Selected publications

Articles         Books and Books Chapters

 Articles

Fontdevila, A., J. Méndez, F.J. Ayala and J. McDonald. 1975. Maintenance of allozyme polymorphism in experimental populations of Drosophila. Nature 255: 149-151.

Fontdevila, A. and H.L. Carson. 1978. Spatial distribution and dispersal in a population of Drosophila. American Naturalist 112: 365-380.

Fontdevila, A., C. Zapata, G. Alvarez, L. Sánchez, J. Méndez, and I. Enríquez. 1983. Genetic coadaptation in the chromosomal polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura. I. Seasonal changes of gametic disequilibrium in a natural population. Genetics 105: 935-955.

Naveira, H. and A. Fontdevila. 1986. The evolutionary history of D.buzzatii. XII. The genetic basis of sterility in hybrids betweIn D. buzzatii and its sibling D. serido. Genetics 114: 841-857.

Fontdevila, A., C. Pla, E. Hasson, M. Wasserman, A. Sánchez, H. Naveira and A. Ruiz. 1988. Drosophila koepferae: a new member of the Drosophila serido (Diptera-drosophilidae) superspecies taxon. Annals Int. Soc. Amer. 81: 380-385.

Santos, M., A. Ruiz and A. Fontdevila. 1989.The evolutionary history of D. buzzatii. XIII. Random differentiation cannot explain the observed chromosomal variation in a structurated natural population. American Naturalist 133(2): 183-197.

Marín, I., A. Ruiz, C. Pla and A. Fontdevila. 1993. Reproductive relationships among ten species of the Drosophila repleta group from South America and the West Indies. Evolution 47: 1616-1624.

Labrador, M. and A. Fontdevila. 1994. High transposition rates of Osvaldo, a new Drosophila buzzatii retrotransposon. Mol. Gen. Genet. 245: 661-674.

Hasson, E., C. Rodriguez, J.J. Fanara, H. Naveira, O.A. Reig and A. Fontdevila. 1995. The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XXVI. Macrogeographic patterns of inversion polymorphism in New World populations. J. Evol. Biol. 8: 369-384.

Leibowitz, A., Santos, M. and Fontdevila, A. 1995. Heritability and Selection on body Size in a Natural Population of Drosophila buzzatii. 1995. Genetics 141: 181-189.

Rossi, M.S., E. Barrio, A. Latorre, J.E. Quezada-Díaz, E. Hasson, A. Moya and A. Fontdevila. 1996.The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XXX. Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in original and colonizing populations. Mol.Biol.Evol. 13: 314-323.

Santos, M., K.Th. Eisses and A. Fontdevila. 1998. Competition and genotype-by-environment interaction in natural breeding substrates of Drosophila: an empirical test to LevIne’s model?. Evolution 53: 175-186

Labrador, M., Seleme, M.C. and Fontdevila, A. 1998. The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXIV. The distribution of the retrotransposon Osvaldo in original and colonizing populations. Mol.Biol.Evol. 15: 1532-1547.

Marín, I, Plata-Rengifo, P., Labrador, M. and Fontdevila A. 1998. Evolutionary relationships among the members of an ancient class of non-LTR retrotransposons found in the nematode CaInorhabditis elegans. 1998. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15: 1390-1402.

Pantazidis, A., Labrador, M. and Fontdevila, A. 1999. The retrotransposon Osvaldo from Drosophila buzzatii displays all structural features of a functional retrovirus. Mol. Biol. Evol. 16: 909-921

Labrador, M., Farré, M., Utzet, F. and A. Fontdevila. 1999. Interspecific hybridisation increases transposition rates of Osvaldo. Mol. Biol. Evol. 16: 931-937

Fanara, J.J., A. Fontdevila and E. Hasson. 1999. Oviposition preferInce and life history traits in cactophilic Drosophila koepferae and D.buzzatii in association with their natural hosts. Evolutionary Ecology 13:173-190.

Rodriguez-Trelles, F., L. Alarcón and A. Fontdevila. 2000. Molecular evolution and phylogeny of the buzzatii complex (Drosophila repleta group): a maximum-likelihood approach. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:1112-1122.

Laayouni, H., M. Santos and A. Fontdevila. 2000. Toward a physical map of Drosophilabuzzatii: Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA polymorphisms and sequence-tagged site landmarks. Genetics 156:1797-1816.

Laayouni, H., Hasson, E., Santos, M. And Fontdevila A. 2003. The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXV. Inversion polymorphism and nucleotide variation in different regions of the second chromosome. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 931-944.

Santos, M., P.F. Iriarte, W. Céspedes, J. Balanyà, A. Fontdevila and L. Serra. 2004. Swift laboratory thermal evolution of wing shape (but not size) in Drosophila subobscura and its relationship with chromosomal inversion polymorphism. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 841-855.

Fontdevila, A. 2005. Hampton L. Carson (1914-2004)  Boletin de la sociedad Española de Genética.: 20, 5

Fontdevila, A. 2005. Hybrid genome evolution by transposition. Cytogenetics and Genome Research. 110 (DOI:10.1159/000084937)

Santos, M., Fernández-Iriarte, P., Céspedes, W., Balanyà, J. Fontdevila, A. and Serra, L. 2005. Temperature-related genetic changes in laboratory populations of Drosophila subobscura: Evidence against simple climatic-based explanations for latitudinal clines. The American Naturalist 165: 258-273.

Morán, T. and A. Fontdevila. 2005. Phylogeny and molecular evolution of the Drosophila hydei subgroup (Drosophila repleta group) inferred from the Xanthine dehydrogenase gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.009.

Garcia Guerreiro, M.P. and A. Fontdevila. 2007. Molecular characterization and genomic distribution of Isis: a new retrotransposon of Drosophila buzzatii. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 277: 83-95

Morán,T. and A. Fontdevila. 2007. On the phylogeny of the Drosophila hydei subgroup: New insights from combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.021

García Guerreiro, M. P. and Fontdevila, A. 2007. The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXVI. Molecular structural analysis of Osvaldo retrotransposon insertions in colonizing populations unveils drift effects in founder events.Genetics 175:301-310. doi:10.1534/genetics.106.064378

García Guerreiro, M. P., Chávez-Sandoval, B. E.; Balanyà, J., Serra, L., and Fontdevila, A. 2008. Distribution of the transposable elements bilbo and gypsy in original and colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura. Referència del llibre/revista (nom, editorial, volum, pàgines, segons convingui): BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:234. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-234

Vela, D., García Guerreiro, M. P., and Fontdevila, A. 2011. Adaptation of the AFLP technique as a new tool to detect genetic instability and transposition in interspecific hybrids. BioTechniques 50:247-250. doi 10.2144/000113655

Garcia Guerreiro M. P., and Fontdevila, A. 2011. Osvaldo and Isis retrotransposons as markers of the Drosophila buzzatii colonisation in Australia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:111

Morán, T. and Fontdevila, A. 2014. Genome-Wide Dissection of Hybrid Sterility in Drosophila Confirms a Polygenic Threshold Architecture. Journal of Heredity doi:10.1093/jhered/esu003

Vela, D., Fontdevila, A., Vieira, C. and García Guerreiro, M. P. 2014. A Genome-Wide Survey of Genetic Instability by Transposition in Drosophila Hybrids. PLOS one. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088992

Fontdevila, A. 2016. Hybrid Incompatibility in Drosophila: An Updated Genetic Analysis. In> eLS. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd> Chichester. DOI> 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020896.pub2

Fontdevila, A. 2005. Hampton L. Carson (1914-2004)  Boletin de la sociedad Española de Genética.: 20, 5

Romero-Soriano, V. et al. 2016. Drosophila Females Undergo Expansion after Intresapecific Hybridization. Genome Biol. Evol. 8(3):556–561. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw024

Fontdevila, A. 2017 Aportaciones de la genética y la genómica a la teoría evolutiva: ¿necesitamos una nueva síntesis? eVOLUCIÓN 12(1)

Fontdevila, A. 2019. Hybrid Genome Evolution by Transposition: An Update. JHeredity 110, 124-136 doi:10.1093/jhered/esy040

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Books

Fontdevila, A. (editor) 1989. : The Evolutionary Biology of Transient Unstable Populations. Springer-Verlag.Heidelberg.

Fontdevila, A. and A. Moya. 1999: Introducción a la Genética de Poblaciones. Editorial Síntesis. Madrid.

Fontdevila, A. and A. Moya. 2003: Evolución: Origen, adaptación y divergencia de las especies. Editorial Síntesis. Madrid.

Fontdevila, A. 2011. The Dynamic Genome: A Darwinian Approach. Oxford University Press. Oxford

Fontdevila, A. and L. Serra. La evolución biológica: Una reconstrucción darwinista.. Editorial Síntesis. Madrid. https://www.sintesis.com/diversos-75/la-evolucion-biologica-ebook-1772.html

Fontdevila, A. 2016. Hybrid Incompatibility in Drosophila: An Updated Genetic Analysis. In> eLS. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd> Chichester. DOI> 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020896.pub2

Books Chapters

Fontdevila, A. 1979. El mantenimiento de la variabilidad genética de las poblaciones. In: Libros de Investigación y Ciencia, 20. Edit. Salvat.

Fontdevila, A. 1981. ¿Cuánto polimorfismo se pierde en la colonización? In: Simposia: Genética y Ecología de la Especiación Animal. Universidad Simón Bolivar.

Fontdevila, A. 1982. Recent developments of the evolutionary history of Drosophila mulleri complex in South America. In: Ecological Genetics and Evolution, pp. 81-95. Barker, JSF and Starmer, W. (eds.)Academic Press. Australia.

Fontdevila, A. 1988. The evolutionary potential of the unstable genome. In: Population Genetics and Evolution, pp. 251-263. G. de Jong (ed.) Springer-Verlag.

Fontdevila, A. 1989. Founder effects in colonizing populations: The case of Drosophilabuzzatii. pp. 74-95. In: The Evolutionary Biology of Transient Unstable Populations. A. Fontdevila (ed.) Springer-Verlag. Heidelberg, Berlin.

Fontdevila, A. 1991. Colonizing species of Drosophila. In: Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy. G.M. Hewitt, A.W.B. Johnston, J.P.W. Young (eds.) NATO ASI, Vol. H57, pp. 249-269. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

Fontdevila, A. 1993. Genetic instability and rapid speciation: Are they coupled?. In: Transposable Elements and Evolution. J.F. McDonald (ed.)pp: 242-257. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht

Fontdevila, A. 1995. Genetics and Ecology of Natural Populations. In: Genetics of Natural Populations: The continuing importance of Theodosius Dobzhansky. L. Levine (ed.) pp. 198-221. Columbia Univ. Press.(New York).

Fontdevila, A. 2003. Introgression and hybrid speciation via transposition. In: Evolution: From molecules to ecosystems. A. Moya and E. Font (eds.) Oxford University Press.

Fontdevila, A. 2012. Especiación. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos. P. Vargas and R. Zardoya (eds.) Madrid. https://www.rjb.csic.es/jardinbotanico/jardin/contenido.php?Pag=413&tipo=cientifico&cod=96&len=en

Fontdevila, A. 2014. Speciation. Chapter 47, pp. 541-554. In: The Tree of Life: Evolution and Classification of Living Organisms. P. Vargas and R. Zardoya (eds.) Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA. USA. https://www.sinauer.com/the-tree-of-life-638.html

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