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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
95
Citations
30910
World Ranking
362
National Ranking
136

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gonzalo Giribet is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a diverse array of topics including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Recent publications illustrate a focus on genomic and evolutionary biology, featuring papers such as:

  • "Museum Genomics," 2021, Annual Review of Genetics
  • "Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web," 2020, Cladistics
  • "Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida," 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data to Resolve Recalcitrant Nodes in the Spider Tree of Life," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Re-evaluating and dating myriapod diversification with phylotranscriptomics under a regime of dense taxon sampling," 2022, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Gonzalo Giribet has frequently collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career. These include Caitlin M. Baker, Sarah L. Boyer, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Shahan Derkarabetian, and Richard C. Brusca.

Their work has been published in various venues with the most frequent publications appearing in Harvard Dataverse, Invertebrate Systematics, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Current Biology, and Invertebrate Biology.

They have also contributed to academic book publications, including titles like "Invertebrates" published by Oxford University Press in 2022 and "The Invertebrate Tree of Life" published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Gonzalo Giribet's work has been recognized with awards such as the Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

    Casey W. Dunn;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol;David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • First molecular evidence for the existence of a Tardigrada + Arthropoda clade.

    G Giribet;S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology.

    Gonzalo Giribet;Daniel L. Distel;Martin Polz;Wolfgang Sterrer

  • Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

    Stephen A. Smith;Nerida G. Wilson;Nerida G. Wilson;Freya E. Goetz;Caitlin Feehery;Caitlin Feehery

  • Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

    Casey W. Dunn;Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Andreas Hejnol

  • On bivalve phylogeny: a high‐level analysis of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) based on combined morphology and DNA sequence data

    Gonzalo Giribet;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Revisiting metazoan phylogeny with genomic sampling of all phyla

    Christopher E. Laumer;Christopher E. Laumer;Rosa Fernández;Sarah Lemer;Sarah Lemer;David Combosch;David Combosch

  • Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Gonzalo Giribet;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol

  • Phylogeny and Systematic Position of Opiliones: A Combined Analysis of Chelicerate Relationships Using Morphological and Molecular Data

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler;Courtney Babbitt

  • Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

    Prashant P. Sharma;Stefan T. Kaluziak;Alicia R. Pérez-Porro;Vanessa L. González

  • Further use of nearly complete 28S and 18S rRNA genes to classify Ecdysozoa: 37 more arthropods and a kinorhynch.

    Jon Mallatt;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

    Christopher E. Laumer;Nicolas Bekkouche;Alexandra Kerbl;Freya Goetz

  • The position of arthropods in the animal kingdom: Ecdysozoa, islands, trees, and the "Parsimony ratchet".

    Gonzalo Giribet;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life -- an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters.

    Rüdiger Bieler;Paula M. Mikkelsen;Timothy M. Collins;Emily A. Glover

  • The analysis of eight transcriptomes from all poriferan classes reveals surprising genetic complexity in sponges.

    Ana Riesgo;Nathan Farrar;Pamela J. Windsor;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life.

    Rosa Fernández;Robert J. Kallal;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov;Jesús A. Ballesteros

  • The Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Arthropods

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • A Review of Arthropod Phylogeny: New Data Based on Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Direct Character Optimization

    Gonzalo Giribet;Carles Ribera

  • Harvestmen: the biology of Opiliones

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Glauco Machado;Gonzalo Giribet

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Gustavo Hormiga
Gustavo Hormiga George Washington University
Greg W. Rouse
Greg W. Rouse University of California, San Diego
Jérôme Murienne
Jérôme Murienne Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Nerida G. Wilson
Nerida G. Wilson University of Western Australia
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov University of Bergen
Andreas Hejnol
Andreas Hejnol Friedrich Schiller University Jena
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute

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