Publications

2023

Yu, D., Ren, Y., et al. Hagfish genome illuminates vertebrate whole genome duplications and their evolutionary consequences. (2023) bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.08.536076

Ricote, D.#, Maeso, I#. La pandemia de COVID-19 como individuo biológico: un nuevo modelo teórico. (2023) Astrágalo: Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad, 32, 155-176. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2023.i32.09

Voronov, D., Paganos, P., Magri, M.S., Cuomo, C., Maeso, I., Gómez-Skarmeta, J.L., Arnone, M.I. Integrative multi-omics increase resolution of the sea urchin posterior gut gene regulatory network at single cell level. (2023) bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.12.540495

Ricote, D.#, Maeso, I#. A New Perspective on Type-Token Distinction in the Genotype and Phenotype Concepts. (2023) In: Viejo, J.M., Sanjuán, M. (eds) Life and Mind. Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_11.

2022

Brasó-Vives, M., [8 other authors], Maeso, I., Escriva, H., Irimia, M., Robinson-Rechavi, M. Parallel evolution of amphioxus and vertebrate small-scale gene duplications. Genome Biol 23, 243.

Ksenia Skvortsova, Stephanie Bertrand, Danila Voronov, Paul E Duckett, Samuel E Ross, Marta Silvia Magri, Ignacio Maeso, Robert J Weatheritt, Jose Luis Gómez Skarmeta, Maria Ina Arnone, Hector Escriva, Ozren Bogdanovic. Active DNA demethylation of developmental cis-regulatory regions predates vertebrate origins. (2022) Science Advances 8 (48), eabn2258.

2021

Sofia 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-Iglesias, Teresa Rayon, James Sharpe, James D. Sutherland, Cristina Villa del Campo and Rosa Barrio. Meeting report of the 17th Spanish Society for Developmental Biology Meeting (SEBD2020). (2021) International Journal of Developmental Biology 65 (7-8-9), 457-464.

2020

Touceda-Suárez, M., Kita, E.M., [5 other authors], Gómez-Skarmeta, J.L.#, Maeso, I.#, Irimia, M#. Ancient genomic regulatory blocks are a major source for gene deserts in vertebrates after whole genome duplications. (2020) Mol. Bio. & Evol. 37(10):2857-2864.

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Almudi, I. #, Vizueta, J., [22 other authors], Maeso, I., Casares F #. Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings. (2020) Nature Communications 11- 26312020

2019

Irimia, M.* #, Maeso, I.*#. Boosting Macroevolution: Genomic Changes Triggering Qualitative Expansions of Regulatory Potential. (2019). In: Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution, Springer, Cham.

Daniel Aldea, Lucie Subirana, Celine Keime, Lydvina Meister, Ignacio Maeso, Sylvain Marcellini, Jose Luis Gomez-Skarmeta, Stephanie Bertrand, Hector Escriva. Genetic regulation of amphioxus somitogenesis informs the evolution of the vertebrate head mesoderm. (2019) Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 1233–1240.

2018

Marlétaz, F.*, Firbas, P.*, Maeso, I.*#, Tena, J.J.*, Bogdanovic, O.*, Perry, M.*, et al. (52 other authors), Escrivá, H. #, Gómez-Skarmeta, J.L. #, Irimia, M#. Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate cis-regulation. (2018) Nature 564: 64-70.

Letelier, J., de la Calle-Mustienes, E., Pieretti, J., Naranjo, S., Maeso, I., [2 other authors], Shubin, N., Schneider, I., Martinez-Morales, JR., Gómez-Skarmeta, JL. A conserved Shh cis-regulatory module highlights a common developmental origin of unpaired and paired fins. (2018) Nature Genetics 50(4):504-509.

Joaquín 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. Evolutionary emergence of the rac3b/rfng/sgca regulatory cluster refined mechanisms for hindbrain boundaries formation. (2018) PNAS 115 (16), E3731-E3740.

Ibai Irastorza-Azcarate, Rafael D Acemel, Juan J Tena, Ignacio Maeso, José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Damien P Devos. 4Cin: A computational pipeline for 3D genome modeling and virtual Hi-C analyses from 4C data. (2018) PLoS Computational Biology 14 (3), e1006030.

Amy H Royall, Ignacio Maeso, Thomas L Dunwell, Peter WH Holland. Mouse Obox and Crxos modulate preimplantation transcriptional profiles revealing similarity between paralogous mouse and human homeobox genes. (2018) EvoDevo 9 (1), 1-14.

2017

EE Schwager, PP Sharma, T Clarke, et al. The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution. (2017) BMC Biology 15 (1), 1-27.

I. Maeso#, R. D. Acemel, J. L. Gómez-Skarmeta#. Cis-regulatory landscapes in development and evolution. (2017) Curr Opin Genet Dev 43: 17-22.

Beatriz Albuixech-Crespo, et al. Molecular regionalization of the developing amphioxus neural tube challenges major partitions of the vertebrate brain. (2017) PLoS Biology 15 (4), e2001573.

R. D. Acemel, I. Maeso, J. L. Gómez-Skarmeta. Topologically associated domains: a successful scaffold for the evolution of gene regulation in animals. (2017) WIRE: Developmental Biology 6 (3), e265.

Peter WH Holland, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Ignacio Maeso, Thomas L Dunwell, Jordi Paps. New genes from old: asymmetric divergence of gene duplicates and the evolution of development. (2017) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372: 20150480.

2016

Acemel RD., Tena JJ., Irastorza-Azcarate I., [9 other authors], Devos D.P.#, Maeso I.#, Escrivá H.#, Gómez-Skarmeta J.L#. A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation. (2016) Nature Genetics 48 (3), 336-341.

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Maeso, I.*, Dunwell, T.L.*, Wyatt, C.D.R. [5 other authors], Holland, P.W.H. Evolutionary origin and functional divergence of totipotent cell homeobox genes in eutherian mammals. (2016) BMC Biology 14 (1), 1-14.

Maeso, I.*#, Tena, J.J.*# Favorable genomic environments for cis-regulatory evolution: A novel theoretical framework. (2016) Semin Cell Dev Biol 57, 2-10.

N J Kenny, K W Chan, W Nong, Z Qu, I Maeso, H Y Yip, T F Chan, H S Kwan, P W H Holland, K H Chu, J H L Hui. Ancestral whole-genome duplication in the marine chelicerate horseshoe crabs. (2016) Heredity 116 (2), 190-199.

2015

Ferdinand Marlétaz, Ignacio Maeso, Laura Faas, Harry V Isaacs, Peter WH Holland. Cdx ParaHox genes acquired distinct developmental roles after gene duplication in vertebrate evolution. (2015) BMC Biology 13, 1-14.

C Gómez-Marín, JJ Tena, RD Acemel, et al. Evolutionary comparison reveals that diverging CTCF sites are signatures of ancestral topological associating domains borders. (2015) PNAS 112 (24), 7542-7547.

Maeso, I. Catching genomic rearrangements in the act: Integrating DNA breakage models and functional genomics data. (2015) BioEssays 37 (5), 470-471.

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