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Paula Arribas is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple intersecting fields, focusing strongly on ecology and evolutionary biology.

They have produced substantial research on environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, genomics, and phylogenetic studies, as well as species distribution influenced by climate change. Other main topics include microbial community ecology and physiology, genetic diversity and population structure, plant and animal studies, and ecology and vegetation dynamics.

Frequent coauthors of Paula Arribas include Brent C. Emerson, Carmelo Andújar, Alfried P. Vogler, Thomas J. Creedy, and Εmmanouil Meramveliotakis. Collaboration with these researchers reflects a diverse network within the ecological and genetic research communities.

Paula Arribas has published in several notable scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Molecular Ecology (9 publications)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2 publications)
  • Molecular Ecology Resources (2 publications)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (2 publications)
  • Trends in Genetics (1 publication)

Notable recent papers include:

  • The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics, 2022, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • How genomics can help biodiversity conservation, 2023, published in Trends in Genetics
  • Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences, 2020, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole-community haplotype-level metabarcoding, 2020, published in Molecular Ecology
  • Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data, 2021, published in Molecular Ecology Resources

Best Publications

  • The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics.

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  • Effects of salinity changes on aquatic organisms in a multiple stressor context.

    Josefa Velasco;Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas;María Botella-Cruz;David Sánchez-Fernández;David Sánchez-Fernández

  • Why the COI barcode should be the community DNA metabarcode for the metazoa.

    Carmelo Andújar;Paula Arribas;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Mediterranean saline streams in southeast Spain: What do we know?

    Andrés Millán;Josefa Velasco;Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas;Paula Arribas

  • Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

    Paula Arribas;Josefa Velasco;Pedro Abellán;David Sánchez-Fernández

  • Metabarcoding and mitochondrial metagenomics of endogean arthropods to unveil the mesofauna of the soil

    Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Kevin Hopkins;Matthew Shepherd

  • Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences

    J.M. Waters;Brent C. Emerson;Paula Arribas;G. A. McCulloch

  • Phylogenetic community ecology of soil biodiversity using mitochondrial metagenomics

    Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Filip Ruzicka;Filip Ruzicka;Alex Crampton-Platt;Alex Crampton-Platt

  • Evaluating drivers of vulnerability to climate change: a guide for insect conservation strategies

    Paula Arribas;Pedro Abellán;Josefa Velasco;David T. Bilton

  • The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole-community haplotype-level metabarcoding.

    Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Antonia Salces‐Castellano;Brent C. Emerson

  • Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data.

    Carmelo Andújar;Thomas J Creedy;Paula Arribas;Heriberto López

  • Lessons from genome skimming of arthropod-preserving ethanol

    Benjamin Linard;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Alex Crampton-Platt;Alex Crampton-Platt

  • Metabarcoding of freshwater invertebrates to detect the effects of a pesticide spill.

    Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Clare Gray;Catherine Bruce

  • Mitochondrial Metagenomics Reveals the Ancient Origin and Phylodiversity of Soil Mites and Provides a Phylogeny of the Acari.

    Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;Carmelo Andújar;María Lourdes Moraza;Benjamin Linard;Benjamin Linard

  • Dispersal ability and its consequences for population genetic differentiation and diversification

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  • A validated workflow for rapid taxonomic assignment and monitoring of a national fauna of bees (Apiformes) using high throughput DNA barcoding

    Thomas J. Creedy;Thomas J. Creedy;Hannah Norman;Hannah Norman;Cuong Q. Tang;Kai Qing Chin

  • Climate drives community‐wide divergence within species over a limited spatial scale: evidence from an oceanic island

    Antonia Salces-Castellano;Antonia Salces-Castellano;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Nadir Alvarez;Carmelo Andújar

  • Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation

    Thomas J. Creedy;Carmelo Andújar;Emmanouil Meramveliotakis;Victor Noguerales;Victor Noguerales

  • The contribution of mitochondrial metagenomics to large-scale data mining and phylogenetic analysis of Coleoptera.

    Benjamin Linard;Benjamin Linard;Alex Crampton-Platt;Jerome Moriniere;Martijn J.T.N. Timmermans

  • Aquatic insects in a multistress environment: cross-tolerance to salinity and desiccation

    Susana Pallarés;María Botella-Cruz;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Paula Arribas;Andrés Millán

  • Integrative taxonomy and conservation of cryptic beetles in the Mediterranean region (Hydrophilidae)

    Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;David Sánchez‐Fernández;Pedro Abellán

  • Integration of conflict into integrative taxonomy: fitting hybridization in species delimitation of Mesocarabus (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

    C. Andújar;P. Arribas;C. Ruiz;C. Ruiz;J. Serrano

  • Tempo and mode of the multiple origins of salinity tolerance in a water beetle lineage

    Paula Arribas;Carmelo Andújar;Pedro Abellán;Josefa Velasco

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Andrés Millán
Andrés Millán University of Murcia
David Sánchez-Fernández
David Sánchez-Fernández University of Murcia
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Josefa Velasco
Josefa Velasco University of Murcia
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
Hélène Morlon
Hélène Morlon École Normale Supérieure
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Ladislav Bocak
Ladislav Bocak Palacký University, Olomouc

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