Publications

Please note

I changed my legal name in 2022, hence my previous publication record has a different name.

First author publications

Rago, Alfredo, John H Werren, and John K Colbourne. 2020.
“Sex Biased Expression and Co-Expression Networks in Development, Using the Hymenopteran Nasonia Vitripennis.”
PLoS Genet 16(1): e1008518.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008518

Rago, Alfredo, Kostas Kouvaris, Tobias Uller, and Richard Watson. 2019.
“How Adaptive Plasticity Evolves When Selected Against.”
PLOS Computational Biology 15 (3): e1006260.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006260.

Rago, Alfredo, and John Kenneth Colbourne. 2018.
“FESTA: Flexible Exon-Based Splicing and Transcription Annotation.”
bioRxiv, 300947.
https://doi.org/10.1101/300947.

Rago, Alfredo, Donald G. Gilbert, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Timothy B. Sackton, Xu Wang, Yogeshwar D. Kelkar, John H. Werren, and John K. Colbourne. 2016.
“OGS2: Genome Re-Annotation of the Jewel Wasp Nasonia Vitripennis.”
BMC Genomics 17 (1): 5303.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2886-9.

Rago, Alfredo, Geoffrey M. While, and Tobias Uller. 2012.
“Introduction Pathway and Climate Trump Ecology and Life History as Predictors of Establishment Success in Alien Frogs and Toads.”
Ecology and Evolution 2 (7): 1437–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.261.

Others

Bornholdt, Jette, Christa Broholm, Yun Chen, Alfredo Rago, Stine Sloth, Jakob Hendel, Cathrine Melsæther, et al. 2020.
“Personalized B Cell Response to the Lactobacillus Rhamnosus GG Probiotic in Healthy Human Subjects: A Randomized Trial.”
Gut Microbes 12 (1): 1854639.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2020.1854639.

Tobias Uller, Reinder Radersma, Nathalie Feiner, and Alfredo Rago. 2019. “Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Explanations.”
Evolution & Development.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12314.

Feiner, Nathalie, Alfredo Rago, Geoffrey M. While, and Tobias Uller. 2018.
“Developmental Plasticity in Reptiles: Insights from Temperature-Dependent Gene Expression in Wall Lizard Embryos.”
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 329 (6-7): 351–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2175.

Nathalie Feiner, Geoffrey M. While, Alfredo Rago, and Tobias Uller. 2018.
“Signatures of Selection in Embryonic Transcriptomes of Lizards Adapting in Parallel to Cool Climate.”
Evolution 72 (1): 67–81.
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13397.

Jansen, M., A. N. Geerts, Alfredo Rago, K. I. Spanier, C. Denis, L. De Meester, and L. Orsini. 2017.
“Thermal Tolerance in the Keystone Species Daphnia Magna—a Candidate Gene and an Outlier Analysis Approach.”
Molecular Ecology 26 (8): 2291–2305.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14040.

Wang, Xu, David Wheeler, Amanda Avery, Alfredo Rago, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, John K. Colbourne, Andrew G Clark, and John H. Werren. 2013.
“Function and Evolution of DNA Methylation in Nasonia Vitripennis.”
PLoS Genetics 9 (10): e1003872.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003872.

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