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Salvador Carranza

Salvador Carranza

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
10002
World Ranking
3314
National Ranking
98

Overview

Salvador Carranza is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans over 90 publications in Environmental Science and 60 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, reflecting a diverse expertise that includes both broad and specialized topics.

The subfields of their study focus on Global and Planetary Change and Genetics, each with 47 publications. Additional areas of research include Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology. Their main topics of work cover:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Salvador Carranza has published frequently in various scientific venues, demonstrating a presence in both high-impact journals and specialized outlets. Key publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 12 publications
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, with 5 publications
  • Journal of Biogeography, with 3 publications
  • Journal of Arid Environments, with 3 publications
  • Zootaxa, with 3 publications

Their recent papers cover diverse aspects of conservation, evolutionary biology, and disease ecology. Some highlighted works are:

  • Integral chain management of wildlife diseases, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Presence of low virulence chytrid fungi could protect European amphibians from more deadly strains, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Diversity patterns and evolutionary history of Arabian squamates, 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • Reconstructing Squamate Biogeography in Afro-Arabia Reveals the Influence of a Complex and Dynamic Geologic Past, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • Diversity, multifaceted evolution, and facultative saprotrophism in the European Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans epidemic, 2021, Nature Communications

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Bernat Burriel-Carranza
  • Gabriel Mochales-Riaño
  • Adrián Talavera
  • Jiřı́ Šmı́d
  • Héctor Tejero-Cicuéndez

Salvador Carranza's multidisciplinary research integrates ecological and molecular methods to study species biology, disease dynamics, and biogeographic patterns, contributing to a complex understanding of biodiversity and evolutionary processes.

Best Publications

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

    G Giribet;S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera

    E. Nicholas Arnold;Oscar Arribas;Salvador Carranza

  • Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences

    S. Carranza;E.N. Arnold

  • Long-distance colonization and radiation in gekkonid lizards, Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences.

    Salvador Carranza;E. N. Arnold;José Antonio Mateo;L. F. López-Jurado

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

    S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • Unravelling biodiversity, evolution and threats to conservation in the Sahara‐Sahel

    José C. Brito;Raquel Godinho;Fernando Martínez-Freiría;Juan M. Pleguezuelos

  • Radiation, multiple dispersal and parallelism in the skinks, Chalcides and Sphenops (Squamata: Scincidae), with comments on Scincus and Scincopus and the age of the Sahara Desert.

    S. Carranza;E.N. Arnold;Ph. Geniez;J. Roca

  • Phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of two Mediterranean snakes, Malpolon monspessulanus and Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Squamata, Colubridae), using mtDNA sequences.

    S. Carranza;E.N. Arnold;J.M. Pleguezuelos

  • 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

  • DNA phylogeny of Lacerta (Iberolacerta) and other lacertine lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): did competition cause long-term mountain restriction?

    S. Carranza;E. N. Arnold;F. Amat

  • Relationships and evolution of the North African geckos, Geckonia and Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.

    S Carranza;E.N Arnold;J.A Mateo;P Geniez

  • Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

    Joan Garcia-Porta;Iker Irisarri;Martin Kirchner;Ariel Rodríguez

  • A review of the geckos of the genus Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Oman based on morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear data, with descriptions of eight new species

    Salvador Carranza;Edwin Nicholas Arnold

  • Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the west-palearctic common toads (Bufo bufo species complex)

    J. Garcia-Porta;S.N. Litvinchuk;P.A. Crochet;A. Romano

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

    Gonzalo Giribet;Salvador Carranza;Marta Riutort;Jaume Baguñà

  • Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of Euproctus (Amphibia: Salamandridae), with the resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula

    Salvador Carranza;Felix Amat

  • Complex biogeographical distribution of genetic variation within Podarcis wall lizards across the Strait of Gibraltar

    D. J. Harris;S. Carranza;E. N. Arnold;C. Pinho

  • Out of Arabia: a complex biogeographic history of multiple vicariance and dispersal events in the gecko genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae).

    Jiří Šmíd;Jiří Šmíd;Salvador Carranza;Lukáš Kratochvíl;Václav Gvoždík;Václav Gvoždík

  • Spatial conservation prioritization of biodiversity spanning the evolutionary continuum.

    Silvia B Carvalho;Guillermo Velo-Antón;Pedro Tarroso;Ana Paula Portela

  • Phylogeography of the false smooth snakes, Macroprotodon (Serpentes, Colubridae): mitochondrial DNA sequences show European populations arrived recently from Northwest Africa

    Salvador Carranza;E. N. Arnold;Edward O. Z. Wade;S. Fahd

  • Phylogeography of the lacertid lizard, Psammodromus algirus, in Iberia and across the Strait of Gibraltar

    S. Carranza;D. J. Harris;E. N. Arnold;V. Batista

  • 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

  • Divergence times and colonization of the Canary Islands by Gallotia lizards.

    Siobhan C. Cox;Salvador Carranza;Richard P. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

D. James Harris
D. James Harris University of Porto
Xavier Santos
Xavier Santos University of Porto
Mauro Fasola
Mauro Fasola University of Pavia
Juan M. Pleguezuelos
Juan M. Pleguezuelos University of Granada
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
Pierre-André Crochet
Pierre-André Crochet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marta Riutort
Marta Riutort University of Barcelona
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Jaume Baguñà
Jaume Baguñà University of Barcelona

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