Publications

2017 Fidel Botero-Castro, Emeric Figuet, Marie-ka Tilak, Benoit Nabholz, Nicolas Galtier. Avian genomes revisited: hidden genes uncovered and the rates vs traits paradox in birds. Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press).

2016 Yann Gager, Emilia Tarland, Dietmar Lieckfeldt, Matthieu Ménage, Fidel Botero-Castro, Stephen J. Rossiter, Robert H. S. Kraus, Arne Ludwig, Dina K.N. Dechmann. The value of molecular vs. morphometric and acoustic information for species identification using sympatric molossid bats. PLOS ONE 11(3), e0150780.

2015 Marie-Ka Tilak, Fabienne Justy, Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud, Fidel Botero-Castro, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery. A cost-effective straightforward protocol for shotgun Illumina libraries designed to assemble complete mitogenomes from non-model species. Conservation Genet Resour, 7:50.

2014 Fidel Botero-Castro, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J P Douzery. Thrice better than once: quality control guidelines to validate new mitogenomes. Mitochondrial DNA Part 1. 27(1):449-454.

2013 Fidel Botero-Castro, Marie-Ka Tilak, Fabienne Justy, François Catzeflis, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J P Douzery. Next-generation sequencing and phylogenetic signal of complete mitochondrial genomes for resolving the evolutionary history of leaf-nosed bats (phyllostomidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69,728-739.

2013 Nimrod D Rubinstein, Tamar Feldstein, Noa Shenkar, Fidel Botero-Castro, Francesca Griggio, Francesco Mastrototaro, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J P Douzery, Carmela Gissi, Dorothée Huchon. Deep Sequencing of Mixed Total DNA Without Barcodes Allows Efficient Assembly of Highly Plastic Ascidian Mitochondrial Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution 5(6):1185–1199.