Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 341 3550 - 500
e-mail: mittag@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Publications
2018
Battlay, P., Leblanc, P. B., Green, L., Garud, N. R., Schmidt, J., Fournier-Level, A., & Robin, C. (2018). Structural variants and selective sweep Foci contribute to insecticide resistance in the Drosophila genetic reference panel. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics,8(11), 3489-3497. ![]() | |
Key, F. M., Abdul-Aziz, M. A., Mundry, R., Peter, B. M., Sekar, A., D'Amato, M., Dennis, M. Y., Schmidt, J. M., & Andrés, A. M. (2018). Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline. PLoS Genetics,14(5). ![]() | |
Bitarello, B. D., de Filippo, C., Teixeira, J. C., Schmidt, J. M., Kleinert, P., Meyer, D., & Andrés, A. M. (2018). Signatures of long-term balancing selection in human genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution,10(3), 939-955. ![]() |
2017
Schmidt, J. M., Battlay, P., Gledhill-Smith, R. S., Good, R. T., Lumb, C., Fournier-Level, A., & Robin, C. (2017). Insights into DDT resistance from the drosophila melanogaster genetic reference panel. Genetics,207(3), 1181-1193. ![]() | |
Martin, M. D., Jay, F., Castellano, S., & Slatkin, M. (2017). Determination of genetic relatedness from low-coverage human genome sequences using pedigree simulations. Molecular Ecology,26(16), 4145-4157. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Sarangi, G. K., White, L., & Castellano, S. (2017). Genetic adaptation and Selenium uptake in vertebrates. In Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences. Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2016
Gladyshev, V. N., Arnér, E. S., Berry, M. J., Brigelius-Flohé, R., Bruford, E. A., Burk, R. F., Carlson, B. A., Castellano, S., Chavatte, L., Conrad, M., Copeland, P. R., Diamond, A. M., Driscoll, D. M., Ferreiro, A., Flohé, L., Green, F. R., Guigó, R., Handy, D. E., Hatfield, D. L., Hesketh, J., Holmgren, A., Hoffmann, P. R., Hondal, R. J., Howard, M. T., Huang, K., Kim, H.-Y., Köhrle, J., Kim, I. Y., Krol, A., Kryukov, G. V., Lee, B. J., Lee, B. C., Lei, X. G., Liu, Q., Lescure, A., Lobanov, A. V., Loscalzo, J., Maiorino, M., Mariotti, M., Prabhu, K. S., Rayman, M. P., Rozovsky, S., Salinas, G., Schmidt, E. E., Schomburg, L., Schweizer, U., Simonovic, M., Sunde, R. A., Tsuji, P. A., Tweedie, S., Ursini, F., Whanger, P. D., & Zhang, Y. (2016). Selenoprotein Gene Nomenclature. The Journal of Biological Chemistry,291(46), 24036-24040. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
de Manuel, M., Kuhlwilm, M., Frandsen, P., Sousa, V. C., Desai, T., Prado-Martinez, J., Hernandez-Rodriguez, J., Dupanloup, I., Lao, O., Hallast, P., Schmidt, J. M., Heredia-Genestar, J. M., Benazzo, A., Barbujani, G., Peter, B. M., Kuderna, L. F. K., Casals, F., Angedakin, S., Arandjelovic, M., Boesch, C., Kühl, H. S., Vigilant, L., Langergraber, K., Novembre, J., Gut, M., Gut, I., Navarro, A., Carlsen, F., Andrés, A. M., Siegismund, H. R., Scally, A., Excoffier, L., Tyler-Smith, C., Castellano, S., Xue, Y., Hvilsom, C., & Marques-Bonet, T. (2016). Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos. Science,354(6311), 477-481. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Fournier-Level, A., Neumann-Mondlak, A., Good, R., Green, L., Schmidt, J. M., & Robin, C. (2016). Behavioural response to combined insecticide and temperature stress in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology,29(5), 1030-1044. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Mendez, F. L., Poznik, G. D., Castellano, S., & Bustamante, C. D. (2016). The divergence of Neandertal and modern human Y chromosomes. The American Journal of Human Genetics,98(4), 728-734. ![]() | |
Kuhlwilm, M., Gronau, I., Hubisz, M. J., de Filippo, C., Prado-Martinez, J., Kircher, M., Fu, Q., Burbano, H. A., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Marques-Bonet, T., Andrés, A. M., Viola, B., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Siepel, A., & Castellano, S. (2016). Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals. Nature,530(7591), 429-433. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
White, L., & Castellano, S. (2016). Genetische Anpassung an den Selengehalt von Nahrung in der jüngsten Menschheitsgeschichte. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Jahrbuch 2016. ![]() | |
White, L., & Castellano, S. (2016). The role of selenium in human evolution. In D. Hatfield, & V. Gladyshev ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2015
White, L. (2015). Population genetics of selenium-related genes in humans. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig. BibTeX Endnote | |
White, L., Romagné, F., Müller, E., Erlebach, E., Weihmann, A., Parra, G., Andrés, A. M., & Castellano, S. (2015). Genetic adaptation to levels of dietary selenium in recent human history. Molecular Biology and Evolution,32(6), 1507-1518. DOI PubMed BibTeX Endnote |
2014
Romagné, F., Santesmasses, D., White, L., Sarangi, G. K., Mariotti, M., Hübler, R., Weihmann, A., Parra, G., Gladyshev, V. N., Guigó, R., & Castellano, S. (2014). SelenoDB 2.0: Annotation of selenoprotein genes in animals and their genetic diversity in humans. Nucleic Acids Research,42(D1), D437-D443. ![]() | |
Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Mittnik, A., Renaud, G., Mallick, S., Kirsanow, K., Sudmant, P. H., Schraiber, J. G., Castellano, S., Lipson, M., Berger, B., Economou, C., Bollongino, R., Fu, Q., Bos, K. I., Nordenfelt, S., Li, H., de Filippo, C., Prüfer, K., Sawyer, S., Posth, C., Haak, W., Hallgren, F., Fornander, E., Rohland, N., Delsate, D., Francken, M., Guinet, J.-M., Wahl, J., Ayodo, G., Babiker, H. A., Bailliet, G., Balanovska, E., Balanovsky, O., Barrantes, R., Bedoya, G., Ben-Ami, H., Bene, J., Berrada, F., Bravi, C. M., Brisighelli, F., Busby, G. B. J., Cali, F., Churnosov, M., Cole, D. E. C., Corach, D., Damba, L., van Driem, G., Dryomov, S., Dugoujon, J.-M., Fedorova, S. A., Romero, I. G., Gubina, M., Hammer, M., Henn, B. M., Hervig, T., Hodoglugil, U., Jha, A. R., Karachanak-Yankova, S., Khusainova, R., Khusnutdinova, E., Kittles, R., Kivisild, T., Klitz, W., Kucinskas, V., Kushniarevich, A., Laredj, L., Litvinov, S., Loukidis, T., Mahley, R. W., Melegh, B., Metspalu, E., Molina, J., Mountain, J., Näkkäläjärvi, K., Nesheva, D., Nyambo, T., Osipova, L., Parik, J., Platonov, F., Posukh, O., Romano, V., Rothhammer, F., Rudan, I., Ruizbakiev, R., Sahakyan, H., Sajantila, A., Salas, A., Starikovskaya, E. B., Tarekegn, A., Toncheva, D., Turdikulova, S., Uktveryte, I., Utevska, O., Vasquez, R., Villena, M., Voevoda, M., Winkler, C. A., Yepiskoposyan, L., Zalloua, P., Zemunik, T., Cooper, A., Capelli, C., Thomas, M. G., Ruiz-Linares, A., Tishkoff, S. A., Singh, L., Thangaraj, K., Villems, R., Comas, D., Sukernik, R., Metspalu, M., Meyer, M., Eichler, E. E., Burger, J., Slatkin, M., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., Reich, D., & Krause, J. (2014). Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature,513(7518), 409-413. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Castellano, S., Parra, G., Sánchez-Quinto, F. A., Racimo, F., Kuhlwilm, M., Kircher, M., Sawyer, S., Fu, Q., Heinze, A., Nickel, B., Dabney, J., Siebauer, M. F., White, L., Burbano, H. A., Renaud, G., Stenzel, U., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Andrés, A. M., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,111(18), 6666-6671. DOI PubMed BibTeX Endnote | |
Hajdinjak, M., Korlević, P., Gansauge, M.-T., Dabney, J., Slon, V., Glocke, I., Sawyer, S., Nickel, B., Nagel, S., Gerber, T., Hopfe, C., Stenzel, U., Renaud, G., Andrés, A. M., Castellano, S., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2014).Neandertal genetic diversity. Poster presented at XVII World UISPP Congress, Burgos, Spain. BibTeX Endnote |
2013
Fu, Q., Mittnik, A., Johnson, P. L., Bos, K., Lari, M., Bollongino, R., Sun, C., Giemsch, L., Schmitz, R., Burger, J., Ronchitelli, A. M., Martini, F., Cremonesi, R. G., Svoboda, J., Bauer, P., Caramelli, D., Castellano, S., Reich, D., Pääbo, S., & Krause, J. (2013). A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes. Current Biology,23(7), 553-559. ![]() |
2012
White, L., & Castellano, S. (2012). Evolutionary basis for the use of selenocysteine. In D. L. Hatfield, M. J. Berry, & V. N. Gladyshev ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2009
Castellano, S. (2009). On the unique function of selenocysteine - insights from the evolution of selenoproteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1790, 1463-1470.
DOI
S Castellano*, AM Andrés*, E Bosch, M Bayes, R Guigó and AG Clark (2009). Low exchangeability of selenocysteine, the 21st amino acid, in vertebrate proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26, 2031-2040
DOI
2008
Castellano, S., Gladyshev, V. N., Guigó, R., & Berry, M. J. (2008). SelenoDB 1.0: A database of selenoprotein genes, proteins and SECIS elements. Nucleic Acids Research, 36(Suppl. 1), D332-D338.
DOI Database
2006
Castellano, S. (2006). Little biological and statistical support for hundreds of selenoproteins in mouse pseudo-messenger RNAs [A critical assessment of PLoS Genetics, 2, e3 (2006)]. PLoS Genetics.
DOI
2005
Castellano, S., Lobanov, A. V., Chapple, C., Novoselov, S. V., Albrecht, M., Hua, D., Lescure, A., Lengauer, T., Krol, A., Gladyshev, V. N., & Guigó, R. (2005). Diversity and functional plasticity of eukaryotic selenoproteins: Identification and characterization of the SelJ family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(45), 16188-16193.
DOI Commentary in PNAS
Taskov, K., Chapple, C., Kryukov, G. V., Castellano, S., Lobanov, A. V., Korotkov, K. V., Guigó, R., & Gladyshev, V. N. (2005). Nematode selenoproteome: The use of the selenocysteine insertion system to decode one codon in an animal genome? Nucleic Acids Research, 33(7), 2227-2238.
DOI
2004
International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium, & Castellano, S. (2004). Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution. Nature, 432, 695-716.
DOI Commentary in Nature
Jaillon, O., Aury, J.-M., Brunet, F., Petit, J.-L., Stange-Thomann, N., Mauceli, E., Bouneau, L., Fischer, C., Ozouf-Costaz, C., Bernot, A., Nicaud, S., Jaffe, D., Fisher, S., Lutfalla, G., Dossat, C., Segurens, B., Dasilva, C., Salanoubat, M., Levy, M., Boudet, N., Castellano, S., Anthouard, V., Jubin, C., Castelli, V., Katinka, M., Vacherie, B., Biémont, C., Skalli, Z., Cattolico, L., Poulain, J., de Berardinis, V., Cruaud, C., Duprat, S., Brottier, P., Coutanceau, J.-P., Gouzy, J., Parra, G., Lardier, G., Chapple, C., McKernan, K. J., McEwan, P., Bosak, S., Kellis, M., Volff, J.-N., Guigó, R., Zody, M. C., Mesirov, J., Lindblad-Toh, K., Birren, B., Nusbaum, C., Kahn, D., Robinson-Rechavi, M., Laudet, V., Schachter, V., Quétier, F., Saurin, W., Scarpelli, C., Wincker, P., Lander, E. S., & Crollius, J. W. H. R. (2004). Genome duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the early vertebrate proto-karyotype. Nature, 431, 946-957.
DOI Commentary in Nature
Castellano Hereza, S. (2004). Towards the characterization of the eukaryotic selenoproteome: A computational approach. PhD Thesis, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
DOI
Castellano, S., Novoselov, S. V., Kryukov, G. V., Lescure, A., Blanco, E., Krol, A., Gladyshev, V. N., & Guigó, R. (2004). Reconsidering the evolution of eukaryotic selenoproteins: A novel nonmammalian family with scattered phylogenetic distribution. EMBO Reports, 5(1), 71-77.
DOI Datasets Commentary in EMBO
2003
Kryukov, G. V., Castellano, S., Novoselov, S. V., Lobanov, A. V., Zehtab, O., Guigó, R., & Gladyshev, V. N. (2003). Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes. Science, 300(5624), 1439-1443.
DOI Datasets
2001
Castellano, S., Morozova, N., Morey, M., Berry, M. J., Serras, F., Corominas, M., & Guigó, R. (2001). In silico identification of novel selenoproteins in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. EMBO Reports, 2(8), 697-702.
DOI Datasets
* Equal contribution