Dr Jordi Paps Montserrat

Paps, J., (2018). What makes an animal? The molecular quest for the origin of the Animal Kingdom. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 58 (4), 654-665

Holland, PWH., Marlétaz, F., Maeso, I., Dunwell, TL. and Paps, J., (2017). New genes from old: asymmetric divergence of gene duplicates and the evolution of development. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 372 (1713), 20150480-20150480

Dunwell, TL., Paps, J. and Holland, PWH., (2017). Novel and divergent genes in the evolution of placental mammals.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1864), 20171357-20171357

Ruiz-Trillo, I. and Paps, J., (2016). Acoelomorpha: earliest branching bilaterians or deuterostomes?. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 16 (2), 391-399

Paps, J., Xu, F., Zhang, G. and Holland, PW., (2015). Reinforcing the Egg-Timer: Recruitment of Novel Lophotrochozoa Homeobox Genes to Early and Late Development in the Pacific Oyster. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7 (3), 677-688

Kenny, NJ., Sin, YW., Hayward, A., Paps, J., Chu, KH. and Hui, JHL., (2015). The phylogenetic utility and functional constraint of microRNA flanking sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1803), 20142983-20142983

Jákely, G., Paps, J. and Nielsen, C., (2015). The phylogenetic position of ctenophores and the origin(s) of nervous systems. EvoDevo. 6 (1), 1-1

Marlétaz, F., Paps, J., Maeso, I. and Holland, PWH., (2014). Discovery and classifi cation of homeobox genes in animal genomes. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1196, 3-18

Scotti, JS., Leung, IKH., Ge, W., Bentley, MA., Paps, J., Kramer, HB., Lee, J., Aik, W., Choi, H., Paulsen, SM., Bowman, LAH., Loik, ND., Horita, S., Ho, C-H., Kershaw, NJ., Tang, CM., Claridge, TDW., Preston, GM., McDonough, MA. and Schofield, CJ., (2014). Human oxygen sensing may have origins in prokaryotic elongation factor Tu prolyl-hydroxylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (37), 13331-13336

Erezyilmaz, DF., Hayward, A., Huang, Y., Paps, J., Acs, Z., Delgado, JA., Collantes, F. and Kathirithamby, J., (2014). Expression of the Pupal Determinant broad during Metamorphic and Neotenic Development of the Strepsipteran Xenos vesparum Rossi. PLoS ONE. 9 (4), e93614-e93614

Ludeman, DA., Farrar, N., Riesgo, A., Paps, J. and Leys, SP., (2014). Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1), 3-3

Tsai, IJ., Zarowiecki, M., Holroyd, N., Garciarrubio, A., Sanchez-Flores, A., Brooks, KL., Tracey, A., Bobes, RJ., Fragoso, G., Sciutto, E., Aslett, M., Beasley, H., Bennett, HM., Cai, J., Camicia, F., Clark, R., Cucher, M., De Silva, N., Day, TA., Deplazes, P., Estrada, K., Fernández, C., Holland, PWH., Hou, J., Hu, S., Huckvale, T., Hung, SS., Kamenetzky, L., Keane, JA., Kiss, F., Koziol, U., Lambert, O., Liu, K., Luo, X., Luo, Y., Macchiaroli, N., Nichol, S., Paps, J., Parkinson, J., Pouchkina-Stantcheva, N., Riddiford, N., Rosenzvit, M., Salinas, G., Wasmuth, JD., Zamanian, M., Zheng, Y., Garciarrubio, A., Bobes, RJ., Fragoso, G., Sánchez-Flores, A., Estrada, K., Cevallos, MA., Morett, E., González, V., Portillo, T., Ochoa-Leyva, A., José, MV., Sciutto, E., Landa, A., Jiménez, L., Valdés, V., Carrero, JC., Larralde, C., Morales-Montor, J., Limón-Lason, J., Soberón, X., Laclette, JP., Cai, X., Soberón, X., Olson, PD., Laclette, JP., Brehm, K. and Berriman, M., (2013). The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism. Nature. 496 (7443), 57-63

Paps, J., Medina-Chacón, LA., Marshall, W., Suga, H. and Ruiz-Trillo, I., (2013). Molecular Phylogeny of Unikonts: New Insights into the Position of Apusomonads and Ancyromonads and the Internal Relationships of Opisthokonts. Protist. 164 (1), 2-12

Paps, J. and Riutort, M., (2012). Molecular phylogeny of the phylum Gastrotricha: New data brings together molecules and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (1), 208-212

González-Estévez, C., Felix, DA., Smith, MD., Paps, J., Morley, SJ., James, V., Sharp, TV. and Aboobaker, AA., (2012). SMG-1 and mTORC1 Act Antagonistically to Regulate Response to Injury and Growth in Planarians. PLoS Genetics. 8 (3), e1002619-e1002619

Paps, J., Holland, PWH. and Shimeld, SM., (2012). A genome-wide view of transcription factor gene diversity in chordate evolution: less gene loss in amphioxus?. Briefings in Functional Genomics. 11 (2), 177-186

Torruella, G., Derelle, R., Paps, J., Lang, BF., Roger, AJ., Shalchian-Tabrizi, K. and Ruiz-Trillo, I., (2012). Phylogenetic Relationships within the Opisthokonta Based on Phylogenomic Analyses of Conserved Single-Copy Protein Domains. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29 (2), 531-544

Riutort, M., Álvarez-Presas, M., Lázaro, E., Sol, E. and Paps, J., (2012). Evolutionary history of the Tricladida and the Platyhelminthes: an up-to-date phylogenetic and systematic account. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 56 (1-2-3), 5-17

Zhang, G., Fang, X., Guo, X., Li, L., Luo, R., Xu, F., Yang, P., Zhang, L., Wang, X., Qi, H., Xiong, Z., Que, H., Xie, Y., Holland, PWH., Paps, J., Zhu, Y., Wu, F., Chen, Y., Wang, J., Peng, C., Meng, J., Yang, L., Liu, J., Wen, B., Zhang, N., Huang, Z., Zhu, Q., Feng, Y., Mount, A., Hedgecock, D., Xu, Z., Liu, Y., Domazet-Lošo, T., Du, Y., Sun, X., Zhang, S., Liu, B., Cheng, P., Jiang, X., Li, J., Fan, D., Wang, W., Fu, W., Wang, T., Wang, B., Zhang, J., Peng, Z., Li, Y., Li, N., Wang, J., Chen, M., He, Y., Tan, F., Song, X., Zheng, Q., Huang, R., Yang, H., Du, X., Chen, L., Yang, M., Gaffney, PM., Wang, S., Luo, L., She, Z., Ming, Y., Huang, W., Zhang, S., Huang, B., Zhang, Y., Qu, T., Ni, P., Miao, G., Wang, J., Wang, Q., Steinberg, CEW., Wang, H., Li, N., Qian, L., Zhang, G., Li, Y., Yang, H., Liu, X., Wang, J., Yin, Y. and Wang, J., (2012). The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation. Nature. 490 (7418), 49-54

Paps, J., Baguna, J. and Riutort, M., (2009). Lophotrochozoa internal phylogeny: new insights from an up-to-date analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1660), 1245-1254

Paps, J., Baguna, J. and Riutort, M., (2009). Bilaterian Phylogeny: A Broad Sampling of 13 Nuclear Genes Provides a New Lophotrochozoa Phylogeny and Supports a Paraphyletic Basal Acoelomorpha. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26 (10), 2397-2406

Baguna, J., Martinez, P., Paps, J. and Riutort, M., (2008). Back in time: a new systematic proposal for the Bilateria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363 (1496), 1481-1491

Jimenez-Guri, E., Paps, J., Garcia-Fernandez, J. and Salo, E., (2006). Hox and ParaHox genes in Nemertodermatida, a basal bilaterian clade. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 50 (8), 675-679

Ruiz-Trillo, I., Paps, J., Loukota, M., Ribera, C., Jondelius, U., Baguna, J. and Riutort, M., (2002). A phylogenetic analysis of myosin heavy chain type II sequences corroborates that Acoela and Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99 (17), 11246-11251

Baguñà, J., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Paps, J., Loukota, M., Ribera, C., Jondelius, U. and Riutort, M., (2001). The first bilaterian organisms: Simple or complex? New molecular evidence. International Journal of Developmental Biology. 45 (SUPPL. 1), S133-S134

Baguñà,, J., Paps, J., Riutort, M. and Ruiz-Trillo, I., (2002). Origen y evolución de los ejes corporales y la simetría bilateral en animales. In: Evolucion: la base de la biologia. Editors: Soler Cruz, M., . Proyecto Sur de Ediciones, S.L.. 535- 548. 84-8254-139-0

Baguñà, J., Carranza, S., Paps, J., Ruiz-Trillo, I. and Riutort, M., (2000). Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Tricladida. In: Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. Editors: Littlewood, DTJ. and Bray, RA., . CRC Press. 49- 56. 9780748409037

Paps, J., (2009).El Jardiner Evolutiu (The Evolutionary Gardener). Accèssit, VI Prize Joan Oró to scientific outreach,Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica