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