ROBERTO GARCÍA ROA
Science & Photography
ROBERTO GARCÍA ROA
Science & Photography

List of scientific publications (also available in Researchgate):
61. García-Roa, R., Garcia-Gonzalez, F., López-Maroto, V., Chorines, V., Marquez-Rosado, A., Iglesias-Carrasco, M., & Carazo, P. (2025). Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth. Evolution Letters. (in press).
60. García-Roa, R., Castro, A., Font, E., & Carazo, P. (2025). Natural temperature variation affects male perception of female scents in Drosophila. Animal Behaviour. (in press).
59. Feiner, N., Uller, T., de la Cruz, F., Garcia-Roa, R., Meier, J. (2025). The genome sequence of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883). Wellcome Open Research, 10, 235.
58. Kirchner, M., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Muller, J., Martín, J. (2025). Intrapopulational variation in head shape correlates with soil structure heterogeneity in a head‐first burrowing amphisbaenian, Trogonophis wiegmanni. Journal of Zoology. (in press)
57. Londoño-Nieto, C., Butler, M., García-Roa, R., & Carazo, P. (2023). Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre-and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wild Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology Letters, 28 (3), e70102
56. Leonard, A., Abalos, J., Adhola, T., Aguirre, W., Aizpurua, O., Ali, S., Andreone, F., Aubret, F., Ávila-Palma, H.D., Alcantara, L.F.B. [...] and Beltrán, J.F., (2024). A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. (in press)
55. García-Roa, R., Faria, G. S., Noble, D. W., & Carazo, P. (2024). Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict. Behavioral Ecology, 35(1), arad108.
54. García-Roa, R. (2024). A picture and a thousand words: The pairing of photography and science. Metode Science Studies Journal, (14), 17-21.
53. Iglesias-Carrasco, M., Taboada, B., Lozano, M., Carazo, P., Garcia-Roa, R., Rodriguez-Exposito, E., & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. (2024). Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures. Evolution, 78(1), 86-97.
52. Gómez-Llano, M., Faria, G. S., García-Roa, R., Noble, D. W., & Carazo, P. (2024). Male harm suppresses female fitness, affecting the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue. Evolution Letters, 8(1), 149-160.
51. Martín, J., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Rodríguez-Ruiz, G., Pérez-Cembranos, A., & Pérez-Mellado, V. (2023). Coping with drought? Effects of extended drought conditions on soil invertebrate prey and diet selection by a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. Current Zoology, 69(4), 367-376.
50. Londoño-Nieto, C., García-Roa, R., González, P., & Carazo, P. (2023). Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre-and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wild Drosophila melanogaster. Elife, 12, e84759.
49. García-Roa, R., & Carazo, P. (2022). Sexual selection: following Darwin's legacy. In Illuminating Human Evolution: 150 Years after Darwin. 175-186. Springer, Singapore. (Download in Spanish - Catalan - English)
48. Martín, J., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Rodríguez-Ruiz, G., Pérez-Cembranos, A., & Pérez-Mellado, V. (2023). Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance of Natural Habitats on the Feeding Ecology of Moorish Geckos. Animals, 13(8), 1413.
47. Corbel, Q., Serra, M., García-Roa, R., & Carazo, P. (2022). Male adaptive plasticity can explain the evolution of sexual perception costs. American Naturalist, 200(3), E110-E123
46. García‐Roa, R., Domínguez‐Santos, R., Pérez‐Brocal, V., Moya, A., Latorre, A., & Carazo, P. (2022). Kin recognition in Drosophila: rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles. Oikos, 2022(4), e08755.
45. Martín, J., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Jiménez-Robles, O., Rodriguez-Ruiz, G., Recio, P., & Cuervo, J. (2021). Going underground: short-and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian. Movement Ecology, 9, 1-11.
44. García-Roa, R., Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Noble, D., & Carazo, P. (2020). Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection. Biological Reviews, 95, 1607-1629.
43. García-Roa, R., Carbonell, G. (2020). The dark side of Vipera aspis: a case of melanism in the Iberian Peninsula. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 31, 9-11.
42. García-Roa, R. (2020). An albino ladder snake (Zamenis scalaris) found dead with a partially swallowed rabbit. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 31, 54-56..
41. Sultanova, Z., García‐Roa, R., & Carazo, P. (2020). Condition‐dependent mortality exacerbates male (but not female) reproductive senescence and the potential for sexual conflict. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33, 1086-1096.
40. Jara, M., García-Roa, R., Escobar, L. E., Torres-Carvajal, O., & Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2019). Alternative reproductive adaptations predict asymmetric responses to climate change in lizards. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-9.
39. Font, E., García-Roa, R., Pincheira-Donoso, D., & Carazo, P. (2019). Rethinking the effects of body size on the study of brain size evolution. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 93, 182-195.
38. Baeckens, S., Llusia, D. García-Roa, R., & Martín, J. (2019). Lizard calls convey honest information on body size and bite performance: a role in predator deterrence? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73, 87.
37. García-Roa, R., Chirinos, V., & Carazo, P. (2019). The ecology of sexual conflict: temperature variation in the social environment can drastically modulate male harm to females. Functional Ecology, 33, 681-692.
36. García-Roa, R., Serra, M., & Carazo, P. (2018). Ageing via perception costs of reproduction magnifies sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285, 20182136.
35. Jara, M., Frias-De-Diego, A., García-Roa, R., Saldarriaga-Córdoba, M., Harvey, L. P., Hickcox, R. P., & Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2018). The macroecology of chemical communication in lizards: do climatic factors drive the evolution of signalling glands?. Evolutionary Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-018-9447-x
34. García-Roa, R., Sáiz, J., Gómara, B., López, P., & Martín, J. How to tackle chemical communication? Relative proportions vs. semi-quantitative determination of compounds in lizard chemical secretions. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 2032-2040.
33. García-Roa, R., Megía-Palma, R., Ortega, J., Jara, M., López, P., & Martín, J. (2017). Interpopulational and seasonal variation in the chemical signals of the lizard Gallotia galloti. PeerJ, 5, e3992.
32. Baeckens, S., Martín, J., García-Roa, R., & Van Damme, R. (2017). Sexual selection and the chemical signal design of lacertid lizards. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlx075, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx075
31. Pincheira-Donoso, D., Jara, M., Reaney, A., García-Roa, R., Saldarriaga-Córdoba, M. & Hodgson, D.J. (2017). Hypoxia and hypothermia as rival agents of selection driving the evolution of viviparity in lizards. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 26:1238–1246.
30. García-Roa, R., & Carazo, P. (2017). Digest: Chemical communication and sexual selection in lizards. Evolution, 71, 2535-2536.
29. Carazo, P., García-Roa, R., Sultanova, Z., & Serra, M. (2017). Perception costs of reproduction can magnify sexual selection. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1414.
28. Baeckens, S., García-Roa, R., Martín, J., & Van Damme, R. (2017). The Role of Diet in Shaping the Chemical Signal Design of Lacertid Lizards. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43, 902-910.
27. Baeckens, S., Martín, J., García-Roa, R., Pafilis, P., Huyghe, K., & Van Damme, R. (2017). Environmental conditions shape the chemical signal design of lizards. Functional Ecology, 32:566–580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12984
26. García-Roa, R., Jara, M., Baeckens, S., López, P., Van Damme, R., Martín, J., & Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2017). Macroevolutionary diversification of glands for chemical communication in squamate reptiles. Scientific Reports, 7, 9288.
25. Sáiz, J., García-Roa, R., Martín, J., & Gómara, B. (2017). Fast, sensitive, and selective gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method for the target analysis of chemical secretions from femoral glands in lizards. Journal of Chromatography A, 1514, 110-119.
24. García-Roa, R., Sáiz, J., Gómara, B., López, P., & Martín, J. Dietary constraints can preclude the expression of an honest chemical sexual signal. Scientific Reports, 7, 6073.
23. Baeckens, S., García‐Roa, R., Martín, J., Ortega, J., Huyghe, K., & Van Damme, R. (2017). Fossorial and durophagous: implications of molluscivory for head size and bite capacity in a burrowing worm lizard. Journal of Zoology, 301, 193-205.
22. García-Roa, R., Jara, M., López, P., Martín, J. & Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2017). Heterogeneous tempo and mode of evolutionary diversification of chemical compounds in lizard chemical signals. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1286-1296.
21. García-Roa, R., Llusia, D., López, P., & Martín, J. (2017). First evidence of sound production in the genus Iberolacerta Arribas, 1997 (Squamata: Sauria: lacertidae). Herpetozoa, 29, 175-181
20. García-Roa, R., Carreira, S., López, P., & Martín, J. (2016). Genders matters: Sexual differences in chemical signals of Liolaemus wiegmannii lizards (Iguania, Liolaemidae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 69, 108-114.
19. García-Roa, R., Cabido, C., López, P., & Martín, J. (2016). Interspecific differences in chemical composition of femoral gland secretions between two closely related wall lizard species, Podarcis bocagei and Podarcis carbonelli. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 64, 105-110.
18. García-Roa, R., & Martín, J. (2016). Xantismo en la culebrilla mora (Trogonophis wiegmanni) en las Islas Chafarinas (NW África). Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 27, 12-14.
17. Martín, J., Garrido, M., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Ibáñez, A., & Marzal, A. (2016). Absence of haemoparasite infection in the fossorial amphisbaenian Trogonophis wiegmanni. Parasitology, 143, 1433–1436.
16. Megía-Palma, R., Martínez, J., Nasri, I., Cuervo, J. J., Martín, J., Acevedo, I., Belliure, J., Ortega, J., García-Roa, R., Slaheddine, S., & Merino, S. (2016). Phylogenetic relationships of Isospora, Lankesterella, and Caryospora species (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) infecting lizards. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 16, 275–288.
15. García-Roa, R., Iglesias-Carrasco, M., Garín-Barrio, I., & Cabido, C. (2015). Communal oviposition of Iberolacerta aurelioi (Squamata: Lacertidae) in the Spanish Pyrenees. Salamandra, 51, 61–62.
14. Megía‐Palma, R., Martínez, J., Acevedo, I., Martín, J., García‐Roa, R., Ortega, J., ... & Sinervo, B. R. (2015). Phylogeny of the reptilian Eimeria: are Choleoeimeria and Acroeimeria valid generic names?. Zoologica Scripta, 44, 684–692.
13. Martín, J., García-Roa, R., Ortega, J., López, P., Pérez-Cembranos, A., León, A., ... & Pérez-Mellado, V. (2015). Occurrence and ecological aspects of the two-fingered skink Chalcides mauritanicus in the Chafarinas Islands in North Africa. African Journal of Herpetology, 64, 67–79.
12. García-Roa, R., Recuero, E., & Mas-Peinado, P. (2015). Rapid color change to blue in metamorphic Discoglossus scovazzi (Camerano, 1878). Herpetozoa, 28, 106–109.
11. García-Roa, R., Iglesias, M., Gosá, A., & Cabido, C. (2015). Podarcis muralis (Common Wall Lizard). Communal nesting. Herpetological Review, 46, 435–436.
10. García-Roa, R., Sunyer, J., Fernández-Loras, A., & Bosch, J. (2015). Bd in Nicaragua: Confirmation of the Inevitable. Froglog, 113, 43.
9. García-Roa, R., Ortega, J., López, P., & Martín, J. (2015). Coloración atípica en una hembra de Iberolacerta cyreni en la Sierra de Guadarrama (Madrid). Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 26, 8–10.
8. García-Roa, R., Ortega, J., López, P., Civantos, E., & Martín, J. (2014). Revisión de la distribución y abundancia de la herpetofauna en las Islas Chafarinas: datos históricos vs. tendencias poblacionales. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 25, 55–62.
7. Lozano-Del Campo, A., & García-Roa, R. (2014). Predation behavior with individuals aggregation on streetlights in Tarentola mauritanica (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Southern Spain. Biharean Biologist, 8, 120–121.
6. García-Roa, R., & Sunyer, J. (2014). Ocular anomaly in Rhinella marina (Anura: Bufonidae) from Cerro Jesús, Nueva Segovia, northern Nicaragua. Biharean Biologist, 8, 60–61.
5. García-Roa, R., Sunyer, J., Fernández-Loras, A., & Bosch, J. (2014). First record of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Nicaragua. The Herpetological Journal, 24, 65–68.
4. Sunyer, J., García-Roa, R., & Townsend, J. H. (2013). First country record of Norops wermuthi Köhler & Obermeier, 1998, for Honduras. Herpetozoa, 26, 103–106.
3. García-Roa, R., Aroca, M. & de Blas, R. (2013). Podarcis hispanicus (Iberian Wall Lizard). PREDATION. Herpetological Review, 44, 147.
2. García-Roa, R. & Sunyer, J. (2012). New records for the distribution of Gymnophthalmus speciosus (Hallowell, 1861) (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in Nicaragua. Herpetology Notes, 5, 539–542.
1. García-Roa, R.,& Sainz, P. (2012). Un caso de xantismo en larvas de Pelobates cultripes en la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 23, 14–16







