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Gonzalo Nieto Feliner
Profesor de Investigación
Especialidad:
Filogenia y filogeografía de angiospermas. Hibridación natural y sus efectos en Evolución.
Línea de investigación:
Biología evolutiva de plantas
Perfil profesional
My scientific background is organismic Biology and more precisely Systematics. However, instigated by various stimuli (concern on epistemological issues, discovery of Cladistics, among others), back at the beginning of the 90s I moved on to enlarge my views and interests on various fronts.
My scientific interests have been mostly focused at the interface between macro- and microevolution, thus around the realm of speciation. Specifically, I have been always looking for patterns (i.e., traces) left by the evolutionary process that help to identify species (or whatever), reveal natural groups of organisms, and infer relationships among them.
My current research interests can be reasonably covered by the following topics: - Effects of reticulation in phylogeny reconstruction
- Phylogeny of angiosperm groups using morphological and molecular data
- Biogeography (and specifically, phylogeography) of plant groups in the Mediterranean region
- Cladistic methodology in general
However, because reductionism is not my strength and my limitations are many, I prefer to look for sound answers to modest (in the sense of spatiotemporally very limited) questions, rather than to keep browsing around universal key scientific riddles. Along this line, the kind of questions I normally seek to answer are: - What is the relation between high diversity (in terms of morphologically and ecologically distinguishable entities) and extensive hybridization in an angiosperm genus like Armeria (Plumbaginaceae)?
- Can we spot the good (or bad) morphological characters (i.e., those conveying phylogenetic signal for reconstructing organismic phylogenies) by congruence with one or more molecular data sets?
- The occurrence of a Pyrenean endemic (Arenaria tetraquetra, Caryophyllaceae) on a very isolated central Spanish range: is it a trace left by quaternary glaciations?
- Is there a biogeographical pattern at all in a disturbed region like the Western Mediterranean that we may seek to discover by conducting phylogeographic studies in angiosperm groups? Or, at least, is there a pattern on a more reduced geographical scale, i.e., within the Iberian massifs?
- How come a molecular data set that has been shaped by disturbing phenomena like extensive hybridization and selective homogenization can reveal a reasonably strong phylogenetic signal?
Selección de publicaciones
Moharre, F.; Sanmartin, I.; Kazempour-Osaloo, S.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2019. Morphological Innovations and Vast Extensions of Mountain Habitats Triggered Rapid Diversification Within the Species-Rich Irano-Turanian Genus Acantholimon (Plumbaginaceae). Frontiers in Genetics 9:698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00698
Rosato, M.; Álvarez, I.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Rosselló, J.A. 2018. Inter-and intraspecific hypervariability in interstitial telomeric-like repeats (TTTAGGG) n in Anacyclus (Asteraceae). Annals of Botany 122(3):387-395. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy079
Villa-Machío, I.; Fernández de Castro, A.G.; Fuertes-Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2018. Out of North Africa by different routes: phylogeography and species distribution model of the western Mediterranean Lavatera maritima (Malvaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187(3):441-455. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boy025
Viruel, J.; Haguenauer, A.; Juin, M.; Mirleau, F.; Bouteiller, D.; Boudagher-Kharrat, M.; Ouahmane, L.; La Malfa, S.; Médail, F.; Sanguin, H.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Baumel, A. 2018. Advances in genotyping microsatellite markers through sequencing and consequences of scoring methods for Ceratonia siliqua (Leguminosae). Applications in Plant Sciences 6(12):e01201. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1201
Vitales, D.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Vallès, J.; Garnatje, T.; Firat, M.; Álvarez, I. 2018. A new circumscription of the Mediterranean genus Anacyclus (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on plastid and nuclear DNA markers. Phytotaxa 349(1):1-17. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.349.1.1
Marques, I.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Martins-Louçao, M.A.; Moharrek, F.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2017. A three-genome five-gene comprehensive phylogeny of the bulbous genus Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) challenges current classifications and reveals multiple hybridization events. Taxon 66(4):832-854. https://doi.org/10.12705/664.3
Moharrek, F.; Kazempour-Osaloo, S.; Assadi, M.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2017. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a wide circumscription of a characteristic Irano-Turanian element: Acantholimon (Plumbaginaceae-Limonioideae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 184(3): 366-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/box033
Nieto Feliner, G.; Álvarez, I.; Fuertes-Aguilar, J.; Heuertz, M.; Marques, I.; Moharrek, F.; Piñeiro, R.; Riina, R.; Rosselló, J.A.; Soltis, P.S.; Villa-Machío, I. 2017. Is homoploid hybrid speciation that rare? An empiricist’s view. Heredity 118:513-516.
https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2017.7
Rosato, M.; Álvarez, I.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Rosselló, J.A. 2017. High and uneven levels of 45S rDNA site-number variation across wild populations of a diploid plant genus (Anacyclus, Asteraceae). PLoS ONE. 12(10):e0187131. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187131
Marques, I.; Jürgens, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2016. Convergent recruitment of new pollinators is triggered by independent hybridization events in Narcissus. New Phytologist 210(2): 731-742. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13805/full
Ceron-Souza, I.; Turner, B.L.; Winter, K.; Medina, E.; Bermingham, E.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2014. Reproductive phenology and physiological traits in the red mangrove hybrid complex Rhizophora mangle and R. racemosa) across a natural gradient of nutrients and salinity. Plant Ecology 215: 481-493. (DOI 10.1007/s11258-014-0315-1)
Nieto Feliner, G. 2014. Patterns and processes in plant phylogeography in the Mediterranean Basin. A review, Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 16: 265-278 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2014.07.002).
García-Fernández, A.; Iriondo, J.M.; Escudero, A.; Aguilar, J.F.; Feliner, G.N. 2013. Genetic patterns of habitat fragmentation and past climate-change effects in the Mediterranean high-mountain plant Armeria caespitosa (Plumbaginaceae). American Journal of Botany 100:1641-1650, doi:10.3732/ajb.1200653.
Marques, I.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Martins-Loução, A.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2012. Spatial-temporal patterns of flowering asynchrony and pollinator fidelity in hybridizing species of Narcissus. Evolutionary Ecology 26:1433-1450.
Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Gutiérrez Larena, B.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2011. Genetic and morphological diversity in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) shaped by glacial cycles in southern Mediterranean refugia (Sierra Nevada, Spain). Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 68: 175-197. PDF
Marques, I.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Martins-Loução, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J. 2011. Fitness in Narcissus hybrids: low fertility is overcome by early hybrid vigor, absence of exogenous selection and high bulb propagation. Journal of Ecology 99: 1508-1519
Marques, I.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Draper, D.; Martins-Loução, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J. 2010. Unraveling cryptic reticulate relationships and the origin of orphan hybrid disjunct populations in Narcissus. Evolution 64: 2353–2368. PDF
Feliner, G.N.; Rosselló, J.A. 2007. Better the devil you know? Guidelines for insightful utilization of nrDNA ITS in species-level evolutionary studies in plants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 44 (2), 911-919. PDF
Piñeiro, R.; Aguilar, J.F.; Munt, D.D.; Feliner, G.N. (2007). Ecology matters: Atlantic-mediterranean disjunction in the sand-dune shrub Armeria pungens (Plumbaginaceae). Molecular Ecology, 16 (10), 2155-2171. PDF
Nieto Feliner, G.; Gutiérrez Larena, B.; Fuertes Aguilar, J. (2004). Fine scale geographical structure, intra-individual polymorphism and recombination in nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae). Annals of Botany 93: 189-200. PDF
Gutiérrez Larena, B.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2002. Glacial-induced altitudinal migrations in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) inferred from patterns of cpDNA haplotype sharing. Molecular Ecology 11: 1965-1974. PDF
Nieto Feliner, G.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Rosselló, J.A.(2001). Can extensive reticulation and concerted evolution result in a cladistically structured molecular data set? Cladistics 17(4): 301-312. PDF
Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Rosselló, J.A.; Nieto Feliner, G. 1999. Molecular evidence for the compilospecies model of reticulate evolution in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae). Systematic Biology 48: 735-754. PDF
Más publicaciones
Marques, I.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Martins-Loução, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J. 2012. Genome size and base composition variation in natural and experimental Narcissus hybrids. Annals of Botany 109: 257-264.
Nieto Feliner, G. 2011. Southern European glacial refugia: a tale of tales. Taxon 60: 365-372. PDF
Piñeiro, R.; Widmer, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2011. Introgression in peripheral populations and founder effects shape genetic structure of the coastal shrub Armeria pungens. Heredity 106: 228-240.
Nieto Feliner, G.; Aedo, C.; Muñoz Garmendia, F. 2010. Santiago Castroviejo Bolibar. Taxon 59: 314-316. PDF
Escobar Garcia, P.; Schoenswetter, P.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Schneeweiss, G.M. 2009 Five Molecular Markers Reveal Extensive Morphological Homoplasy and Reticulate Evolution in the Malva Alliance (Malvaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50 (2): 226-239. PDF
Nieto Feliner, G. (2009). In Memoriam Santiago Castroviejo Bolibar (1946-2009). ARBOR Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura CLXXXV 740: VII-XI.
Piñeiro, R.; Costa, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2009. Overcoming paralogy and incomplete lineage sorting to detect phylogeographic signal: a GapC study of Armeria pungens. Botany 87: 164-177. PDF
Piñeiro, R.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Menezes de Sequeira, M.; Nieto Feliner, G. (2009). Low genetic diversity in the rare Madeiran endemic Armeria maderensis (Plumbaginaceae). Folia Geobotanica 44:65–81. PDF
Alvarez, I.; Costa, A.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2008. Selecting low-copy Nuclear Genes for Plant Phylogenies: A Preliminary Analysis for the Senecioneae (Asteraceae). Journal of Molecular Evolution 66: 276-291. PDF
Ronikier, M.; Costa, A.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.F.; Nieto Feliner, G.; Küpfer, P.; Mirek, Z. (2008) Phylogeography of Pulsatilla vernalis (L.) Mill. (Ranunculaceae): Chloroplast DNA reveals two evolutionary lineages across central Europe and Scandinavia. Journal of Biogeography, 35 (9): 1650-1664. PDF
Larena, B.G.; Aguilar, J.F.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2006. Dispersal across Southern Iberian refugia? Integrating RAPDs, sequence data and morphometrics in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae). Folia Geobotanica 41 (3): 305-322. PDF
Valcarcel, V; Vargas, P.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2006. Phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis of the westerm Mediterranean Arenaria section Plinthine (Caryophyllaceae) based on nuclear, plastid and morphological markers. Taxon 55 (2): 297-312. PDF
Albaladejo, R.G.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Aparicio, A.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2005. Contrasting nuclear-plastidial phylogenetic patterns in the recently diverged Iberian Phlomis crinita and P. lychnitis lineages (Lamiaceae). Taxon 54 (4): 987-998. PDF
Gutiérrez Larena, B.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2004. Morphometric and molecular evidence for recognition of a new subspecies of Armeria filicaulis (Plumbaginaceae). Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 61: 35-48. PDF
Lihová, J.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Marhold, K.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2004. Origin of the disjunct tetraploid Cardamine amporitana (Brassicaceae) assessed with nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data. American Journal of Botany 91(8): 1231–1242. PDF
Nieto Feliner, G. (2004). El componente histórico en la estimación de la Biodiversidad y en otras facetas de la Biología. En: M. Gomendio (ed.), Los retos medioambientales del siglo XXI. La conservación de la biodiversidad en España: 193-207. Fundación BBVA, CSIC. Madrid.
Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2003. Additive polymorphisms and reticulation in an ITS phylogeny of thrifts (Armeria, Plumbaginaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28(3):430-447. PDF
Nieto Feliner, G.; Herrero, A.; Jury S.L. (eds.) 2003. Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. X. Araliaceae-Umbelliferae. xlv + 498 pp.CSIC, Madrid.
Nieto Feliner, G., Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Rosselló, J. A. (2002). Reticulation or divergence: the origin of a rare serpentine endemic assessed with chloroplast, nuclear and RAPD markers. Plant Systematics and Evolution 231: 19-38. PDF
Alvarez Fernández, I.; Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Panero, J. L.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of Doronicum (Asteraceae,Senecioneae) based on morphological, nuclear ribosomal (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL–F) evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 20: 41-64. PDF
Alvarez Fernández, I.; Nieto Feliner, G. 2001. A multivariate approach to assess the taxonomic utility of morphometric characters in Doronicum (Asteraceae, Senecioneae). Folia Geobotanica 36(4): 423-444.
Nieto Feliner, G.,Fuertes Aguilar, J., Rosselló, J. A. (2001). A new species of Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) from southern Spain with molecular and morphometric evidence on its origin. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135(1): 71-84. PDF
Fuertes Aguilar, J.; Rosselló, J. A.; Nieto Feliner, G. 1999. Nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) concerted evolution in natural and artificial hybrids of Armeria (Plumbaginaceae). Molecular Ecology 8: 1341-1346. PDF
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