Departament de Genètica 


EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS

Montserrat Aguadé
Ricard Albalat
Elvira Juan
Francesc Mestres
Montserrat Papaceit
Marta Pascual
Julio Rozas
Carmen Segarra
Lluís Serra

FRANCESC MESTRES


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Articles

Mestres, F., Vives-Rego, J. Bancos y bases de datos genéticos para usos forenses. Revista del Poder Judicial 2009; 89: 239–263.

Irigoien, I., Arenas, C., Fernández, E. and Mestres, F. GEVA: Geometric Variability-Based Approaches for identifying patterns on data. Computational Statistics 2010; 25: 214–255.

Pegueroles, C., Araúz, P. A., Pascual, M. and Mestres, F. A recombination survey using microsatellites: the O chromosome of Drosophila subobscura. Genetica 2010; 138: 795–804.

Pegueroles, C., Ordóñez, V., Mestres, F. and Pascual, M. Recombination and selection in the maintenance of the adaptive value of inversions. J. Evol. Biol. 2010; 23: 2709-2717.

Fernández-Iriarte, P. J., Balanyà, J., Pascual, M., Mestres, F., Hasson, E. R., Fontdevila, A., Serra, L. Tracking the origin of an invasive species: D. subobscura in Argentina”. J. Evol. Biol. 2009; 22: 650–658

Mestres, F., Balanyà, J., Pascual, M., Arenas, C., Gilchrist, G. W., Huey, R. B., Serra, L. Evolution of Chilean colonizing populations of D. subobscura: lethal genes and chromosomal arrangements. Genetica 2009; 136: 37–48

Metres, F. and Vives-Rego, J. La utilización forense de la huella genética (secuencia del ADN o ácido desoxirribonucleico): aspectos científicos, periciales, procesales, sociales y éticos. La Ley Penal 2009; 61: 46-61

Pascual M., Chapuis MP, Mestres F, Balanyŕ J, Huey RB, Gilchrist GW, Serra L, Estoup A (2007). Introduction history of D. subobscura in the New World: a microsatellite-based survey using ABC methods. Mol. Ecol. 2007;16: 3069-3083.

Mestres F, Balanyŕ J, Pascual M, Arenas C, Solé E, Serra L. Lethal genes and the colonization of America by D. subobscura. Cur. Top. Genet. 2005; 1: 31–57

Mestres F, Abad L, Sabater-Muñoz B, Latorre A, Serra L. Colonization of America by D. subobscura: association between Odh gene haplotypes, lethal genes and chromosomal arrangements. Genes Genet. Syst. 2004; 79: 233 - 244

Balanyà J, Serra L, Gilchrist GW, Huey RB, Pascual M, Mestres F, Solé E. Evolutionary pace of chromosomal polymorphism in colonizing populations of D. subobscura: an evolutionary time series. Evolution. 2003;  57: 1837 - 1845

Mestres F, Balanyà J, Arenas C, Solé E, Serra L. Colonization of America by D. subobscura: Heterotic effect of chromosomal arrangements revealed by the persistence of lethal genes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2001; 98: 9167 - 9170

Mestres F, Serra L, Ayala  FJ. Colonization of the Americas by D. subobscura: lethal - gene allelism and association with chromosomal rearrangements. Genetics. 1995; 140: 1297 - 1305

Mestres  F,  Balaña  J,  Segarra C,  Prevosti A,  Serra L. Colonization of  America  by  D. suboscura:  Analysis  of the O5 inversions from Europe and America and their implications. Evolution 1992; 46:1564 - 1568

Mestres  F,  Pegueroles  G,  Prevosti A, Serra L. Colonization of America by D.  subobscura:  Lethal  genes and the problem of the O 5 inversion. Evolution.  1990; 44: 1823 - 1836

Prevosti  A,  Ribo G, Serra L, Aguade M, Balaña J, Monclus M, Mestres F. Colonization of  America by D. subobscura:  Experiment  in natural populations that supports the adaptative role of  chromosomal  inversion  polymorphism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1988; 85: 5597 – 5600


Book chapters and multimedia

Soler  JM,  Mestres  F. Genetics of Scoliosis. The influence of the hereditage.  In: "Idiopathic Scoliosis update. Basic research and clinical concepts".  J. Cañadell, F. Forriol and J.A. Cara. (eds.). Eurograf S.L., 183 – 193, 1991

Mestres F. Evolución. CD ROM "Ciencias de la Naturaleza. Biosfera: Ecología y Evolución". Ed. Planeta S.A., 1997