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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
18634
World Ranking
6624
National Ranking
109

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Rafael Zardoya is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Genetics, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to areas such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, and Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies.

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Rafael Zardoya are the following:

  • Recent advances in understanding mitochondrial genome diversity, 2020, F1000Research
  • The genome of the venomous snail Lautoconus ventricosus sheds light on the origin of conotoxin diversity, 2021, GigaScience
  • A mitogenomic phylogeny of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), 2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • Sequential colonization of oceanic archipelagos led to a species-level radiation in the common chaffinch complex (Aves: Fringilla coelebs), 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Comparative transcriptomics of the venoms of continental and insular radiations of West African cones, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rafael Zardoya include:

  • Iker Irisarri
  • Diego San Mauro
  • M. Jimenez-Tenorio
  • Samuel Abalde
  • José Ramón Pardos-Blas

The scientist has a publication record in various venues, with the most common being Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, followed by Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, GigaScience, Journal of Molecular Evolution, and Toxicon.

Rafael Zardoya was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

    Federico Abascal;Rafael Zardoya;David Posada

  • TranslatorX: multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations

    Federico Abascal;Rafael Zardoya;Maximilian J. Telford

  • Phylogenetic performance of mitochondrial protein-coding genes in resolving relationships among vertebrates.

    Rafael Zardoya;Axel Meyer

  • Molecular evidence on the evolutionary and biogeographical patterns of European cyprinids.

    Rafael Zardoya;Ignacio Doadrio

  • Phylogeny and evolution of the major intrinsic protein family

    Rafael Zardoya

  • Evolutionary Conservation of Microsatellite Flanking Regions and their Use in Resolving the Phylogeny of Cichlid Fishes (Pisces: Perciformes)

    Rafael Zardoya;Dana M. Vollmer;Clark Craddock;Jeffrey Todd Streelman

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial DNA genome of the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

    Rafael Zardoya;Amando Garrido-Pertierra;José M. Bautista

  • Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsid affinities of turtles

    Rafael Zardoya;Axel Meyer

  • Diversity and evolution of membrane intrinsic proteins

    Federico Abascal;Iker Irisarri;Rafael Zardoya

  • A Hotspot of Gene Order Rearrangement by Tandem Duplication and Random Loss in the Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genome

    Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Rafael Zardoya;Mark Wilkinson

  • Recent Advances in the (Molecular) Phylogeny of Vertebrates

    Axel Meyer;Rafael Zardoya

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Gobioidei and phylogenetic placement of European gobies.

    Ainhoa Agorreta;Ainhoa Agorreta;Diego San Mauro;Ulrich Schliewen;James L. Van Tassell

  • Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements

    Cristina Grande;Cristina Grande;José Templado;Rafael Zardoya

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Iberian cyprinids: systematic and biogeographical implications.

    Rafael Zardoya;Ignacio Doadrio

  • Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1

    Diego San Mauro;David J. Gower;Oommen V. Oommen;Mark Wilkinson

  • Limitations of metazoan 18S rRNA sequence data: implications for reconstructing a phylogeny of the animal kingdom and inferring the reality of the Cambrian explosion.

    Ehab Abouheif;Rafael Zardoya;Axel Meyer

  • Differential population structuring of two closely related fish species, the mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and the chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus), in the Mediterranean Sea

    R. Zardoya;Rita Castilho;Cristina Grande;L. Favre-Krey

  • MtArt: A New Model of Amino Acid Replacement for Arthropoda

    Federico Abascal;Federico Abascal;David Posada;Rafael Zardoya

  • LRRC8 proteins share a common ancestor with pannexins, and may form hexameric channels involved in cell-cell communication

    Federico Abascal;Rafael Zardoya

  • Phylogenetic relationships of european strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) inferred from DNA sequences of putative ORF-5 and ORF-7 genes.

    Suárez P;Zardoya R;Martín Mj;Prieto C

Frequent Co-Authors

David Posada
David Posada Universidade de Vigo
Ignacio Doadrio
Ignacio Doadrio Spanish National Research Council
Johan Michaux
Johan Michaux University of Liège
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
David J. Gower
David J. Gower Natural History Museum
Ralf Britz
Ralf Britz Natural History Museum
Nicolas Puillandre
Nicolas Puillandre French National Museum of Natural History
James Cotton
James Cotton University of Glasgow
Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council
Tomaso Patarnello
Tomaso Patarnello University of Padua

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