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Peer reviewed articles

2025

Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Husemann, M., Peters, R.S., Scheunemann, N., Bálint, M., Balke, M., Bieberich, J., Bista, I., Borsch, T., Bourlat, S.J., Bussmann, R.W., Damm, U., Dey, L.S., Flocco, C.G., Grossart, H.P., Haase, P., Höfer, H., Krashevska, V.,  Lücking, R., Martinez Arbizu, P., Meier, R., Mengual, X., Mercado-Salas, N.F., Moore, J.M., Orr, M.C., Otte, L., Overmann, J., Pauls, S.U., Pereira, R.J., Potapov, A., Printzen, C., Krogmann, L., Raub, F., Raupach, M.J, Rduch, V., Retter, A., von Reumont, B.M., Rossel, S., Schmelz, R.M., Schmitt, T., Scholler, M., Stolle, E., Thines, M., Vasilita, C., Wesener, T., Zahiri, R., Zaitsev, A., Zimmermann, J., Żyła, D.,  Misof, B., Tockner, K. (2025). Unknown Germany – An integrative biodiversity discovery program, npj biodivers 4, 41. Full Text

Gavriilidou, A., Stamatakis, A., Kupczok, A., Bista, I., Jiggins, C., Fernandez, R., Skourtanioti, E., Amoutzias, G., Delneri, D., Schacherer, J., Kyrpides, N., Nikolaou, C., Pittis, A., Manousaki, T., Vakirlis, N. (2025), Advances and challenges in understanding evolution through genome comparison: Meeting report of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Lecture Course “Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics” Bioinformatics Advances, Vol.5, Issue 1 Full Text

Stratakis, M., Ioannidis, P., Bista, I., Absolon, D., Eagles, W., McCarthy, S., Denton, A., Lymberakis, P., Poulakakis, N. (2025). Unravelling the thread of Podarcis omics; insights into the genome and transcriptome of the Cretan Wall Lizard. Genes Genomics. Full Text

Bogan, S.N., Surendran, N., Hotaling, S., Desvignes, T., Bista, I., Lins, L.S.F., Eilertsen, M.H., Le François, N.R., Algayer, T., Hamilton, S.L., Frandsen, P.B., Hoffmann, F.G., Kelley, J.L. (2024). Temperature and pressure shaped the evolution of antifreeze proteins in polar and deep sae zoarcoid fishes Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42, 10, msaf219, Full Text

Bista, I., Collins, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2025). The genome sequence of Aristotle’s catfish, Silurus aristotelis (Garman, 1890). Wellcome Open Research,10: 482 Full Text

Bista, I., Collins, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2025). The genome sequence of the Snaggletooth, Borostomias antarcticus (Lönnberg, 1905) (Stomiiformes: Stomiidae). Wellcome Open Research, 10:460. Full Text

As-singkily, M., Nijland, R., Bista, I., Dutton, P., Becking, L. E., (2025). Assessing Applicability of eDNA-Based Sampling for Population Monitoring of Leatherback Turtles in the Northeast Indian Ocean.” Environmental DNA 7, no. 4: e70160. Full Text

Helmkampf M., Coulmance F., Heckwolf M.J., Acero A., Balard A., Bista I., Dominguez O., Frandsen P.B., IKMB, Santaquiteria A., Tavera J., Victor B., Robertson R., Betancur R., McMillan W.O., Puebla O. (2025). Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near absence of phylogenetic signal. Science Advances, 11, eadt0973. Full Text

Blumer, L. M.†, Burskaia, V.†, Artiushin, I.†, Saha, J.†, Camacho Garcia, J., Elkin, J., Fischer, B., Zhou, C., Gresham, S., Malinsky, M., Linderoth, T., Sawasawa, W., Bista, I., Hickey, A., Kucka, M., Louzada, S., Zatha, R., Yang, F., Rusuwa, B., Santos, M. E., Chan, Y. F., Joyce DA, D. A., Böhne, A., Miska, E. A., Ngochera, M., Turner, G. F., Durbin, R.*, Svardal, H.* (2025), Introgression dynamics of sex-linked chromosomal inversions shape the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation. Science, 388, 6752. Full Text 

Bista, I., Collins, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2025). The genome sequence of the Antarctic lanternfish, Electrona antarctica (Günther, 1878). Wellcome Open Research. Full Text

2024

McCartney, A., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., …. Bista. I., … Ciofi C., Waterhouse R.M., Mazzoni C.J. (2024). The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics. npj biodivers 3, 28. Full Text.

Perry W.B., Seymour M., Orsini L., Jâms I.B., Milner N., Edwards F., Harvey R., de Bruyn M., Bista I., Walsh K., Emmett B., Blackman R., Altermatt, F., Lawson Handley L., Mächler E., Deiner K., Bik H.M., Carvalho G., Colbourne J., Cosby B.J., Durance I., Creer S (2024). An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding. Nature Communications, 15, 4372. Full Text 

Bista, I., Collins, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2024). The genome sequence of the marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii (Richardson, 1844). Wellcome Open Research, 9:227. Full Text

Bista, I., Collins, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2024). The genome sequence of the limp eelpout, Melanostigma gelatinosum (Günther, 1881). Wellcome Open Research, 9:192 Full Text

Rüber L., Britz R., Conway K., Bista I., McCarthy S., Wood J., Smith M., Oliver K., Howe K., Durbin R., (2024). The genome sequence of the Dracula fish, Danionella dracula (Britz, Conway & Rüber, 2009). Wellcome Open Research, 9:194 Full Text

Poulakakis N., Lymberakis P., Stratakis E., Bista I., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective. (2024). The genome sequence of the Cretan wall lizard, Podarcis cretensis (Wettstein, 1952), Wellcome Open Research, 9:161. Full Text

2023

Desvignes T., Bista I., Herrera K., Landes A., Postlethwait J.H., (2023). Cold-driven hemoglobin evolution in Antarctic notothenioid fishes prior to hemoglobin gene loss in white-blooded icefishes. Molecular Biology & Evolution, msad236. Full text

Bista, I.*, Wood, J. M. D., Desvignes, T., McCarthy, S. A., Matschiner, M., Ning Z., Tracey A., Torrance J., Sims Y., Chow W., Smith M., Oliver K., Haggerty L., Salzburger W., Postlethwait J.H., Howe K., Clark M.S., Detrich III H.W., Cheng C.H.C., Miska E.A., Durbin R.*, (2023). Genomics of cold adaptations in the Antarctic notothenioid fish radiation. Nature Communications, 14, 3412 (*Corresponding author) Full text and DRYAD dataset

Theissinger K., Fernandes C., Formenti G., Bista I., Berg P.R., Bleidorn C., Bombarely A., Crottini A., Gallo G.R., Godoy J.A., Jentoft S., Malukiewicz J., Mouton A., Oomen R.A., Paez S., Palsbøll P.J., Pampoulie C., Ruiz-Lopez M.J., Secomandi S., Svardal H., Theofanopoulou C., de Vries J., Waldvogel A.M., Zhang G., Jarvis E.D., Bálint M., Ciofi C., Waterhouse R.M., Mazzoni C.J., Höglund J., and The European Reference Genome Atlas Consortium (2023), How genomics can help biodiversity conservation. Trends in Genetics, 1-15 Full text

Pitman R., Hänfling B., Bista I., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Darwin Tree of Life Consortium (2023). The genome sequence of the barbel, Barbus barbus (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Res , 8:201. Full Text

2022

Dahn H. A., Mountcastle J., Balacco J., Winkler S., Bista I., Schmitt A. D., Vinnere-Pettersson O., Formenti G., Oliver K., Smith M., Tan W., Kraus A., Mac S., Komoroske L. M., Lama T., Crawford A. J., Murphy R. W., Brown S., Scott A. F., Morin P. A, Jarvis A. D., Fedrigo O. (2022). Benchmarking ultra-high molecular weight DNA preservation protocols for long-read and long-range sequencing. GigaScience, Vol. 11, 2022, giac068.  

Formenti G., Theissinger K., Fernandes C., Bista I., Bombarely A., Bleidorn C., Ciofi C., Crottini A, Godoy J.A., Höglund J., Malukiewicz J., Mouton A., Oomen R. A., Paez S., Palsbøll P. J, Pampoulie C., Ruiz-López M.J, Svardal H., Theofanopoulou C., deVries J., Waldvogel A.M., Zhang G., Mazzoni C.J., Jarvis E.D., Bálint M., and The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium. (2022). The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 37(3), 197–202.

Kwon Y. M., Vranken N., Hoge C., Lichak M. R., Norovich A. L., Francis K. W., Camacho-Garcia J., Bista I., Wood W., McCarthy S., Chow W., Tan H. H., Howe K., Bandara S., von Lintig J., Rüber L., Durbin R., Svardal H.,  Bendesky A., (2022). Interspecific hybridization and evolution of sex determination and morphology during Siamese fighting fish domestication. Science Advances, 8(10), 1–17.

Bohmann K., Elbrecht V., Carøe C., Bista I., Leese, F., Bunce M., Yu D.W, Seymour M., Dumbrell A.J., Creer S. (2022). Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(4), 1231–1246 Full Text.

Munby H, Linderoth T, Fischer B, Du M., Vernaz G., Tyers A.M., Ngatunga B.P., Shechonge A., Denise H., McCarthy S.A., Bista I., … , Durbin R., (2022).  Differential use of multiple genetic sex determination systems in diverging ecomorphs of an African crater lake cichlid. (eLife) BioRxiv – full text

2021

Dallaire A., Manley B. F., Wilkens M., Bista I., Quan C., Evangelisti E., Bradshaw C. R., Ramakrishna N. B., Schornack S., Butter F., Paszkowski U., Miska E.A. (2021). Transcriptional activity and epigenetic control of transposable elements in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Genome Research, 31(12), 2290–2302.

Rhie A., McCarthy S. A., Fedrigo O., Damas J., Formenti G., Koren, S., Uliano-Silva M., Chow W., Fungtammasan A., Kim J., Lee C., Ko B. J., Chaisson M., Gedman G. L., Cantin L. J., Thibaud-Nissen F., Haggerty L., Bista I., Smith M., … Jarvis E. D.  (2021). Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species. Nature, 592(7856), 737–746 Full text

Bruce K, Blackman R, Bourlat SJ, Hellström AM, Bakker J, Bista I., Bohmann K, Bouchez A, Brys R, Clark K, Elbrecht V, Fazi S, Fonseca V, Hänfling B, Leese F, Mächler E, Mahon AR, Meissner K, Panksep K, Pawlowski J, Schmidt Yáñez P, Seymour M, Thalinger B, Valentini A, Woodcock P, Traugott M, Vasselon V, Deiner K (2021). A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment. Pensoft Advanced Books. Full text

Formenti G., Rhie A., Balacco J., Haase B., Mountcastle J., Fedrigo O., Brown S., Capodiferro  M. R., Al-Ajli F. O., Ambrosini R., Houde P., Koren S., Oliver K., Smith M., Skelton J., Betteridge E., Dolucan J., Corton C., Bista I., …, Jarvis, E. D. (2021). Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications. Genome Biology, 22(1), 120.

Seymour M., Edwards F. K., Cosby B. J., Bista I., Scarlett P. M., Brailsford F. L., Glanville H. C., de Bruyn M., Carvalho G. R., Creer S. (2021). Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning. Communications Biology, 4(1), 512.

2020

Bista I.*, McCarthy S. A., Wood J., Ning Z., Detrich III H. W., Desvignes T., Postlethwait J. H., Chow W., Howe K., Torrance J., Smith M., Oliver K., Vertebrate Genomes Project Consortium, Miska E.A., Durbin, R. (2020). The genome sequence of the channel bull blenny, Cottoperca gobio (Günther, 1861). Wellcome Open Research, 5, 148. (*Corresponding author) Full text

2018

Bista I.*, Carvalho G. R., Tang M., Walsh K., Zhou X., Hajibabaei M., Shokralla S., Seymour M., Bradley D., Liu S., Christmas M., Creer S.* (2018). Performance of amplicon and shotgun sequencing for accurate biomass estimation in invertebrate community samples. Molecular Ecology Resources, 1–15 (*Corresponding author) Full text

2017

Bista I. *, Carvalho G.R., Walsh K., Seymour M., Hajibabaei M., Lallias D., Christmas M., Creer S.* (2017). Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity. Nature Communications, 8, 14087 (*Corresponding author) Full text

Deiner K., Bik H. M., Mächler E., Seymour M., Lacoursière-Roussel A., Altermatt F., Creer S., Bista I., Lodge D.M., de Vere N., Pfrender M. E., Bernatchez L. (2017). Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities. Molecular Ecology, 26 (21), 5872–5895.

2016 – earlier

Bista I. (2016), Defining a High Throughput Sequencing identification framework for freshwater ecosystem biomonitoring. Bangor University, Wales, UK, PhD thesis. Full text PDF

Bista I., Carvalho H., Walsh K., Christmas M., Hajibabaei M., Kille P., Lallias D., Creer S. (2015) Monitoring lake ecosystem health using metabarcoding of environmental DNA: temporal persistence and ecological relevance. Genome 58(5). Full Text

Gray C., Bista I., Creer S., Demars B.O.L., Falciani F., Monteith D.T., Sun X., and Woodward G., (2015). “Freshwater conservation and biomonitoring of structure and function: Genes to ecosystems”. Editors: A. Belgrano, G. Woodward, U. Jacob, Academic Press. Text

Garcia – Vazquez E., Horreo J. L., Campo D., Machado-Schiaffino G., Bista I., Triantafyllidis A., Juanes F. Mislabelling of two commercial North American hake species suggests underreported exploitation of Offshore Hake (2009). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 138: 790-796 Full text

Triantafyllidis A., Leonardos I., Bista I., Kyriazis I. D., Stoumboudi M.Th., Kappas I., Amat F., Abatzopoulos T. J., (2007). Phylogeography and genetic structure of the Mediterranean killifish Aphanius fasciatus (Cyprinodontidae), Marine Biology, 152:1159-1167 Full text

In review

Bista I.*, Lino, A. (2025), Using long-read sequencing for biodiversity analyses – a comprehensive guide (*Corresponding author). EcoEvoRxiv Full Text

Wagner, M., Resl, P., Klar, N., Huie, J.M., Bista, I., McCarthy, S., Smith, M., Durbin, R., Koblmüller, S., Svardal, S. The genomics of convergent adaptation to intertidal gravel beaches in Mediterranean clingfishes. Full Text – BioRXiV

Other contributions

Tang C.Q., Crampton-Platt A., Townsed S., Bruce K., Bista I., Creer S. (2018). Development of DNA applications in Natural England, Commissioned Report, 252 (Full text PDF).

Aravanopoulos F.A., Arvanitidis C. Bista I., Dailianis T, Galanis A., Ioannidis P., Kapli P., Klapa M.I., Kolovos P., Kotoulas G., Magoulas A.N., Manousaki T., Pafilis E., Papageorgiou A.C., Papakostas S., Paragkamian S., Pavlidis P., Pavloudi C., Poulakakis N., Psomopoulos F., Reczko M., Sagonas K., Stamatakis A., Theofanopoulou C., Triantafyllidis A., Tsigenopoulos C.S., Vasileiadou K., Zafeiropoulos H. (2022). Building the molecular biodiversity Greece community. Full text

European Reference Genome Atlas Community – Phase 1 members (2020-2023). https://zenodo.org/record/8083652