Publications
Selected publications
61. Kulkarni, S.S., Klementz, B.C., Ballesteros, J.A., Abshire, K.M., Cunha, T.J., Hassan, M.K., Laumer, E.M., De Medeiros, B.A.S., Neu, S.M., Pankey, M.S., Plachetzki, D.C., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Setton, E.V.W., Varney, R.M., Abdel-Rahman, M., Hormiga, G., Sharma, P.P. (In review). No silver bullet: Patterns of macrosynteny recapitulate systemic conflicts in the higher-level relationships of the arachnids. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
60. Garcia, E.L., Kulkarni, S.S., Graham, M.R., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Sharma, P.P. (In review). Comparative genomics of the unusual arachnid order Solifugae spotlight the molecular and genetic basis for adaptations to arid habitats. BMC Genomics.
59. Cortez-Ramirez, M., García-Melo, J.E., Prada-Quiroga, C.F., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (In revision). Morphometrics to delineate scorpion diversity: Quantitative tools in scorpion systematics for understanding Colombian scorpion fauna. Journal of Arachnology.
58. Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Iuri, H.A., Piacentini, L.N., Pereyra, D., Gómez-Fernández, M.J., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ochoa, J.A., Pizarro-Araya, J., Barrios-Montivero, A. (In revision). A new winter scorpion genus from arid western Argentina, with a dated molecular phylogeny of scorpion family Bothriuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger.
57. Graham, M.R., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Murdoch, B. (2026). Long-read mitogenomes reveal hidden control-region architecture in Smeringurus mesaensis and overlooked tandem repeats in scorpions. Arthropoda 4,16. Open Access
56. 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. (2026). Deep Phylogenomic structure and microendemism in Baja California Ammotrechidae (Arachnida: Solifugae) reveal a mosaic of diversification. Journal of Biogeography.
55. Baradaaran, M., Salabi, F., Payab, N., Mahdi-Kazemi, S., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Lüddecke, T. (2026). Venom gland transcriptomics and bioactivity profiling reveal a bifunctional hyaluronidase from Mesobuthus crucittii (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 13, 1807239. Open Access
54. 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
53. 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
52. 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
51. +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
50. 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