Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, Edifici Prevosti
imaeso(a)ub.edu
Teaching
Evolucio del pensament biologic
Research interests
Genome evolutionEvolution of gene regulationevo-devo
Journal Publications
Almudi, Isabel; Vizueta, Joel; Wyatt, Christopher D. R.; de Mendoza, Alex; Marletaz, Ferdinand; Firbas, Panos N.; Feuda, Roberto; Masiero, Giulio; Medina, Patricia; Alcaina-Caro, Ana; Cruz, Fernando; Gomez-Garrido, Jessica; Gut, Marta; Alioto, Tyler S.; Vargas-Chavez, Carlos; Davie, Kristofer; Misof, Bernhard; Gonzalez, Josefa; Aerts, Stein; Lister, Ryan; Paps, Jordi; Rozas, Julio; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Irimia, Manuel; Maeso, Ignacio; Casares, Fernando(2020).
Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings.Nature Communications, 11(2631)
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 2041-1723Sofia J. Araújo; Isabel Almudi; Laura Bozal-Basterra; Fernando Casares; Sergio Casas-Tintó; Augusto Escalante; Fernando García-Moreno; María Losada-Pérez; Ignacio Maeso; Luciano Marcon; Oscar Ocaña; Olatz Pampliega; Álvaro Rada-Iglesias1; Teresa Rayon; James Sharpe; James D. Sutherland; Cristina Villa del Campo; Rosa Barrio(2021).
Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17 th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020).International Journal of Developmental Biology, 65, pp. 457 - 464
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0214-6282Albuixech-Crespo B.; López-Blanch L.; Burguera D.; Maeso I.; Sánchez-Arrones L.; Moreno-Bravo JA.; Somorjai I.; Pascual-Anaya J.; Puelles E.; Bovolenta P.; Garcia-Fernàndez J.; Puelles L.; Irimia M.; Ferran JL.(2017).
Molecular regionalization of the developing amphioxus neural tube challenges major partitions of the vertebrate brain.PLoS Biology, 15(4), p. e2001573
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 1544-9173Marlétaz, F.; Firbas, PN.; Maeso, I.; Tena, JJ.; Bogdanovic, O.; Perry, M.; Wyatt, CDR.; de la Calle-Mustienes, E.; Bertrand, S.; Burguera, D.; Acemel, RD.; van Heeringen, SJ.; Naranjo, S.; Herrera-Ubeda, C.; Skvortsova, K.; Jimenez-Gancedo, S.; Aldea, D.; Marquez, Y.; Buono, L.; Kozmikova, I.; Permanyer, J.; Louis, A.; Albuixech-Crespo, B.; Le Petillon, Y.; Leon, A.; Subirana, L.; Balwierz, PJ.; Duckett, PE.; Farahani, E.; Aury, JM.; Mangenot, S.; Wincker, P.; Albalat, R.; Benito-Gutiérrez, È.; Cañestro, C.; Castro, F.; D'Aniello, S.; Ferrier, DEK.; Huang, S.; Laudet, V.; Marais, GAB.; Pontarotti, P.; Schubert, M.; Seitz, H.; Somorjai, I.; Takahashi, T.; Mirabeau, O.; Xu, A.; Yu, JK.; Carninci, P.; Martinez-Morales, JR.; Crollius, HR.; Kozmik, Z.; Weirauch, MT.; Garcia-Fernàndez, J.; Lister, R.; Lenhard, B.; Holland, PWH.; Escriva, H.; Gómez-Skarmeta, JL.; Irimia, M.(2018).
Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation.Nature, 564, pp. 64 - 70
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0028-0836Marina Braso-Vives; Ferdinand Marletaz; Amina Echchiki; Federica Mantica; Rafael D Acemel; Jose L Gomez-Skarmeta; Diego A. Hartasánchez; Lorlane L Targa; Pierre Pontarotti; Juan J Tena; Ignacio Maeso; Hector Escriva; Manuel Irimia; Marc Robinson-Rechavi(2022).
Parallel evolution of amphioxus and vertebrate small-scale gene duplications.Genome Biology, 23
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 1474-7596Daniel Aldea; Lucie Subirana; Celine Keime; Lydvina Meister; Ignacio Maeso; Sylvain Marcellini; Jose Luis Gomez-Skarmeta; Stephanie Bertrand; Hector Escriva(2019).
Genetic regulation of amphioxus somitogenesis informs the evolution of the vertebrate head mesoderm.Nature Ecology & Evolution(3), pp. 1233 - 1240
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 2397-334XMaría Touceda-Suárez; Elizabeth M Kita; Rafael D Acemel; Panos N Firbas; Marta S Magri; Silvia Naranjo; Juan J Tena; Jose Luis Gómez-Skarmeta; Ignacio Maeso; Manuel Irimia(2020).
Ancient Genomic Regulatory Blocks Are a Source for Regulatory Gene Deserts in Vertebrates after Whole-Genome Duplications.Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(10), pp. 2857 - 2864
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 0737-4038Amy H Royall; Ignacio Maeso; Thomas L Dunwell; Peter WH Holland(2018).
Mouse Obox and Crxos modulate preimplantation transcriptional profiles revealing similarity between paralogous mouse and human homeobox genes.Evodevo, 9(2), pp. 1 - 14
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 2041-9139Joaquín Letelier; Javier Terriente; Ivan Belzunce; Adria Voltes; Cristian Alberto Undurraga; Rocio Polvillo; Lucie Devos; Juan J Tena; Ignacio Maeso; Sylvie Retaux; José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta; Juan R Martínez-Morales; Cristina Pujades(2018).
Evolutionary emergence of the rac3b/rfng/sgca regulatory cluster refined mechanisms for hindbrain boundaries formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS
. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719885115. ISSN: 0027-8424Joaquín Letelier; Elisa De La Calle-Mustienes; Joyce Pieretti; Silvia Naranjo; Ignacio Maeso; Tetsuya Nakamura; Juan Pascual-Anaya; Neil H Shubin; Igor Schneider; Juan Ramón Martinez-Morales; José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta(2018).
A conserved Shh cis-regulatory module highlights a common developmental origin of unpaired and paired fins.Nature Genetics, 50(4), pp. 504 - 509
. Institutional Repository. ISSN: 1061-4036
Others Publications
Manuel Irimia; Ignacio Maeso(2019).
Boosting Macroevolution: Genomic Changes Triggering Qualitative Expansions of Regulatory Potential
. In
Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution
. Springer
. ISBN: 978-3-030-18201-4
. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-18202-1_9Ferran Azorín; Albert Jordan; Ignacio Maeso; Miguel Manzanares; Alvaro Rada-Iglesias; Joaquim Roca; Josep Rotllant; Guillermo P Vicent(2021).
3D Genome Architecture
. editorial CSIC
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