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  1. Host filtering and biogeography structure island bird gut microbiomes

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  2. A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy

    Article • PNAS Nexus, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  3. The Relative Roles of Selection and Drift in the Chaffinch Radiation (Aves: Fringilla) Across the Atlantic Archipelagos of Macaronesia

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  4. Collapse of an insular bird species driven by a decrease in rainfall

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  5. Museomics help resolving the phylogeny of snowfinches (Aves, Passeridae, Montifringilla and allies)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  6. Apex predators can structure ecosystems through trophic cascades: Linking the frugivorous behaviour and seed dispersal patterns of mesocarnivores

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  7. Genomic landscapes of divergence among island bird populations: Evidence of parallel adaptation but at different loci?

    Article • Molecular Ecology, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  8. Common birds combine pest control and seed dispersal in apple orchards through a hybrid interaction network

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  9. Avian Island Radiations Shed Light on the Dynamics of Adaptive and Nonadaptive Radiation

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  10. Genotype–environment associations reveal genes potentially linked to avian malaria infection in populations of an endemic island bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  11. A multiple trait assessment provides insights into the short‐time viability of a newly founded population in an endangered island passerine

    Article • Animal Conservation, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  12. Seed dispersal by fruit-eating animals in and out of the forests

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Juan P. González-Varo, Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  13. Renaturalización pasiva en la Cordillera Cantábrica: bases y retos científicos para una sostenibilidad socio-ecológica

    Article • Ecosistemas, April 2023, Asociacion Española de Ecologia Terrestre (AEET)

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  14. Runs of homozygosity reveal past bottlenecks and contemporary inbreeding across diverging populations of an island‐colonizing bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  15. Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome

    Article • Peer Community Journal, November 2022, Peer Community In

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  16. Stuck on top of a mountain: Consequences of dispersal limitations for alpine diversity

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  17. Increasing efficiency and reducing bias in the sampling of seed–dispersal interactions based on mist‐netted birds

    Article • Oikos, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  18. Identifying Avian Seed Dispersers through DNA Barcoding After Rapid Field Sampling

    Article • Ardeola, June 2022, Ardeola

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  19. Population-specific association of Clock gene polymorphism with annual cycle timing in stonechats

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  20. Genomic associations with poxvirus across divergent island populations in Berthelot's pipit

    Article • Molecular Ecology, April 2022, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  21. Distinct patterns of genetic variation at low-recombining genomic regions represent haplotype structure

    Article • December 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  22. Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  23. Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  24. Sequential colonization of oceanic archipelagos led to a species-level radiation in the common chaffinch complex (Aves: Fringilla coelebs)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  25. Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes

    Article • Nature, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  26. Fruit abundance and trait matching determine diet type and body condition across frugivorous bird populations

    Article • Oikos, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  27. Selection for functional performance in the evolution of cuticle hardening mechanisms in insects

    Article • Evolution, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  28. Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations

    Article • Current Biology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  29. Genomic variation, population history and within-archipelago adaptation between island bird populations

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, February 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  30. Cryptic differentiation in the Manx shearwater hinders the identification of a new endemic subspecies

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  31. Correction: Phylogeny of the Eurasian Wren Nannus troglodytes (Aves: Passeriformes: Troglodytidae) reveals deep and complex diversification patterns of Ibero-Maghrebian and Cyrenaican populations

    Article • PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  32. Where are we in the host-parasite relationships of native land vertebrates in Macaronesia?

    Article • Ecosistemas, July 2020, Asociacion Española de Ecologia Terrestre (AEET)

    Ana Perera, Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  33. Maternal Genetic Structure Reveals an Incipient Differentiation in the Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

    Article • Ardeola, June 2020, Ardeola

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  34. The evolutionary history and genomics of European blackcap migration

    Article • eLife, April 2020, eLife

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  35. Phylogeny of the Eurasian Wren Nannus troglodytes (Aves: Passeriformes: Troglodytidae) reveals deep and complex diversification patterns of Ibero-Maghrebian and Cyrenaican populations

    Article • PLOS One, March 2020, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  36. A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide

    Article • Nature, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  37. Gradual Distance Dispersal Shapes the Genetic Structure in an Alpine Grasshopper

    Article • Genes, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera, PhD Carlos A. López-Sánchez

  38. Characterization of microsatellite markers for the endangered Daphne rodriguezii (Thymelaeaceae) and related species

    Article • Applications in Plant Sciences, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  39. Pleistocene extinctions as drivers of biogeographical patterns on the easternmost Canary Islands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, April 2019, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  40. The roles of geography, climate and sexual selection in driving divergence among insect populations on mountaintops

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  41. Divergent patterns of telomere shortening in tropical compared to temperate stonechats

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  42. Acoustic, genetic, and morphological analyses of the Canarian common chaffinch complex Fringilla coelebs ssp. reveals cryptic diversification

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  43. Disentangling the effects of genetic and environmental factors on movement behaviour

    Article • Ethology, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  44. Factors governing the prevalence and richness of avian haemosporidian communities within and between temperate mountains

    Article • PLOS One, September 2017, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  45. Equilibrium Bird Species Diversity in Atlantic Islands

    Article • Current Biology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  46. Baseline and stress-induced levels of corticosterone in male and female Afrotropical and European temperate stonechats during breeding

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  47. Testosterone, territorial response, and song in seasonally breeding tropical and temperate stonechats

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  48. Correlated patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation across an avian family

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  49. A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  50. Factors affecting the distribution of haemosporidian parasites within an oceanic island

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  51. Ecological divergence among young lineages favours sympatry, but convergence among old ones allows coexistence in syntopy

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  52. Correlated patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation across an avian family

    Article • January 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  53. What are We Learning about Speciation and Extinction from the Canary Islands?

    Article • Ardeola, June 2016, Ardeola

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  54. Life histories co-evolve with species' ecological niche, but slowly

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Paola Laiolo, Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  55. Drift, not selection, shapes toll-like receptor variation among oceanic island populations

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  56. Unforeseen biogeographical patterns in a multiple parasite system in Macaronesia

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2015, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  57. Disentangling the complex evolutionary history of the Western Palearctic blue tits (Cyanistesspp.) - phylogenomic analyses suggest radiation by multiple colonization events and subsequent isolation

    Article • Molecular Ecology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  58. Abiotic, Biotic, and Evolutionary Control of the Distribution of C and N Isotopes in Food Webs

    Article • The American Naturalist, February 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  59. Population history, gene flow, and bottlenecks in island populations of a secondary seed disperser, the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis koenigi)

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  60. Characterization of microsatellite markers for Saxicola species

    Article • Conservation Genetics Resources, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Miss Kim Geraldine Mortega, Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  61. GENETIC, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE REVEALS LACK OF DIVERSIFICATION IN THE COLONIZATION PROCESS IN AN ISLAND BIRD

    Article • Evolution, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera, Miguel Navascués

  62. Pronounced Fixation, Strong Population Differentiation and Complex Population History in the Canary Islands Blue Tit Subspecies Complex

    Article • PLOS One, February 2014, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  63. Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation?

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  64. Information theory reveals that individual birds do not alter song complexity when varying song length

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  65. Local climate determines intra- and interspecific variation in sexual size dimorphism in mountain grasshopper communities

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  66. Return flight to the Canary Islands – The key role of peripheral populations of Afrocanarian blue tits (Aves: Cyanistes teneriffae) in multi-gene reconstructions of colonization pathways

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  67. Corrigendum to “Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and speciation in the avian genus Saxicola” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48 (2008) 1145–1154]

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  68. Population connectivity buffers genetic diversity loss in a seabird

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  69. Song characterization in the spectacled warbler (Sylvia conspicillata): a circum-Mediterranean species with a complex song structure

    Article • Bioacoustics, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  70. Age, origins and extinctions of the avifauna of Macaronesia: a synthesis of phylogenetic and fossil information

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  71. Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  72. Biogeographical patterns and co-occurrence of pathogenic infection across island populations of Berthelot’s pipit (Anthus berthelotii)

    Article • Oecologia, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  73. A multi-gene approach reveals a complex evolutionary history in the Cyanistes species group

    Article • Molecular Ecology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  74. Ancient DNA of the Extinct Lava Shearwater (Puffinus olsoni) from the Canary Islands Reveals Incipient Differentiation within the P. puffinus Complex

    Article • PLOS One, December 2010, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  75. Nest site selection and the effects of land use in a multi-scale approach on the distribution of a passerine in an island arid environment

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  76. Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches

    Article • PLOS One, September 2010, PLOS

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  77. Goats, birds, and emergent diseases: apparent and hidden effects of exotic species in an island environment

    Article • Ecological Applications, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  78. Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of avian pox and avian malaria in the Berthelot’s pipit (Anthus berthelotii) in Macaronesia

    Article • Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde Parasitology Research, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  79. Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and speciation in the avian genus Saxicola

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  80. Site fidelity in the Canary Islands stonechat Saxicola dacotiae in relation to spatial and temporal patterns of habitat suitability

    Article • Acta Oecologica, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  81. Food resource matching by foraging tits Parus spp. during spring-summer in a Mediterranean mixed forest; evidence for an ideal free distribution

    Article • Ibis, June 2008, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  82. Secondary seed dispersal systems, frugivorous lizards and predatory birds in insular volcanic badlands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  83. Population history of Berthelot's pipit: colonization, gene flow and morphological divergence in Macaronesia

    Article • Molecular Ecology, October 2007, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  84. Reproduction in an endemic bird of a semiarid island: a food-mediated process

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, September 2006, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  85. Ecological traits influence the current distribution and range of an island endemic bird

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, July 2006, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  86. Native dispersers induce germination asynchrony in a macaronesian endemic plant (Rubia fruticosa, Rubiaceae) in xeric environments of the Canary Islands

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  87. Divorce in the Canary Islands Stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae)

    Article • The Wilson Bulletin, September 2005, Wilson Ornithological Society

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  88. Effect of native and alien vertebrate frugivores on seed viability and germination patterns of Rubia fruticosa (Rubiaceae) in the eastern Canary Islands

    Article • Functional Ecology, June 2005, Wiley

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  89. Colonisation and diversification of the blue tits (Parus caeruleus teneriffae-group) in the Canary Islands

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, March 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  90. Strategic Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programs: A Methodology for Estimating Effects on Biodiversity

    Article • Environmental Management, March 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  91. Habitat selection by the Canary Islands stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae) (Meade-Waldo, 1889) in Fuerteventura Island: a two-tier habitat approach with implications for its conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera

  92. Tree species selection to perform singing and foraging behaviour by Great and Blue Tits: a trade-off between food gathering and territorial behaviour?

    Article • Bird Study, March 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Carlos Illera