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Dr Roberto Feuda

Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow

School/Department: Genetics and Genome Biology, Department of

Email: rf190@leicester.ac.uk

Publications

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sNYVnJoAAAAJ&hl=it

 

1.     Aleotti, A., Goulty, M., Lewis, C., Giorgini, F., Feuda, R., 2023. The origin, evolution and molecular diversity of the chemokine system. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.17.541135 (in press Life Science Aliances)

2.     Yu, D., Ren, Y., Uesaka, M., Beavan, A.J.S., Muffato, M., Shen, J., Li, Y., Sato, I., Wan, W., Clark, J.W., Keating, J.N., Carlisle, E.M., Dearden, R.P., Giles, S., Randle, E., Sansom, R.S., Feuda, R., Fleming, J.F., Sugahara, F., Cummins, C., Patricio, M., Akanni, W., D’Aniello, S., Bertolucci, C., Irie, N., Alev, C., Sheng, G., Mendoza, A. de, Maeso, I., Irimia, M., Fromm, B., Peterson, K.J., Das, S., Hirano, M., Rast, J.P., Cooper, M.D., Paps, J., Pisani, D., Kuratani, S., Martin, F.J., Wang, W., Donoghue, P.C.J., Zhang, Y.E., Pascual-Anaya, J., 2023. Hagfish genome illuminates vertebrate whole genome duplications and their evolutionary consequences. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.08.536076 (in press Nature Ecology and Evolution)

3.     Zadra, N., Tatti, A., Silverj, A., Piccinno, R., Devilliers, J., Lewis, C., Arnoldi, D., Montarsi, F., Escuer, P., Fusco, G., De Sanctis, V., Feuda, R., Sánchez-Gracia, A., Rizzoli, A., Rota-Stabelli, O., 2023. Shallow Whole-Genome Sequencing of Aedes japonicus and Aedes koreicus from Italy and an Updated Picture of Their Evolution Based on Mitogenomics and Barcoding. Insects 14, 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14120904

4.     Goulty, M., Botton-Amiot, G., Rosato, E., Sprecher, S.G., Feuda, R., 2023. The monoaminergic system is a bilaterian innovation. Nat Commun 14, 3284. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39030-2

5.     De Vivo, G., Crocetta, F., Ferretti, M., Feuda, R., D’Aniello, S., 2023. Duplication and Losses of Opsin Genes in Lophotrochozoan Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40, msad066. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad066

6.     Pisani, D., Rossi, M.E., Marlétaz, F., Feuda, R., 2022. Phylogenomics: Is less more when using large-scale datasets? Current Biology 32, R1340–R1342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.019

7.     Feuda, R., Peter I.S. Feuda, R., Peter, I.S., 2022. Homologous gene regulatory networks control development of apical organs and brains in Bilateria. Science Advances 8, eabo2416. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo2416

8.     Giacomelli, M., Rossi, M.E., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Feuda, R., and Pisani, D. (2022). Resolving tricky nodes in the tree of life through amino acid recoding. iScience https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105594.

9.     Feuda, R. The temporal dynamics of the sea urchin regulome (2022). Biology Open. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.059216.

10.  Feuda, R., Menon, A. K. & Göpfert, M. C. Rethinking Opsins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac033

11.  Musser, J. M., Schippers, K. J., Nickel, M., Mizzon, G., Kohn, A. B., Pape, C., Hammel, J. U., Wolf, F., Liang, C., Hernández-Plaza, A., Achim, K., Schieber, N. L., Francis, W. R., R, S. V., Kling, S., Renkert, M., Feuda, R., Gaspar, I., Burkhardt, P., Bork, P., Beck, M., Kreshuk, A., Wörheide, G., Huerta-Cepas, J., Schwab, Y., Moroz, L. L. & Arendt, D. Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution. Science (2021). DOI: 10.1126/science.abj2949

12.  Almudi, I., Vizueta, J., Wyatt, C.D.R., de Mendoza, A., Marlétaz, F., Firbas, P.N., Feuda, R., Masiero, G., Medina, P., Alcaina-Caro, A., et al. (2020). Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings. Nature Communications 11, 2631. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16284-8

13.  Feuda, R., Goulty, M., Zadra, N., Gasparetti, T., Rosato, E., Segata, N., Rizzoli, A., Pisani, D., Ometto, L., and Stabelli, O.R. (2020). Phylogenomics of Opsin Genes in Diptera Reveals Lineage-Specific Events and Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila. Genome Biology and Evolution DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab170

14.  Pisani, D., Rota-Stabelli, O., and Feuda, R. (2020). Sensory Neuroscience: A Taste for Light and the Origin of Animal Vision. Current Biology 30, R773–R775. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.009  

15.  Fleming, J.F., Feuda, R., Roberts, N.W., and Pisani, D. (2020). A Novel Approach to Investigate the Effect of Tree Reconstruction Artifacts in Single-Gene Analysis Clarifies Opsin Evolution in Nonbilaterian Metazoans. Genome Biology and Evolution 12, 3906–3916. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa015

16.  Valencia, J.E., Feuda, R., Mellott, D.O., Burke, R.D., Peter, I.S., 2021. Ciliary photoreceptors in sea urchin larvae indicate pan-deuterostome cell type conservation. BMC Biology 19, 257. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01194-y

17.  Feuda, R., Dohrmann, M., Pett, W., Philippe, H., Rota-Stabelli, O., Lartillot, N., Wörheide, G. & Pisani, D. Improved Modeling of Compositional Heterogeneity Supports Sponges as Sister to All Other Animals. Current Biology 27, 3864-3870.e4 (2017). 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.008

18.  Pisani, D., Pett, W., Dohrmann, M., Feuda, R., Rota-Stabelli, O., Philippe, H., Lartillot, N. & Wörheide, G. Reply to Halanych et al.: Ctenophore misplacement is corroborated by independent datasets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113, E948–E949 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525718113

19.  Feuda, R., Marletaz, F., Bentley, M. A. & Holland, P. W. Conservation, duplication, and divergence of five opsin genes in insect evolution. Genome biology and evolution 8, 579–587 (2016). 10.1093/gbe/evw015

20.  Xu, P., Feuda, R., Lu, B., Xiao, H., Graham, R. I. & Wu, K. Functional opsin retrogene in nocturnal moth. Mobile DNA 7, 18 (2016).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-016-0074-8.

21.  Pisani, D., Pett, W., Dohrmann, M., Feuda, R., Rota-Stabelli, O., Philippe, H., Lartillot, N. & Wörheide, G. Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112, 15402–15407 (2015).

22.  Feuda, R, Bannikova, A. A., Zemlemerova, E. D., Febbraro, M. D., Loy, A., Hutterer, R., Aloise, G., Zykov, A. E., Annesi, F. & Colangelo, P. Tracing the evolutionary history of the mole, Talpa europaea, through mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and species distribution modelling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114, 495–512 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12459

23.  Feuda, R. & Smith, A. B. Phylogenetic Signal Dissection Identifies the Root of Starfishes. PLos One (2015). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123331

24.  Feuda, R., Rota-Stabelli, O., Oakley, T. H. & Pisani, D. The comb jelly opsins and the origins of animal phototransduction. Genome biology and evolution 6, 1964–1971 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evu154

25.  Feuda, R., Hamilton, S. C., McInerney, J. O. & Pisani, D. Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109, 18868–72 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204609109

26.  Pisani, D., Feuda, R., Peterson, K. J. & Smith, A. B. Resolving phylogenetic signal from noise when divergence is rapid: a new look at the old problem of echinoderm class relationships. Mol Phylogenet Evol 62, 27–34 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.028

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