Postdoctoral Researcher at Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP, CSIC-UPV), València, Spain
RNA viruses that exploit self-cleaving ribozymes for translation initiation. bioRxiv, 2026.
Small Self-Cleaving Ribozymes in Eukaryotes. Molecular Evolution of RNA Regulatory Enzymes and Their Systems. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Series. Springer, 2025.
Consensus statement from the first RdRp Summit: advancing RNA virus discovery at scale across communities. Frontiers in Virology, 2024.
Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi. Nature Communications, 2023.
Hepatitis delta virus-like circular RNAs from diverse metazoans encode conserved hammerhead ribozymes. Virus Evolution, 2021.
Cloning and detection of genomic retrozymes and their circRNA intermediates. Ribozymes – Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Series. Springer, 2021.
A singular and widespread group of mobile genetic elements: RNA circles with autocatalytic ribozymes. Cells, 2020.
Small circRNAs with self-cleaving ribozymes are highly expressed in diverse metazoan transcriptomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 2020.
Circular RNAs with hammerhead ribozymes encoded in eukaryotic genomes: the enemy at home. RNA Biology, 2017.
The hammerhead ribozyme: a long story for a short RNA. Molecules, 2017.
Retrozymes are a unique family of non-autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead rybozymes that propagate in plants through circular RNAs. Genome Biology, 2016.
Eukaryotic Penelope-like retroelements encode Hammerhead ribozyme motifs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2014.
Cross-resistance to insecticides in a malathion-resistant strain of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 2011.
Esterase inhibition by synergists in the WFT Frankliniella occidentalis. Pest Management Science, 2011.
Esterase isoenzymes and insecticide resistance in Frankliniella occidentalis populations from the South East region of Spain. Pest Management Science, 2008.
Relationship between esterase activity and acrinathrin and methiocarb resistance in field populations of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis. Pest Management Science, 2006.
Vitellogenin polypeptide levels in one susceptible and one cadmium-resistant strain of Oncopeltus fasciatus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), and its role in cadmium resistance. Journal of Insect Physiology, 2006.
Vitellogenesis inhibition in Oncopeltus fasciatus females (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) exposed to cadmium. Journal of Insect Physiology, 2005.
Cadmium effects on development and reproduction of Oncopeltus fasciatus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 2004.
Antioxidant enzymes in Oncopeltus fasciatus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) exposed to cadmium. Environmental Entomology, 2003.
Evaluation of metabolic detoxifying enzyme activities and insecticide resistance in Frankliniella occidentalis. Pest Management Science, 2002.
Sesquiterpene-related compounds as endocrine disrupters in Oncopeltus fasciatus, and potential glutathione synthesis inhibitors. The Science of the Total Environment, 1999.