Sara Guirao‐Rico

The paper identifies genomic signatures of positive selection and relaxed constraints in Dysdera spiders with convergent dietary specialisation on woodlice.

The paper identifies two groups of previously uncharacterized cargo genes in F plasmids of pathogenic E. coli, potentially contributing to virulence and antimicrobial targets.

The paper investigates genome size reduction in island-dwelling Dysdera spiders, finding TE loss and non-adaptive mechanisms drive genome contraction.

The paper uses DEST 2.0 to analyze genetic variation in D. melanogaster across continents and time, identifying adaptation patterns and stable spatial genetic structures.

This study examines genetic diversity and recombination in an endemic spider from the Canary Islands, finding high levels of nucleotide diversity and identifying genomic regions under positive selection.

This study identifies transposable elements (TEs) as previously overlooked targets of selection in Drosophila melanogaster E&R studies, showing their replicability is similar or higher than SNPs.

The paper develops a bioinformatics pipeline to integrate Drosophila melanogaster genomic data from diverse sources, creating a large dataset called DEST for population genetics analysis.