Comparative genomics group was created in 2008. Till that year plenty of studies and collaborations were published. If you want to take a look of all publications click the links below or search for a specific key words in this page:
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Last publications
Publications in international peer-reviewed journals
Uncovering actionable trade-offs of antifungal resistance in a yeast pathogen
Nunez-Rodriguez JC, Schikora-Tamarit MÀ, Gabaldón T. Uncovering actionable trade-offs of antifungal resistance in a yeast pathogen. Mol Syst Biol. 2026 Jan 12. doi: 10.1038/s44320-025-00185-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41526499.
MeTAline: enabling reproducible and scalable metagenomic analyses
Khannous-Lleiffe O, Fuentes-Palacios D, Májer D, Gabaldón T. MeTAline: enabling reproducible and scalable metagenomic analyses. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2025 Nov 22;7(4):lqaf158. doi: 10.1093/nargab/lqaf158. PMID: 41278541; PMCID: PMC12639245.
Phylogeny-aware Simulations Suggest a Low Impact of Unsampled Lineages in the Inference of Gene Flow During Eukaryogenesis
Bernabeu M, Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. Phylogeny-aware Simulations Suggest a Low Impact of Unsampled Lineages in the Inference of Gene Flow During Eukaryogenesis. Genome Biol Evol. 2025 Oct 29;17(11):evaf190. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaf190. PMID: 41063607; PMCID: PMC12573248.
Selected publications
Simple large-scale quantitative phenotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility testing with Q-PHAST
Nunez-Rodriguez JC, Schikora-Tamarit MÀ, Ksiezopolska E, Gabaldón T. Simple large-scale quantitative phenotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility testing with Q-PHAST. Nat Protoc. 2026 Jan;21(1):140-159. doi: 10.1038/s41596-025-01179-z. Epub 2025 May 12. PMID: 40355749.
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species
Schikora-Tamarit, M.À., Gabaldón, T. Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species. Nat Microbiol 9, 284–307 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01547-z
Origin of fungal hybrids with pathogenic potential from warm seawater environments
del Olmo, V., Mixão, V., Fotedar, R. et al. Origin of fungal hybrids with pathogenic potential from warm seawater environments. Nat Commun 14, 6919 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42679-4
PerSVade: personalized structural variant detection in any species of interest
Schikora-Tamarit, M.À., Gabaldón, T. PerSVade: personalized structural variant detection in any species of interest. Genome Biol 23, 175 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-022-02737-4
The long non-coding RNA landscape of Candida yeast pathogens
Hovhannisyan, H., Gabaldón, T. The long non-coding RNA landscape of Candida yeast pathogens. Nat Commun 12, 7317 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27635-4
Narrow mutational signatures drive acquisition of multidrug resistance in the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata
Ksiezopolska E, Schikora-Tamarit MÀ, Beyer R, Nunez-Rodriguez JC, Schüller C, Gabaldón T. Narrow mutational signatures drive acquisition of multidrug resistance in the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata. Curr Biol. 2021 Dec 6;31(23):5314-5326.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.084.
Citizen-science reveals changes in the oral microbiome in Spain through age and lifestyle factors
Willis, J.R., Saus, E., Iraola-Guzmán, S. et al. Citizen-science reveals changes in the oral microbiome in Spain through age and lifestyle factors. npj Biofilms Microbiomes 8, 38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-022-00279-y
Evolutionary and functional patterns of shared gene neighbourhood in fungi
Marcet-Houben, M., Gabaldón, T. Evolutionary and functional patterns of shared gene neighbourhood in fungi. Nat Microbiol 4, 2383–2392 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0552-0
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans
Carreté L, Ksiezopolska E, Pegueroles C, Gómez-Molero E, Saus E, Iraola-Guzmán S, Loska D, Bader O, Fairhead C, Gabaldón T. Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans. Curr Biol. 2018 Jan 8;28(1):15-27.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.027.
Late acquisition of mitochondria by a host with chimaeric prokaryotic ancestry
Pittis, A., Gabaldón, T. Late acquisition of mitochondria by a host with chimaeric prokaryotic ancestry. Nature 531, 101–104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16941
