Publications

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Selected publications

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55. Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Alfaro, F.M., Ramírez, M.J., Iuri, H.A., Mattoni, C.I., Pizarro-Arraya, J. (2026). First total evidence dated phylogeny of the scorpion genus Urophonius (Bothriuridae), with new insights into the transition to winter activity, and the description of the first highland Andean species of the genus. Systematic Entomology 51, e70032

59. Graham, M.R., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Murdoch, B. (In review). Long-read mitogenomes reveal hidden control-region architecture in Smeringurus mesaensis and overlooked tandem repeats in scorpions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

58. Cortez-Ramirez, M., García-Melo, J.E., Prada-Quiroga, C.F., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (In review). Morphometrics to delineate scorpion diversity: Quantitative tools in scorpion systematics for understanding Colombian scorpion fauna. Journal of Arachnology.

57. Grarham, M.R., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Jones, R.R., Acosta, A.M., Ceccarelli, F.S., Castillo, J.R., Batista Perales, D., Brookhart, J., Cushing, P.E. (In review). Deep Phylogenomic structure and microendemism in Baja California Ammotrechidae (Arachnida: Solifugae) reveal a mosaic of diversification. Journal of Biogeography.

56. Baradaaran, M., Salabi, F., Payab, N., Mahdi-Kazemi, S., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Lüddecke, T. (In press). Venom gland transcriptomics and bioactivity profiling reveal a bifunctional hyaluronidase from Mesobuthus crucittii (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

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54. Murdoch, B., Kleinschmit, A.J., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Graham, M.R. (2026). Microbiota discovered in scorpion venom. PLoS ONE 21(1): e0328427. Open Access

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53. Bryant, M.J., Coello, A.M., Glendening, A.M., Hilliman III, S.A., Fernanda Jara, C., Pring, S.S., Rodriguez Rivera A., Santiago Membreño, J., Nigro, L., Pauloski, N., Graham, M.R., King, T., Jockush, E.L., O’Neill, R., Wegrzyn, J.L., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Webster, C.N. (2024). Unveiling the genetic blueprint of a desert scorpion: A chromosome-level genome of Hadrurus arizonensis provides the first reference for Parvorder Iurida. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(5): evae097. Open Access

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52. +Psenicnik, A.F., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2024). Optimizing scorpion toxin processing through artificial intelligence. Toxins 16, 437. Open Access

+WCSU undergraduate student

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51. Graham, M.R., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Zehnpfennig, J.R., Tillman, D.S., Murdoch, B. (2024). Serendipitous discovery of desert hairy scorpion mitogenomes as bycatch in venom data via nanopore sequencing. Arthropoda 2, 119-129. Open Access

50. Kulkarni, S.S., Steiner, H.G., Garcia, E.L., Iuri, H., Jones, R.R., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Graham, M.R., Harms, D., Lyle, R., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Silva de Miranda, G., Cushing, P.E., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024). Neglected no longer: Phylogenomic resolution of higher-level relationships in Solifugae. iScience 26(9): 107684.

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49. Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Pizarro-Araya, J., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2023). Old and cold: diverse phylogenomic datasets support an ancient transantarctic dispersive route on the scorpion family Bothriuridae in temperate Gondwana. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 187: 107886

48. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P. (2023). Congruence between ultraconserved element-based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion tree of life. Cladistics 39(6): 533-547.

47. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Baker, C.M., González-Santillán, E., Harvey, M.S., Hassan M.K., Abu-Almaaty, A.H., Aldeyarbi, S.M., Monod, L., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A., Raven, R.J., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Zvik, Y., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2022). Phylogenomics of scorpions reveal a co-diversification of scorpion mammalian predators and mammal-specific sodium channel toxins. Systematic Biology 71: 1281-1289

46. Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Baker, C.M., Benavides, L.R., Cunha, T.J., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Arango, C.P., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Wheeler, W.C., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2022). Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida. Molecular Biology and Evolution : msac021 Open Access