MARTA ALVAREZ PRESAS

MARTA ALVAREZ PRESAS

Researcher Ramon i Cajal program

Scopus Author ID: 23977795500
Researcher ID: J-8078-2012

Grup de Recerca en Sistemàtica i Evolució Animal - ZOOSYSEVO

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Av. Diagonal 643 Edifici Prevosti 3a planta
934035304
onaalvarez(a)ub.edu

Participations in Conferences

Álvarez-Presas, M. (2015). . (Participation in scientific/organizer committee) . 13th International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (ISFB) . Oxford . UNITED KINGDOM
Carbayo, F.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Jones, H.; Riutort, M. (2015). New incomers into Europe: the true identity of a Geoplaninae land planarian species spreading across Europe. (Presentation of communication) . International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (ISFB) 2015 . Oxford . UNITED KINGDOM
Álvarez-Presas, M,; Mateos, E.; Sluys, R.; Leria, L.; Riutort, M. (2015). Biodiversity is not only a matter of the tropics. (Invited conference) . International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (ISFB) 2015 . Oxford . UNITED KINGDOM
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M (2015). Richness of life under rocks: the true diversity of European land planarians. (Presentation of communication) . IIIrd Iberian congress of Biological Systematics (CISA) . Vitoria . SPAIN
M. López; E. Mateos; M. Álvarez-Presas; M. Riutort (2015). Finding of exotic flatworms in the Royal Botanic Garden of Córdoba, Spain. (Poster) . 7th European Botanic Gardens Congress . Paris . FRANCE
Leria, L.; Vila-Farré, M.; Sluys, R.; Solà, E.; Álvarez-Presas, M,; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Rozas, J. ; Riutort, M. (2015).

Next Generation Sequencing: providing new insights in the uneasy study of the evolutionary history of freshwater triclads (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). (Poster) . International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (ISFB) 2015 . Oxford . UNITED KINGDOM

Leria, L.; Vila-Farré, M.; Sluys, R.; Solà, E.; Álvarez-Presas, M,; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Rozas, J. ; Riutort, M. (2015). Next Generation Sequencing: providing new insights in the uneasy study of the evolutionary history of freshwater triclads (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). (Poster) . Congreso de Sistemática Biológica (CISA) 2015 . Vitoria . SPAIN
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2016). Integrative taxonomy gives light to an unexpected diverse and structured world underground: the case of land planarians in two Spanish national parks. (Presentation of communication) . XVI Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva . Barcelona . SPAIN
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Carbayo, F.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Ocaña, E.; Rozas, J.; Riutort, M. (2016). New molecular markers to delve into phylogeography and population genetic structure of two Brazilian land planarian species. (Presentation of communication) . XXI Seminario de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución . Sitges . SPAIN
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; M. Riutort (2017). Digging out the biogeographic history of European terrestrial planarians. (Presentation of communication) . XIV MEDECOS & XIII AEET meeting . Sevilla . SPAIN
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Gascón-de-Gotor, R.S.; Sánchez-Herrero, J.F.; Rozas, J. ; Riutort, M. (2018). New insights into the evolution of biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest using land planarian data. (Presentation of communication) . IVth Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA) . Palma de Mallorca . SPAIN
Marta Álvarez-Presas; Ricard S. Gascón-de-Gotor; José F. Sánchez-Herrero; Fernando Carbayo; Julio Rozas ;Marta Riutort (2018). Novas tecnologias perseguem as planárias: aplicação das ferramentas de NGS em duas espécies de planárias terrestres. (Presentation of communication) . XXXII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia . Foz do Iguaçu . BRAZIL
Gascón-de-Gotor, R.S., Riutort, M. and Álvarez-Presas, M. (2018). Next Generation Sequencing data shed light on the phylogeography of two land planarian species in Brazil. (Presentation of communication) . XVIII Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva . Barcelona . SPAIN
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2018). First evaluation of native terrestrial flatworm communities in Europe. (Presentation of communication) . XIV International Symposium on Flatworm Biology . Alguer . ITALY
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Fernández, R.; Gabaldón, T.; Riutort, M.; (2018). Terrestrialization in land planarians through the lens of transcriptomics. (Presentation of communication) . XXXVII annual meeting of the Willi Hennig Society . Barcelona . SPAIN
MARTA ÁLVAREZ-PRESAS, EDUARDO MATEOS, RONALD SLUYS, MARTA RIUTORT (2019). An Integrative approach to describe the cryptic diversity of native land planarians in Europe. (Presentation of communication) . Systematic Association Biennial Meeting . Bristol . UNITED KINGDOM
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Ruiz-Trillo, I.; and Paps, J. (2021). A new genomics approach to shed light on the mystery of the evolution of Bilateria. (Presentation of communication) . Spanish Genetic Association (SEG) conference . SPAIN
M. Álvarez-Presas; G. Blasco; C. Cuevas; A. Sánchez-Gracia; J. Rozas; and M. Riutort (2018). Evolutionary analysis of two land planarian mitogenomes inhabiting the threatened Brazilian Atlantic forest. (Poster) . IInd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology . Montpellier . FRANCE
Álvarez‐Presas, Marta, Gema Blasco, Cristian Cuevas, Marta Riutort (2019). New insight into the evolution of terrestrial planarians' mitogenomes (Geoplanidae, Platyhelminthes) inferred from two Brazilian Atlantic Forest species. (Poster) . Young Systematists' Forum . London . UNITED KINGDOM

Journal Publications

Sluys, R.; Vila-Farre, M.; Alvarez-Presas, M.; Riutort, M.; Kawakatsu, M., Tulp, A.S. (2015). The diet and distribution of Pentacoelum kazukolinda (Kawakatsu & Mitchell, 1984), a maricolan planarian with a freshwater ecology. Zoologica Scripta, 44(1), pp. 72 - 91 . https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12084 . ISSN: 0300-3256
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Amaral, S.; Carbayo, F.; Leal-Zanchet, A.M., Riutort, M. (2015). Focus on the details: morphological evidence supports new cryptic land flatworm (Platyhelminthes) species revealed with molecules. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 15, pp. 379 - 403 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-014-0197-z . ISSN: 1439-6092
Solà, E.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Frias, C.; Littlewood, T.; Rozas, J., Riutort, M. (2015). Evolutionary analysis of mitogenomes from parasitic and free-living flatworms. PLoS One, 10(3), pp. e0120081 - e0120081 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Sluys, R.; Mateos, E.; Riutort, M.; Alvarez-Presas, M (2016). Towards a comprehensive, integrative analysis of the European terrestrial planarians diversity (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) with the description of two new species with multiple eyes. Systematics and Biodiversity, pp. 1 - 23 . Publicació online (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772000.2015.1103323?journalCode=tsab20) . ISSN: 1477-2000
Carbayo, Fernando; Alvarez-Presas, Marta; Jones, Hugh D.; Riutort, Marta (2016). The true identity of Obama (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) flatworm spreading across Europe. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 177(1), pp. 5 - 28 . https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12358 . ISSN: 0024-4082
Mateos, E.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Riutort, M (2015). Nuevos visitantes en España: Planarias terrestres introducidas. Quercus, 353, pp. 40 - 48 . Publicació online (http://www.revistaquercus.es/noticia.asp?ref=6265&cadena=planarias&como=2) . ISSN: 0212-0054
Mateos, E.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M.; Alvarez-Presas, M. (2017). Species richness in the genus Microplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Microplaninae) in Europe: as yet no asymptote in sight. Invertebrate Systematics, 31, pp. 269 - 301 . https://doi.org/10.1071/IS16038 . ISSN: 1445-5226
Carbayo, F.; Santos Silva, M.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2018). Rolling into the deep of the land planarian genus Choeradoplana (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) taxonomy. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 18, pp. 187 - 210 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0352-4 . ISSN: 1439-6092
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-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
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
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
Araujo, G. A-P; Carbayo, F.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2020). Five new pseudocryptic land planarian species of Cratera (Platyhelminthes :Tricladida) unveiled through integrative taxonomy. PeerJ, 8, p. e9726 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2167-8359
Mateos, E.; Jones, H. D.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez-Presas, M. (2020). A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata. PeerJ, 8, p. e10013 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2167-8359
Negrete, L.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Riutort, M.; Brusa, F. (2021). Integrative taxonomy of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) from the Andean-Patagonian Forests from Argentina and Chile, with the erection of two new genera. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(3), pp. 588 - 612 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0947-5745
Almeida, A. L.; Francoy, T. M.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Carbayo, F. (2021). Convergent evolution: A new subfamily for bipaliin-like Chilean land planarians (Platyhelminthes). Zoologica Scripta, 50(4), pp. 500 - 508 . https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12479 . ISSN: 0300-3256
Mateos, E.; Winkler, D.; Riutort, M.; Alvarez-Presas, M. (2021). New morphological and molecular data reveal an important underestimation of species diversity and indicate evolutionary patterns in European Lepidocyrtus. Invertebrate Systematics, 35, pp. 471 - 492 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1445-5226

Other publications

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.; Mateos, E.; Álvarez-Presas, M.; Riutort, M. (2017). La invasión de las planarias . In Investigación y ciencia . Volume. Maig . Number. 488 . (pp. 76 - 85) .

Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Pau Balart i Garcia . (2016) . Dendrocélidos cavernícolas de los Pirineos Centrales: clasificación molecular y morfológica. Nuevos datos y primera aproximación filogenética de Planarioidea (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes) (Master's Thesis) . Barcelona.
Cristian Cuevas Caballé . (2017) . We are what we eat: diet assessment of two land planarian species through highthroughput sequencing data (Master's Thesis) . Barcelona.
Ricard Sabaté Gascón de Gotor . (2017) . Filogeografia molecular de planàries terrestres del Bosc Atlàntic de Brasil (Degree work) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Ricard Sabaté Gascón de Gotor . (2018) . Using Next Generation Sequencing data for the phylogeographic study of two land planarian species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.