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  1. Comparison of Whole Exome Sequencing Commercial Kits Performance Across Diverse Tissue Sources

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  2. Metabolic Screening of Gut Microbiota by Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

    Article • ACS Infectious Diseases, June 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  3. Exploring global cfDNA fragmentomics as a biomarker in real-world melanoma patients

    Article • Journal of Investigative Dermatology, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  4. Spatially resolved diversity in molecular states underlies congenital melanocytic nevi and associated tumors

    Article • January 2026, openRxiv

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  5. Prevalence of Salmonella spp. isolated from seagulls and pigeons in Barcelona, Spain and its genetic relatedness with Salmonella human clinical isolates

    Article • Journal of Infection and Public Health, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  6. Normalization of short-chain fatty acid concentration by bacterial count of stool samples improves discrimination between eubiotic and dysbiotic gut microbiota caused by Clostridioides difficile infection-

    Article • Gut Microbes, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  7. Implementation of Exome Sequencing in Clinical Practice for Neurological Disorders

    Article • Genes, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  8. Analysis of dermoscopic changes of blue nevi on digital follow‐up: A 21‐year retrospective cohort study

    Article • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, March 2023, Wiley

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  9. Evolutionary insights reveal a new role of PADI2 in transcriptional elongation

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  10. Lethal Congenital Contracture Syndrome 11: A Case Report and Literature Review

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  11. Chromatin topology defines estradiol-primed progesterone receptor and PAX2 binding in endometrial cancer cells

    Article • eLife, January 2022, eLife

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  12. Author response: Chromatin topology defines estradiol-primed progesterone receptor and PAX2 binding in endometrial cancer cells

    Article • November 2021, eLife

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  13. De novo assembly and functional annotation of blood transcriptome of loggerhead turtle, and in silico characterization of peroxiredoxins and thioredoxins

    Article • PeerJ, November 2021, PeerJ

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  14. Implementation of an open-source robotic platform for SARS-CoV-2 testing by real-time RT-PCR

    Article • PLOS One, July 2021, PLOS

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  15. Uncovering de novo gene birth in yeast using deep transcriptomics

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  16. ROBOCOV: An affordable open-source robotic platform for SARS-CoV-2 testing by RT-qPCR

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  17. Evolution of new proteins from translated sORFs in long non-coding RNAs

    Article • Experimental Cell Research, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  18. Expression of Oncogenic Drivers in 3D Cell Culture Depends on Nuclear ATP Synthesis by NUDT5

    Article • Cancers, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas, Dr Roni Wright

  19. Diverse families of transposable elements affect the transcriptional regulation of stress-response genes in Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  20. Stress response, behavior, and development are shaped by transposable element-induced mutations in Drosophila

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2019, PLOS

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas, DR Josefa González

  21. Hormone-control regions mediate steroid receptor–dependent genome organization

    Article • Genome Research, December 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas, Dr Roni Wright

  22. Translation of neutrally evolving peptides provides a basis for de novo gene evolution

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2018, Nature

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  23. Transcriptomics in the wild: Hibernation physiology in free-ranging dwarf lemurs

    Article • Molecular Ecology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  24. New Genes and Functional Innovation in Mammals

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  25. De novo gene evolution: How do we transition from non-coding to coding?

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  26. De novo gene evolution: How do we transition from non-coding to coding?

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  27. How do we transition from non-coding to coding?

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  28. Beyond SNPs: how to detect selection on transposable element insertions

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  29. New genes and functional innovation in mammals

    Article • December 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  30. Extreme genomic erosion after recurrent demographic bottlenecks in the highly endangered Iberian lynx

    Article • December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  31. Functional and non-functional classes of peptides produced by long non-coding RNAs

    Article • July 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  32. Gene Expression Profiling in the Hibernating Primate,Cheirogaleus Medius

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  33. A novel method of microsatellite genotyping-by-sequencing using individual combinatorial barcoding

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, January 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Paul Cotter, Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  34. Comparative Genomics of Mammalian Hibernators Using Gene Networks

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

  35. Improving Genome-Wide Scans of Positive Selection by Using Protein Isoforms of Similar Length

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. José Luis Villanueva-Cañas