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  • Buchenel, L., Bonhoeffer, S., Pascual-García, A. (*) (2024) A network optimisation condition uncovers the role of functional groups in the feasibility and dynamical stability of microbial model ecosystems. Under review bioRxiv 2024.01.09.574826; doi: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574826

  • Pascual-García, A., Rivett, D., Jones, M. L., & Bell, T.(*) (2023). Replaying the tape of ecology to domesticate wild microbiomes. Under review bioRxiv, 2023-07. doi: 10.1101/2023.07.07.548163

  • Puente-Sánchez, F.(*), Pascual-García, A., Bastolla, U., Pedrós-Alió, C., Tamames, J. (2023) Cross-biome microbial networks reveal functional redundancy and suggest genome reduction through functional complementarity Under review bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.09.11.507163

  • van Es, S.W., Muñoz-Gasca, A., Romero-Campero, F.J., González-Grandío, E., de los Reyes, P., Tarancón, C., van Dijk, A.D.J., van Esse, W., Pascual-García, A., Angenent, G.C., Immink, R.G.H. and Cubas, P. (2023), A gene regulatory network critical for axillary bud dormancy directly controlled by Arabidopsis BRANCHED1. New Phytol. doi: 10.1111/nph.19420

  • Pascual-García, A.(*), Schwartzman, J., Enke, TN., Iffland-Stettner, A., Cordero, OX., Bonhoeffer, S., (2022) Turnover in life-strategies recapitulates marine microbial succession colonizing model particles Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 0.3389/fmicb.2022.812116

  • Pascual-García, A.(*), Klein, J., Villers, J., Campillo-Funollet, E., & Sarkis, C. (2021). Empowering the crowd: Feasible strategies for epidemic management in high-density informal settlements. The case of COVID-19 in Northwest Syria. BMJ Global Health 6:e004656 doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004656.

  • Jones, M.(*), Rivett, D. Pascual-García, A. & Bell, T. (2021) Relationships between community composition, productivity and invasion resistance in semi-natural bacterial microcosms. eLife 10:e71811 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71811.

  • Pascual-García, A.(*), (2021) Phylogenetic Core Groups: A promising concept in search of a consistent methodological framework. Microbiome 9, 73. doi: 10.1186/s40168-021-01023-y. [pdf]

  • Ramoneda, J., Hawes, I., Pascual-García, A., Mackey, T.J., Sumner, D.Y., Jungblut, AD(*). (2021) Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiab044. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab044.

  • Ramirez Garcia, A., Zhang, J., Constancias, F., Greppi, A., Wortmann, E., Wandres, M., Hurley, K., Pascual-García, A., Sturla, S., Lacroix, C., Schwab, C(*). (2021) Impact of manipulation of glycerol/diol dehydratase activity on intestinal microbiota ecology and metabolism, Environ Microbiol 23: 1765-1779. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15431.

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) & Bell, T. (2020). Community-Level signatures of ecological succession in natural bacterial communities. Nature Commun. 11(1), 1-11, doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16011-3. [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) & Bell, T. (2020). functionInk: An efficient method to detect functional groups in multidimensional networks reveals the hidden structure of ecological communities. Meth. Ecol. Evol., 11(7), 804-817 doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13377. [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A., Bonhoeffer, S. & Bell, T.(*) (2020). Metabolically cohesive microbial consortia and ecosystem functioning . Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. B, 375: 20190245, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0245 [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A., Arenas, M., & Bastolla, U.(*) (2019). The molecular clock in the evolution of protein structures. Systematic Biology, syz022, doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz022. [pdf]

  • Enke, T. N., Datta, M. S., Schwartzman, J., Cermak, N., Schmitz, D., Barrere, J., Pascual-García, A. & Cordero, O. X.(*) (2019). Modular Assembly of Polysaccharide-Degrading Marine Microbial Communities. Current Biology. 29(9), 1528-1535. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.047. [pdf]

  • Pascual‐García, A.(*) (2018). A constructive approach to the epistemological problem of emergence in complex systems. PloS one, e201745008. doi: 0.1371/journal.pone.0206489. [pdf]

  • Amigo, I., & Pascual‐García, A.(*) (2017). Conflicts of interest in scientific publishing. EMBO reports, e201745008. doi: 10.0.59.148/embr.201745008. [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A. and Bastolla U.(*) (2017) Mutualism supports biodiversity when the direct competition is weak Nature Commun., 8, 14326 doi: 10.1038/ncomms14326. [pdf]
    • Featured in the Spanish Public National Radio, (in the news and in an interview).
    • Featured in the Science website Madrid+.
  • Sánchez-Nido, G., Romano, L., Bastolla, U. and Pascual-García, A.(*) (2016) Learning protein folding and evolution with a snake puzzle. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e100 doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.100. [pdf]

  • Ferrera A., Pascual-García, A. and Bastolla, U.(*) (2016) Effective competition determines the global stability of model ecosystems Theoretical Ecology, doi:10.1007/s12080-016-0322-z [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A., Tamames, J. and Bastolla, U.(*) (2014). Bacteria dialog with Santa Rosalia: Are aggregations of cosmopolitan bacteria mainly explained by habitat filtering or by ecological interactions? BMC microbiology, 14(1), 1-16. [pdf]

  • Vallés, Y., Artacho, A., Pascual-García, A., Ferrús, M. L., Gosalbes, M. J., Abellán, J. J. and Francino, M. P.(*) (2014). Microbial succession in the gut: directional trends of taxonomic and functional change in a birth cohort of Spanish infants. PLoS Genetics, 10(6), e1004406. [pdf]

  • Nido, G. S., Méndez, R., Pascual-García, A., Abia, D., and Bastolla, U.(*) (2012). Protein disorder in the centrosome correlates with complexity in cell types number. Molecular BioSystems, 8(1), 353-367. [pdf]

  • Pascual-García, A., Abia, D., Méndez, R., Nido, G. S., and Bastolla, U.(*) (2010). Quantifying the evolutionary divergence of protein structures: the role of function change and function conservation. Proteins 78(1), 181-196. [pdf]

  • Bastolla, U., Fortuna, M. A., Pascual-García, A., Ferrera, A., Luque, B. and Bascompte, J.(*) (2009). The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature, 458(7241), 1018-1020. [pdf]
  • Pascual-García, A., Abia, D., Ortiz, A. R., and Bastolla, U.(*) (2009). Cross-over between discrete and continuous protein structure space: insights into automatic classification and networks of protein structures. PLoS Comput. Biol., 5(3), e1000331. [pdf]

Books and Ph.D. Thesis

  • Pascual-García, A Emergent patterns in protein, microbial and mutualistic systems (2015)

    Ph.D Thesis. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Summa Cum Laude. Awarded with the University Outstanding Mention

  • Bioinformática con Ñ. Volume I. Coordinated and edited by Sebastián, A. and Pascual-García, A. (2014) ISBN:978-84-617-1976-

  • Bioinformática con Ñ. Volume II. Coordinated and edited by Sebastián, A. and Pascual-García, A. (2014) ISBN:978-84-617-1976-

Book chapters

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) Modelos simplificados de plegamiento de estructura de proteínas (2014) [pdf]

    in: Bioinformática con Ñ. Coordinators: Sebastián, A. and Pascual-García, A. Independent edition. Free access in Zenodo.

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) Alineamiento de estructura de proteínas (2014) [pdf]

    in: Bioinformática con Ñ. Coordinators: Sebastián, A. and Pascual-García, A. Independent edition. Free access in Zenodo.

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) Evolución de estructura de proteínas (2014) [pdf]

    in: Bioinformática con Ñ. Coordinators: Sebastián, A. and Pascual-García, A. Independent edition. Free access in Zenodo.

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) Explorando el rol de la Competición, el Mutualismo y la Arquitectura en Redes Ecológicas: Qué podemos decir sobre la Biodiversidad? (2011) ISBN: 978-84-92910-06-9 [pdf]

    in: Evolución y Adaptación: 150 años después del origen de las especies. Coordinators: Hernán Dopazo and Arcadi Navarro. Editor: Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology

Proceedings and other publications

  • Pascual-García, A. and Bastolla, U. The architecture of mutualistic networks does influence structural stability. (2017) Self-Journals of Science SJS:585

  • Pascual-García, A., Ferrera A., and Bastolla, U. (*) Does mutualism hinders biodiversity? (2014) (comment to James et al. Nature 2012, 487, 227–230.) arXiv:1409.1683

  • Pascual-García, A.(*) On the Epistemology of Complex Networks Theory (2012), Proceedings of the 1st Iberoamerican Congress on Phylosophy of Life Sciences. ISBN:978-84-370-9040-5

  • Pérez-Escudero, A., Pascual-García, A., Polavieja, G., Durán-Trío, L., Arganda-Carreras, S. Esta plataforma ayuda a la comunidad científica y médica a luchar contra la COVID-19 (2020) The Conversation

  • Pascual-García, A. El árbol de la ciencia. (2015) La Vanguardia