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  1. Intronization Signatures in Coding Exons Reveal the Evolutionary Fluidity of Eukaryotic Gene Architecture

    Article • Microorganisms, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Francesco Catania

  2. One Cell, Two Gears: Extensive Somatic Genome Plasticity Accompanies High Germline Genome Stability in Paramecium

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, November 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  3. Fifty Generations of Amitosis: Tracing Asymmetric Allele Segregation in Polyploid Cells with Single-Cell DNA Sequencing

    Article • Microorganisms, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Francesco Catania

  4. The effects of climate change-induced dietary shifts on health and adaptation

    Article • BioEssays, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr Francesco Catania

  5. Fifty generations of amitosis: tracing asymmetric allele segregation in polyploid cells with single-cell DNA sequencing

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Francesco Catania

  6. Cross-Generational Effects and Non-random Developmental Response to Temperature Variation in Paramecium

    Article • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Francesco Catania

  7. Prolonged exposure to constant environmental conditions prompts nonrandom genetic variation

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Francesco Catania

  8. What’s Genetic Variation Got to Do with It? Starvation-Induced Self-Fertilization Enhances Survival in Paramecium

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, March 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  9. Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia

    Article • Genome Research, September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Francesco Catania

  10. In vivo competition and horizontal gene transfer among distinct Staphylococcus aureus lineages as major drivers for adaptational changes during long-term persistence in humans

    Article • BMC Microbiology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Alexander Mellmann, Dr Francesco Catania

  11. Insulin-like signaling within and beyond metazoans

    Article • Biological Chemistry, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr Francesco Catania

  12. Linking autoimmunity to the origin of the adaptive immune system

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  13. From intronization to intron loss: How the interplay between mRNA-associated processes can shape the architecture and the expression of eukaryotic genes

    Article • The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Catania

  14. Exploring the Impact of Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors on Pre-mRNA Splicing Across Eukaryotes

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, May 2017, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Francesco Catania

  15. The hologenome concept: we need to incorporate function

    Article • Theory in Biosciences, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Catania

  16. mRNA-Associated Processes and Their Influence on Exon-Intron Structure in Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, March 2016, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Francesco Catania

  17. Cis-acting signals modulate the efficiency of programmed DNA elimination inParamecium tetraurelia

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, August 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  18. On the path to genetic novelties: insights from programmed DNA elimination and RNA splicing

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Francesco Catania

  19. Environmental heat stress induces epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of robustness in parthenogenetic Artemia model

    Article • The FASEB Journal, April 2014, Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  20. Spliced DNA Sequences in the Paramecium Germline: Their Properties and Evolutionary Potential

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

    Dr Francesco Catania

  21. A simple model to explain evolutionary trends of eukaryotic gene architecture and expression

    Article • BioEssays, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Francesco Catania

  22. Historic occurrence of parthenogenetic Artemia in Great Salt Lake, USA, as demonstrated by molecular analysis of field samples

    Article • Journal of Great Lakes Research, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Catania

  23. The Repatterning of Eukaryotic Genomes by Random Genetic Drift

    Article • Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, September 2011, Annual Reviews

    Dr Francesco Catania

  24. Evolutionary dynamics of a conserved sequence motif in the ribosomal genes of the ciliate Paramecium

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Catania

  25. Endogenous Mechanisms for the Origins of Spliceosomal Introns

    Article • Journal of Heredity, July 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  26. Where Do Introns Come From?

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2008, PLOS

    Dr Francesco Catania

  27. Genetic Diversity in the Paramecium aurelia Species Complex

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, November 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  28. African Sequence Variation Accounts for Most of the Sequence Polymorphism in Non-African Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Genetics, June 2005, Genetics Society of America

    Dr Francesco Catania

  29. Non-African Origin of a Local Beneficial Mutation in D. melanogaster

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, October 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Francesco Catania

  30. World-wide survey of an Accord insertion and its association with DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Molecular Ecology, July 2004, Wiley

    Professor Christian Schlötterer, Dr Francesco Catania

  31. An RFLP database for authentication of commercial cyst samples of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (International Study on Artemia LXX)

    Article • Aquaculture, March 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Catania