Fernando Rodriguez Molecular - Computational Biologist

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. 2026

    Metagenome-assembled genomes from biological soil crusts in sandy sediments of Kitty Todd Nature Preserve, OH, USA

    Peredo EL, Kulp R, Rodriguez F, Weintraub MN, Anand M, Bixler S, Koller J, Lee C, Mathai D, Tuytschaevers S, Kumar G

    Microbiology Resource Announcements e00380-26

  2. 2024

    Bdelloid rotifers deploy horizontally acquired biosynthetic genes against a fungal pathogen

    Nowell RW, Rodriguez F, Hecox-Lea BJ, Mark Welch DB, Arkhipova IR, Barraclough TG, Wilson CG

    Nature Communications 15:5787

  3. 2023

    Shaping eukaryotic epigenetic systems by horizontal gene transfer Review

    Arkhipova IR, Yushenova IA, Rodriguez F

    BioEssays 45(7):e2200232

  4. 2023

    An overview of best practices for transposable element identification, classification, and annotation in eukaryotic genomes Chapter

    Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR

    In: Branco MR, de Mendoza Soler A (eds), Transposable Elements. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2607. Humana, New York, NY

  5. 2022

    Bacterial N4-methylcytosine as an epigenetic mark in eukaryotic DNA

    Rodriguez F, Yushenova IA, DiCorpo D, Arkhipova IR

    Nature Communications 13:1072

  6. 2022

    Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of two lineages of the ant Cataglyphis hispanica: stepping stones towards genomic studies of hybridogenesis and thermal adaptation in desert ants

    Darras H, De Souza Araujo N, Baudry L, Guiglielmoni N, Lorite P, Marbouty M, Rodriguez F, Arkhipova I, Koszul R, Flot JF, Aron S

    Peer Community Journal 2:e40

  7. 2021

    An ancient clade of Penelope-like retroelements with permuted domains is present in the green lineage and protists, and dominates many invertebrate genomes

    Craig RJ, Yushenova IA, Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR

    Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(11):5005-5020

  8. 2021

    A survey of transposon landscapes in the putative ancient asexual ostracod Darwinula stevensoni

    Schön I, Rodriguez F, Dunn M, Martens K, Shribak M, Arkhipova IR

    Genes 12(3):401

  9. 2021

    Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers

    Nowell RW, Wilson CG, Almeida P, Schiffer PH, Fontaneto D, Becks L, Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR, Barraclough TG

    eLife 10:e63194

  10. 2021

    Editorial: Mobile elements and plant genome evolution, comparative analyzes and computational tools Editorial

    Kalendar R, Sabot F, Rodriguez F, Alix K, Natali L, Karlov GI

    Frontiers in Plant Science 12:735134

  11. 2020

    Genomic signatures of recombination in a natural population of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Vakhrusheva OA, Mnatsakanova EA, Galimov YR, Neretina TV, Gerasimov ES, Naumenko SA, Ozerova SG, Zalevsky AO, Yushenova IA, Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR, Penin AA, Logacheva MD, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS

    Nature Communications 11:6421

  12. 2019

    A partial genome assembly of the miniature parasitoid wasp, Megaphragma amalphitanum

    Nedoluzhko AV, Sharko FS, Lê BM, Tsygankova SV, Boulygina ES, Rastorguev SM, Sokolov AS, Rodriguez F, Mazur AM, Polilov AA, Benton R, Evgen'ev MB, Arkhipova IR, Prokhortchouk EB, Skryabin KG

    PLOS ONE 14(12):e0226485

  13. 2018

    Transposable elements and polyploid evolution in animals Review

    Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR

    Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 49:115-123

  14. 2017

    Ancient mitochondrial pseudogenes reveal hybridization between distant lineages in the evolution of the Rupicapra genus

    Pérez T, Rodriguez F, Fernández M, Albornoz J, Domínguez A

    Gene 628:63-71

  15. 2017

    Giant reverse transcriptase-encoding transposable elements at telomeres

    Arkhipova IR, Yushenova IA, Rodriguez F

    Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(9):2245-2257

  16. 2017

    LTR-retrotransposons from bdelloid rotifers capture additional ORFs shared between highly diverse retroelement types

    Rodriguez F, Kenefick AW, Arkhipova IR

    Viruses 9(4):78

  17. 2016

    Multitasking of the piRNA silencing machinery: targeting transposable elements and foreign genes in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR

    Genetics 203(1):255-268

    Selected for the 2016 GENETICS Spotlight

  18. 2013

    Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Flot JF, Hespeels B, Li X, Noel B, Arkhipova I, Danchin EG, Hejnol A, Henrissat B, Koszul R, Aury JM, Barbe V, Barthélémy RM, Bast J, Bazykin GA, Chabrol O, Couloux A, Da Rocha M, Da Silva C, Gladyshev E, Gouret P, Hallatschek O, Hecox-Lea B, Labadie K, Lejeune B, Piskurek O, Poulain J, Rodriguez F, Ryan JF, Vakhrusheva OA, Wajnberg E, Wirth B, Yushenova I, Kellis M, Kondrashov AS, Mark Welch DB, Pontarotti P, Weissenbach J, Wincker P, Jaillon O, Van Doninck K

    Nature 500:453-457

  19. 2013

    Endonuclease-containing Penelope retrotransposons in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga exhibit unusual structural features and play a role in expansion of host gene families

    Arkhipova IR, Yushenova IA, Rodriguez F

    Mobile DNA 4:19

  20. 2013

    Genetic and epigenetic changes involving (retro)transposons in animal hybrids and polyploids Review

    Arkhipova IR, Rodriguez F

    Cytogenetic and Genome Research 140(2-4):295-311

  21. 2010

    Integrating phylogeographic patterns of microsatellite and mtDNA divergence to infer the evolutionary history of chamois (genus Rupicapra)

    Rodriguez F, Pérez T, Hammer S, Albornoz J, Domínguez A

    BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:222

  22. 2009

    Cytochrome b phylogeography of chamois (Rupicapra spp.): population contractions, expansions and hybridizations governed the diversification of the genus

    Rodriguez F, Hammer S, Pérez T, Suchentrunk F, Lorenzini R, Michallet J, Martinkova N, Albornoz J, Domínguez A

    Journal of Heredity 100(1):47-55

  23. 2007

    Cytochrome b pseudogene originated from a highly divergent mitochondrial lineage in genus Rupicapra

    Rodriguez F, Albornoz J, Domínguez A

    Journal of Heredity 98(3):243-249

Chapters, features and other writing

  1. 2016

    Multitasking of the piRNA silencing machinery: targeting transposable elements and foreign genes in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga Feature

    Rodriguez F, Arkhipova IR

    GENETICS Spotlight 2016, Genes to Genomes

  2. 2009

    El rebeco cantábrico, filogeografía e historia evolutiva Chapter

    Domínguez Sanjurjo A, Rodriguez Vazquez F, Albornoz Pons J, Pérez Méndez T

    In: Pérez-Barbería FJ, Palacios B (eds), El Rebeco Cantábrico (Rupicapra pyrenaica parva): Conservación y gestión de sus poblaciones. Colección Naturaleza y Parques Nacionales, Serie Técnica

  3. 2008

    Cytochrome b phylogeography of chamois (Rupicapra spp.): population contractions, expansions and hybridizations characterize the diversification of the genus Abstract

    Rodriguez F, Hammer S, Pérez T, Suchentrunk F, Lorenzini R, Michallet J, Martinkova N, Albornoz J, Domínguez A

    82nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Mammalogy, Vienna. Mammalian Biology 73[Suppl. 1]:16

  4. 2004

    Beef traceability based on DNA fingerprinting Article

    Domínguez A, Rodriguez F

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