Martínez-Eraso C*, Cárdenas H, Ceron Romero M. 2024. Phylogenomics and chromosome mapping show that ectopic recombination of subtelomeres is critical for antigenic diversity and has a complex evolutionary history in Plasmodium parasites. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1177350 (PDF)

Heath KD, Batstone RT, Ceron Romero M, McMullen JG. 2022. MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis. Mbio 13(4):e00888-22 https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00888-22 (PDF)

Cerón-Romero MA, Fonseca MM, de Oliveira Martins L, Posada D, Katz LA. 2022. Phylogenomic Analyses of 2,786 Genes in 158 Lineages Support a Root of the Eukaryotic Tree of Life between Opisthokonts and All Other Lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution 14(8):evac119 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac119 (PDF)

Weiner A, Yan Y, Cerón-Romero MA, Katz LA. (2020). Phylogenomics of the Epigenetic Toolkit Reveals Punctate Retention of Genes across Eukaryotes. Genome Biology and Evolution 12(12):2196–2210 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa198 (PDF)

Cerón-Romero MA, Maurer-Alcalá X, Grattepanche JD, Yan Y, Fonseca MM, Katz LA. 2019. PhyloToL: A taxon/gene rich phylogenomic pipeline to explore genome evolution of diverse eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(8):1831–1842 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz103 (PDF)

Cerón-Romero MA, Nwaka E*, Owoade Z*, Katz LA. 2018. PhyloChromoMap, a tool for mapping phylogenomic history along chromosomes, reveals the dynamic nature of karyotype evolution in Plasmodium falciparum. Genome Biology and Evolution 10(2):553-561 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy017 (PDF)

Tekle YI, Wood FC, Katz LA, Ceron-Romero MA, Gorfu LA. 2017. Amoebozoans are aecretly but ancestrally aexual: Evidence for sex genes and potential novel crossover pathways in diverse groups of amoebae. Genome Biology and Evolution 9(2):375-387 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx002 (PDF)

Tekle YI, Anderson OR, Katz LA, Maurer-Alcala XX, Ceron-Romero MA, and Molestina, R. 2016. Phylogenomics of 'Discosea': A new molecular phylogenetic perspective on Amoebozoa with flat body forms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99:144-154 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.029 (PDF)

Cerón-Romero MA. In prep. Timing gene duplications and losses across the eukaryotic tree of life

Cerón-Romero MA, Halloway AH. In prep. Evaluating the impact of the ectopic recombination of subtelomeres on the diversity of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Cerón-Romero MA, Sosa-Marquez I**, Warnow T, Heath KD. In prep (draft available upon request). Study of the incidence of homologous recombination in function of the population dynamics of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

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