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Marta Riutort is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science, with a particular focus on subfields including molecular biology, global and planetary change, ecology, genetics, and paleontology.

The main topics of their work encompass:

  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Marta Riutort has published multiple papers across prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Zootaxa
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature

Recent notable publications include:

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
  • Island-specific evolution of a sex-primed autosome in a sexual planarian, 2022, Nature
  • Integrating Sequence Capture and Restriction Site-Associated DNA Sequencing to Resolve Recent Radiations of Pelagic Seabirds, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • Species delimitation using genomic data to resolve taxonomic uncertainties in a speciation continuum of pelagic seabirds, 2022, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Three dispersal routes out of Africa: A puzzling biogeographical history in freshwater planarians, 2022, Journal of Biogeography

Frequent collaborators in their work include Joan Ferrer, Julio Rozas, Jacob González-Solís, Ronald Sluys, and Laia Leria.

Best Publications

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

    G Giribet;S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

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

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

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Are the Platyhelminthes a monophyletic primitive group? An assessment using 18S rDNA sequences.

    S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • 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

  • The Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians and not members of the Platyhelminthes

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

  • Evidence that two types of 18S rDNA coexist in the genome of Dugesia (Schmidtea) mediterranea (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria, Tricladida).

    S Carranza;G Giribet;C Ribera;Baguñà

  • Lophotrochozoa internal phylogeny: new insights from an up-to-date analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes

    Jordi Paps;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • The dawn of bilaterian animals: the case of acoelomorph flatworms

    Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Acoel flatworms are not platyhelminthes: evidence from phylogenomics.

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Pedro Martinez;Marta Riutort

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Platyhelminthes

    Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Internal phylogeny of the Chilopoda (Myriapoda, Arthropoda) using complete 18S rDNA and partial 28S rDNA sequences

    Gonzalo Giribet;Salvador Carranza;Marta Riutort;Jaume Baguñà

  • Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)

    Eva M. Lázaro;Ronald Sluys;Maria Pala;Giacinta Angela Stocchino

  • Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): from freshwater to land and back.

    Marta Álvarez-Presas;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Bilaterian phylogeny: a broad sampling of 13 nuclear genes provides a new Lophotrochozoa phylogeny and supports a paraphyletic basal acoelomorpha.

    Jordi Paps;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones (Arthropoda) inferred from a combined approach of complete 18S and partial 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.

    Gonzalo Giribet;Maria Rambla;Salvador Carranza;Jaume Baguñà

  • Mitochondrial genome data support the basal position of Acoelomorpha and the polyphyly of the Platyhelminthes.

    Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Marta Riutort;H. Matthew Fourcade;Jaume Baguñà

  • Land planarians (Platyhelminthes) as a model organism for fine-scale phylogeographic studies: understanding patterns of biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot

    Marta Álvarez-Presas;Fernando Carbayo;Julio Rozas;Marta Riutort

  • Growth, Degrowth and Regeneration as Developmental Phenomena in Adult Freshwater Planarians

    Jaume Baguñà;Rafael Romero;Emili Saló;Joan Collet

  • Back in time: a new systematic proposal for the Bilateria.

    Jaume Baguñà;Pere Martinez;Jordi Paps;Marta Riutort

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaume Baguñà
Jaume Baguñà University of Barcelona
Salvador Carranza
Salvador Carranza Pompeu Fabra University
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Julio Rozas
Julio Rozas University of Barcelona
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
David W. Burt
David W. Burt University of Queensland
Mark Diekhans
Mark Diekhans University of California, Santa Cruz
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz

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