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Training

We provide one of the best scientific environments in the country for researchers initiating their scientific careers as well as for postdoctoral scholars.

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Evolution

Evolutionary biology is at the core of our scientific program, being investigated at different taxonomic levels and from different fields and perspectives.

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Biodiversity

The Department aims to study the diversity of animal life worldwide, with active projects in most continents.

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Research

With one of the highest research productivities in the country, the Department produces more than 80 SCI papers per year, including many in the top scientific journals.  

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Welcome to the web page of the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) in Madrid, Spain, a research institute of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)

Bienvenidos a la página web del Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva (BBE) del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) de Madrid, parte del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

 

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Nueva directora de Departamento

Desde principios de año 2013 es directora del Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva la Dra. Annie Machordom Barbé.

 

V Jornadas del Departamento

Los días 5 y 6 de noviembre de 2012 se celebraron las V Jornadas del Departamento, en las que a través de diferentes comunicaciones orales los miembros del departamento presentaron el estado actual de sus líneas de investigación.

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Programa

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

Aleixandre, P., J. Hérnandez-Montoya, B. Milá. 2013. Speciation on oceanic islands: rapid adaptive divergence vs. cryptic speciation in a Guadalupe Island songbird (Aves: Junco). PLOS ONE, 8(5): e63242.

Askew, R.R., G. Melika, J. Pujade-Villar, K. Schönrogge, G.N. Stone, J.L. Nieves-Aldrey. 2013. Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in cynipid oak galls in the West Palaearctic. Zootaxa 3643(1):1-133.

Buckley, D., V. Molnár, G. Németh, Ö. Petneházy, J. Vörös. 2013. 'Monster...-omics': on segmentation, re-segmentation, and vertegrae formation in amphibians and other vertebrates. Frontiers in Zoology, 10:17

Percino-Daniel, N., D. Buckley, M. García-París. 2013. Pharmacological properties of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) promoted their integration into the cultural heritage of native rural Spain as inferred by vernacular name diversity, traditions, and mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 147:570-583.

Camacho, A.I., B.A. Dorda, I. Rey. 2013. Old and new taxonomic tools: description of a new genus and two new species of Bathynellidae from Spain with morphological and molecular characters. Journal of Natural History, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/ 00222933.2013.768361.

Peterson, M.P., M. Abolins-Abols, J.W. Atwell, R.J. Rice, B. Milá, E.D. Ketterson. 2013. Variation in candidate genes CLOCK and ADCYAP1 does not consistently predict differences in migratory behavior in the songbird genus Junco. F1000Research, 2:115.

Fuller, T., H. Thomassen, M. Peralvo, W. Buermann, B. Milá, C. Kieswetter, P. Jarrin, S. Cameron-Devitt, E. Mason, R. Schweizer, J. Schlunegger, J. Chan, O. Wang, C. Schneider, J. Pollinger, S. Saatchi, C. Graham, R. K. Wayne, T. B. Smith. 2013. Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280:20130423.

Vences, M., J. M  Guayasamin, A. Miralles, I. de la Riva. 2013. To name or not to name: Criteria to promote economy of change in Linnaean classification schemes. Zootaxa 3636(2):201-244.

Boto, L. 2012. Evolución reticulada. eVOLUCION 7(2):73-83

Bourgeois, Y., J. A.M. Bertrand, C. Thébaud, B. Milá. 2012. Investigating the role of the Melanocortin-1 receptor gene in an extreme case of microgeographical variation in the pattern of melanin-based plumage pigmentation. PLOS ONE, 7(12):e50906.

Milá, B., E. S. Tavares, A. Muñoz Saldaña, T. B. Smith, J. Karubian, A. J. Baker. 2012. A trans-Amazonian screening of mtDNA reveals deep intraspecific divergence in forest birds and suggests a vast underestimation of species diversity. PLOS ONE, 7(7): e40541. PDF

 

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