Publications

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2005
• 2004

2021

• Catania F, Rothering R, Vitali V. 2021. ‘One cell, two gears: extensive somatic genome plasticity accompanies high germline genome stability in Paramecium.’ Genome Biology and Evolution x. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab263/6443145. [online first]
• Capp JP, Nedelcu AM, Dujon AM, Roche B, Catania F, Ujvari B, Alix-Panabières C, Thomas F. 2021. ‘Does cancer biology rely on Parrondo’s principles?’ Cancers 13, No. 9: 2197. doi: 10.3390/cancers13092197.
• VItali V, Rothering R, Catania F. 2021. ‘Fifty generations of amitosis: tracing asymmetric allele segregation in polyploid cells with single-cell DNA sequencing.’ Microorganisms 9: 1979.
• Catania F, Baedke J, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Delgado AN, Vitali V, Nguyen Long LA. 2021. ‘Global climate change, diet and the complex relationship between human host and microbiome: Towards an integrated picture.’ BioEssays . doi: 10.1002/bies.202100049.
• Catania F, Ujvari B, Capp JP, Roche B, Thomas F. 2021. ‘Bridging tumorigenesis and therapy resistance with a non-Darwinian and non-Lamarckian mechanism of adaptive evolution.’ Frontiers in Oncology 11: 732081. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.732081.

2020

• Thind AS, Vitali V, Guarracino MR, Catania F. 2020. ‘What’s genetic variation got to do with it? Starvation-induced self-fertilization enhances survival in Paramecium.’ Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 626–638. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa052.
• Hagen R, Vitali V, Catania F. 2020. ‘Cross-generational effects and non-random developmental response to temperature variation in Paramecium.’ Frontiers Cell and Developmental Biology 8: 584219. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.584219.

2019

• Vitali V, Hagen R, Catania F. 2019. ‘Environmentally-induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia.’ Genome Research 29. doi: 10.1101/gr.245332.118.

2018

• Langhanki L, Berger P, Treffon J, Catania F, Kahl BC, Mellmann A. 2018. ‘In vivo competition and horizontal gene transfer among distinct Staphylococcus aureus lineages as major drivers for adaptational changes during long-term persistence in humans.’ BMC Microbiology 18, No. 152. doi: 10.1186/s12866-018-1308-3.
• Bayersdorf R, Fruscalzo A, Catania F. 2018. ‘Linking autoimmunity to the origin of the adaptive immune system.’ Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1: 2–12. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoy001.
• Vitali V, Horn F, Catania F. 2018. ‘Insulin-like signaling within and beyond metazoans.’ Biological Chemistry 399, No. 8: 851–857. doi: 10.1515/hsz-2018-0135.

2017

• Catania F. 2017. ‘From intronization to intron loss: How the interplay between mRNA-associated processes can shape the architecture and the expression of eukaryotic genes.’ International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 91: 136–144. doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2017.06.017.
• Lepennetier G, Catania F. 2017. ‘Exploring the Impact of Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors on Pre-mRNA Splicing Across Eukaryotes.’ G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7, No. 7: 2107–2114. doi: 10.1534/g3.117.041483.
• Catania, Francesco; Krohs, Ulrich; Chittò, Marco; Ferro, Diana; Ferro, Kevin; Lepennetier, Gildas; Görtz, Hans-Dieter; Schreiber, Rebecca S.; Kurtz, Joachim; Gadau Jürgen. 2017. ‘The hologenome concept: we need to incorporate function.’ Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften 136, No. 3-4: 89–98. doi: 10.1007/s12064-016-0240-z.

2016

• Lepennetier G, Catania F. 2016. ‘mRNA-Associated Processes and Their Influence on Exon-Intron Structure in Drosophila melanogaster.’ G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6: 1617–1626. doi: 10.1534/g3.116.029231.

2015

• Catania F, Schmitz J. 2015. ‘On the path to genetic novelties: insights from programmed DNA elimination and RNA splicing.’ WIREs RNA 2015: 547–561. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1293.
• Ferro D, Lepennetier G, Catania F. 2015. ‘Cis-acting signals modulate the efficiency of programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia.’ Nucleic Acids Research 2015. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv843.

2014

• Norouzitallab P., Baruah K., Vandegehuchte M., Van Stappen G., Catania F., Vanden Bussche J., Vanhaecke L., Sorgeloos P., Bossier P. 2014. ‘Environmental heat stress induces epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of robustness in parthenogenetic Artemia model.’ FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 28, No. 8: 3552–3563. doi: 10.1096/fj.14-252049.

2013

• Endebu M, Miah F, Boon N, Catania F, Bossier P, Van Stappen G. 2013. ‘Historic occurrence of parthenogenetic Artemia in Great Salt Lake, USA, as demonstrated by molecular analysis of field samples.’ Journal of Great Lakes Research 39, No. 1: 47–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2012.12.017.
• Catania F, Lynch M. 2013. ‘A simple model to explain evolutionary trends of eukaryotic gene architecture and expression: How competition between splicing and cleavage/polyadenylation factors may affect gene expression and splice-site recognition in eukaryotes.’ BioEssays 1. doi: 10.1002/bies.201200127.
• Catania F, McGrath CL, Doak TG, Lynch M. 2013. ‘Spliced DNA Sequences in the Paramecium Germline: Their Properties and Evolutionary Potential.’ Genome Biology and Evolution 5, No. 6: 1200–1211. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt087.

2011

• Lynch M, Bobay LM, Catania F, Gout JF, Rho M. 2011. ‘The repatterning of eukaryotic genomes by random genetic drift.’ Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 12: 347. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082410-101412.

2010

• Catania F, Lynch M. 2010. ‘Evolutionary dynamics of a conserved sequence motif in the ribosomal genes of the ciliate Paramecium.’ BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 129. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-129.

2009

• Catania F, Gao X, Scofield DG. 2009. ‘Endogenous mechanisms for the origins of spliceosomal introns.’ The Journal of heredity 100, No. 5: 591. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esp062.
• Catania F, Wurmser F, Potekhin AA, Przybos E, Lynch M. 2009. ‘Genetic diversity in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.’ Molecular Biology and Evolution 26, No. 2: 421. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msn266.

2008

• Catania F, Lynch M. 2008. ‘Where do introns come from?’ PLoS Biology 6, No. 11: e283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060283.

2005

• Catania F, Schlötterer C. 2005. ‘Non-African origin of a local beneficial mutation in D. melanogaster.’ Molecular Biology and Evolution 22, No. 2: 265–272.
• Schöfl G, Catania F, Nolte V, Schlötterer C. 2005. ‘African sequence variation accounts for most of the sequence polymorphism in non-African Drosophila melanogaster.’ Genetics 170, No. 4: 1701–1709. doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.037507.

2004

• Bossier P, Xiaomei W, Catania F, Dooms S, Van Stappen G, Naessens E, Sorgeloos P. 2004. ‘An RFLP database for authentication of commercial cyst samples of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (International Study on Artemia LXX).’ Aquaculture 231, No. 1-4: 93–112. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2003.11.001.
• Catania F, Kauer MO, Daborn PJ, Yen JL, Ffrench-Constant RH, Schlötterer C. 2004. ‘World-wide survey of an Accord insertion and its association with DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Molecular Ecology 13, No. 8: 2491–2504. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02263.x.