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Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4638
World Ranking
7842
National Ranking
286

Emilio Rolán-Alvarez publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emilio Rolán-Alvarez sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Emilio Rolán-Alvarez D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emilio Rolán-Alvarez sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Emilio Rolán-Alvarez is affiliated with the Universidade de Vigo in Spain. Their research primarily spans several interconnected fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scholar has contributed notably within key subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's main research topics focus on genetic diversity and population structure, marine biology and ecology research, animal behavior and reproduction, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, plant and animal studies, cephalopods and marine biology, and evolution and science education.

Frequent collaborative partnerships include those with Juan Galindo, Juan Gefaell, Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez, D.A. García Estévez, and Rui Faria. These collaborations reflect an active engagement in numerous multidisciplinary research projects.

Recent published works demonstrate a range of interests centered on evolutionary theory, mate choice, sexual selection, shell color polymorphism, and thermal performance in marine species. Notable papers include:

  • "Acceptance and knowledge of evolutionary theory among third-year university students in Spain" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Mate Choice Contributes to the Maintenance of Shell Color Polymorphism in a Marine Snail via Frequency-Dependent Sexual Selection" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Mate choice based on body size similarity in sexually dimorphic populations causes strong sexual selection" (2020, Animal Behaviour)
  • "Shell color polymorphism in marine gastropods" (2022, Evolutionary Applications)
  • "Thermodynamic effects drive countergradient responses in the thermal performance of Littorina saxatilis across latitude" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)

Publication venues frequently featuring their research include Animal Behaviour, Current Zoology, Marine Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the Journal of Molluscan Studies.

Best Publications

  • MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND GENETIC COHESIVENESS OVER A MICROENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT IN THE MARINE SNAIL LITTORINA SAXATILIS.

    Kerstin Johannesson;Bo Johannesson;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

  • Parallel evolution of local adaptation and reproductive isolation in the face of gene flow.

    Roger K. Butlin;Roger K. Butlin;Maria Saura;Grégory Charrier;Grégory Charrier;Benjamin Jackson

  • INCIPIENT REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION BETWEEN TWO SYMPATRIC MORPHS OF THE INTERTIDAL SNAIL LITTORINA SAXATILIS.

    Kerstin Johannesson;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Anette Ekendahl

  • Repeated evolution of reproductive isolation in a marine snail: unveiling mechanisms of speciation.

    Kerstin Johannesson;Marina Panova;Petri Kemppainen;Carl André

  • Comparing three different methods to detect selective loci using dominant markers

    A. Pérez‐Figueroa;M. J. García‐Pereira;M. Saura;E. Rolán‐Alvarez

  • Proteomics in evolutionary ecology: linking the genotype with the phenotype

    Unknown

  • Impact of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Size Homoplasy on the Estimation of Population Genetic Diversity and the Detection of Selective Loci

    Armando Caballero;Humberto Quesada;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

  • ESTIMATING SEXUAL SELECTION AND SEXUAL ISOLATION EFFECTS FROM MATING FREQUENCIES

    Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Armando Caballero

  • THE MAINTENANCE OF A CLINE IN THE MARINE SNAIL LITTORINA SAXATILIS: THE ROLE OF HOME SITE ADVANTAGE AND HYBRID FITNESS.

    Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Kerstin Johannesson;Johan Erlandsson

  • Comparing geographical genetic differentiation between candidate and noncandidate loci for adaptation strengthens support for parallel ecological divergence in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis.

    J. Galindo;P. Morán;E. Rolán-Alvarez

  • JMATING: a software for the analysis of sexual selection and sexual isolation effects from mating frequency data

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  • Nonallopatric and parallel origin of local reproductive barriers between two snail ecotypes.

    Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Monica Carballo;Juan Galindo;Paloma Morán

  • Sympatric speciation as a by-product of ecological adaptation in the Galician Littorina saxatilis hybrid zone

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  • PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE SYMPATRIC ECOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION IN A MARINE SNAIL

    Humberto Quesada;David Posada;Armando Caballero;Paloma Morán

  • Mechanisms of incomplete prezygotic reproductive isolation in an intertidal snail: testing behavioural models in wild populations

    E. Rolan-Alvarez;Johan Erlandsson;Kerstin Johannesson;R. Cruz

  • IMPACT OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ON DROSOPHILA SEXUAL ISOLATION STUDIES: DIRECT EFFECTS AND COMPARISON TO FIELD HYBRIDIZATION DATA

    Jerry A. Coyne;Susannah Elwyn;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

  • DECOMPOSING SHELL FORM INTO SIZE AND SHAPE BY GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC METHODS IN TWO SYMPATRIC ECOTYPES OF LITTORINA SAXATILIS

    Unknown

  • Testing alternative models for sexual isolation in natural populations of Littorina saxatilis: indirect support for by‐product ecological speciation?

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  • Detecting shape differences in species of the Littorina saxatilis complex by morphometric analysis

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  • Growth rate differences between upper and lower shore ecotypes of the marine snail Littorina saxatilis (Olivi) (Gastropoda)

    Kerstin Johannesson;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Johan Erlandsson

  • Migratory differences between ecotypes of the snail Littorina saxatilis on Galician rocky shores

    Johan Erlandsson;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Kerstin Johannesson

  • Genetic variation for shell traits in a direct-developing marine snail involved in a putative sympatric ecological speciation process

    Paula Conde-Padín;Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez;Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez;Mónica Carballo;Armando Caballero

  • Sexual selection on phenotypic traits in a hybrid zone of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi)

    R. Cruz;E. Rolán-Álvarez;C. García

  • Sexual selection and assortative mating by size and their roles in the maintenance of a polymorphism in Swedish Littorina saxatilis populations

    J. Erlandsson;E. Rolán-Alvarez

  • Relative role of genetic determination and plastic response during ontogeny for shell-shape traits subjected to diversifying selection.

    Paula Conde-Padín;Armando Caballero;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

  • MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF TWO SYMPATRIC MORPHS OF THE DOGWHELK NUCELLA LAPILLUS (GASTROPODA: MURICIDAE) FROM GALICIA (NORTHWESTERN SPAIN)

    E. Rolán;J. Guerra‐Varela;I. Colson;R. N. Hughes

  • The evolutionary mechanism maintaining shell shape and molecular differentiation between two ecotypes of the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus

    Jorge Guerra-Varela;Isabelle Colson;Isabelle Colson;Thierry Backeljau;K. Breugelmans

  • The scale-of-choice effect and how estimates of assortative mating in the wild can be biased due to heterogeneous samples.

    Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez;Alicia de Coo;Beatriz Cortés

  • The causal relationship between sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in marine gastropods

    Terence P.T. Ng;Emilio Rolán-Alvarez;Sara Saltin Dahlén;Mark S. Davies

  • Differentiation in radular and embryonic characters, and further comments on gene flow, between two sympatric morphs of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi)

    E. Rolán-Alvarez;E. Rolán;K. Johannesson

  • Quantitative variation as a tool for detecting human-induced impacts on genetic diversity

    A. Carvajal-Rodrı́guez;E. Rolán-Alvarez;A. Caballero

Frequent Co-Authors

Armando Caballero
Armando Caballero Universidade de Vigo
Gray A. Williams
Gray A. Williams University of Hong Kong
Kerstin Johannesson
Kerstin Johannesson University of Gothenburg
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval
Roger N. Hughes
Roger N. Hughes Bangor University
Jaime Gosálvez
Jaime Gosálvez Autonomous University of Madrid
Thierry Backeljau
Thierry Backeljau Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Enrico L. Rezende
Enrico L. Rezende Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
David O. F. Skibinski
David O. F. Skibinski Swansea University
Elizabeth G. Boulding
Elizabeth G. Boulding University of Guelph

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