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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).

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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.

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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)

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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

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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)

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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.

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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.​​

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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44. García-Roa, R., Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Noble, D., & Carazo, P. (2020). Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection. Biological Reviews, 95, 1607-1629.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. 

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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.
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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. 

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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.
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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

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