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Wan, Y.C., et al. 2022. Diurnality shapes the visual opsin genes of colorful Neotropical
frogs. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.510514v1.full.pdf
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Femenias, M.M., Santos, J.C., Sites, J.W.Jr., Avila, L.J., Morando, M. 2022. ExplorATE: A new pipeline to explore active transposable elements from RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics 38 (13), 3361-3366
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GitHub: ExplorATE -- FemeniasM
GitHub: ExplorATE -- Santos Lab
Carvajal‑Castro, J.D., Vargas‑Salinas, F., Casas‑Cardona, S., Rojas, B., Santos, J.C. 2021. Aposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs
Scientific Reports 11:19047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97206-6
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Ortiz, R., Priyanka Gera, P., Christopher Rivera, C., Santos, J.C. 2021. Pincho: A modular approach to high quality de novo transcriptomics.
Genes 12, 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12070953
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Laspiur, A., Santos, J.C., Medina, S.M., Pizarro, J.E., Sanabria, E.A., Sinervo, B., Ibarguengoytía, N.R. 2021.
Vulnerability to climate change of a microendemic lizard species from the central Andes.
Scientific Reports 11:11653. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91058-w
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Zhao, L., Santos, J.C., Wang, J., Ran, J., Tang, Y., Jianguo Cui J. 2021. Noise constrains the evolution of call frequency
contours in flowing water frogs: a comparative analysis in two clades. Front Zool (2021) 18:37 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-021-00423-y.
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Shik, J.Z., Kooij, P.W., Donoso, D., Santos, J.C., Gomez, E.B., Franco, M., Crumiere, A.J.J.,
Arnan, X., Howe, J., Wcislo, W.T., Boomsma, J.J. 2021. Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication tradeoffs
in fungus-farming ants. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 122–134.
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Vigle, G.O., Coloma, L.A., Santos, J.C., Hernandez-Nieto, S., Ortega-Andrade, H.M., Paluh, D.J., Read, M. 2020.
A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar
Colostethus and Hyloxalus. Zootaxa 4896: 342-372. (10.3897/zookeys.1016.59699)
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Santos J. C. 2020. Phylogenetic Analyses of Chemokine Receptors from Sequence Retrieval to
Phylogenetic Trees. Invited chapter for “Immune mediators in cancer” for book series “Methods in Molecular Biology” (Ivana Vancurova and Yan Zhu, editors).
Springer. 33 pages.
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Caetano, G.H.O., Santos, J.C., Godinho, L.B., Cavalcante, V.H.G.L., Diele-Viegas, L.M.,
Campelo, P.H., Martins, L.F. Oliveira, A.F.S., Alvarenga, J.M., Wiederhecker, H.C., de
Novaes e Silva, V., Werneck, F.P., Miles, D.B., Colli, G.R., Sinervo, B.R. 2020. Time of
activity is a better predictor of the distribution of a tropical lizard than environmental
temperature. Oikos. 129(7): 953-963. Editor's Choice and Research
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Carvajal-Castro, J., López-Aguirre, Y., Ospina-L, A., Santos, J.C., Rojas, Vargas-Salinas, F.
2020. Much more than a clasp: evolutionary pattern of amplexus diversity in anurans.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(3): 652–663
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Caetano, G., Santos, J.C., Sinervo, B. 2019. R-Package -- Mapinguari: Process-Based Biogeographical Analysis
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Aburto-Oropeza, O. et al. 2018. Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change.
Environmental Science and Policy 87: 128–132 PDF
Santos, J.C., Tarvin, R.D., O’Connell L.A., Blackburn, D.C., Coloma, L.A. 2018. Diversity within diversity: Parasite species richness in poison frogs assessed by transcriptomics.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 40–50 PDF
Diele-Viegas, L.M., Vitt, L.J., Sinervo, B., Colli, G.R., Werneck, F.P., Miles, D.B., Magnusson, W.E., Santos, J.C., Sette, C.M., Caetano, G.H.O., Pontes, E., Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 2018. Thermal physiology of Amazonian lizards (Reptilia:Squamata).
PLoS ONE 13(3): e0192834 PDF
Pontes-da-Silva, E., Magnusson, W.E., Sinervo, B., Caetano, G.H., Miles, D.B., Colli, G.R., Diele-Viegase, L.M., Fenker, J., Santos, J.C., Werneck, F.P. 2018. Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology.
73 (2018) 50–60 PDF
Medina, C.D., Avila, L.J., Sites J.W. Jr., Santos J.C., Morando, M. 2018. Alternative methods of phylogenetic inference for the Patagonian lizard group Liolaemus elongatus-kriegi (Iguania: Liolaemini) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (early online).
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Roland, A.B., Santos, J.C., Carriker, B.C., Caty, S.N., Tapia, E.E., Coloma, L.A., O’Connell, L.A. 2017. Radiation of the polymorphic Little Devil poison frog (Oophaga sylvatica) in Ecuador. Ecology & Evolution (early online).
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Tarvin, R.D.*, Borghese, C.M.*, Sachs, W., Santos, J.C., Lu, Y.,O’Connell, L.A.,Cannatella, D.C., Harris, R.A., Zakon, H.H. 2017. Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance.
Science 357, 1261–1266. * joint first coauthorship PDF
Taylor, G.W.*, Santos, J.C.*, Perrault, B. J., Morando, M., Vásquez Almazán, C.R., Sites, J.W. 2017. Sexual dimorphism, phenotypic integration, and the evolution of head structure in casque-headed lizards.
Ecology & Evolution (early online). * joint first coauthorship with GWT as an undergraduate
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Tarvin, R.D., Powell, E.A., Santos, J.C., Ron, S.R.,Cannatella, D.C. 2017. The birth of aposematism: High phenotypic divergence and low genetic diversity in a young clade of poison frogs.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 283–295 PDF
Sinervo, B. and other 36 coauthors including Santos, J.C. 2017. Climate change and collapsing thermal niches of Mexican endemic reptiles. University of California Working Papers. Mexico Initiative.
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Shik, J., Gomez, E., William, P.T., Santos, J.C., Wcislo, W., Boomsma J.J. 2016. Overcoming co-evolutionary constraint millions of years after fungal crop domestication by attine ants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113 (36): 10121–10126 PDF
Tarvin, R.D., Santos, J.C., O’Connell L.A., Zakon H.H., Cannatella D.C. 2016. Multipleconvergent amino acid replacements in the muscle voltage-gated sodium channel suggest a high genetic lability conferring alkaloid resistance in poison frogs.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(4):1068–1081 PDF
Santos, J.C., Tarvin, R. D., O’Connell, L. A. 2015. A review of chemical defense in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae): Ecology, pharmacokinetics and autoresistance.
B.A. Schulte et al. (eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13 PDF
Santos, J.C., Baquero, M., Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Coloma, L.A., Erdtmann, L.K., Lima, A.P., Cannatella, D.C. 2014. Aposematism increases acoustic diversification and speciation in poison frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
281:9. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1761 PDF
Shik, J.Z., Santos, J.C., Seal, J.N., Adam Kay, A., Mueller, U.G., Kaspari, M. 2014 Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ant societies. The American Naturalist 184 (3): 364-373 PDF
Santos, J.C. 2012. Fast molecular evolution associated with high active metabolic rates in poison frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(8): 2001-2018.
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C. 2012. Three new cloud frogs (Aromobates: Dendrobatidae) from the Andes of Venezuela, with notes on Aromobates saltuensis and A. inflexus, and the conservation status and phyogeny of Aromobates). Zootaxa 3422: 1-31
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Santos, J.C., Cannatella, D.C. 2011. Phenotypic integration emerges from aposematism and scale in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 6175-6180.
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C. 2011. Redescription and generic assignation of Dendrobates rufulus Gorzula (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from Chimantá tepui, Venezuela. Salamandra 47(3): 155-160.
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Páez-Vacas, M.I.*, Coloma, L.A., Santos, J.C. 2010. Systematics of the Hyloxalus bocagei complex (Anura: Dendrobatidae): description of two new species and recognition of H. maculosus. Zootaxa Monographs (2711): 1-149. * Undergraduate mentee
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C., Molina, C.R. 2010. An addition to the diversity of dendrobatid frogs in Venezuela: description of three new collared frogs (Anura: Dendrobatidae:Mannophryne). Phyllomedusa 9(1): 3-35.
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C. 2010. Amphibia, Anura, Dendrobatidae, Allobates femoralis (Boulenger, 1884): First confirmed country records, Venezuela. CheckList 6 (2): 208-209.
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Rivas, G.A., Molina, C.R., Santos, J.C., Kaiser, H. 2010. Intraspecific variation in the endangered frog Mannophryne riveroi (Anura, Dendrobatidae, Aromobatinae), with comments on coloration and natural history. Herpetological Notes 3: 151-160.
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C., Jovanovic, O. 2010. A new dendrobatid frog (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Anomaloglossus) from the Orinoquian rainforest, southern Venezuela. Zootaxa 2413: 37-50
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Santos, J.C., Coloma, L.A., Caldwell, J.P., Summers, K., Ree, R., Cannatella, D.C. 2009. Amazonian amphibian diversity is primarily derived from late Miocene Andean lineages. PLoS-Biology 7:3 (March 10, 2009)
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Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Santos, J.C. 2009. Description of a new Allobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from the eastern Andean piedmont, Venezuela. Phyllomedusa 8(2): 89-104.
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Ron, S.R., Santos, J.C., Cannatella, D.C 2006. Phylogeny of the túngara frog genus Engystomops (= Physalaemus pustulosus species group; Anura: Leptodactylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39:392–403.
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Graham, C.H., Ron, S.R., Santos, J.C., Schneider, C.J., Moritz, C. 2004. Integrating phylogenetics and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms in dendrobatid frogs. Evolution 58 (8): 1781-1793.
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Santos, J.C., Coloma, L.A., Cannatella D.C. 2003. Multiple recurring origins of aposematism and diet specialization in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100(22):12792–12797.
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Paz-y-Mino, C., Burgos, R., Morillo, S.A., Santos, J.C., Fiallo, B.F., Leone, P.E. 2002. BCR-ABL rearrangement frequencies in chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Ecuador, South America. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 132:65-67. (as an undergraduate)
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