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PUBLICATIONS

2016-2021
2011-2015
2007-2010
Chapters and Reviews

2022 to present

EVOLUTIONARY CONVERGENCE OF SENSORY CIRCUITS IN THE PALLIUM OF AMNIOTES
SCIENCE 387, (2025) DOI:10.1126/science.adp3411 DOWNLOAD
Eneritz Rueda-Alaña, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Marco Grillo, Enrique Vázquez, Sergio Marco-Salas, Aitor Ordeñana-Manso, Tatiana Gallego-Flores, Artemis Ftara, Laura Escobar, Alberto Benguría, Ana Quintas, Ana Dopazo, Miriam Rábano, María dM Vivanco, Ana María Aransay, Daniel Garrigos, Ángel Toval, José Luis Ferrán, Mats Nilsson, Juan Manuel Encinas, Maurizio De Pitta, Fernando García-Moreno.
Developmental origins and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds
Bastienne Zaremba, Amir Fallahshahroudi, Céline Schneider, Julia Schmidt, Ioannis Sarropoulos, Evgeny Leushkin, Bianka Berki, Enya Van Poucke, Per Jensen, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Francisca Hervas-Sotomayor, Nils Trost, Francesco Lamanna, Mari Sepp, Fernando García-Moreno*, Henrik Kaessmann*.
SCIENCE 387, (2025) DOI:10.1126/science.adp5182
Open-source, high-throughput targeted in situ transcriptomics for developmental and tissue biology.
Lee H, Christoffer Mattsson Langseth, Sergio Marco Salas, Sanem Sariyar, Andreas Metousis, Eneritz Rueda-Alaña, Christina Bekiari, Emma Lundberg, Fernando Garcı́a-Moreno, Marco Grillo, Mats Nilsson
Development 15 August 2024 151 (16): dev202448
BirthSeq, a new method to isolate and analyze dated cells in different vertebrates.
Rueda-Alaña E, Marco Grillo, Enrique Vázquez, Sergio Marco Salas, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Laura Escobar, Ana Quintas, Alberto Benguría, Ana María Aransay, Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Ana Dopazo, Juan Manuel Encinas, Mats Nilsson, Fernando García-Moreno
Development 1 July 2024 151 (13): dev202429
Generation of adult hippocampal neural stem cells occurs in the early postnatal dentate gyrus and depends on cyclin D2
Pastor-Alonso O, Anum Syeda Zahra, Bente Kaske, Fernando García-Moreno, Felix Tetzlaff, Enno Bockelmann, Vanessa Grunwald, Soraya Martin- Suarez, Kristoffer Riecken, Otto Wilhelm Witte, Juan Manuel Encinas, Anja Urbach
EMBO Journal 2023 43(3):317-338.
Non-uniform temporal scaling of developmental processes in the mammalian cortex
Paolino A, Haines EH, Bailey EJ, Black DA, Moey C, García-Moreno F, Richards LJ, Suárez R, Fenlon LR
Nature Communications 2023 14, 5950;
Functional evolutionary convergence of long noncoding RNAs involved in embryonic development
Olazagoitia-Garmendia A*, Senovilla-Ganzo R*, García-Moreno F, Castellanos-Rubio A
Nature Communications 2023 14, 5950
Time in Neurogenesis: Conservation of the Developmental Formation ofthe Cerebellar Circuitry
Rueda-Alaña E and García-Moreno F
Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2022 97 (1-2): 33–47

PREPRINTS

Diez I*, García-Moreno F*, Carral-Sainz N, Stramaglia S, Alicia Nieto-Reyes A, D’Amato M, Cortés JM and Bonifazi P. Neurogenesis time reversely shapes structural-functional networks’ hubs and gene expression in the adult brain. bioRxiv.
Adhara Gaminde-Blasco, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Uxue Balantzategi, Fernando García-Moreno, Carlos Matute, Jimena Baleriola, Elena Alberdi. Amyloid-β increases MBP and MOBP translation in oligodendrocytes through dysregulation of hnRNP A2 dependent RNA dynamics. bioRxiv Oihane Abiega, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Maroua El-Ouraoui, Teresa Muro-García, Lorena Ruiz-Clavijo, Fernando García-Moreno, Carlos Fitzsimons, Soraya Martín-Suárez, Juan M. Encinas. Hippocampal reactive neural stem cells are able to phagocytose and have an immunological molecular signature. bioRxiv
The tree of developmental history by von Baer (from Brauckmann, 2012).

2016 - 2021

The tree of life by Charles Darwin
García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2020) Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution. Progress in Neurobiology 194, 101865. Ratié L, Desmaris E, García-Moreno F, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Kelman A, Theil T, Bellefroid EJ, and Molnár Z (2020) Loss of Dmrt5 Affects the Formation of the Subplate and Early Corticogenesis. Cerebral Cortex 30 (5), 3296–3312. Rueda-Alaña E, Martinez-Garay I, Encinas JM, Molnár and García-Moreno F (2018) Dbx1-derived pyramidal neurons are originated locally in the developing murine neocortex. Front. Neurosci. 12; 792. Picco N, García-Moreno F, Maini PK, Woolley TE and Molnár Z(2018) Mathematical Modeling of Cortical Neurogenesis Reveals that the Founder Population does not Necessarily Scale with Neurogenic Output. Cerebral Cortex 28, 7:2540–2550 García-Moreno F, Anderton E, Królak M, Martínez-Garay I, Begbie J, Encinas JM, Irimia M and Molnár Z (2018) Absence of Tangentially Migrating Glutamatergic Neurons in the Developing Avian Brain. Cell Reports 22:96-109. Askew K, Liang Y, Olmos-Alonso A, García-Moreno F, Li K, Richardson P, Tipton T, Riecken K, Molnár Z, Cragg MS, Garaschuk O, Perry VH and Gomez-Nicola D (2017) Coupled proliferation and apoptosis maintain the rapid turnover of microglia in the adult brain. Cell Reports 18:391-405. Sacilotto N, Nikitenko L, Fischer K, Fritzsche M, Wallace MD, Payne S, Nornes S, ‎ García-Moreno F, Yao Lu W, Bridges E, Liu K, Biggs D, Ratnayaka I, P Herbert SP, Molnár Z, Harris AL, Davies B, Bond GL, Schwarz JJ, Bou-Gharios G and De Val S (2016) MEF2 transcription factors are master regulators of sprouting angiogenesis Genes Dev 30:2297-2309.

2011 - 2015

García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2015) A subset of early radial glial cells selectively contribute to the development and evolution of callosal connecting neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2015) 112:E5058-E5067. Vasistha NA, García-Moreno F, Arora S, Cheung A, Arnold S, Robertson E and Molnár Z (2015) Tbr2 expressing intermediate progenitors contribute to all cortical layers in the developing brain. Cereb Cortex. 25:3290-302 García-Moreno F, Vasistha NA, Begbie J, Molnár Z (2014) CLoNe is a new method to target single progenitors and study their progeny in mouse and chick. Development 141, 1589 – 1598. Belgard TG, Montiel JF, Wang WZ, García-Moreno F, Margulies EH, Ponting CP, Molnár Z (2013) Adult pallium transcriptomes surprise in not reflecting predicted homologies across diverse chicken and mouse pallial sectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110: 13150–13155. García-Moreno F, Vasistha NA, Trevia N, Bourne JA, Molnár Z (2012) Compartmentalization of cerebral cortical germinal zones in a lissencephalic primate and gyrencephalic rodent. Cereb Cortex 22:482-92 Belgard TG, Marques AC, Oliver PL, Abaan HO, Sirey TM, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, García-Moreno F, Molnár Z, Margulies EH, Ponting CP (2012) A transcriptomic atlas of mouse neocortical layers. Neuron 71:605-16 Oeschger FM, Wang WZ, Lee S, García-Moreno F, Goffinet AM, Arbonés ML, Rakic S, Molnár Z (2012) Gene expression analysis of the embryonic subplate. Cereb Cortex 22:1343-59 Molnár Z, Vasistha NA, García-Moreno F (2012) Hanging by the tail: progenitor populations proliferate. Nat Neurosci 14:538-40 Wang WZ, Oeschger F, Montiel JF, García-Moreno F, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Krubitzer L, Joakim Ek C, Saunders N, Reim K, Villalón A, Molnár Z (2011) Comparative aspects of subplate zone studied with gene expression in vertebrate pallia. Cereb Cortex 21:2187-203 Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Kousha O, Garcia-Moreno F, Molnar Z (2011) GFP-expression in subplate cells in the Edg2-GFP and CTGF-GFP mouse. J Anat 218:353-354
Major axonal tracts of the mouse telencephalon by Santiago Ramón y Cajal

2007 - 2010

Cortical neurons by Facundo Valverde
Miquelajáuregui A, Varela-Echavarría A, Ceci ML, García-Moreno F, de Carlos JA, Hoang K, Ricaño I, Tamariz E, WestphaL H, Zhao Y (2010) LIM-homeobox gene Lhx5 is required for normal development of Cajal-Retzius cells in the mouse forebrain. J Neurosci 30:10551-10562 García-Moreno F, Pedraza M, Di Giovannantoni L G, Di Salvio M, López-Mascaraque L, Simeone A and De Carlos JA (2010) A neuronal migratory pathway crossing from diencephalon to telencephalon populates amygdala nuclei. Nat Neurosci 13:680-689 García-Moreno F, López-Mascaraque L and De Carlos JA (2008) Early telencephalic migration topographically converging in the olfactory cortex. Cereb Cortex 18:1239-1252 García-Moreno F, López-Mascaraque L and De Carlos JA (2007) Origins and migratory routes of murine Cajal-Retzius cells. J Comp Neurol 500: 419-432

Book chapters and reviews

Senovilla-Ganzo R, García-Moreno F. The Phylotypic Brain of Vertebrates, from Neural Tube Closure to Brain Diversification. Brain Behav Evol. 2024;99(1):45-68. doi: 10.1159/000537748. Epub 2024 Feb 9. García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2020) Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution. Progress in Neurobiology, 194, 101865. Araújo SJ, Almudi I, Bozal-Basterra L, Casares F, Casas-Tintó S, Escalante A, García-Moreno F, Losada-Pérez M, Maeso I, Marcon L, Ocaña OH, Pampliega O, Rada-Iglesias Á, Rayon T, Sharpe J, Sutherland JD, del Campo CVand Barrio R (2021) Virtual meeting, real and sound science: Report of the 17th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020) International Journal of Developmental Biology, 52. 10.1387/IJDB.210005RB García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2020) The Impact of Different Modes of Neuronal Migration on Brain Evolution. In: “Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience Series, 2nd Edition”. Elsevier Martínez-Cerdeño V, García-Moreno F, Tosches MA, Csillag A, Manger PR, Molnár Z (2018). Update on forebrain evolution: From neurogenesis to thermogenesis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 76:15-22 Montiel JF, Vasistha NA, Garcia-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2016) From sauropsids to mammals and back: New approaches to comparative cortical development. J Comp Neurol 524:630-645 Martínez-Garay I, García-Moreno F, Vasistha N, Marques-Smith A, Molnár Z (2015). In utero electroporation methods in the study of cerebral cortical development. In: “Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Brain Development – Recent Studies and Methodological Advances”. Springer Book pp21-39 Montiel JF, Wang WZ, Oeschger FM, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Tung WL, García-Moreno F, Holm IE, Villalón A, Molnár Z (2010) Hypothesis on the dual origin of the mammalian subplate. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. Special Issue on "Adaptive function and brain evolution" De Carlos JA and García-Moreno F (2009) Tangential cell movements during early telencephalic development. In: "From development to degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system". Charles E. Ribak, Carlos Aramburo de la Hoz, Edward G. Jones, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd and Larry W. Swanson (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
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