Marta Riutort León

Marta Riutort León

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-2134-7674
Researcher ID: B-6441-2009
Knowledge area: Genètica

Research group:

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Av. Diagonal, 645 Edifici annex 3a planta
934035432
mriutort(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Sistemàtica Biològica

Academic Training

Biología . Universitat de Barcelona . 1984 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biología . Universitat de Barcelona . 1991 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Taxonomía, sistemática y filogenia de planarias
Filogenia molecular de Platyhelminthes y Metazoos basales
Filogeografia de Triclads (Platihelmints)

Projects

CONSERVAZIONE E VALORIZZAZIONE DELLE GROTTE SARDE: BIODIVERSITÀ E RUOLO SOCIO-ECONOMICO-CULTURALE . 2013 - 2015 . Ref.CRP-60215 . Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (RAS) . PI: Renata Manconi
Diversidade e áreas de endemismos de planárias terrestres no sul da mata Atlântica e seus fatores causais . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.2016/18295-5 . Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo–FAPESP . PI: Marta Riutort Leon
Genómica de la conservación aplicada a la Pardela Balear (PABAgen) . 2017 - 2020 . Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) . PI: Marta Riutort Leon
A new generation of evolutionary scientists for Biodiversity evaluation in the neotropical and mesoamerican regions through the study of soft-bodied organisms . 2017 - 2018 . Unión Iberoamericana de Universidades . PI: Marta Riutort Leon
Comprendiendo los procesos que generan diversidad genética en la naturaleza: Estrategias reproductoras, actividad humana y cambios climáticos . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.PGC2018-093924-B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Marta Riutort Leon

Journal Publications

Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Riutort, M. (2018). Hidden diversity in forest soils: characterization and comparison of terrestrial flatworm's communities in two national parks in Spain. Ecology and Evolution, 8(15), pp. 7386 - 7400 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-7758
Mateos, E.; Escuer, P.; Busmachiu, G.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2018). Untangling Lepidocyrtus (Collembola, Entomobryidae): new molecular data shed light on the relationships of the European groups. Invertebrate Systematics, 32, pp. 639 - 651 . https://doi.org/10.1071/IS17056 . ISSN: 1445-5226
Harrath, A.H.; Sluys, R.; Mansour, L.; Lekeufack, G.; Aldahmash, W.; Alwasel, S.; Solà, E.; Riutort, M. (2019). Molecular and morphological identification of two new African species of Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae) from Cameroon. Journal of Natural History, 53(5-6), pp. 253 - 271 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1577508 . ISSN: 0022-2933
Kanana, Yuliia; Marta Riutort (2019). First record of freshwater planarian Girardia tigrina (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in Eastern Europe. Zootaxa, 4624(4), pp. 597 - 600 . DOI (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.13) . ISSN: 1175-5326
Cuevas-Caballé, C.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2019). Diet assessment of two land planarian species using high-throughput sequencing data. Scientific Reports, 9, p. 8679 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322
Leria, L.; Vila-Farre, M.; Sola, E.; Marta R. (2019). Outstanding intraindividual genetic diversity in fissiparous planarians (Dugesia, Platyhelminthes) with facultative sex. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(130) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1471-2148
Leria, L.; Vila-Farré, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Rozas, J.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2019). Cryptic species delineation in freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida): Extreme intraindividual genetic diversity, morphological stasis, and karyological variability. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 143, p. 106496 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1055-7903
Benítez-Álvarez, L.; Leal-Zanchet, A.M.; Oceguera-Figueroa, A.; Ferreira, R.L.; Bento, D.M.; Braccini, J.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2020). Phylogeny and biogeography of the Cavernicola (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida): Relicts of an epigean group sheltering in caves?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 145(106709), pp. 1 - 34 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1055-7903
Jones, H.D.; Mateos, E.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2020). The identity of the invasive yellow-striped terrestrial planarian found recently in Europe: Caenoplana variegata (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888) or Caenoplana bicolor (Graff, 1899)?. Zootaxa, 4731(2), pp. 193 - 222 . link to the article (https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4731.2.2) . ISSN: 1175-5326
Dols-Serrate, D.; Leria, L.; Aguilar, J.P.; Stocchino, G.A.; Riutort, M. (2020). Dugesia hepta and Dugesia benazzii (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida): two sympatric species with occasional sex?. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 20, pp. 369 - 386 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1439-6092

Others Publications

Riutort, M. (2010). El motor que impulsa l'evolució, és intern o extern als organismes? . In La teoria de l'evolució 150 anys després . Institut Municipal i Museu de Ciències Naturals, Barcelona . http://www.blogmuseuciencies.org
Riutort, M. (2014). Platyhelminthes. Are flatworms simple or simply simplified? . In The Tree of Life. Evolution and classification of living organisms . (pp. 270 - 280) . Sinauer Associates, Inc. . ISBN: 978-1605352299 . LLibre a la web Sinauer Associates, Inc. (http://www.sinauer.com/the-tree-of-life-628.html#sample_chapters)
Riutort, M.; Paps, J.; Ruiz-Trillo, I. (2014). Bilaterians. The evolutionary advantage of being two-sided . In The Tree of Life. Evolution and classification of living organisms . (pp. 218 - 233) . Sinauer Associates, Inc. . ISBN: 978-1605352299 . LLibre a la web Sinauer Associates, Inc. (http://www.sinauer.com/the-tree-of-life-628.html#sample_chapters)
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Riutort, M. (2017). Biodiversidad de planarias terrestres en dos Parques Nacionales: indicios de una historia de macro y microrefugios pleistocénicos . In Proyectos de Investigación en parques nacionales: 2012-2015 . (pp. 415 - 437) . Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. Organismo autónomo de Parques Nacionales . ISBN: 978-84-8014-907-5 .
Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2018). Planarian diversity and phylogeny . In Planarian regeneration. Methods and protocols. Mehods in Molecular Biology Series . (pp. 1 - 56) . Springer Nature . ISBN: 978-1-4939-7800-7 . Book at Springer web (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781493978007)

More Information: Riutort's lab (http://www.ub.edu/geisan)