*indicates co-first authors
2022
Vöcking O*, Macias-Muñoz A*, Oakley TH. 2022. Deep Diversity: Extensive variation in the components of complex visual systems across animals.Cells 11: 3966 DOI: 10.3390/cells11243966.
McCulloch KJ*, Macias-Muñoz A*, Briscoe AD. 2022. Insect opsins and evo-devo: What have we learned in 25 years? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 377:20210288 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0288.
McCulloch KJ, Macias-Muñoz A, Mortazavi A, Briscoe AD. 2022. Multiple Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Spectral Tuning in Heliconius Molecular Biology and Evolution 39: msac067.DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac067
2021
Murad R*, Macias-Muñoz A*, Wong A, Ma X, Mortazavi A. 2021. Coordinated gene expression and chromatin regulation during Hydra head regeneration. Genome Biology and Evolution 13: evab221. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab221
Macias-Muñoz A, Mortazavi A. 2021. Bioinformatics pipeline for investigating molecular evolution and gene expression using RNA-seq. Vis. Exp. e61633. DOI: 10.3791/61633
2019
Macias-Muñoz A, Murad R, Mortazavi A. 2019. Molecular evolution and expression of opsin genes in Hydra vulgaris. BMC Genomics 20:992. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-6349-y
Macias-Muñoz A*, Rangel Olguin AG*, Briscoe AD. 2019. Evolution of phototransduction genes in Lepidoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution 11:2107-2124. DOI: 1093/gbe/evz150
Serra L, Macchietto M, Macias-Muñoz A, McGill CJ, Rodriguez IM, Rodriguez B, Rabi Murad R, Mortazavi A. 2019. Hybrid assembly of the genome of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae identifies the X-chromosome. G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics 9: 2687-2697. DOI: 1534/g3.119.400180
2018
Loudon C, Macias-Muñoz A. 2018. Item statistics derived from three-option versions of multiple-choice questions are usually as robust as four- or five-option versions: implications for exam design. Advances in Physiology Education 42: 565–575. DOI: 10.1152/advan.00186.2016
Catalán A, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2018. Evolution of sex-biased gene expression and dosage compensation in the eye and brain of Heliconius Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:2120-2134. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy111
Smith G, Kelly JE, Macias-Muñoz A, Butts CT, Martin RW, Briscoe AD. 2018. Evolutionary and structural analyses uncover a role for solvent interactions in the diversification of cocoonases in butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20172037. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2037
2017
Macias-Muñoz A, McCulloch KJ, Briscoe AD. 2017. Copy number variation and expression analysis reveals a non-orthologous pinta gene family member involved in butterfly vision. Genome Biology and Evolution 9:3398-3412. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx230
2016
Smith G, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2016. Gene duplication and gene expression changes play a role in the evolution of candidate pollen feeding genes in Heliconius Genome Biology and Evolution 8:2581-2596. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw180
Macias-Muñoz A, Smith G, Monteiro A, Briscoe AD. 2016. Transcriptome-wide differential gene expression in Bicyclus anynana butterflies: Female vision-related genes are more plastic. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33:79–92. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx230
2014
Smith G, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2014. Complete genome sequence of a novel Iflavirus from mRNA sequencing of the butterfly Heliconius erato. Genome Announc. 2: e00398-14. DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00398-14
2013
Briscoe AD, Macias-Muñoz A, Kozak KM, Walters JR, Yuan F, et al. 2013. Female behaviour drives expression and evolution of gustatory receptors in butterflies. PLoS Genetics 9: e1003620. DOI: 1371/journal.pgen.1003620