2026 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	52	3803	3589	71	67	132	9006

Research.com Recognitions

Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has a scholarly focus in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, their work primarily engages with Molecular Biology, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Global and Planetary Change, and Cell Biology.

Their research topics cover a range of specialized subjects including Protist diversity and phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA Research and Splicing.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology (2020, Nature Methods)
The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition (2021, Open Biology)
Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi (2022, Nature)
A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans (2023, Cell Reports)

The scientist's frequent co-authors include Elena Casacuberta, Meritxell Antó, Sebastián R. Najle, Michelle M. Leger, and Victoria Shabardina. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth and depth of their research outputs.

Common publication venues for their work are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genome Biology and Evolution
Open Biology
Current Biology
Nature Methods

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), indicating recognition by a prominent scientific community in molecular biology.

Best Publications

Acoel flatworms : Earliest extant bilaterian metazoans, not members of Platyhelminthes

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Marta Riutort;D. Timothy J. Littlewood;Elisabeth A. Herniou

505
Citations
The origin of Metazoa: a unicellular perspective

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Bernard M. Degnan;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo

309
Citations
The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

Hiroshi Suga;Zehua Chen;Alex de Mendoza;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós

308
Citations
A Phylogenomic Investigation into the Origin of Metazoa

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Andrew J. Roger;Gertraud Burger;Michael W. Gray

278
Citations
Ancient origin of the integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling machinery

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Andrew J. Roger;Franz B. Lang;Nicole King

270
Citations
Transcription factor evolution in eukaryotes and the assembly of the regulatory toolkit in multicellular lineages

Alex de Mendoza;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Martin Sebastijan Šestak;Marija Matejčić

252
Citations
A phylogenetic analysis of myosin heavy chain type II sequences corroborates that Acoela and Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Jordi Paps;Mercè Loukota;Carles Ribera

246
Citations
Unexpected Repertoire of Metazoan Transcription Factors in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Alex de Mendoza;B. Franz Lang;Bernard M. Degnan

223
Citations
Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi

Guifré Torruella;Guifré Torruella;Alex de Mendoza;Alex de Mendoza;Xavier Grau-Bové;Xavier Grau-Bové;Meritxell Antó

222
Citations
The others: our biased perspective of eukaryotic genomes

Javier del Campo;Javier del Campo;Michael E. Sieracki;Robert Molestina;Patrick Keeling

222
Citations
The origins of multicellularity: a multi-taxon genome initiative

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Gertraud Burger;Peter W.H. Holland;Nicole King

220
Citations
The Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians and not members of the Platyhelminthes

Ulf Jondelius;Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

196
Citations
Phylogenetic Relationships within the Opisthokonta Based on Phylogenomic Analyses of Conserved Single-Copy Protein Domains

Guifré Torruella;Romain Derelle;Jordi Paps;Jordi Paps;B. Franz Lang

190
Citations
The Dynamic Regulatory Genome of Capsaspora and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity.

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Cecilia Ballaré;Helena Parra-Acero;Cristina Chiva

186
Citations
The Evolution of the GPCR Signaling System in Eukaryotes: Modularity, Conservation, and the Transition to Metazoan Multicellularity

Alex de Mendoza;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo

179
Citations
Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of metazoa

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Manuel Irimia;Javier del Campo;Helena Parra-Acero

178
Citations
Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

Drahomíra Faktorová;R. Ellen R. Nisbet;R. Ellen R. Nisbet;José A. Fernández Robledo;Elena Casacuberta

168
Citations
Dynamics of genomic innovation in the unicellular ancestry of animals

Xavier Grau-Bové;Xavier Grau-Bové;Guifré Torruella;Stuart Donachie;Hiroshi Suga

147
Citations
Evolution and Classification of Myosins, a Paneukaryotic Whole-Genome Approach

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Xavier Grau-Bové;Xavier Grau-Bové;Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo

147
Citations
Premetazoan Origin of the Hippo Signaling Pathway

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Yonggang Zheng;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Duojia Pan;Duojia Pan

137
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University

Marta Riutort University of Barcelona

Manuel Irimia Pompeu Fabra University

Jaume Baguñà University of Barcelona

Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford

B. Franz Lang University of Montreal

Nicole King University of California, Berkeley

Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council

Gertraud Burger University of Montreal

Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia

External Links

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