Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Researcher Ramon i Cajal program

Researcher ID: L-8345-2013

Research group: GRC Sistemàtica i Evolució Zoològica (ZooSysEvo)

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Av. Diagonal 643
934021443
akaliontzopoulou(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Biologia . Universitat de Creta . 01/03/2002 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Zoologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 2010 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Evolutionary Ecology

Phenotypic evolution

Biodiversity of reptiles and amphibians

Geometric morphometrics

Projects

MEDBIODIV: linking phenotypes to diversification dynamics to decipher the temporal and spatial scaling of biodiversity evolution in the Mediterranean Basin . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.PTDC/BIA-EVL/28090/2017 . MCTES. Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior. . PI: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Evolving biodiversity: using evolutionary theory to understand what makes the Mediterranean one of the world´s richest hotspots . 2015 - 2020 . Ref.IF/00641/2014/CP1256/CT00 . Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Ministério da Educação e Ciência (Portugal). . PI: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

A multi-scale approach to the evolution of sexual dimorphism: dissecting sexual selection at different evolutionary levels . 2011 - 2015 . Ref.SFRH/BPD/68493/2010 . Fundaçao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal . PI: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Geomorph - statistical software for shape analysis: Enhancing usability, performance, and methods . 2019 . Ref.DBI-1902694 & DBI- 902511 . NSF (USA) . PI: Dean C. Adams & Michael Collyer

ANTHROPOPHIBIAN: Phenomic, genomic and microbiomic responses to anthropogenic pressures . 2021 . Ref.PTDC/BIA-CBI/2278/2020 . Fundaçao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal . PI: Guillermo Velo-Antón

Journal Publications

Yang, W.; Feiner, N.; Pinho, C.; Kaliontzopoulou, A.; While, G.M.; Harris, D.J.; Salvi, D.; Uller, T. (2021). Rampant introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards. Nature Communications, 12, p. 2762 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22949-9 . ISSN: 2041-1723

Martínez-Freiría, F.; Toyama-Campos, K.; Freitas, I.; Kaliontzopoulou, A. (2020). Thermal melanism explains macroevolutionary variation of dorsal pigmentation in Eurasian vipers. Scientific Reports, 10(16122), pp. 1 - 10 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Adams, D.C.; Glynne, E.; Kaliontzopoulou, A. (2020). Interspecific allometry for sexual shape dimorphism: Macroevolution of multivariate sexual phenotypes with application to Rensch's Rule. Evolution, 74(9), pp. 1908 - 1922 . https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14049 . ISSN: 0014-3820

Gomes, V.; Herrel, A.; Carretero, M.A.; Kaliontzopoulou, A. (2020). New insights into bite performance: morphological trade-offs underlying the duration and magnitude of bite force. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 93(3), pp. 175 - 184 . https://doi.org/10.1086/708248 . ISSN: 1522-2152

Kaliontzopoulou, A.; Pinho, C.; Martínez-Freiría, F. (2018). Where does diversity come from? Linking geographical patterns of morphological, genetic, and environmental variation in wall lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18, p. 124 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1237-7 . ISSN: 1471-2148

Baken, E.K.; Collyer, M.L; Kaliontzopoulou, A.; Adams, D.C. (2021). geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. 2355 - 2363 . https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13723 . ISSN: 2041-210X

Kiourtsoglou, A.; Kaliontzopoulou, A.; Poursanidis, D.; Jablonski, D.; Lymberakis, P.; Poulakakis, N. (2021). Evidence of cryptic diversity in Podarcis peloponnesiacus and re-evaluation of its current taxonomy; insights from genetic, morphological and ecological data. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59, pp. 2350 - 2370 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12540 . ISSN: 0947-5745

Martínez-Gil, H.; Martínez-Freiría, F.; Perera, A.; Enríquez-Urzelai, U.; Martínez-Solano, I.; Velo-Antón, G.; Kaliontzopoulou, A. (2022). Morphological diversification of Mediterranean anurans: the roles of evolutionary history and climate. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135(3), pp. 462 - 477 . https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab156 . ISSN: 0024-4066

Coelho, P.; Kaliontzopoulou, A.; Sousa, P.; Stockmann, M.; van der Meijden, A. (2022). Reevaluating scorpion ecomorphs using a naïve approach. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22, p. 17 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01968-0 . ISSN: 2730-7182

Joan Garcia-Porta; Daniel Sol; Matt Pennell; Ferran Sayol; Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou; Carlos A. Botero (2022). Niche expansion and adaptive divergence in the global radiation of crows and ravens. Nature Communications, 13, p. 2086 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29707-5 . ISSN: 2041-1723

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