Publications

An updated publication list can be found here:

Catalán, A., S. Höhna, S. E. Lower, P. Duchen. (2022) Inferring the demographic history of the North American firefly Photinus pyralis. JEB (in press).

Höhna S., Lower SE., Duchen P., Catalán A. (2021) A time-calibrated firefly (Coloeptera:Lampyridae) phylogeny: using genomic data for divergence time estimation. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.19.469195v1.full.pdf

Catalán A, Merondun J., Knief U., Wolf JBW. (2021) Epigenetic mechanisms of partial dosage compensation in an avian, female heterogametic system. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.17.456618

MH. Weissensteiner, I. Bunikis, A. Catalán, K Francoijs, U. Knief, W. Heim, V. Peona, S.D. Pophaly, F.J. Sedlazeck, A. Suh, V.M. Warmuth & JBW. Wolf (2020) Discovery and population genomics of structural variation in a songbird genus. Nature Communications volume 11, 3403. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17195-4

Catalán, A., A. Briscoe, S. Höhna. (2019) Drift and directional selection are the evolutionary forces driving gene expression divergence in eye and brain tissue of Heliconius butterflies. Genetics. 213:581–94. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302493

Ramnarine T, Glaser-Schmitt A, Catalán A, Parsch J. (2019) Population Genetic and Functional Analysis of a cis-Regulatory Polymorphism in the Drosophila melanogaster Metallothionein A gene. Genes (Basel) 10(2):147. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10020147

Catalán, A., A. Macias-Muños, A. Briscoe. (2018) Evolution of sex-biased gene expression and dosage compensation in the eye and brain of Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 12(9), 2120-2134. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy111

Catalán A., A. Glaser-Schmitt, E. Argyridou, P. Duchen, J. Parsch. (2016) An indel polymorphism in the MtnA 3’ untranslated region is associated with gene expression variation and local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster.

PLOS Genetics. 12(4), 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005987

Glaser-Schmitt*, A., A. Catalán*, and J. Parsch (2013)

Adaptive divergence of a transcriptional enhancer between populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Philosophical Transactions B. 368(1632), 20130024. * Equal contributions.

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1632/20130024.long

Kemkemer, C., A. Catalán, and J. Parsch (2013) “Escaping” the X chromosome leads to increased gene expression in the male germline of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 112(2), 149-155. http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v112/n2/full/hdy201386a.html


Catalán, A., S. Hutter, and J. Parsch (2012) 
Population and sex differences in Drosophila melanogaster brain gene expression. BMC Genomics 13: 654. https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-13-654