Molecular Evolutionary Genetics


 
 

Publications 1996-2005

1996

BOTELLA, L. M., DOÑORO, C., SÁNCHEZ, L., SEGARRA, C. & GRANADINO, B.
Cloning and characterization of the scute (sc) gene of Drosophila subobscura.
Genetics 144: 1043-1051. (1996).

COMERON, J. M. & AGUADÉ, M.
Synonymous substitutions in the Xdh gene of Drosophila: Heterogeneous distribution along the coding region.
Genetics 144: 1053-1062. (1996).

PENALVA, L. O. F., SAKAMOTO, H., NAVARRO-SABATÉ, A., SAKASHITA, E., GRANADINO, B., SEGARRA, C. & SÁNCHEZ, L.
Regulation of the gene Sex-lethal: A comparative analysis of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila subobscura.
Genetics 144: 1653-1664. (1996).

SEGARRA, C., RIBÓ, G. & AGUADÉ, M.
Differentiation of Muller's chromosomal elements D and E in the obscura group of Drosophila .
Genetics 144: 139-146. (1996).


1997

BETRÁN, E., ROZAS, J., NAVARRO, A. & BARBADILLA, A.
The estimation of the number and the length distribution of Gene Conversion Tracts from population DNA sequence data.
Genetics 146: 89-99. (1997).

CIRERA, S. & AGUADÉ, M.
Evolutionary history of the sex-peptide (Acp70A) gene region in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics 147: 189-1975. (1997).

MUNTÉ, A., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
Divergence of the yellow gene between Drosophila melanogaster and D. subobscura: recombination rate, codon bias and synonymous substitutions.
Genetics 147: 165-175. (1997).

RANZ, J. M., SEGARRA, C. & RUIZ, A.
Chromosomal homology and molecular organization of Muller's elements D and E in the Drosophila repleta species group.
Genetics 145: 281-295. (1997).

ROZAS, J. & ROZAS, R.
DnaSP version 2.0: a novel software package for extensive molecular population genetics analysis.
Comput. Applic. Biosci. 13: 307-311. (1997).

RUIZ, A., RANZ, J.M., CÁCERES, M., SEGARRA, C.,  NAVARRO,  A . & BARBADILLA,  A.
Chromosomal evolution and comparative gene mapping in the Drosophila repleta species group.
Rev. Bras. Genet. 20: 553-464. (1997).


1998

AGUADÉ, M.
Different forces drive the evolution of the Acp26Aa and Acp26Ab accessory gland genes in the Drosophila melanogaster species complex.
Genetics 150: 1079-1089. (1998).

CIRERA, S., & AGUADÉ, M.
Molecular evolution of a duplication: the Sex-Peptide (Acp70A) gene region of Drosophila subobscura i D. madeirensis.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 15: 988-996 (1998).

CIRERA, S., & AGUADÉ, M.
The Sex-Peptide gene (Dm Acp70A) is duplicated in Drosophila subobscura.
Gene 210: 247-254 (1998).

COMERON, J.M. & AGUADÉ, M.
An evaluation of measures of synonymous codon usage bias.
J. Mol. Evol. 47: 268-274. (1998).

KHADEM, M., ROZAS, J., SEGARRA, C., & AGUADÉ, M.
Tracing the colonization of Madeira and the Canary Islands by Drosophila subobscura ancestors through the study of the rp49 gene region.
J. Evol. Biol. 11: 439-452. (1998).

LLOPART, A. & AGUADÉ, M.
A new naturally occurring inversion in Drosophila subobscura.
Drosophila Information Service  81: 143-144. (1998).

RAMOS-ONSINS, S., SEGARRA, C., ROZAS, J., & AGUADÉ, M.
Molecular and chromosomal phylogeny of the obscura group of Drosophila inferred from sequences of the rp49 gene region.
Mol. Phyl. Evol. 9: 33-41. (1998).

RAMOS-ONSINS, S. & AGUADÉ, M.
Molecular Evolution of the Cecropin multigene family in Drosophila: Functional genes vs. pseudogenes.
Genetics 150: 157-171. (1998).


1999

AGUADÉ, M.
Positive selection drives the evolution of the Acp29AB accessory gland protein in Drosophila.
Genetics 152: 543-551. (1999).

COMERON, J. M., KREITMAN, M. & AGUADÉ, M.
Natural selection on synonymous sites is correlated with gene length and recombination in Drosophila.
Genetics 151: 239-249. (1999).

LLOPART, A. & AGUADÉ, M.
Synonymous rates at the RpII215 gene of Drosophila: variation among species and across the coding region.
Genetics 152: 269-280. (1999).

NAVARRO-SABATÉ, À., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
The Acid phosphatase-1 gene region in the Drosophila species of the subobscura cluster.
Hereditas 130: 65-75. (1999).

NAVARRO-SABATÉ, À., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
The relationship between allozyme and chromosomal polymorphism inferred from nucleotide variation at the Acph-1 gene region of Drosophila subobscura.
Genetics 153: 871-889. (1999).

ROZAS, J. & ROZAS, R.
DnaSP version 3: an integrated program for molecular population genetics and molecular evolution analysis
Bioinformatics 15: 174-175. (1999).

ROZAS. J., SEGARRA, C., RIBÓ, G. &  AGUADÉ, M.
Molecular population genetics of the rp49 gene region in different chromosomal inversions of Drosophila subobscura.
Genetics 151: 189-202. (1999).
 


2000

KUITTINEN, H. & AGUADÉ, M.
Nucleotide variation at the CHALCONE ISOMERASE locus in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Genetics 155: 863-872. (2000).

LLOPART, A. & AGUADÉ, M.
Nucleotide polymorphism at the RpII215 gene in Drosophila subobscura: weak selection on synonymous mutations.
Genetics 155: 1245-1252. (2000).

MUNTÉ, A., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
Nucleotide variation at the yellow gene region is not reduced in Drosophila subobscura: A study in relation to chromosomal polymorphism.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 1942-1955. (2000).

PENALVA, L. O. F., RUIZ, M. F., ORTEGA, A., GRANADINO, B., VICENTE, L., SEGARRA, C., VALCÁRCEL, J. & SÁNCHEZ, L.
The Drosophila fl(2)d gene, required for female-specific splicing of Sxl and tra pre-mRNAs, encodes a novel nuclear protein with a HQ rich domain.
Genetics 155: 129-139. (2000).

SCHAEFFER, S. W. & AGUADÉ, M.
Evidence for balancing, directional and background selection in molecular evolution.
In Evolutionary Genetics: From Molecules to Morphology. R. S. Singh & C. B. Krimbas, eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 124-142. (2000).
 


2001

AGUADÉ, M.
Nucleotide sequence variation of two genes of the phenylpropanoid pathway, the FAH-1 and F3H genes, in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 18: 1-9. (2001).

AGUADÉ, M.
Evolució Molecular: El rellotge de la vida
Mètode, UV 28: 32-35 (2001).

KHADEM, M., ROZAS, J., SEGARRA, C., & AGUADÉ, M.
DNA variation at the rp49 gene region in Drosophila madeirensis and D. subobscura from Madeira: inferences about the origin of an insular endemic species.
J. Evol. Biol. 14: 379-387. (2001).

MUNTÉ, A., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
Changes in the recombinational environment affect divergence at the yellow gene in Drosophila.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 18: 1045-1056. (2001).

ROZAS. J., GULLAUD, M., BLANDIN, G. &  AGUADÉ, M.
DNA variation at the rp49 gene region of Drosophila simulans: Evolutionary inferences from an unusual haplotype structure.
Genetics 158: 1147-1155. (2001).
 


2002  

ELSNER, H. A., ROZAS, J. & BLASCZYK, R.
The nature of introns 4-7 largely reflects the lineage specificity of HLA-A alleles.
Immunogenetics 7: 447-462 (2002).

KUITTINEN, H., AGUADÉ, M., CHARLESWORTH, D., HAAN, A. D. E., LAUGA, B., MITCHELL-OLDS, T., OIKARINEN, S., RAMOS-ONSINS, S., STRANGER, B., VAN TIENDEREN, P. & SAVOLAINEN, O.
Primers for 22 candidate genes for ecological adaptations in Brassicaceae.
Mol. Ecol. Notes 2: 258-262 (2002)

KUITTINEN, H., SALGUERO, D, & AGUADÉ, M.
Parallel Patterns of Sequence Variation Within and Between Populations at Three Loci of Arabidopsis thaliana
Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 2030-2034. (2002).

RAMOS-ONSINS, S. E. & ROZAS, J.
Statistical properties of new neutrality tests against population growth.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 2092-2100. (2002).
 


2003  

Navarro-Sabaté, A., Aguadé, M. & Segarra, C.
Excess of Nonsynonymous Polymorphism at Acph-1 in Different Gene Arrangements of Drosophila subobscura
Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 1833-1843. (2003).

PÉREZ, J. A., MUNTÉ, A. ROZAS, J., SEGARRA, C. & AGUADÉ, M.
Nucleotide polymorphism in the RpII215 gene region of the insular species Drosophila guanche: reduced efficacy of weak selection on synonymous variation
Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 1867-1875. (2003).

QUESADA, H., ramírez, U. E. M., ROZAS, J. & AGUADÉ, M.
Large-Scale Adaptive Hitchhiking upon High Recombination
Genetics 165: 895-900. (2003).

ROZAS, J., Sánchez-DelBarrio, J. C., Messeguer, X. &  Rozas, R.
DnaSP, DNA polymorphism analyses by the coalescent and other methods
Bioinformatics 19: 2496-2497. (2003).

SANCHEZ-GRACIA, A., AGUADÉ, M. & ROZAS, J.
Patterns of Nucleotide Polymorphism and Divergence in the Odorant-Binding Protein Genes OS-E and OS-F: Analysis in the Melanogaster Species Subgroup of Drosophila
Genetics 165: 1279-1288. (2003).
 


2004  

Aguadé, M., Rozas, J. & Segarra, C.
Inferring the action of natural selection from DNA sequence comparisons: data from Drosophila
Pp. 11-19 in Moya, A. and Font, E. (eds.) Evolution: from Molecules to Ecosystems. Oxford Univ. Press. (2004).

Orengo, D. J.  & M. Aguadé
Detecting the Footprint of Positive Selection in a European Population of Drosophila melanogaster: Multilocus Pattern of Variation and Distance to Coding Regions
Genetics 167: 1759-1766 (2004).

Piccinali, R., Aguadé, M., & Hasson, E.
Comparative Molecular Population Genetics of the Xdh Locus in the Cactophilic Sibling Species Drosophila buzzatii and D. koepferae
Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 141-152. (2004).

Ramos-Onsins, S. E., Stranger, B. E., Mitchell-Olds, T. & AguadÉ, M.
Multilocus analysis of variation and speciation in the closely related species Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata
Genetics 166: 373-388 (2004).

 


2005  

BRAVERMAN, j., lazzaro, b., AGUADÉ, M. & langley, C. H.
DNA Sequence Polymorphism and Divergence at the erect wing and suppressor of sable loci of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans
Genetics 170: 1153-1165 (2005).

MUNTÉ, A., ROZAS, J., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
Chromosomal inversion polymorphism leads to extensive genetic structure: a multilocus survey in Drosophila subobscura.
Genetics 169: 1573-1581 (2005).

QUESADA, H., Ramos-Onsins, S. E. & AguadÉ, M.
Birth-and-death evolution of the Cecropin multigene family in Drosophila
J. Mol. Evol. 60: 1-11 (2005).

VILELLA, A. J., BLANCO-GARCÍA, A., HUTTER, S. & ROZAS, J.
VariScan: Analysis of evolutionary patterns from large-scale DNA sequence polymorphism data.
Bioinformatics 21: 2791-2793 (2005).
 


2006

BALAÑÁ-ALCAIDE, D., Ramos-Onsins, S. E., BOONE, Q. & Aguade, M.
Highly structured nucleotide variation within and among Arabidopsis lyrata populations at the FAH1 and DFR gene regions
Mol. Ecol. (in press) (2006).

PAPACEIT, M., AGUADÉ, M. & SEGARRA, C.
Chromosomal evolution of elements B and C in the Sophophora subgenus of Drosophila: evolutionary rate and polymorphism
Evolution (in press) (2006).
 



April 26, 2006
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