Publications

Published works:

• Developmental plasticity in reptiles: Insights from temperature-dependent gene expression in wall lizard embryos

  Nathalie Feiner, Alfredo Rago, Geoffrey M While, Tobias Uller
  (2018) Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A

• Signatures of selection in embryonic transcriptomes of lizards adapting in parallel to cool climate

  Nathalie Feiner, Alfredo Rago, Geoffrey M. While, Tobias Uller
  (2018) Evolution

• Thermal tolerance in the keystone species Daphnia magna—a candidate gene and an outlier analysis approach

  M. Jansen, A. N. Geerts, Alfredo Rago, K. I. Spanier, C. Denis, et al.
  (2017) Molecular ecology

• OGS2: genome re-annotation of the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis

  Alfredo Rago, Donald G Gilbert, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Timothy B Sackton, Xu Wang, et al.
  (2016) BMC Genomics

• Function and evolution of DNA methylation in Nasonia vitripennis

  Xu Wang, David Wheeler, Amanda Avery, Alfredo Rago, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, et al.
  (2013) PLoS genetics

• Introduction pathway and climate trump ecology and life history as predictors of establishment success in alien amphibians

  Alfredo Rago, Geoffrey M. While, Tobias Uller
  (2012) Ecology and evolution

Preprints:

• FESTA: Flexible Exon-based Splicing and Transcription Annotation
  Alfredo Rago, John Kenneth Colbourne
  bioRxiv 300947; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/300947
• How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against
  Alfredo Rago, Kostas Kouvaris, Tobias Uller, Richard A Watson
  bioRxiv 339622; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/339622

Presentations and conference papers:

• Modularity in gene expression across animal development
  Alfredo Rago, J Werren, JK Colbourne
  5 th Annual BEAR PGR conference (2014)

PhD thesis:

• ONE GENOME, TWO SEXES: GENOMIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC BASES OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN SPECIES WITHOUT SEXUAL CHROMOSOMES
  Alfredo Rago (2017), University of Birmingham