Díaz-Pérez A.J., Sharifi-Tehrani M., Inda L.A., Catalán P. Polyphyly, gene-duplication and extensive allopolyploidy framed the evolution of the ephemeral Vulpia grasses and other fine-leaved Loliinae (Poaceae) // Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2014. Vol. 79. P. 92–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.009


Viruel J., Catalán P., Segarra-Moragues J.G. Latitudinal environmental niches and riverine barriers shaped the phylogeography of the Central Chilean endemic Dioscorea humilis (Dioscoreaceae) // PLoS ONE. 2014. Vol. 9, Iss. 10. Article number A568. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110029


López-Alvarez D., Manzaneda A.J., Rey P.J., Giraldo P., Benavente E., Allainguillaume J., Mur L., Caicedo A.L., Hazen S.P., Breiman A., Ezrati S., Catalán P. Environmental niche variation and evolutionary diversification of the Brachypodium distachyon grass complex species in their native circum-mediterranean range // American Journal of Botany. 2015. Vol. 102, Iss. 7. P. 1073–1088. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1500128


Pérez-Collazos E., Segarra-Moragues J.G., Villar L., Catalán P. Ant pollination promotes spatial genetic structure in the long-lived plant Borderea pyrenaica (Dioscoreaceae) // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2015. Vol. 116, Iss. 1. P. 144–155. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12562


Simón-Porcar V.I., Pérez-Collazos E., Catalán P. Phylogeny and systematics of the western Mediterranean Vella pseudocytisus-V. Aspera complex (Brassicaceae) // Turkish Journal of Botany. 2015. Vol. 39, Iss. 3. P. 472–486. DOI: 10.3906/bot-1406-87


Minaya M., Díaz-Pérez A., Mason-Gamer R., Pimentel M., Catalán P. Evolution of the beta-amylase gene in the temperate grasses: Non-purifying selection, recombination, semiparalogy, homeology and phylogenetic signal // Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2015. Vol. 91. P. 68–85. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.014


Catalán P., López-Álvarez D., Bellosta C., Villar L. Updated taxonomic descriptions, iconography, and habitat preferences of Brachypodium distachyon, B. stacei, and B. hybridum (Poaceae) // Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid. 2016. Vol. 73, Iss. 1. Article number e028. DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2428


Shiposha V., Catalán P., Olonova M., Marques I. Genetic structure and diversity of the selfing model grass Brachypodium stacei (Poaceae) in Western Mediterranean: Out of the Iberian Peninsula and into the islands // PeerJ. 2016. Vol. 2016, Iss. 9. Article number e2407. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2407 


Marques I., Montgomery S.A., Barker M.S., Macfarlane T.D., Conran J.G., Catalán P., Rieseberg L.H., Rudall P.J., Graham S.W. Transcriptome-derived evidence supports recent polyploidization and a major phylogeographic division in Trithuria submersa (Hydatellaceae, Nymphaeales) // New Phytologist. 2016. Vol. 210, Iss. 1. P. 310–323. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13755


Viruel J., Segarra-Moragues J.G., Raz L., Forest F., Wilkin P., Sanmartín I., Catalán P. Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene origin of yams (Dioscorea, Dioscoreaceae) in the Laurasian Palaearctic and their subsequent Oligocene-Miocene diversification // Journal of Biogeography. 2016. Vol. 43, Iss. 4. P. 750–762. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12678


Marques I., Draper D., López-Herranz M.L., Garnatje T., Segarra-Moragues J.G., Catalán P. Past climate changes facilitated homoploid speciation in three mountain spiny fescues (Festuca, Poaceae) // Scientific Reports. 2016. Vol. 6. Article number 36283. DOI: 10.1038/srep36283


Marques I., Shiposha V., López-Alvarez D., Manzaneda A.J., Hernandez P., Olonova M., Catalán P. Environmental isolation explains Iberian genetic diversity in the highly homozygous model grass Brachypodium distachyon // BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2017. Vol. 17, Iss. 1. Article number 139. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0996-x


Pimentel M., Escudero M., Sahuquillo E., Minaya M.Á., Catalán P. Are diversification rates and chromosome evolution in the temperate grasses (Pooideae) associated with major environmental changes in the Oligocene-Miocene? // PeerJ. 2017. Volume 2017, Issue 9. Article number 3815. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3815 (Scopus, WoS, IF–2.7, Q1).


López-Álvarez D., Zubair H., Beckmann M., Draper J., Catalán P. Diversity and association of phenotypic and metabolomic traits in the close model grasses Brachypodium distachyon, B. stacei and B. hybridum // Annals of botany. 2017. Volume 119, Issue 4. P. 545–561. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw239 (Scopus, WoS, IF–4.506, Q1, TOP-10).


Díaz-Pérez A., López-Álvarez D., Sancho R., Catalán P. Reconstructing the origins and the biogeography of species’ genomes in the highly reticulate allopolyploid-rich model grass genus Brachypodium using minimum evolution, coalescence and maximum likelihood approaches // Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2018. Volume 127. P. 256–271. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.003 (Scopus, WoS, IF–4.383, Q1, TOP-10).


Shiposha V., Marques I., López-Alvarez D., Manzaneda A.J., Hernandez P., Olonova M., Catalán P. Multiple founder events explain the genetic diversity and structure of the model allopolyploid grass Brachypodium hybridum in the Iberian Peninsula hotspot // Annals of Botany. 2019. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcz169 (Scopus, WoS, IF–4.506, Q1, TOP-10).


Kergunteuil A., Humair L., Maire A.-L., Moreno-Aguilar M.F., Godschalx A., Catalán P., Rasmann S. Tritrophic interactions follow phylogenetic escalation and climatic adaptation // Scientific Reports. 2020. Volume 10, Issue 1. Article number 2074. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59068-2 


Marhold K., Kučera J., Alencar J., Alp Ş., Alves L.I.F., Andronov E.E., Astashenkov A.Y., Aytaç Z., Bancheva S.T., Barboza G.E., Batista F.R.C., Belo D.P., Belous V.N., Boboev M., Buril M.T., Catalán P., Çeçen Ö., Chase M.W., Cheryomushkina V.A., Christenhusz M.J.M., da Silveira A.D., Dettke G.A., Dornelas C.S.M., Doronkin V.M., Elisafenko T.V., Erst A.S., Farinaccio M.A., Felix L.P., Forni-Martins E.R., Giorgis M.A., Gnutikov A.A., Grebenjuk A.V., Gupta R.C., Guseynova Z.A., Kaur M., Kaur N., Korobkov A.A., Kostritsyna T.V., Kotseruba V.V., Krivenko D.A., Leonova T.V., Lian L., Mesterházy A., Mitrenina E.Y., Morero R.E., Murtazaliev R.A., Nepomuceno S.C., Neto E.M., Neves J.A.L., Nollet F., Nosov N.N., de Oliveira Ribeiro A.R., Olonova M.V., Pirolla-Souza A., Poliakova T.A., Proença C.E.B., Pulkina S.V., Rodionov A.V., Santos D., Nasário J.P.S., Shatokhina A.V., dos Santos Silva R., Singh J., Singhal V.K., Smirnov S.V., Tashev A.N., Veklich T.N., Vlasova N.V., Wang W., Zaremba P.A., Zhmud E.V., Zolotov D.V. IAPT chromosome data 35 // Taxon. 2021. Vol.70, Iss. 6. P. 1402–1441. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12638


Mairal M., Namaganda M., Gizaw A., Chala D., Brochmann C., Catalán P. Multiple mountain-hopping colonization of sky-islands on the two sides of Tropical Africa during the Pleistocene: The afroalpine Festuca grasses // Journal of Biogeography. 2021. Vol. 48, Iss. 8, P. 1858–1874. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14117


Decena M.A., Gálvez-Rojas S., Agostini F., Sancho R., Contreras-Moreira B., Des Marais D.L., Hernandez P., Catalán P. Comparative genomics, evolution, and drought-induced expression of dehydrin genes in model brachypodium grasses // Plants. 2021. Vol. 10, Iss. 12. Article number 2664. DOI: 10.3390/plants10122664


Pickett B., Carey C.J., Arogyaswamy K., Botthoff J., Maltz M., Catalán P., Aronson E.L. Enriched root bacterial microbiome in invaded vs native ranges of the model grass allotetraploid Brachypodium hybridum // Biological Invasions. 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02692-4


Sancho R., Inda L.A., Díaz-Pérez A., Des Marais D.L., Gordon S., Vogel J.P., Lusinska J., Hasterok R, Contreras-Moreira B., Catalán P. Tracking the Ancestry of Known and ‘Ghost’ Homeologous Subgenomes in Model Grass Brachypodium Polyploids // The Plant Journal. 2021. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15650


Hasterok R., Catalan P., Hazen S.P., Roulin A.C., Vogel J.P., Wang K., Mur L.A.J. Twenty years of Brachypodium as a model system to study grass biology – quo vadis? // Trends in Plant Science. 2022.