Journal articles
2024
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 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.
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.
2015 – earlier
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
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. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.25.559365v2 (In revision – PCI Genomics).
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. (in revision).
PhD Thesis
Bista I. (2016), Defining a High Throughput Sequencing identification framework for freshwater ecosystem biomonitoring. Bangor University, Wales, UK. Full text PDF
Other contributions
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
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
Iliana Bista
Biodiversity Genomics
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