Publications:  Dr Alexandre de Mendoza Soler

de Mendoza A, Lister R, Bogdanovic O(2019). Evolution of DNA Methylome Diversity in Eukaryotes. Journal of Molecular Biology vol. 432, (6) 1687-1705.

de Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A(2019). Origin and evolution of eukaryotic transcription factors. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development vol. 58-59, 25-32.

de Mendoza A, Hatleberg WL, Pang K, Leininger S, Bogdanovic O, Pflueger J, Buckberry S, Technau U et al.(2019). Convergent evolution of a vertebrate-like methylome in a marine sponge. Nature Ecology and Evolution vol. 3, (10) 1464-1473.

De Mendoza A, Pflueger J, Lister R(2019). Capture of a functionally active methyl-CpG binding domain by an arthropod retrotransposon family. Genome Research vol. 29, (8) 1277-1286.

De Mendoza A, Bonnet A, Vargas-Landin DB, Ji N, Hong F, Yang F, Li L, Hori K et al.(2018). Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons. Nature Communications vol. 9, (1)

Knaupp AS, Buckberry S, Pflueger J, Lim SM, Ford E, Larcombe MR, Rossello FJ, de Mendoza A et al.(2017). Transient and Permanent Reconfiguration of Chromatin and Transcription Factor Occupancy Drive Reprogramming. Cell Stem Cell vol. 21, (6) 834-845.e6.

Gold DA, Grabenstatter J, De Mendoza A, Riesgo A, Ruiz-Trillo I, Summons RE(2016). Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 113, (10) 2684-2689.

De Mendoza A, Jones JW, Friedrich M(2016). Methuselah/Methuselah-like G protein-coupled receptors constitute an ancient metazoan gene family. Scientific Reports vol. 6,

de Mendoza A, Suga H, Permanyer J, Irimia M, Ruiz-Trillo I(2015). Complex transcriptional regulation and independent evolution of fungal-like traits in a relative of animals. eLife vol. 4, (OCTOBER2015)

Torruella G, De Mendoza A, Grau-Bové X, Antó M, Chaplin MA, Del Campo J, Eme L, Pérez-Cordón G et al.(2015). Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi. Current Biology vol. 25, (18) 2404-2410.

De Mendoza A, Ruiz-Trillo I(2014). Forward genetics for back-in-time questions. eLife vol. 3, (November) 1-3.

Desvoyes B, De Mendoza A, Ruiz-Trillo I, Gutierrez C(2014). Novel roles of plant RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED (RBR) protein in cell proliferation and asymmetric cell division. Journal of Experimental Botany vol. 65, (10) 2657-2666.

De Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A, Ruiz-Trillo I(2014). The evolution of the GPCR signaling system in eukaryotes: Modularity, conservation, and the transition to metazoan multicellularity. Genome Biology and Evolution vol. 6, (3) 606-619.

De Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A, Šestak MS, Matej¿i¿ M, Torruella G, Domazet-Lošo T, Ruiz-Trillo I(2013). Transcription factor evolution in eukaryotes and the assembly of the regulatory toolkit in multicellular lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 110, (50)

Martín-Durán JM, De Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A, Ruiz-Trillo I, Hejnol A(2013). A broad genomic survey reveals multiple origins and frequent losses in the evolution of respiratory hemerythrins and hemocyanins. Genome Biology and Evolution vol. 5, (7) 1435-1442.

Suga H, Chen Z, De Mendoza A, Sebé-Pedrós A, Brown MW, Kramer E, Carr M, Kerner P et al.(2013). The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals. Nature Communications vol. 4,

Suga H, Dacre M, De Mendoza A, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Manning G, Ruiz-Trillo I(2012). Genomic survey of premetazoans shows deep conservation of cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases and multiple radiations of receptor tyrosine kinases. Science Signaling vol. 5, (222)

de Mendoza A, Ruiz-Trillo I(2011). New genomes, new taxa and deep questions in the eukaryotic tree of life: A meeting report on the EMBO comparative genomics conference. EvoDevo vol. 2, (1)

De Mendoza A, Ruiz-Trillo I(2011). The mysterious evolutionary origin for the GNE gene and the root of bilateria. Molecular Biology and Evolution vol. 28, (11) 2987-2991.

Sebé-Pedrós A, De Mendoza A, Lang BF, Degnan BM, Ruiz-Trillo I(2011). Unexpected repertoire of metazoan transcription factors in the unicellular holozoan capsaspora owczarzaki. Molecular Biology and Evolution vol. 28, (3) 1241-1254.

De Mendoza A, Suga H, Ruiz-Trillo I(2010). Evolution of the MAGUK protein gene family in premetazoan lineages. BMC Evolutionary Biology vol. 10, (1)