PUBLICATIONS

Publications

2022 to present

Lee, H, CM Langseth, SM Salas, A Metousis, E Rueda Alana, F Garcia-Moreno, M Grillo, M Nilsson. Open-Source, High-Throughput Targeted in-Situ Transcriptomics for Developmental Biologists. bioRxiv
Eneritz Rueda-Alaña, Enrique Vazquez, Laura Escobar, Alberto Benguría, Ana Quintas, Ana Dopazo, Juan Manuel Encinas, Fernando García-Moreno. BirthSeq, a New Method to Isolate Dated Cells from Any Tissue in Vertebrates. bioRxiv
* Diez I*, García-Moreno F*, Carral-Sainz N, Stramaglia S, Alicia Nieto-Reyes A, D’Amato M, Cortés JM and Bonifazi P. Neurogenesis time reversely shapes structural-functional networks’ hubs and gene expression in the adult brain. bioRxiv. * These authors contributed equally to the article.
Oier Pastor-Alonso, Anum Syeda Zahra, Bente Kaske, Fernando García-Moreno, Felix Tetzlaff, Enno Bockelmann, Vanessa Grunwald, Soraya Martin- Suarez, Kristoffer Riecken, Otto Wilhelm Witte, Juan Manuel Encinas, Anja Urbach. Generation of adult hippocampal neural stem cells occurs in the early postnatal dentate gyrus and depends on cyclin D2. bioRxiv.  
Paolino A, Haines EH, Bailey EJ, Black DA, Moey C, García-Moreno F, Richards LJ, Suárez R, Fenlon LR (2023) Non-uniform temporal scaling of developmental processes in the mammalian cortex. Nature Communications 14, 5950; DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-41652-5 
Olazagoitia-Garmendia A*, Senovilla-Ganzo R*, García-Moreno F, Castellanos-Rubio A (2023) Functional evolutionary convergence of long noncoding RNAs involved in embryonic development. Communications Biology 6, 908; DOI 10.1038/s42003-023-05278-z
Rueda-Alaña E and García-Moreno F (2022) Time in Neurogenesis: Conservation of the Developmental Formation ofthe Cerebellar Circuitry. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 97 (1-2): 33–47. DOI: 10.1159/000519068

The tree of developmental history by von Baer (from Brauckmann, 2012).

2016 - 2021

García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2020) Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution.  Progress in Neurobiology (In press)
Ratié L, Desmaris E, García-Moreno F, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Kelman A, Theil T, Bellefroid EJ, and Molnár Z (2020) Loss of Dmrt5 Affects the Formation of the Subplate and Early Corticogenesis. Cerebral Cortex (In press)
Rueda-Alaña E, Martinez-Garay I, Encinas JM, Molnár and García-Moreno F (2018) Dbx1-derived pyramidal neurons are originated locally in the developing murine neocortex. Front. Neurosci., Vol 12; Art 792. doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00792. 
Picco N, García-Moreno F, Maini PK, Woolley TE and Molnár Z(2018) Mathematical Modeling of Cortical Neurogenesis Reveals that the Founder Population does not Necessarily Scale with Neurogenic Output. Cerebral Cortex 28, 7:2540–2550
García-Moreno F, Anderton E, Królak M, Martínez-Garay I, Begbie J, Encinas JM, Irimia M and Molnár Z (2018) Absence of Tangentially Migrating Glutamatergic Neurons in the Developing Avian Brain. Cell Reports 22:96-109. 
Askew K, Liang Y, Olmos-Alonso A, García-Moreno F, Li K, Richardson P, Tipton T, Riecken K, Molnár Z, Cragg MS, Garaschuk O, Perry VH and Gomez-Nicola D (2017) Coupled proliferation and apoptosis maintain the rapid turnover of microglia in the adult brain. Cell Reports 18:391-405.
Sacilotto N, Nikitenko L, Fischer K, Fritzsche M, Wallace MD, Payne S, Nornes S, ‎ García-Moreno F, Yao Lu W, Bridges E, Liu K, Biggs D, Ratnayaka I, P Herbert SP, Molnár Z, Harris AL, Davies B, Bond GL, Schwarz JJ, Bou-Gharios G and De Val S (2016) MEF2 transcription factors are master regulators of sprouting angiogenesis Genes Dev 30:2297-2309.

2011 - 2015

García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2015) A subset of early radial glial cells selectively contribute to the development and evolution of callosal connecting neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2015) 112:E5058-E5067.
Vasistha NA, García-Moreno F, Arora S, Cheung A, Arnold S, Robertson E and Molnár Z (2015) Tbr2 expressing intermediate progenitors contribute to all cortical layers in the developing brain. Cereb Cortex. 25:3290-302
García-Moreno F, Vasistha NA, Begbie J, Molnár Z (2014) CLoNe is a new method to target single progenitors and study their progeny in mouse and chick. Development 141, 1589 – 1598.
Belgard TG, Montiel JF, Wang WZ, García-Moreno F, Margulies EH, Ponting CP, Molnár Z (2013) Adult pallium transcriptomes surprise in not reflecting predicted homologies across diverse chicken and mouse pallial sectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110: 13150–13155.
García-Moreno F, Vasistha NA, Trevia N, Bourne JA, Molnár Z (2012) Compartmentalization of cerebral cortical germinal zones in a lissencephalic primate and gyrencephalic rodent. Cereb Cortex 22:482-92
Belgard TG, Marques AC, Oliver PL, Abaan HO, Sirey TM, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, García-Moreno F, Molnár Z, Margulies EH, Ponting CP (2012) A transcriptomic atlas of mouse neocortical layers. Neuron 71:605-16
Oeschger FM, Wang WZ, Lee S, García-Moreno F, Goffinet AM, Arbonés ML, Rakic S, Molnár Z (2012) Gene expression analysis of the embryonic subplate. Cereb Cortex 22:1343-59 
Molnár Z, Vasistha NA, García-Moreno F (2012) Hanging by the tail: progenitor populations proliferate. Nat Neurosci 14:538-40
Wang WZ, Oeschger F, Montiel JF, García-Moreno F, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Krubitzer L, Joakim Ek C, Saunders N, Reim K, Villalón A, Molnár Z (2011) Comparative aspects of subplate zone studied with gene expression in vertebrate pallia. Cereb Cortex 21:2187-203
Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Kousha O, Garcia-Moreno F, Molnar Z (2011) GFP-expression in subplate cells in the Edg2-GFP and CTGF-GFP mouse. J Anat 218:353-354

2007 - 2010

Miquelajáuregui A, Varela-Echavarría A, Ceci ML, García-Moreno F, de Carlos JA, Hoang K, Ricaño I, Tamariz E, WestphaL H, Zhao Y (2010) LIM-homeobox gene Lhx5 is required for normal development of Cajal-Retzius cells in the mouse forebrain. J Neurosci 30:10551-10562
García-Moreno F, Pedraza M, Di Giovannantoni L G, Di Salvio M, López-Mascaraque L, Simeone A and De Carlos JA (2010) A neuronal migratory pathway crossing from diencephalon to telencephalon populates amygdala nuclei. Nat Neurosci 13:680-689
García-Moreno F, López-Mascaraque L and De Carlos JA (2008) Early telencephalic migration topographically converging in the olfactory cortex. Cereb Cortex 18:1239-1252
García-Moreno F, López-Mascaraque L and De Carlos JA (2007) Origins and migratory routes of murine Cajal-Retzius cells. J Comp Neurol 500: 419-432

Books and Reviews

Araújo SJ, Almudi I, Bozal-Basterra L, Casares F, Casas-Tintó S, Escalante A, García-Moreno F, Losada-Pérez M, Maeso I, Marcon L, Ocaña OH, Pampliega O, Rada-Iglesias Á, Rayon T, Sharpe J, Sutherland JD, del Campo CVand Barrio R (2021) Virtual meeting, real and sound science: Report of the 17th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020) International Journal of Developmental Biology, 52. 10.1387/IJDB.210005RB
García-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2020) The Impact of Different Modes of Neuronal Migration on Brain Evolution. In: “Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience Series, 2nd Edition”. (In press) Elsevier
Martínez-Cerdeño V, García-Moreno F, Tosches MA, Csillag A, Manger PR, Molnár Z (2018). Update on forebrain evolution: From neurogenesis to thermogenesis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 76:15-22
Montiel JF, Vasistha NA, Garcia-Moreno F and Molnár Z (2016) From sauropsids to mammals and back: New approaches to comparative cortical development. J Comp Neurol 524:630-645
Martínez-Garay I, García-Moreno F, Vasistha N, Marques-Smith A, Molnár Z (2015). In utero electroporation methods in the study of cerebral cortical development. In: “Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Brain Development – Recent Studies and Methodological Advances”. Springer Book pp21-39; DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3014-2_2
Montiel JF, Wang WZ, Oeschger FM, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Tung WL, García-Moreno F, Holm IE, Villalón A, Molnár Z (2010) Hypothesis on the dual origin of the mammalian subplate. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. Special Issue on "Adaptive function and brain evolution"  DOI 10.3389/fnana.2011.00025 
De Carlos JA and García-Moreno F (2009) Tangential cell movements during early telencephalic development. In: "From development to degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system". Charles E. Ribak, Carlos Aramburo de la Hoz, Edward G. Jones, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd and Larry W. Swanson (Eds.). Oxford University Press.

The tree of life by Charles Darwin

Major axonal tracts of the mouse telencephalon by Santiago Ramón y Cajal