Publications
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
- Catania, F, Rothering, R, and Vitali, V. . “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.
- Capp, JP, Nedelcu, AM, Dujon, AM, Roche, B, Catania, F, Ujvari, B, Alix-Panabières, C, and Thomas, F. . “Does cancer biology rely on Parrondo’s principles?” Cancers, № 13 (9): 2197. doi: 10.3390/cancers13092197.
- VItali, V, Rothering, R, and Catania, F. . “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, and Nguyen, Long LA. . “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, and Thomas, F. . “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.
- Thind, AS, Vitali, V, Guarracino, MR, and Catania, F. . “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, and Catania, F. . “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.
- Vitali, V, Hagen, R, and Catania, F. . “Environmentally-induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia.” Genome Research, № 29 doi: 10.1101/gr.245332.118.
- Vitali, V, Horn, F, and Catania, F. . “Insulin-like signaling within and beyond metazoans.” Biological Chemistry, № 399 (8): 851–857. doi: 10.1515/hsz-2018-0135.
- Langhanki, L, Berger, P, Treffon, J, Catania, F, Kahl, BC, and Mellmann, A. . “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 (152) doi: 10.1186/s12866-018-1308-3.
- Bayersdorf, R, Fruscalzo, A, and Catania, F. . “Linking autoimmunity to the origin of the adaptive immune system.” Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, № 1: 2–12. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoy001.
- Lepennetier, G, and Catania, F. . “Exploring the Impact of Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors on Pre-mRNA Splicing Across Eukaryotes.” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, № 7 (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, and Jürgen, Gadau. . “The hologenome concept: we need to incorporate function.” Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften, № 136 (3-4): 89–98. doi: 10.1007/s12064-016-0240-z.
- Catania, F. . “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, and Catania, F. . “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.
- Ferro, D, Lepennetier, G, and Catania, F. . “Cis-acting signals modulate the efficiency of programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia.” Nucleic Acids Research, № 2015 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv843.
- Catania, F, and Schmitz, J. . “On the path to genetic novelties: insights from programmed DNA elimination and RNA splicing.” WIREs RNA, № 2015: 547–561. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1293.
- Norouzitallab, P., Baruah, K., Vandegehuchte, M., Van Stappen, G., Catania, F., Vanden, Bussche J., Vanhaecke, L., Sorgeloos, P., and Bossier, P. . “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 (8): 3552–3563. doi: 10.1096/fj.14-252049.
- Endebu, M, Miah, F, Boon, N, Catania, F, Bossier, P, and Van Stappen, G. . “Historic occurrence of parthenogenetic Artemia in Great Salt Lake, USA, as demonstrated by molecular analysis of field samples.” Journal of Great Lakes Research, № 39 (1): 47–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2012.12.017.
- Catania, F, and Lynch, M. . “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, and Lynch, M. . “Spliced DNA Sequences in the Paramecium Germline: Their Properties and Evolutionary Potential.” Genome Biology and Evolution, № 5 (6): 1200–1211. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt087.
- Lynch, M, Bobay, LM, Catania, F, Gout, JF, and Rho, M. . “The repatterning of eukaryotic genomes by random genetic drift.” Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, № 12: 347–66. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082410-101412.
- Catania, F, and Lynch, M. . “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.
- Catania, F, Gao, X, and Scofield, DG. . “Endogenous mechanisms for the origins of spliceosomal introns.” The Journal of heredity, № 100 (5): 591–6. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esp062.
- Catania, F, Wurmser, F, Potekhin, AA, Przybos, E, and Lynch, M. . “Genetic diversity in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, № 26 (2): 421–31. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msn266.
- Catania, F, and Lynch, M. . “Where do introns come from?” PLoS Biology, № 6 (11): e283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060283.
- Catania, F, and Schlötterer, C. . “Non-African origin of a local beneficial mutation in D. melanogaster.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, № 22 (2): 265–272.
- Schöfl, G, Catania, F, Nolte, V, and Schlötterer, C. . “African sequence variation accounts for most of the sequence polymorphism in non-African Drosophila melanogaster.” Genetics, № 170 (4): 1701–1709. doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.037507.
- Bossier, P, Xiaomei, W, Catania, F, Dooms, S, Van Stappen, G, Naessens, E, and Sorgeloos, P. . “An RFLP database for authentication of commercial cyst samples of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (International Study on Artemia LXX).” Aquaculture, № 231 (1-4): 93–112. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2003.11.001.
- Catania, F, Kauer, MO, Daborn, PJ, Yen, JL, Ffrench-Constant, RH, and Schlötterer, C. . “World-wide survey of an Accord insertion and its association with DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster.” Molecular Ecology, № 13 (8): 2491–2504. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02263.x.