Carlos Carreras Huergo

Lecturer Professor

Researcher ID: B-6772-2012

Knowledge area: Genètica

Research group: Marine Biodiversity and Evolution (MBE)

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Diagonal Sud, Facultat de Biologia DIAGONAL, 643
934034795
carreras(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Evolució (3r curs de Biologia)

Anàlisi Genètica

Genètica de la Conservació (Màster de Biodiversitat)

Genètica d'Organismes Marins (4t curs, Grau de Ciències del Mar)

Estructuració i Connectivitat de Poblacions Marines (Màster d'Oceanografia i Gestió del Medi Marí)

Academic Training

Llicenciat en Biologia, Especialitat en Biologia d'Orgaismes i Sistemes . Universitat de Barcelona . 31/07/2000 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor en Zoologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 08/06/2007 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Genética y genómica de poblaciones en tortugas marinas

Genómica de poblaciones en peces

Genómica de poblaciones y adaptación en equinodermos

Genómica de especies invasoras marinas

Projects

Abordando retos en investigación marina con herramientas genéticas: especies introducidas, caracterización de la biodiversidad, adaptación al calentamiento global . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.CTM2013-48163-C2-2-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Marta Pascual Berniola

Biodiversidad Marina y Genómica: de las Poblaciones a las Comunidades . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CTM2017-88080-C2-2-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Marta Pascual Berniola

Grup de Recerca en Biologia i Ecologia Bentòniques . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1120 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Javier Romero Martinengo

Assessment of the impact of the Cayman Turtle Farm release program to the wild populations of the green turtle (Chelonia Mydas) in the Cayman Islands using genetics markers . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.308131 . Cayman Islands Government . PI: Carlos Carreras Huergo; Marta Pascual Berniola

Gestión y evaluación de la colonización del litoral español para la nidificación de tortuga boba (Caretta caretta) como adaptación al cambio climático . 2019 - 2021 . Fundación Biodiversidad . PI: Marta Pascual Berniola

Journal Publications

Carreras C; Godley BJ; Leon YM; Revuelta O; Raga JA; Tomas J (2013). Contextualising the last survivors: population structure of marine turtles in the Dominican Republic. PLoS One, 8(6), pp. 1 - 13 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203

Carreras, C; Ordóñez, V.; Zane, L.; Kruschel, C.; Nasto, I.; Macpherson, E.; Pascual, M. (2017). Population genomics of an endemic Mediterranean fish: differentiation by fine scale dispersal and adaptation. Scientific Reports, 7(43417) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Carreras, C.; Pascual, M.; Tomás, J.; Marco, A.; Hochscheid, A.; Castillo, J.J., Gozalbes, P.; Parga, M.; Piovano, S.; Cardona, L. (2018). Sporadic nesting reveals long distance colonisation in the philopatric loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Scientific Reports, 8(1435) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Yaron Tikochinski; Phil Bradshaw; Angela Mastrogiacomo; Annette Broderick; Alon Daya; Andreas Demetropoulos; Simon Demetropoulos; Nicolas-George Eliades; Wayne Fuller; Brendan Godley; Yakup Kaska; Yaniv Levy; Robin Snape; Lucy Wright; Carlos Carreras (2018). Mitochondrial DNA short tandem repeats unveil hidden population structuring and migration routes of an endangered marine turtle. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems(2018), pp. 1 - 10 . https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2908 . ISSN: 1052-7613

Barbanti, A.; Martin, C.; Blumenthal, J.M.; Boyle, J.; Broderick, A.C.; Collyer, L.; Ebanks-Petrie G.; Godley, B.J.; Mustin, W.; Ordóñez, V.; Pascual, M.; Carreras, C. (2019). How many came home? Evaluating ex‐situ conservation of green turtles in the Cayman Islands. Molecular Ecology, 28(7), pp. 1637 - 1651 . https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15017 . ISSN: 0962-1083

Carreras, C.; García-Cisneros, A.; Wangensteen, A.S.; Ordóñez, V.; Palacín, C.; Pascual, M.; Turon, X. (2019). East is East and West is West: Population genomics and hierarchical analyses reveal genetic structure and adaptation footprints in the keystone species Paracentrotus lividus (Echinoidea). Diversity and Distributions, 26, pp. 382 - 398 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1366-9516

Tikochinsky, Y.; Carreras, C.; Tikochinsky, G.; Vilaça, S. (2020). Population-specific signatures of intra-individual mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy and their potential evolutionary advantages. Scientific Reports, 10, p. 211 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Barbanti, A.; Torrado, H.; Macpherson, E.; Bargelloni, L., Franch, R.; Carreras, C.; Pascual, M. (2020). Helping decision making for reliable and cost‐effective 2b‐RAD sequencing and genotyping analyses in non‐model species. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20, pp. 795 - 806 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13144 . ISSN: 1755-098X

Carreras, C.; Pont, S.; Maffucci, F.; Pascual, M.; Barceló, A.; Bentivegna, F.; Cardona, L.; Alegre, F.; San Félix, M.; Fernández, G. & Aguilar, A. (2006). Genetic structuring of immature loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea reflects water circulation patterns. Marine Biology, 149, pp. 1269 - 1279 . ISSN: 0025-3162

Carreras, C.; Pascual, M.; Cardona, L.; Marco, A.; Bellido, J.J.; Castillo, J.J.; Tomás, J.; Raga, J.A.; Sanfélix, M.; Fernández, G.; Aguilar, A. (2011). Living together but remaining apart: Atlantic and Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in shared feeding grounds. Journal of Heredity, 102, pp. 666 - 677 . ISSN: 0022-1503

Others Publications

Cardona, L.; Carreras, C.; Aguilar, A.; Pascual, M. (2005). Incidental catch of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean: conservation consequences of genetic heterogeneity between foraging grounds . In United Nations Environment Programme. Mediterranean Action Plan.RAC/SPA . Volume. 268 . Number. 21 . (pp. 1 - 33) .

Carreras C; Tomas J (2010). Spain . In Casale P and Margaritoulis D (eds) Sea Turtles in the Mediterranean: Distribution, threats and conservation priorities . (pp. 205 - 232) . IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group . ISBN: 978-2-8317-1240 .

Relevant Activities

Marine Turtle Specialist Group-IUCN

More Information: http://www.ub.edu/beb/genetica/carreras/carreras.htm