José Castresana

21.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

José Castresana is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Castresana has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in José Castresana's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (25 papers) and Extraction and Separation Processes (15 papers). José Castresana is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (25 papers) and Extraction and Separation Processes (15 papers). José Castresana collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United Kingdom. José Castresana's co-authors include Gerard Talavera, Matti Saraste, Félix M. Goñi, Arturo Muga, José Luis R. Arrondo, M. Mar Albà, Mathias Lübben, Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Svante Pääbo and Javier Igea and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

José Castresana

87 papers receiving 16.4k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Selection of Conserved Blocks from Multiple Alignments for Their Use in Phylogenetic Analysis

2000 8.3k citations José Castresana Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Improvement of Phylogenies after Removing Divergent and Ambiguously Aligned Blocks from Protein Sequence Alignments

2007 4.2k citations Gerard Talavera, José Castresana Systematic Biology profile →
Quantitative studies of the structure of proteins in solution by fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

1993 727 citations José Castresana, Félix M. Goñi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Castresana Spain	36	8.5k	4.7k	3.5k	3.1k	2.9k	89	16.6k
Jean-François Dufayard France	13	8.5k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	5.1k 1.4×	3.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	14	19.6k
Shane Sturrock United Kingdom	8	6.6k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	10	15.3k
Vincent Lefort France	13	9.1k 1.1×	4.8k 1.0×	5.4k 1.5×	3.5k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	23	21.0k
Lars S. Jermiin Australia	38	7.4k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.1×	3.5k 1.2×	83	15.8k
Chris Duran Australia	13	6.6k 0.8×	3.8k 0.8×	3.8k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	15	15.6k
Peter Meintjes New Zealand	3	6.4k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	4	15.1k
Maria Anisimova Switzerland	28	8.6k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	4.9k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	75	20.0k
Steven Stones-Havas United States	5	6.3k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.3×	6	15.0k
Amy Wilson Canada	14	6.3k 0.7×	4.0k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	3.9k 1.3×	34	15.5k
Jeffrey L. Boore United States	64	13.5k 1.6×	3.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	5.0k 1.6×	5.5k 1.9×	120	19.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Castresana

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Castresana, José, et al.. (2024). Assessment of predation on small semi-aquatic mammals by the Eurasian otter through genetic analysis of spraints. Mammalian Biology. 105(2). 167–175.

Paule, Ladislav, et al.. (2023). Genomic analysis of geographical structure and diversity in the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus). Conservation Genetics. 25(1). 277–290. 2 indexed citations

Castresana, José, et al.. (2021). The genome of the Pyrenean desman and the effects of bottlenecks and inbreeding on the genomic landscape of an endangered species. Evolutionary Applications. 14(7). 1898–1913. 17 indexed citations

Nores, Carlos, et al.. (2019). Size increase without genetic divergence in the Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17375–17375. 4 indexed citations

Hawlitschek, Oliver, et al.. (2018). A pipeline for metabarcoding and diet analysis from fecal samples developed for a small semi-aquatic mammal. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0201763–e0201763. 25 indexed citations

González‐Esteban, Jorge, et al.. (2016). Genomic diversity and geographical structure of the Pyrenean desman. Conservation Genetics. 17(6). 1333–1344. 16 indexed citations

Igea, Javier, Pere Aymerich, Jorge González‐Esteban, et al.. (2013). Phylogeography and postglacial expansion of the endangered semi-aquatic mammal Galemys pyrenaicus. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 115–115. 40 indexed citations

Sánchez‐Gracia, Alejandro & José Castresana. (2012). Impact of Deep Coalescence on the Reliability of Species Tree Inference from Different Types of DNA Markers in Mammals. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e30239–e30239. 36 indexed citations

Soria‐Carrasco, Víctor & José Castresana. (2011). Patterns of mammalian diversification in recent evolutionary times: global tendencies and methodological issues. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(12). 2611–2623. 6 indexed citations

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Talavera, Gerard & José Castresana. (2007). Improvement of Phylogenies after Removing Divergent and Ambiguously Aligned Blocks from Protein Sequence Alignments. Systematic Biology. 56(4). 564–577. 4203 indexed citations breakdown →

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Massana, Ramón, José Castresana, Vanessa Balagué, et al.. (2004). Phylogenetic and Ecological Analysis of Novel Marine Stramenopiles. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(6). 3528–3534. 254 indexed citations

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Albà, M. Mar & José Castresana. (2004). Inverse Relationship Between Evolutionary Rate and Age of Mammalian Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(3). 598–606. 131 indexed citations

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Castresana, José. (2002). Estimation of genetic distances from human and mouse introns. Genome biology. 3(6). RESEARCH0028–RESEARCH0028. 25 indexed citations

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Pascual, Jaime, José Castresana, & Matti Saraste. (1997). Evolution of the spectrin repeat. BioEssays. 19(9). 811–817. 65 indexed citations

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Castresana, José & Matti Saraste. (1995). Does Vav bind to F‐actin through a CH domain?. FEBS Letters. 374(2). 149–151. 125 indexed citations

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Castresana, José, Mathias Lübben, & Matti Saraste. (1995). New Archaebacterial Genes Coding for Redox Proteins: Implications for the Evolution of Aerobic Metabolism. Journal of Molecular Biology. 250(2). 202–210. 86 indexed citations

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Saraste, Matti & José Castresana. (1994). Cytochrome oxidase evolved by tinkering with denitrification enzymes. FEBS Letters. 341(1). 1–4. 194 indexed citations

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Fernández‐Ballester, Gregorio, José Castresana, Asia Fernández‐Carvajal, et al.. (1994). A Role for Cholesterol as a Structural Effector of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor. Biochemistry. 33(13). 4065–4071. 59 indexed citations

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Arrondo, José L. R., José Castresana, José Valpuesta, & Félix M. Goñi. (1994). Structure and thermal denaturation of crystalline and noncrystalline cytochrome oxidase as studied by infrared spectroscopy. Biochemistry. 33(38). 11650–11655. 110 indexed citations

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Elizalde, M.P., José Castresana, M. Aguilar, & Michael T. Cox. (1986). SYNERGIC EXTRACTION OF Ni(II) BY MIXTURES OF 5,8-DIETHYL-7-HYDROYDODECAN-6-OXIME AND n-DODECANOIC ACID IN TOLUENE. Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange. 4(6). 1095–1107. 14 indexed citations

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