Julio Rozas Liras

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-6839-9148

Researcher ID: A-1733-2009

Knowledge area: Genètica

Member of the board of directors of the BiB (Bioinformatics Barcelona)

UB member of the academic committee of the BDBI (Bachelor Degree in Bioinformatics)

Research group: IP Genètica Molecular Evolutiva

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Av. Diagonal, 645
934021495
jrozas(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Evolution (Biology degree)

Bioinformátics (Bachelor degrees in Biochemistry, Biotecnology and Biomedical Sciences)

Academic Training

Biología . Universidad de Barcelona . 06/1985 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Biología . Universidad de Barcelona . 02/1990 . (Ph.D.)

Projects

Genómica comparada y de la adaptación en el estudio de la radiación en islas macaronésicas: las arañas Dysdera de Canarias y su sistema quimiosensorial como sistema modelo . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.CGL2016-75255-C2-2-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Julio Antonio Rozas Liras

Genómica de la conservación aplicada a la Pardela Balear (PABAgen) . 2017 - 2020 . Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) . PI: Marta Riutort Leon

Application of RADseq and other promising genomic partitioning approaches to the study of biodiversity . 2017 - 2018 . Unión Iberoamericana de Universidades . PI: Julio Antonio Rozas Liras; Alejandro Sanchez Gracia

Genómica comparada y de poblaciones de la radiación evolutiva terrestre de arañas del género Dysdera (Arachnida: Dysderidae) en las islas Canarias . 2020 - 2024 . Ref.PID2019-103947GB-C21 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Julio Antonio Rozas Liras

The genome of the Catalan blind scorpion . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.PRO2020-S02-ARNEDO . Institut d'Estudis Catalans . PI: Miguel Angel Arnedo Lombarte; Julio Antonio Rozas Liras; Alejandro Sanchez Gracia

Journal Publications

Vizueta, Joel; Macias-Hernandez, Nuria; Arnedo, Miguel A.; Rozas, Julio; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro (2019). Chance and predictability in evolution: The genomic basis of convergent dietary specializations in an adaptive radiation. Molecular Ecology, 28(17), pp. 4028 - 4045 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0962-1083

Vizueta, J.; Rozas, J.; Sánchez Gracia, A. (2018). Comparative genomics reveals thousands of novel chemosensory genes and massive changes in chemoreceptor repertories across chelicerates. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(5), pp. 1221 - 1236 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1759-6653

Clifton, B.D.; Librado, P.; Yeh, S.-D.; Solares, E.S.; Real, D.A.; Jayasekera, S.U.; Zhang, W.; Shi, M.; Park, R.V.; Magie, R.D.; Ma, H-C.; Xia, X.-Q.; Marco, A.; Rozas, J.; Ranz, J.M. (2017). Rapid Functional and Sequence Differentiation of a Tandemly Repeated Species-Specific Multigene Family in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34, pp. 51 - 65 . https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw212 . ISSN: 0737-4038

Fukushima, Kenji; Fang, Xiaodong; Alvarez-Ponce, David; Cai, Huimin; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo; Chen, Cui; Chang, Tien-Hao; Farr, Kimberly M.; Fujita, Tomomichi; Hiwatashi, Yuji; Hoshi, Yoshikazu; Imai, Takamasa; Kasahara, Masahiro; Librado, Pablo; Mao, Likai; Mori, Hitoshi; Nishiyama, Tomoaki; Nozawa, Masafumi; Palfalvi, Gergo; Pollard, Stephen T.; Rozas, Julio; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Sankoff, David; Shibata, Tomoko F.; Shigenobu, Shuji; Sumikawa, Naomi; Uzawa, Taketoshi; Xie, Meiying; Zheng, Chunfang; Pollock, David D.; Albert, Victor A.; Li, Shuaicheng; Hasebe, Mitsuyasu (2017). Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(3) . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0059 . ISSN: 2397-334X

Rozas, J.; Ferrer-Mata, A.; Sánchez-DelBarrio, J.C.; Guirao-Rico, S.; Librado, P.; Ramos-Onsins, S.E.; Sánchez-Gracia, A. (2017). Dnasp 6: DNA sequence polymorphism analysis in large data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(12), pp. 3299 - 3302 . https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx248 . ISSN: 0737-4038

Frías-López, C.; Sánchez-Herrero, J.F.; Guirao-Rico, S.; Mora, E.; Arnedo, M.A.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Arnedo, M.A.; Rozas, J. (2016). DOMINO: Development of informative molecular markers for phylogenetic and genome-wide population genetic studies in non-model organism. Bioinformatics, 32(24), pp. 3753 - 3759 . https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw534 . ISSN: 1367-4803

Denoeud, F.; Carretero-Paulet, L.; Dereeper, A.; Droc, G.; Guyot, R.; Pietrella, M.; Zheng, C.; Alberti, A.; Anthony, F.; Aprea, G.; Aury, J.M.; Bento, P.; Bernard, M.; Bocs, S.; Campa, C.; Cenci, A.; Combes, M.C.e; Crouzillat, D.; Da Silva, C.; Daddiego, L.; De Bellis, F.; Dussert, S.; Garsmeur, O.; Gayraud, T.; Guignon, V.; Jahn, K.; Jamilloux, V.; Joët, T.; Labadie, K.; Lan, T.; Leclercq, J.; Lepelley, M.; Leroy, T.; Li, L.T.; Librado, P.; Lopez, L.; Muñoz, A.; Noel, B.; Pallavicini, A.; Perrotta, G.; Poncet, V.; Pot, David; P.; Rigoreau, M.; Rouard, M.; Rozas, J.; Tranchant-Dubreuil, C.; VanBuren, R.; Zhang, Q.; Andrade, A.C.; Argout, X.; Bertrand, B.; De Kochko, A.; Graziosi, G.; Henry, R.J.; Jayarama; Ming, R.; Nagai, C.; Rounsley, S.; Sankoff, D.; Giuliano, G.; Albert, V.A.; Wincker, P.; Lashermes, P. (2014). The Coffee Genome Provides Insight into the Convergent Evolution of Caffeine Biosynthesis. Science, 345, pp. 1181 - 1184 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255274 . ISSN: 0036-8075

Mackay, T.F.C.; Richards, S.; Stone, E.A.; Barbadilla, A.; Ayroles, J.F.; Zhu, D.; Casillas, S.; Han, Y.; Magwire, M.M.; Cridland, J.M.; Richardson, M.F.; Anholt, R.R.H.; Barrón, M.; Bess, C.; Blankenburg, K.P.; Carbone, M.A.; Castellano, D.; Chaboub, L.; Duncan, L.; Harris, Z.; Javaid, M.; Jayaseelan, J.C.; Jhangiani, S.N.; Jordan, K.W.; Lara, F.; Lawrence, F.; Lee, S.L.; Librado, P.; Linheiro, R.S.; Lyman, R.F.; Mackey, A.J.; Munidasa, M.; Muzny, D.M.; Nazareth, L.; Newsham, I.; Perales, L.; Pu, L.L.; Qu, C.; Ràmia, M.; Reid, J.F.; Rollmann, S.M.; Rozas, J.; Saada, N.; Turlapati, L.; Worley, K.C.; Wu, Y.Q.; Yamamoto, A.; Zhu, Y.; Bergman, C.M.; Thornton, K.R.; Mittelman, D.; Gibbs, R.A. (2012). The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel. Nature, 482(7384), pp. 173 - 178 . ISSN: 0028-0836

Escuer, P.; Pisarenco, V.; Fernández-Ruiz, A.; Vizueta, J.; Sanchez-Herrero, J.F.; Arnedo, M.; Sánchez-Gracia,A.; Rozas, J. (2022). Chromosome-scale assembly of the Canary Island endemic spider Dysdera silvatica (Arachnida, Araneae) sheds light on the origin and genome structure of chemoreceptor gene families in spiders. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(1), pp. 375 - 390 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1755-098X

Vizueta, J.; Escuer, P.; Frías-López, C.; Guirao-Rico, S.; Hering, L.; Mayer, G.; Rozas, J.; Sánchez-Gracia, A. (2020). Evolutionary history of major chemosensory gene families across Panarthropoda. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37, pp. 3601 - 3615 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0737-4038

Others Publications

Rozas, J., Sánchez-Gracia, A. (2014). Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies . In The Tree of Life. Vargas, P. and Zardoya, R. (eds.) . Sinauer Associates, Inc. .

More Information: http://www.ub.edu/molevol/julio/