-Caldés, T. J. Robinson, H. Fernández-Bellon, M. Oliver-Bonet, F. Reis, M. Farré, L. Capilla, S. Ramos-Onsins, i L. Ferretti. Insights into the mechanisms that affect meiotic recombination rates and crossover interference in eutherian mammals. Proc. R. Soc. B 280 (1771): 1471-2954
- 2013, Javier Prado-Martinez, et al, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Tiago Carvalho, Cristina Camprubí, [….], Joanna L. Kelley, Heng Li, Jeffrey M. Kidd, i Peter H. Sudmant. Great ape genetic diversity and population history. Nature 99(7459):471-5
- 2013, Marta Farré, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, i Diego Micheletti. Recombination rates and genomic shuffling in human and chimpanzee – a new twist in the speciation theory. Molecular Biology and Evolution Apr;30(4):853-64 30(4)
- 2013, R. Reig-Viader, A. Ruiz-Herrera, M. Garcia-Caldés, E. Giulotto, L. Khoriauli, Ll. Cabero, Toran, N, i Brieño-Enríquez, MA. Telomeric repeat-containing RNA and telomerase in human fetal oocytes.. Human Reproduction Feb;28(2):414-22 28
2012
- 2012, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Montserrat Garcia-Caldés, i Francisca Garcia. Radiobiology and reproduction – what can we learn from mammalian females?. Genes 3(3): 521-544 Special Issue
- 2012, A. Ruiz-Herrera, T. J. Robinson, i M. Farré. Molecular cytogenetic and genomic insights to chromosomal evolution. Heredity 108(1):28-36 Special issue on Molecular Cytogenetics: Karyotype evolution, Phylogenomics and Future prospects
2011
- 2011, Brieño-Enríquez, MA, Garcia Caldés, M, Roig, I, Martínez, F, Toran, N, Cabero, L, i Reig, R. Gene expression is altered after Bisphenol A exposure in human fetal oocytes in vitro. Mol Hum Reprod-Nov 25. [Epub ahead of print]
- 2011, M. Farre, A. Ruiz-Herrera, M. Ponsà, F. López-Giráldez, i M. Bosch. Assessing the Role of Tandem Repeats in Shaping the Genomic Architecture of Great Apes. PLOS One 6(11):e27239
- 2011, R. Garcia-Cruz, M. Garcia-Caldés*, A. Ruiz-Herrera*, M. Mudry, E. Steinberg, M.A. Brieño, i S. Pacheco. A comparative study of the recombination pattern in three species of Platyrrhini monkeys (Primates). Chromosoma 120(5):521-30
- 2011, Elena Raimondi, Elena Giulotto, Leopoldo Ianuzzi, Montserrat Ponsà, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Giulia Pia Di Meo, Solomon G. Nergadze, i Francesca M. Piras. Polymorphic organization of constitutive heterochromatin in Equus asinus (2n = 62) chromosome 1. Hereditas 148(3):110-113
- 2011, A. Ruiz-Herrera, E. Giulotto, C. Mondello, S.G. Nergadze, L. Khoriauli, i A. Smirnova. Gene amplification in human cells knocked down for RAD54. Genome Integrity 2:5
2010
- 2010, T. J. Robinson i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Mammalian Chromosomal Evolution: From Ancestral States to Evolutionary Regions. Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution 143-158
- 2010, A. Ruiz-Herrera, T. J. Robinson, M. Ponsà, i M. Farré. Selection against Robertsonian fusions involving housekeeping genes in the house mouse: integrating data from gene expression arrays and chromosome evolution.. Chromosome Research 18(7) 801-808
2009
- 2009, A. Salzano, E. Giulotto, C. Mondello, A. Ruiz-Herrera, A. Smirnova, L. Khoriauli, S.G. Nergadze, i N. Kochiashvili. Enhanced gene amplification in human cells knocked down for DNA-PKcs. DNA Repair 8(1):19-28
2008
- 2008, JL Deuve, T. J. Robinson, J. Britton-Davidian, P.D. Waters, A. Ruiz-Herrera, i N.C. Bennett. Dissection of a Y-autosome translocation in an African mole-rat, Cryptomys hottentotus (Rodentia, Bathyergidae).. Chromosoma 117(2):211-7
- 2008, A. Ruiz-Herrera i T. J. Robinson. Evolutionary plasticity and cancer breakpoint in human chromosome 3: a review.. Bioessays 30
- 2008, T. J. Robinson i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Defining the ancestral eutherian karyotype: a cladistic interpretation of chromosome painting and genome sequence assembly data.. Chromosome Research 16(8):1133-41
- 2008, T. J. Robinson, J.C. Avise, i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Hemiplasy and homoplasy in the karyotypic phylogenies of mammals.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105
- 2008, A. Ruiz-Herrera, E. Giulotto, M. Santagostino, i S.G. Nergadze. Telomeric repeats far from the ends: mechanisms of origin and role in evolution.. Cytogenetics and Genome Research, special issue on Telomeres and Telomerase 122
2007
- 2007, P.D. Waters, T. J. Robinson, M. Garcia, G. Dobigny, i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Sex chromosomes of basal placental mammals.. Chromosoma 116
- 2007, A. Ruiz-Herrera i T. J. Robinson. Afrotherian fragile sites, evolutionary breakpoints and phylogenetic inference from genomic assemblies.. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7
2006
- 2006, N. Camats, M. Garcia, F. García, E. Giulotto, P. Payá, M. Acien, J.J. Parrilla, i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Genomic instability in rat: breakpoints induced by ionizing radiation and interstitial telomeric-like sequences.. Mutation Research 595
- 2006, T. J. Robinson, L. Fröenicke, i A. Ruiz-Herrera. Dissecting the mammalian genome – new insights into chromosomal evolution.. Trends in Genetics 22
- 2006, A. Ruiz-Herrera, T. J. Robinson, i J. Castresana. Is mammalian chromosomal evolution driven by regions of genome fragility?. Genome Biology 7