2017

31.- “Centromeric satellite DNA in flatfish (Order Pleuronectiformes) and its relation to speciation processes”. F. Robles, De la Herrán R, Navajas-Pérez R, Cano-Roldán B, Sola Campoy P.J., García Zea J.A., Ruiz-Rejón C. Journal of Heredity, 108 (2): 217-222.

2016

30.- “The Forgotten Myrtle of the Alhambra Gardens of Granada: Restoring and Authenticating World Heritage”. De la Herrán R, M. Casares, F. Robles, J. Tito, R. Navajas-Pérez, M. Jesús Molina-Luzón, M. de los Reyes González-Tejero, P.J. Sola Campoy, A. Gutiérrez-Guerrero, C. Ruiz-Rejón. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 18:1975-1983.

29.- “Nutrient uptake efficiency of five varieties of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.)”. Cristina Aznarte-Mellado, Pedro J. Sola-Campoy, Francisca Robles, Julián Guerrero Villaseñor, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, Roberto de la Herrán, Rafael Navajas-Pérez. Journal of Elementology, 21(1): 141-148.

2015

28.- “The molecular cytogenetic characterization of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) suggests the arrest of recombination in the largest heteropycnotic pair HC1”. Pedro J. Sola-Campoy, Francisca Robles, Trude Schwarzacher, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, Roberto de la Herrán, Rafael Navajas-Pérez. PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143861.

27.- “First Haploid Genetic Map Based on Microsatellite Markers in Senegalese Sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup 1858)”. M. Jesús Molina-Luzón, Miguel Hermida, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Francisca Robles, José Ignacio Navas, Carmelo Ruiz-Rejón, Carmen Bouza, Paulino Martínez, Roberto de la Herrán. Marine Biotechnology, 17(1):8-22.

26.-“Chromosomal manipulation in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis Kaup, 1858): induction of triploidy and gynogenesis”. María Jesús Molina-Luzón, Jose Ramón López, Francisca Robles, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Carmelo Ruiz-Rejón, Roberto De la Herrán, Jose Ignacio Navas. Journal of Applied Genetics, 56(1):77-84.

2014

25.-“Molecular characterization of the interspecific hybrid Pistacia vigros (P. vera L. x P. atlantica Desf.)”. Cristina Aznarte-Mellado, Pedro J. Sola-Campoy, Francisca Robles, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, Roberto de la Herrán, Rafael Navajas-Pérez. Scientia Horticulturae, 179:180-183.

24.-“Mycorrhizal treatments increase the compatibility between Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) cultivars and seedling rootstock of Pistacia terebinthus L.”. Cristina Aznarte-Mellado, Pedro J. Sola-Campoy, Francisca Robles, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, Roberto de la Herrán, Rafael Navajas-Pérez. Scientia Horticulturae, 176:79-84.

2012

23.-“Sequencing papaya X and Yh chromosomes reveals molecular basis of incipient sex chromosome evolution”. Jianping Wang , Jong-Kuk Na , Qingyi Yu , Andrea R. Gschwend , Jennifer Han , Fanchang Zeng , Rishi Aryal , Robert VanBuren , Jan E Murray , Wenli Zhang , Rafael Navajas-Pérez , F. Alex Feltus , Cornelia Lemke , Eric J Tong , Cuixia Chen , Ching Man Wai , Ratnesh Singh , Ming-Li Wang , Xiang Jia Min , Maqsudul Alam , Deborah Charlesworth , Paul H Moore , Jiming Jiang , Andrew H. Paterson , Ray Ming. PNAS, 109(34):13710-5.

22.-“An Expressed Sequence Tag (EST)-enriched genetic map of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus): a useful framework for comparative genomics across model and farmed teleosts”. Carmen Bouza, Miguel Hermida, Belén G Pardo, Manuel Vera, Carlos Fernández, Roberto de la Herrán, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, José Antonio Álvarez-Dios, Antonio Gómez-Tato, Paulino Martínez. BMC Genetics, 13:54.

21.-“Validation and comparison of microsatellite markers derived from Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup) genomic and expressed sequence tags libraries”. María J Molina-Luzón, Jose López, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Francisca Robles, Carmelo Ruiz-Rejón, Roberto de la Herrán. Molecular Ecology Resources, 12(5):956-66.

20.-“Construction of physical maps for the sex-specific regions of papaya sex chromosomes”. Jong-Kuk Na, Jianping Wang, Jan E Murray, Andrea R Gschwend, Wenli Zhang, Qingyi Yu, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, F Alex Feltus, Cuixia Chen, Zdenek Kubat, Paul H Moore, Jiming Jiang, Andrew H Paterson, Ray Ming. BMC Genomics 13: 176.

19.-“Exploitation of a turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) immune-related expressed sequence tag (EST) database for microsatellite screening and validation”. Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Robles F, Molina-Luzón MJ, de la Herrán R, Álvarez-Dios JA, Pardo BG, Vera M, Bouza C, Marrínez P. Molecular Ecology Resources, 12(4):706-16.

2011

18.-“Microcolinearity and genome evolution in the vicinity of an ethylene receptor gene of cultivated diploid and allotetraploid coffee species (Coffea)”. Yu Q, Guyot R, de Kochko A, Byers A, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Langston B, Dubreuil-Tranchant C, Paterson AH, Poncet V, Nagai Ch, Ming R. The Plant Journal, 67:305-317.

17.-“A satellite-DNA evolutionary analysis in the North American endemic dioecious plant Rumex hastatulus (Polygonaceae)”. M. Ester Quesada del Bosque, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, José L. Panero, Antonio Fernández-González, Manuel A. Garrido-Ramos.  Genome, 54:253-260.

2010

16.-“Molecular characterization and evolution of an interspersed repetitive DNA family of oysters”. Inmaculada López-Flores, Carmelo Ruiz-Rejón, Ismael Cross, Laureana Rebordinos, Francisca Robles, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Roberto de la Herrán. Genetica, 138:1211-1219.

2009

15.-“Effect of location, organization, and repeat copy number in satellite-DNA evolution”. Rafael Navajas-Pérez*, María Ester Quesada del Bosque*, Manuel A. Garrido-Ramos. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 282: 395-406. *Equal contribution.

14.-“Patterns of tandem repetition in Plant Whole Genome Assemblies”. Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Andrew H. Paterson. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 281:579–590.

13.-“Molecular cytogenetic characterization of Rumex papillaris, a dioecious plant with an XX/XY(1)Y(2) sex chromosome system”. Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Trude Schwarzacher, Manuel Ruiz Rejón, Manuel A Garrido-Ramos. Genetica, 135: 87-93.

12.-“Characterization of RUSI, a telomere-associated satellite-DNA, in the genus Rumex (Polygonaceae)”. Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Trude Schwarzacher, Manuel Ruiz Rejón, Manuel A Garrido-Ramos. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 124(1):81-89.

2008

11.-“Genome-wide analysis of repetitive elements in papaya “. Niranjan Nagarajan*, Rafael Navajas-Pérez*, Mihai Pop, Maqsudul Alam, Ray Ming, Andrew H Paterson, Steven L Salzberg. Tropical Plant Biology, 3-4:191-201.

10.-“The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)”. R. Ming, S. Hou, Y. Feng, Q. Yu, A. Dionne-Laporte, JH. Saw, P. Senin, W. Wang, BV. Ly, KLT. Lewis, SL. Salzberg, L. Feng, MR. Jones, RL. Skelton, JE. Murray, C. Chen, W. Qian, J. Shen, P. Du, M. Eustice, E. Tong, H. Tang, E. Lyons, RE. Paull, TP. Michael, K. Wall, D. Rice, H. Albert, ML. Wang, YJ. Zhu, M. Schatz, N. Nagarajan, RA. Acob, P. Guan, A. Blas, CM. Wai, CM. Ackerman, Y. Ren, C. Liu, J. Wang, J. Wang, JK. Na, EV. Shakirov, B. Haas, J. Thimmapuram, D. Nelson, X. Wang, JE. Bowers, AR. Gschwend, AL. Delcher, R. Singh, JY. Suzuki, S. Tripathi, K. Neupane, H. Wei, B. Irikura, M. Paidi, N. Jiang, W. Zhang, G. Presting, A. Windsor, R. Navajas-Pérez, MJ. Torres, FA. Feltus, B. Porter, Y. Li, AM. Burroughs, MC. Luo, L. Liu, DA. Christopher, SM. Mount, PH. Moore, T. Sugimura, J. Jiang, MA. Schuler, V. Friedman, T. Mitchell-Olds, DE. Shippen, CW. dePamphilis, JD. Palmer, M. Freeling, AH. Paterson, D. Gonsalves, L. Wang, M. Alam. Nature, 452:991-996.

9.-“Recent Origin of Dioecious and Gynodioecious Y Chromosomes in Papaya”. Qingyi Yu, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Eric Tong, Jon Robertson, Paul H. Moore, Andrew H. Paterson and Ray Ming. Tropical Plant Biology, 1:49-57.

2007

8.-“The evolution of sex chromosomes in the genus Rumex (Polygonaceae): identification of a new species with heteromorphic sex chromosomes”. N. Cuñado*, R. Navajas-Pérez*, R. de la Herrán, C. Ruiz Rejón, C. Ruiz Rejón, J.L. Santos & M.A. Garrido-Ramos.  Chromosome Research 15:825-832. *Equal contribution.

7.-“Establishing the genetic relationships between the wild and cultivated olives using a nuclear intron from nitrate reductase (NIA-i3)”. H.K. Abdel Mounim, R. Navajas-Pérez, R. de la Herrán, M. Ruiz Rejón, M.A. Garrido-Ramos, C. Ruiz Rejón & J.L. Rosúa. Plant Systematics and Evolution 269: 63–73.

6.-“SatDNA Analyzer: a computing tool for satellite-DNA evolutionary analysis”. R. Navajas-Pérez*, C. Rubio-Escudero*, J.L. Aznarte*, M. Ruiz Rejón, & M.A. Garrido-Ramos. Bioinformatics, 23(6):767-768. * Equal contribution.

2006

5.-“The origin and evolution of the variability in a Y-specific satellite-DNA of Rumex acetosa and its relatives” . R. Navajas-Pérez, T. Schwarzacher, R. de la Herrán, C. Ruiz Rejón, M. Ruiz Rejón & M.A. Garrido-Ramos. Gene, 368:61-71.

4.-“Cloning and characterisation of dispersed repetitive DNA derived from microdissected sex chromosomes of Rumex acetosa”. B. Mariotti, R. Navajas-Pérez, R. Lozano, J. Parker, R. de la Herrán, C. Ruiz Rejón, M. Ruiz Rejón, M.A. Garrido-Ramos & M. Jamilena. Genome, 49:114-121.

2005

3.-“The evolution of reproductive systems and sex-determining mechanisms within Rumex (Polygonaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplastidial sequence data”. R. Navajas-Pérez, R. de la Herrán, G. López González, M. Jamilena, R. Lozano, C. Ruiz Rejón, M. Ruiz Rejón & M. A. Garrido-Ramos. Mol. Biol. Evol., 22(9):1929-1939

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2.-“Reduced rates of sequence evolution of Y-linked satellite DNA in Rumex (Polygonaceae)”. R. Navajas-Pérez, R. de la Herrán, M. Jamilena, R. Lozano, C. Ruiz Rejón, M. Ruiz Rejón & M. A. Garrido-Ramos. J. Mol. Evol., 60:391-399.

1.-“The controversial telomeres of lily plants”. R. de la Herrán, N. Cuñado, R. Navajas-Pérez, J.L. Santos, C. Ruiz Rejón, M.A. Garrido-Ramos & M. Ruiz Rejón. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 109(1-3):144-147.