DAVID POSADA Associate Professor, Genetics. Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Campus Universitario, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain. Phone: +34 986 812038. Fax: +34 986 812556.

Interests I am computational evolutionary biologist interested in understanding the evolutionary process acting throughout the history of species and populations. My research has focused on the methodological aspects of the evolutionary analysis at the molecular level, but I also have worked on a variety of organisms, from RNA viruses and bacteria, to crustaceans, mollusks and mammals. My areas of research include phylogenetics, molecular evolution and bioinformatics. I have developed some programs that I hope are useful to other people. My current research interests include: Models of genome evolution and phylogenomics Evolution of HIV Recombination and phylogenetic networks Marine population genetics Selected publications (last 5 years) (Full list) (Search) Abascal F, Zardoya R, Posada, D. 2005. ProtTest: Selection of best-fit models of protein evolution. Bioinformatics 21: 2104-2105. pdf Abascal F, Posada D, Knight RD, Zardoya R. 2006. Parallel evolution of the genetic code in arthropod mitochondrial genomes. PloS Biology 4(5):e127. pdf html Arenas M, Posada D. 2007. Recodon: Coalescent simulation of coding DNA sequences with recombination, migration and demography. BMC Bioinformatics 8: 458. pdf Posada D. 2008. jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 1253-1256. pdf Sotelo G, Posada D, Morán P. 2009. Low mitochondrial diversity and lack of structure in the velvet swimming crab Necora puber along the Galician coast. Marine Biology 156: 1039-1048. pdf

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