MARTA ALVAREZ PRESAS

MARTA ALVAREZ PRESAS

Adjunct part-time

Scopus Author ID: 23977795500
Researcher ID: J-8078-2012
Knowledge area: Genètica

Grup de Recerca en Sistemàtica i Evolució Animal - ZOOSYSEVO

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Av. Diagonal 643 Edifici Prevosti 3a planta
934035304
onaalvarez(a)ub.edu

Participations in Conferences

Álvarez Presas, M.; Sánchez Gracia, A.; Carbayo, F.; Rozas, J. ; Riutort, M. (2012). Filogeografia molecular comparada de planarias terrestres (Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) del Bosque Atlántico de Brasil. (Presentation of communication) . Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Animal . Madrid . SPAIN
Mateos, E.; Tudó, A.; Álvarez, M.; Riutort, M. (2012). Una nova invasió biològica a la Garrotxa. (Presentation of communication) . VI Seminari sobre patrimoni natural de la comarca de la Garrotxa . Actes del VI Seminari sobre patrimoni natural de la comarca de la Garrotxa: 12-13. http://issuu.com/ichn_garrotxa/docs/documentaci_vi_seminari . Olot . SPAIN
Álvarez Presas, M.; Sanchez Gracia, A.; Carbayo, F.; Rozas, J.; Riutort, M. (2012). Filogeografia molecular de dos especies de planaria terrestre del bosque atlantico brasileño. (Presentation of communication) . XXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia . Salvador de Bahía . BRAZIL
Carbayo, F.; Álvarez, M.; Olivares, C.; Marques, F; Riutort, M. (2012). Sound diagnostic characters for a taxonomic review of the Neotropical land planarians of Geoplaninae (Continenticola, Tricladida). (Poster) . 12th International Symposium on flatworm biology . Stockholm . SWEDEN
Hisada Pedroni, J.F.; Barbieri Júnior, C.; Almeida, A.L.; Patrícia Oliveira, Y.; Santos Silva, M.; Cseh, A.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Sánchez García, A.; Riutort, M.; Rozas, J.; Carbayo, F. (2012). Descobrir vermes crípticos para conservar habitats biodiversos. (Presentation of communication) . II Seminário de Pesquisa EACH - 2012 . Sao Paolo . BRAZIL
Álvarez, M.; Carbayo, F.; Riutort, M.; Rozas, J. (2012). The Brazilian Atlantic Forest Biodiversity hotspot: land planarians as model organisms for fine-scale phylogeographic studies. (Poster) . XXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia . Salvador de Bahia . BRAZIL
Tudó, A.; Mateos, E.; Riutort, M.; Álvarez, M. (2012). Non-native land planarians (Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the Iberian Peninsula: molecular and biological characterization. (Poster) . 12th International Symposium on flatworm biology . Stockholm . SWEDEN
Mateos, E.; Tudó, A.; Álvarez, M.; Riutort, M. (2013). Alerta de una potencial invasión biológica en la Península Ibérica por planarias terrestres (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae). (Presentation of communication) . IV Congreso de Biodiversidad . Bilbao . SPAIN
Riutort, M.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Carbayo, F.; Sánchez Gracia, A.; Rozas, J. (2013). Planarians are also good models for phylogeographical studies. (Invited conference) . 2nd European Meeting on Planarian Biology . Dresden . GERMANY
Álvarez Presas, M.; Sánchez Gracia, A.; Carbayo, F.; Rozas, J.; Riutort, M. (2013). Sobre l'origen i la distribució de la biodiversitat al bosc Atlàntic brasiler: Estudi filogeogràfic mitjançant un organisme de baixa dispersió. (Presentation of communication) . XIII Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva . Barcelona . SPAIN
Álvarez Presas, M.; Carbayo, F.; Froehlich, E.M.; Amaral, S.V.; Leal Zanchet, A.M.; Riutort, M. (2014). Especies crípticas de planarias terrestres: métodos morfológicos y moleculares para resolver los enigmas. (Round table) . XXX Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia . Porto Alegre . BRAZIL
Álvarez-Presas, M. (2015). . (Participation in scientific/organizer committee) . 13th International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (ISFB) . Oxford . UNITED KINGDOM
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Carbayo, F., Olivares, T. C., Marques, P.L.F., Froehlich, E.M., Amaral, S.V., Leal-Zanchet, A.M.; Riutort, M (2013). Revolution in Geoplaninae (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes) taxonomy: molecular data support plasticity in morphological characters. (Presentation of communication) . II Congreso Ibérico de Sistemática Animal . Barcelona . SPAIN
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

Riutort, M.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Lázaro, E.; Solà, E.; Paps, J. (2012). Evolutionary history of the tricladida and the platyhelminthes: an up-to-date phylogenetic and systematic account. International Journal of Developmental Biology, 56, pp. 5 - 17 . https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.113441mr . ISSN: 0214-6282
Álvarez Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Vila Farré, M.; Sluys, R.; Riutort, M. (2012). Evidence for the persistence of the land planarian species Microplana terrestris (Müller, 1774) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) in microrefugia during the Last Glacial Maximum in the northern section of the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 64, pp. 491 - 499 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.001 . ISSN: 1055-7903
Carbayo, F.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Olivares, C.; Marques, F.; Froehlich, E.; Riutort, M. (2013). Molecular phylogeny of Geoplaninae (Platyhelminthes) challenges current classification: proposal of taxonomic actions. Zoologica Scripta, 42(5), pp. 508 - 528 . https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12019 . ISSN: 0300-3256
Mateos, E.; Tudó, A.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Riutort, M (2013). Planàries terrestres exòtiques a la Garrotxa. Annals de la Delegació de la Garrotxa de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, 6, pp. 67 - 73 . https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2146.3128 . ISSN: 2013-3448
Álvarez, M.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Carbayo, F.; Rozas, J.; Riutort, M. (2014). Insights into the origin and distribution of biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot: A statistical phylogeographic study using a low-dispersal organism. Heredity, 112, pp. 656 - 665 . https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2014.3 . ISSN: 0018-067X
Álvarez-Presas,M.; Riutort, M. (2014). Planarian (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) Diversity and Molecular Markers: A New View of an Old Group. Diversity-Basel, 6, pp. 323 - 338 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1424-2818
Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Tudó, A.; Jones, H.; Riutort, M. (2014). Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: a cautionary tale. PeerJ, 2(e430) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2167-8359
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 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9726 . 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 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10013 . 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, pp. 588 - 612 . link to the article (https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.sire.ub.edu/doi/full/10.1111/jzs.12444) . 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 . https://doi.org/10.1071/IS20016|linktotheabstract . ISSN: 1445-5226

Other publications

Vila Farré, M.; Álvarez Presas, M.; Achatz, J.G. (2014). First record of Oligochoerus limnophilus (Acoela, Acoelomorpha) from British waters . In Arxius de Miscel•lània Zoològica . Volume. 11 .
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

Marta Álvarez Presas . (2012) . Phylogeography and molecular phylogeny of land planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and the Iberian Peninsula (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Paula Escuer Pifarré . (2014) . Anàlisi molecular dels grups d'espècies europees del gènere Lepidocyrtus Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) (Degree work) . Universitat de Barcelona.
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.