Peer-Reviewed publications from Villarreal lab (2015-on)
Members of the lab in bold
undergraduate* and master/PhDstudents/Post-docs** at the time of doing the research
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In review
Peñaloza-Bojacá, G.** &, Adaíses Maciel-Silva, D. Christine Cargill, David Bell, Emily B. Sessa, Fay-Wei Li, J. Gordon Burleigh&, Stuart F. McDaniel, E. Christine Davis, Lorena Endara, N. Salazar Allen, Peter Schafran, Sahut Chantanaorrapint, Jeff Duckett, Silvia Pressel, Claudia Solís-Lemus, Karen Renzaglia & J.C. Villarreal. A. (corresponding author). Submitted. Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification. Annals of Botany. & Equal contribution Penaloza-Bojaca.etal.2024.Inreview
Jousse, Maximiliane; Aguilar, Salomon; Barrios, Hector; Chami, Davilio; Dent, Daisy; Dogirama, Iran; Flaco, Homilia; Kunz, Matthias; Levitan, Joseph; Degaiza, Edison; Valdespino, Wiyan; Mitre, David; Mosquera, Edilberto; Muller-Landau, Helene; Ortega, Alexis; Perez, Rolando; Valdes, Jorge; J.C. Villarreal. A.; Potvin, Catherine. Insights into the forests of Darién, Panama, from the new 10 ha Bacurú Drõa plot established through participatory methods within an Emberá territory. Submitted to Conservaton science and practice. Jousse-etal-2024_
Valdes, J., V. N. Yoshikawa, A. M. Sierra**, H. Barrios, M. Berrugate, O. Valdespino, C. Potvin, J.C. Villarreal A. A new species of Pachira aubl. (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) from Bacurú Drõa, the indigenous Emberá old-growth forest observatory in Darien, Panama. Submitted to Edinburgh Journal of Botany. Valdes.etal.EJBfinal_09072024
Sierra, A.**, M. Alonso García**, C. Zartman & J.C. Villarreal A. Migration patterns of epiphyllous bryophyte metapopulations in Amazonian fragmented landscape inferred from genomic data. Plant Biology.
2024
Robison, T.A., Z.G. Oh, D. Lafferty, X. Xu, J.C.A. Villarreal, L.H. Gunn, F.-W. Li. Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants. Nature Plants in press.
Schafran, P., D.A. Hauser, J.M. Nelson, X. Xu, L.A. Mueller, S. Kulshrestha, I. Smalley, S. de Vries, I. Irisarri, J. de Vries, K. Davies, J.C.A. Villarreal, F.-W. Li. Pan-phylum genomes of hornworts revealed conserved autosomes but dynamic accessory and sex chromosomes. Nature Plants in press.
J.C. Villarreal, Meléndez O.*, Bethancourt R, Bethancourt A, Rodriguez-Castro L.**, Vargas M., Sedio BE, Saltonstall K.2024. Two draft fungal genomes of leaf endophytes from tropical gymnosperms. Microbiology Resources Announcements. villarreal–et-al-2024-fungal genomes
Gutierrez-Ortega, José Said & J.C. Villarreal. 2024. A possible case of adaptive radiation in cycads: A commentary on Zamia phylogeny and biogeography. Annals of Botany. Gutiérrez-Ortega&Villarreal.2024.AnnBot
Suwanmala, O, J.C. Villarreal A., F.W. Li, S. Chantanaorrapint. 2024. Phaeoceros perpusillus var. scabrellus (Notothyladaceae, Anthocerotophyta), a new taxon from northern Thailand. Phytokeys 244: 271-283. Suwanmala.etal.2024.phytokeys
Bell-Doyon, P.**,M.J. Mazerolle, L. Bélanger, Nicole Fenton, J.C. Villarreal A. 2024. Differential impact of clearcut and insect outbreak on boreal lichens and bryophytes 50 years after disturbance. Biological Conservation. Bell-Doyon.etal.2024.Biolconservation
Sierra A.M.**, Meléndez O.*, Bethancourt R, Bethancourt A, Rodriguez-Castro L.**, López CA., Sedio BE, Saltonstall K, Villarreal JC. 2024. Leaf endophytes correlate with host metabolome expression in tropical gymnosperms. Journal of Chemical Ecology Sierra.etal.2024.CycadMetabolome
Hernández-Rodríguez, E., J.C. Villarreal, N. Fenton. In press. Patch level boreal bryophyte diversity driven by landscape heterogeneity. Forest Ecology and Management Hernandez-Rodriguez_etal_ForestEcologyManagement_2024
Villarreal, J.C., N.B. Villarreal, L.F. De León. Panama says no to more mining – a win for environmentalists. Nature 625: 30. Villarreal-2024.Nature
Sierra P., A.**, S. Toupin, M. Alonso-García**, J.C. Villarreal A.2024. Diversity of symbiotic cyanobacteria in cycad coralloid roots using a short-read rbcL-X amplicon. Symbiosis. Sierra_et_al_Symbiosis_rbcLX
2023
Bechteler, J., G. Peñaloza-Bojacá….27 authors, J.C. Villarreal A. 2023. Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification. American Journal of Botany 110 (11): e16249 Bechteler_etal_2023_AJB
Escolástico-Ortiz, D.A.**, , , & Juan Carlos Villarreal A. 2023. Differentially abundant bacteria drive the N2-fixation of a widespread moss in the forest-tundra transition zone. Symbiosis.pdf
Bell-Doyon, P.** 2023. Checklist of Lichens and Associated Fungi from Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, Québec, Canada. Northeastern Naturalist 30(3):304-328. Note: Further distribution or reproduction of the manuscript, either in whole or in part, except for personal research purposes, is prohibited without the written permission of the publisher, Eagle Hill Institute. pdf.
Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Tiago Vilas-Boas, Juan C. Villarreal A, and Adaíses S. Maciel-Silva. 2023. “Differential Effects of Desiccation on Hornworts with Contrasting Life Histories in Tropical Montane Forests: A Functional Trait—Based Perspective” Forests 14, no. 2: 255. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/2/255
Dennis Alejandro Escolástico-Ortiz,**, Lars Hedenäs, Dietmar Quandt, Dörte Harpke, Juan Larraín, Michael Stech & Juan Carlos Villarreal A. 2023. Cryptic speciation shapes the biogeographic history of a northern distributed moss. Botanical Journal of the Linen Society 201(1): 114-134, Escolastico-Ortiz.etal.2021. BJLinneanSociety.
2022
Budke, J.M, M. Renner, J.C. Villarreal A., M. Stech (editors). 2022. A tribute to the contributions of Jeffrey Graham Duckett. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 45(1).
Cargill, D.C., S. Chantanaorrapint, R.-L. Zhu, R.-L., A. Asthana,L Li, K.S. Renzaglia, K.S. and J.C. Villarreal A. 2022. Resolving Relationships Within The Hornwort Genus Anthoceros. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 45(1): 26-43. Cargill.etal.2022.BDE
Peñaloza-Bojacá, G., A. Sierra**, H. Becher, K.S. Renzaglia, J.C. Villarreal A. 2022. HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE AUSTRAL HORNWORT GENUS PHAEOMEGACEROS (DENDROCEROTACEAE, ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA). Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 45(1): 44-66. Peñaloza-Bojaca.etal.2022.BDE
Allen, N.S., G. Dauphin, G. J.C. Villarreal A. et al. 2022. Bryophytes Of Mangroves Of Bocas Del Toro, Panama Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 45(1): 133–150. Salazar_Allen.etal.2022.BDE
Bell-Doyon, P.**, V. Bellavance, L. Bélanger, M.J. Mazerolle, J.C. Villarreal A. 2022. Bacterial, Fungal, and Mycorrhizal Communities in the Soil Differ between Clearcuts and Insect Outbreaks in the Boreal Forest 50 Years after Disturbance. Forest Ecology and Management 523(1): 120493
Claudio M. Monteza-Moreno, Lilisbeth Rodriguez-Castro**, Pedro L. Castillo-Caballero, Edgar Toribio, Kristin Saltonstall. 2022. Arboreal camera trapping sheds light on seed dispersal of the world’s only epiphytic gymnosperm: Zamia pseudoparasitica. Ecology and Evolution 12(3): e8769. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8769. This paper has been highly covered by the press.
Marta Alonso-García**, Raquel Pino-Bodas, Juan Carlos Villarreal A. 2022. Co-dispersal of symbionts in the lichen Cladonia stellaris inferred from genomic data. Fungal Ecology. Alonso-Garcia.etal.FungalEcology.2022
Alonso García, M.** & J.C. Villarreal. 2022. Bacterial community of reindeer lichens differs between northern and southern lichen woodlands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research • 18 January 2022 • Alonso&Villarreal.2022
Jairo Patiño, Irene Bisang, Bernard Goffinet, Lars Hedenäs, Stuart McDaniel, Silvia Pressel, Michael Stech, Claudine Ah-Peng, Ariel Bergamini, Richard T Caners, D Christine Cargill, Nils Cronberg, Jeffrey Duckett, Sarah Eppley, Nicole J Fenton, Kirsten Fisher, Juana González-Mancebo, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Jochen Heinrichs, Kristoffer Hylander, Michael S Ignatov, Javier Martínez-Abaigar, Nagore G Medina, Rafael Medina, Dietmar Quandt, Stefan A Rensing, Karen Renzaglia, Matthew Renner, Rosa M Ros, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, Juan Carlos Villarreal, Alain Vanderpoorten. 2022. Unveiling the nature of a miniature world: a horizon scan of fundamental questions in bryology. Journal of Bryology.Patino_etal_2022_JBryology
2021
Villarreal, J.C., B. Goffinet, N. Fenton, M. Favreau, S. Schuette & M. von Konrat. 2021. Proccedings of Bryophytes, lichens, and northern ecosystems in a changing world (July 6-9, 2021). Bryological Times.
Rahmatpour, N., D.A. Hauser, J.M. Nelson, P.Y. Chen, J.C. Villarreal A., M.Y. Ho, F-W. Li. 2021. A novel thylakoid-less isolate fills a billion year gap in the evolution of Cyanobacteria. Current Biology
Villarreal, A., J.C.; M. Renaudin, A. Beaulieu-Laliberté* & J.P. Bellenger. 2021. Stigonema associated with boreal Stereocaulon possesses the alternative vanadium nitrogenase. The Lichenologist 53: 215–220. pdf
Bell-Doyon**, S.B. Selva & T. R. Mcmullin. 2021. Calicioid fungi and lichens from an unprotected intact forest ecosystem in Québec. Écosciences
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2020
Frangedakis, E., M. Shimamura, J.C. Villarreal, F-W. Li, M. Tomaselli, M. Waller, K. Sakakibara, K. Renzaglia, P.Szövény 2020. The Hornworts: Morphology, evolution and development. The New Phytologist (Tansley Review)
Lavoie, C.*, M. Renaudin**, R. Troy McMullin, J. Gagnon, C. Roy, M.-E. Beaulieu, J. P. Bellenger & J. C. Villarreal A. 2020. Extremely low genetic diversity of Stigonema associated with Stereocaulon in eastern Canada. The Bryologist, 123(2):188-203: https://doi-org.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/10.1639/0007-2745-123.2.188. pdf
Alonso, M.**, J.C. Villarreal, K. McFarland & B. Goffinet. 2020. Population genomics and phylogeography of a clonal bryophyte with spatially separated sexes and extreme sex ratios. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00495
T. Dawes*, J.C. Villarreal f, P. Szövény, I. Bisang, F-W. Li, D.A. Hauser, D. Quandt, D.C. Cargill & L.L. Forrest. 2020. Extremely low genetic diversity in the European clade of the model bryophyte Anthoceros agrestis. Plant Systematics and Evolution. full paper here: Dawes_et_al-2020-Plant_Systematics_and_Evolution
Li, F-W., T. Nishiyama, 24 authors…. J.C. Villarreal A., K. Sakakibara, P. Szövény. 2020. Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts. Nature plants 6, pages259–272.
Bell-Doyon, P.**, J. Laroche, K. Saltonstall, J.C. Villarreal A. 2020. Specialized bacteriome uncovered in the coralloid roots of the epiphytic gymnosperm, Zamia pseudoparasitica. Environmental DNA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.66
2019
OneKP Consortium. 2019. One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants. Nature.
Peñaloza, G.**, J.C. Villarreal A & A. Silva. 2019. Phylogenetic and morphological circumscription of the genus Dendroceros Ness (Dendrocerotaceae; Anthocerotophyta), with the addition of two new subgenera. Systematics and Biodiversity. Penaloza_Bojaca_JCVA_Adaises_2019_Systematics&Biodiversity
David Bell, Wesley K. Gerelle, Qianshi Lin, Steve Joya, Ying Chang, Z. Nathan Taylor, Carl J Rothfels, Anders Larsson, Juan Carlos Villarreal, Fay-Wei Li, Lisa Pokorny, Peter Szövényi, Barbara Crandall-Stotler, Lisa deGeronimo, David Beerling, Michael Deyholos, Matt von Konrat, Shona Ellis, Tao Chen, Dennis Stevenson, Jeffrey D. Palmer and Sean W. Graham. 2019. Organellomic datasets confirm a cryptic consensus on (unrooted) land-plant relationships and provide new insights into bryophyte molecular evolution . American Journal of Botany. Bell_OrganellargenomicsBryophytes_2019_AJB
Nelson, J.M., D.A. Hauser, J.A. Gudiño, Y.A. Guadalupe*, J.C. Meeks, N. Salazar, J.C. Villarreal, F.-W. Li. 2019. Complete genomes of symbiotic cyanobacteria clarify the evolution of Vanadium-nitrogenase. Genome Biology and Evolution 11 ( 7): 1959–1964, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz137
Anette Garrido, Jose Gudiño Ledezma, Armando A. Durant-Archibold, Noris Salazar Allen, Juan Carlos Villarreal A, and Mahabir P. Gupta. 2019. Chemical profiling of the gamethophyte and sporophyte from the Panamanian hornwort Leiosporoceros dussii (Leiosporocerotaceae) by HS-SPME-GC-MS. Natural Products Communications August: 1-4. Garrido.etal_.2019.NaturalProducts.pdf.
Têtu, B., & J.C Villarreal A., 2019. Bryophytes des murailles du Vieux-Québec. Carnets de bryologie 24 : 1-5.
2018
Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal A. & D. Garbary. 2018. Morphology supports the setaphyte hypothesis: mosses plus liverworts form a natural group. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 40(2): 11–17.
Sierra, A.M.**, J. Bechteler, D. Cardoso D, C. Zartman & J.C. Villarreal A. 2018. Divergence time analyses suggest a Miocene origin of the narrow Amazonian endemic rheophytic Ceratolejeunea temnantha (Spruce) Reiner-Drehwald (Porellales, Lejeuneaceae). Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution. 40(2): 55–67. Sierra_et_al_2018_bde00040p067
Villarreal, A., J.C.¶, Monique Turmel¶; Maurane Bourgouin-Couture*, Jérôme Laroche, Noris Salazar-Allen, Fay-Wei Li, Shifeng Cheng, Karen Renzaglia & Claude Lemieux¶. 2018 Genome-wide organellar analyses from the hornwort Leiosporoceros dussii show low frequency of RNA editing. Plos One. ¶ Equal contribution, * undergraduate doi: /10.1371/journal.pone.0200491
2017
Lewis, L.R., Ickert-Bond, S., Biersma, E.M, Convey, P., Goffinet, B., Hassel, K., Kruijer, K., La Farge, C., Metzgar, J., Stech, M., J.C. Villarreal , McDaniel, S.F. 2017. Future directions and priorities for Arctic bryophyte research. Artic Science 3: 475-497.
Lang, D., —J.C. Villarreal , –50 authors.2017. The P. patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolutionl. The Plant Journal 93: 515–533.
Li, F.-W. f , J.C. Villarreal f, Szövényi, P. 2017. Hornworts: an overlooked window into carbon-concentrating mechanism. Trends in Plant Science 22(4): 275-277. f Equal contribution.
Villarreal, J.C ., Ducket, J.G., Pressel, S. 2017. Morphology, ultrastructure and phylogenetic affinities of the single-island endemic Anthoceros cristatus Steph.(Ascension Island). Journal of Bryology 39: . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2017.1302153
Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal, Piatkowsky, B.T., Reagan, J.L. & Merced, A. 2017. Hornwort stomata: architecture and fate shared with 400 million year old fossil plant without leaves. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00156
2016
Long, D.G., Forrest, L.L., J.C. Villarreal & Crandall-Stotler. 2016.Taxonomic changes in Marchantiaceae, Corsiniaceae and Cleveaceae (Marchantiidae, Marchantiophyta). Phytotaxa 252(1): 077-080.
Villarreal, J.C., Crandall-Stotler, B.J., Hart, M.L., Long, D.G. & Forrest, L.L. 2016. Divergence times and the evolution of morphological complexity in an early land plant lineage (Marchantiopsida) with a slow molecular rate. New Phytologist 209(4):1734-46. doi: 10.1111/nph.13716
Söderström, L. –40 authors, J.C. Villarreal. 2016. World Checklist of hornworts and liverworts. Phytokeys 59: 1-828.
2015
Chantanaorrapint, S., Penjor P & J.C. Villarreal. 2015. Taxonomic notes on Phaeoceros himalayensis, with the lectotypification of Anthoceros himalayensis. Phytotaxa 231(2): 193-196.
Forrest, L.L.,G. Long, P.M. Hollingsworth, D.C. Cargill & J.C. Villarreal. 2015. On Monocarpus (Monocarpaceae, Marchantiopsida), an isolated salt-pan complex thalloid liverwort allied to the Sphaerocarpales. Australian Systematic Botany 28: 137-144.
Li, F.-W., M. Melkonian, C.J, Rothfels, J.C. Villarreal, D.W. Stevenson, S.W. Graham, G. K-S. Wong, K.M. Pryer & S. Mathews. 2015. Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes. Nature Communications 6: 7852 doi:10.1038/ncomms8852.
Villarreal, J.C. & K. Renzaglia. 2015. The hornworts: important advancements in early land plant evolution. Journal of Bryology 37(3): 157-170 (invited review).
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Book Chapters and Tribute papers – peer reviewed
Hanson, D., K.S. Renzaglia & J.C. Villarreal. 2014. Diffusion limitation and CO2 concentrating mechanisms in bryophytes. In Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration: Photosynthesis in Early Land Plants, D.T. Hanson & S.K. Rice (eds). Vol. 37: 95-112 Springer, Dordrecht. DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-6988-5_6.
Villarreal, J.C. 2013. Hornworts (genera Anthoceros and Phaeoceros). In The liverworts and hornworts of Tristan da Cunha, J. Váňa & J.J. Engel, J.J. (eds.). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 105; 32-35, 85-86.
Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal & R.J. Duff. 2009. New insights into morphology, anatomy and systematics of hornworts. In Bryophyte Biology II, B. Goffinet & J. Shaw (eds.), pp 139-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754807.004
Edited volume
Villarreal, J.C., Frey & D.C. Cargill (eds.). 2010. Bryophyte Biology, Phylogeography, Systematics and Evolution in the Southern Hemisphere. Nova Hedwigia 91(3-4): 1–250 pp. (contributed peer-reviewed papers on biogeography, niche modeling, cryo-microscopy, floristics and evolution of Southern Hemisphere bryophytes).
Book reviews and Popular Publications
Villarreal, J.C. New insights on early land plant diversification: pyrenoid evolution and sexual system of hornworts. Field bryology 112: 55-57.
Pressel, S., J. Duckett & J.C. Villarreal. 2013. Hornwort heaven: recount of the expedition into the Himalayan foothills of northern Indian. Field bryology 110: 39-46.
Villarreal, J.C. & N. Salazar Allen. 2012. The enigmatic hornworts of the miniature forest of Cape Horn (English and Spanish). In Miniature forest of Cape Horn: Ecotourism with a hand lens. Goffinet, R. Rozzi, L. Lewis, W. Buck & F. Massardo (eds.) University of North Texas Press, pp. 118-126.
Villarreal, J.C. Before the vascular plants. Book review of “Syllabus of Plant Families A. Engler’s Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. 3. Bryophytes and seedless vascular plants.” 2009. Eds.: W. Frey, M. Stech & E. Fischer. The Bryologist 113: 431–434.
Posters in national and international meetings
Lavoie, C.*, et al. 2019. Une histoire de fidelité chez les lichens. Diversité et recrumente des symbiontes associés au lichen Stereocaulon spp. Colloque du Département de Biologie, Université Laval.
Conference Proceedings
Villarreal, J.C., Line Rochefort, Claire Boismenu & Melina Guêné-Nanchen. 2017. Future Arctic: A global intiative on bryophyte and lichen Arctic research: from species to ecosystems. May 24-26, 2017. Québec, Canada. Proceedings of the Workshop: Future Artic 2017
