Dr. Eugenia Elisabet Montiel

Dr. Eugenia Elisabet Montiel

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  • Former Postdoctoral Associate
Eli was a postdoctoral associate. Her PhD work focused on the evolutionary genetics of transposable elements in grasshoppers with different system of B chromosomes.

At the Valenzuela lab she worked on a phylogenomics project to study the repatterning of turtle genomes responsible for the co-evolution of diploid number and sex determination, as well as sex chromosome evolution in turtles. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (MCB 1244355 to N. Valenzuela).
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8. Montiel EE, Badenhorst D, Lee LS, Valenzuela N. 2022. Evolution and dosage compensation of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) mediated by mobile elements in turtles with female (ZZ/ZW) but not with male (XX/XY) heterogamety. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35:1709–1720.

7. Lee LS, Navarro-Domínguez BM, Wu Z, Montiel EE, Badenhorst D, Bista B, Gessler TB, and Valenzuela N. 2020. Karyotypic evolution of sauropsid vertebrates illuminated by optical and physical mapping of the painted turtle and slider turtle genomes. Genes, 11, 928, doi:10.3390/genes11080928.

6. Lee LS, Montiel EE, and Valenzuela N. 2019. Discovery of putative XX/XY male heterogamety in Emydura subglobosa turtles exposes a novel trajectory of sex chromosome evolution in Emydura. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 158:160–169.

5. Lee LS, EE Montiel, BM Navarro-Domínguez, and N Valenzuela. 2019. Chromosomal rearrangements during turtle evolution altered the synteny of genes involved in vertebrate sex determination Cytogenetic and Genome Research. DOI: 10.1159/000497302

4. Montiel EE, D Badenhorst, J Tamplin, R Burke, and N Valenzuela. 2017. Discovery of youngest sex chromosomes reveals first case of convergent co-option of ancestral autosomes in turtles. Chromosoma. 126:105–113.

3. Montiel EE, D Badenhorst, LS Lee, R Literman, V Trifonov, and N Valenzuela. 2016. Cytogenetic insights into the evolution of chromosomes and sex determination reveal striking homology of turtle sex chromosomes to amphibian autosomes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 148:292-304.

2. Badenhorst D, LD Hillier, R Literman, EE Montiel, S Radhakrishnan, P Minx, DE Janes, WC Warren, SV Edwards, and N Valenzuela. 2015. Physical mapping and refinement of the painted turtle genome (Chrysemys picta) inform amniote genome evolution and challenges turtle-bird chromosomal conservation. Genome Biology and Evolution 7(7):2038–2050.

1. Valenzuela N, D Badenhorst, EE Montiel Jimenez, R. Literman. 2014. Molecular cytogenetic search for cryptic sex chromosomes in painted turtles Chrysemys picta. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 144: 39-46.