Peer reviewed articles

  • Mohammadi, S.^, Herrera-Álvarez, S.^, Yang, L., Rodríguez-Ordoñez, M. D. P., Zhang, K., Storz, J. F., ... & Andolfatto, P. (2022). Constraints on the evolution of toxin-resistant Na, K-ATPases have limited dependence on sequence divergence. PLoS genetics, 18(8), e1010323. Read here ^ co-first authorship

  • Mohammadi, S., Yang, L., Harpak, A., Herrera-Álvarez, S., Rodríguez-Ordóñez, MP., Peng, J., Zhang, K., Storz. JF., Dobler, S., Crawford, AJ., Andolfatto, P. (2021). Concerted evolution reveals co-adapted amino acid substitutions in frogs that prey on toxic toads. Current Biology, 31: 1-9. Read here

  • Herrera-Álvarez, S., Karlsson, E., Ryder O.A., Lindblad-Toh, K., Crawford, A.J. (2021). How to make a rodent giant: Genomic basis and tradeoffs of gigantism in the capybara, the world’s largest rodent. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(5): 1715-1730. Read here

    Featured in:
    • Genetics unzipped podcast: Genes and giants – The science of big and small Hear episode here
    • PNAS Core Concepts: Callier, V. (2019). Solving Peto’s Paradox to better understand cancer. PNAS, 116(6), 1825-1828. Read here
    • National Geographic Science: World’s largest rodent has surprising new way of fighting cancer Read here
    • Our capybara research was featured as an infographic in Pictoline

  • Herrera‐Álvarez, S. (2019). Digest: A decoupling between size and shape in Indo‐Pacific shore fishes. Evolution, 73(9): 2028-2029.Read here

Other publications

Buitrago, Z., Herrera-Álvarez, S. and Crawford A.J. (2018). Secretos de un gigante: Aprendamos sobre los chigüiros. ISBN 978-958-58519-2-4 (An amazing and beautiful by-product of our capybara research: a children's booklet about the biology of the capybara).