Latest publications
I have published over 140 papers in top ranked (SCI) journals such as Molecular Ecology, Trends in Parasitology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Current Opinion in Insect Science, Plos Pathogens, Scientific Reports, Environmental Research, Biological Reviews, Biology Letters, Science of the Total Environment, Parasites & Vectors, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Avian Biology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Malaria Journal, among others.
* PhD / Master students under my supervision
R Gutiérrez-López, J Figuerola, J Martínez-de la Puente. Methodological procederes explain observed differences in the competence of European populations of Aedes albiopictus for the transmission of Zika virus. Acta Tropica
M Ferraguti, S Magallanes, J Jiménez-Peñuela, J Martínez-de la Puente, [...], A Marzal. Environmental, geographical and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species. Global Ecology and Biogeography
J Jiménez-Peñuela*, M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, RC Soriguer, J Figuerola. Oxidative status in relation to blood parasite infections in house sparrows living along an urbanization gradient. Environmental Pollution
A Díez-Fernández*, J Matin, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, P López, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Effects of sex and sampling site on the relative proportion of pesticides in uropygial gland secretions of European Blackbirds (Turdus merula). Ibis
MJ Ruiz-Lopéz, M Muñoz-Chimeno, J Figuerola, AM Gavilan, S Varaona, I Cuesta, J Martínez-de la Puente, A Zaballos, F Molero, RC Soriguer, MP Sanchez-Seco, S Ruiz, A Vazquez. Genomic analysis of West Nile virus lineage 1 isolated from mosquitoes from 2020-2021 outbreak occurred in Andalusia, Spain. Viruses
J Figuerola, MÁ Jiménez-Clavero, MJ Ruíz-López, F Llorente, S Ruiz, A Hoefer, P Aguilera-Sepúlveda, J Jiménez Peñuela, O García-Ruiz, L Herrero, RC Soriguer, R Fernández Delgado, MP Sánchez-Seco, J Martínez-de la Puente, A Vázquez. A One Health view of the West Nile virus outbreak in Andalusía (Spain) in 2020). Emerging Microbes & Infections
MJ Ruiz-López, L Barahona, J Martínez-de la Puente, M Póepi, A Valsecchic, V Peracho, J Figuerola, T Montalvo. Widespread resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in Mus musculus domesticus in the city of Barcelona. Science of the Total Environment
F Roldán-Zurabián, MJ Ruiz-López, J Martínez de la Puente, J Figuerola, H Drummond, S Ancona. Apparent absence of avian malaria and malaria-like parasites in northern blue-footed boobies breeding on Isla Isabel. Scientific Reports
J Garrido-Bautista, J Martínez-de la Puente, JL Ros-Santaella, E Pintus, P Lopezosa, Bernardo, Ma Comas, G Moreno-Rueda. Habitat-dependent Culicoides species composition and abundance in blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) nests. Parasitology
2022
J Jiménez-Peñuela*, M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, RC Soriguer, J Figuerola, C Issakson. Differences in fatty acids composition between Plasmodium infected and uninfected house sparrows along an urbanization gradient. Science of the Total Environment
J Yan*, L Gangoso, S Ruiz, R Soriguer, J Figuerola, J Martínez-de la Puente. Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions. Biological Reviews
J Martínez-de la Puente, JC Dunn, L Gangoso. Editorial: Factors affecting host selection by mosquitoes: Implications for the transmission of vector-borne pathogens. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
J Martínez-de la Puente, S Carpenter, B Mathieu, T Baldet. Culicoides imicola (Biting midge). Trends in Parasitology
M Ferraguti*, J Martínez-de la Puente, MÁ Jiménez-Clavero, F Llorente, D Roiz, S Ruiz, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. A field test of the dilution effect hypothesis in four avian multi-host pathogens. Plos Pathogens
J Jiménez-Peñuela*, M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Urbanization effects on temporal variations of avian haemosporidian infections. Environmental Research
A Díez-Fernández*, J Martínez-de la Puente, J Martín, L Gangoso, P López, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Sex and age, but not blood parasite infection nor habitat, affect the composition of the uropygial gland secretions in European blackbirds. Journal of Avian Biology
2021
J Martínez-de la Puente, R Gutiérrez-López*, A Díez-Fernández*, RC Soriguer, I Moreno-Indias, J Figuerola. Effects of mosquito microbiota on the survival cost and development success of avian Plasmodium. Frontiers in Microbiology
M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, J Figuerola. Ecological effects on the dynamics of West Nile virus and avian
Plasmodium: the importance of mosquito communities and landscape. Viruses
J Martínez-de la Puente, A Díez-Fernández*, RC Soriguer, L Rambozzi, A Peano, PG Meneguz, J Figuerola. Are malaria infected birds more attractive to mosquito vectors? Ardeola: International Journal of Ornithology
L Carvajal-Lago*, MJ Ruiz-López, J Figuerola, J Martínez-de la Puente. Implications of diet on mosquito life history traits and pathogen transmission. Environmental Research
J Martínez-de la Puente, D Santiago-Alarcon, V Palinauskas, S Bensch. Plasmodium relictum. Trends in Parasitology
J Martínez-de la Puente, RC Soriguer, JC Senar, J Figuerola, R Bueno-Marí, T Montalvo. Mosquitoes in an urban zoo: identification of blood meals, flight distances of engorged females and avian malaria infections. Frontiers in Veterinary Science
S Brugueras, B Fernandez Martínez; J Martínez-de la Puente, J Figuerola; T Montalvo, C Rius; A Larauri, D Gómez. Climate change and emergent diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and their vectors in southern Europe: a systematic review. Environmental Research
S Cebrián-Camisón*, J Martínez-de la Puente, J Figuerola. A literature eview of host feeding patterns of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in Europe. Insects
JO Valdebenito, J Martínez-de la Puente, M Castro, A Pérez-Hurtado, G Tejera, T Székely, N Halimubieke, J Schroeder, J Figuerola. Effect of mating strategy and insularity on cloacal bacteria prevalence in two shorebirds species. Plos One
2020
M Ferraguti*, H Heesterbeek, J Martínez-de la Puente, MÁ Jiménez-Clavero, A Vázquez, S Ruiz, F Llorente, D Roiz, H Vernooij, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. The role of Culex mosquitoes in the transmission of West Nile virus and avian malaria parasites in Mediterranean areas. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
2020
J Martínez-de la Puente, A Díez-Fernández*, T Montalvo, Rubén Bueno-Marí, Q Pangrani, RC Soriguer, JC Senar, J Figuerola. Do invasive mosquito and bird species alter avian malaria parasite transmission? Diversity
MC Carmona-Isunza, S Ancona, J Figuerola, A González-Voyer, J Martínez-de la Puente. An urge to fill a knowledge void: Malaria parasites are rarely investigated in threatened species. PLOS Pathogens
A Díez-Fernández*, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, P López, R. Soriguer, J Martín, J Figuerola. Mosquitoes are attracted by the odour of Plasmodium-infected birds. International Journal for Parasitology
L Gangoso, D Aragonés, J Martínez-de la Puente, J Lucientes, S Delacour Estrella, R Estrada Peña, T Montalvo, R Bueno Marí, D Bravo Barriga, EM Frontera, E Marqués, I Ruiz Arrondo, A Muñoz, A Oteo, MA Miranda, C Barceló, MS Arias Vázquez, MI Silva Torres, M Ferraguti, S Magallanes, J Muriel; A Marzal, C Aranda, S Ruiz, MA González, R Morchón, D Gómez Barroso, J Figuerola. Determinants of the current and future distribution of the West Nile virus mosquito vector Culex pipiens in Spain. Enviromental Research
2020
A Mignotte, C Garros, L Gardès, T Balenghien, M Duhayon, I Rakotoarivony, L Tabourin, L Poujol,B Mathieu, A Ibañez-Justicia, A Deniz, Aleksandar Cvetkovikj, B V Purse, D W. Ramilo,D Stougiou, D Werner, D Pudar, D Petrić, E Veronesi, F Jacobs, H Kampen, I Pereira da Fonseca, J Lucientes, J Navarro, J Martinez de la Puente, J Stefanovska, K R Searle, K Khallaayoune, C L Culverwell, M Larska, M Bourquia, M Goffredo, M Bisia, M England,M Robin, M Quaglia, MÁ Miranda-Chueca, R Bødker, Rosa Estrada-Peña, Simon Carpenter,Simona Tchakarova, Sofia Boutsini, S Sviland, SM Schäfer, Z Ozoliņa, Z Segliņa, Z Vatansever, K Huber.
The tree that hides the forest: cryptic diversity and phylogenetic relationships in the Palaearctic vector Obsoletus/Scoticus Complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) at the European level. Parasites & Vectors
P Pérez‐Cutillas, C Muñoz, J Martínez‐de la Puente, J Figuerola, R Navarro, M Ortuño, LJ Bernal, J Ortiz, RC Soriguer, E Berriatua. A spatial ecology study in a high‐diversity host community to understand blood‐feeding behaviour in Phlebotomus sandfly vectors of Leishmania. Medical and Veterinary Entomology
2020
R Gutiérrez-López*, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Plasmodium transmission differs between mosquito species and parasite lineages. Parasitology
2020
A Díez‐Fernández*, J Martínez‐de la Puente, L Gangoso, M Ferraguti, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. House sparrow uropygial gland secretions do not attract ornithophilic nor mammophilic mosquitoes. Medical and Veterinary Entomology
M Azcárate-García, M Ruiz-Rodríguez, S Díaz-Lora, C Ruiz-Castellano, M Martín-Vivaldi, J Figuerola, J Martínez-de la Puente, G Tomás, T Pérez-Contreras, JJ Soler. Ornamental throat feathers predict telomere dynamic and hatching success in spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) males. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, L García-Longoria, R Soriguer, J Figuerola, A Marzal. From Africa to Europe: evidence of transmission of a tropical Plasmodium lineage in Spanish populations of house sparrows. Parasites & Vectors
2019
J Martínez‐de la Puente, M Ferraguti*, J Jiménez‐Peñuela*, S Ruiz, J Martínez, D Roiz, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Filarial worm circulation by mosquitoes along an urbanization gradient in southern Spain.Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
R Gutiérrez-López*, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Effects of host sex, body mass and infection by avian Plasmodium on the biting rate of two mosquito species with different feeding preferences. Parasites & Vectors
2019
L Gangoso, R Gutiérrez‐López*, J Martínez‐de la Puente, J Figuerola. Louse flies of Eleonora’s falcons that also feed on their prey are evolutionary dead‐end hosts for blood parasites. Molecular Ecology
J Jiménez-Peñuela, M Ferraguti, J Martínez-de la Puente, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Urbanization and blood parasite infections affect the body condition of wild birds. Science of the Total Environment
2019
R Gutiérrez-López*, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, J Yan*, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Experimental reduction of host Plasmodium infection load affects mosquito survival. Scientific Reports
R Gutiérrez-López*,SM Bialosuknia, AT Ciota, T Montalvo, J Martínez-de la Puente, L Gangoso, J Figuerola, LD Kramer. Vector competence of Aedes caspius and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes for Zika virus, Spain. Emerging Infectious Diseases
2018
P Laynez-Roldán, J Martínez-de la Puente (co-first authorship), T Montalvo, Jordi Mas, José Muñoz, J Figuerola, N Rodriguez-Valero. Two cases of subcutaneous dirofilariasis in Barcelona, Spain. Parasitology Research
J Veiga, J Martínez-de la Puente, R Václav, J Figuerola, F Valera. Culicoides paolae and C. circumscriptus as potential vectors of avian haemosporidians in an arid ecosystem. Parasites & Vectors
2018
J Martínez-de la Puente, R Gutierrez-López*, J Figuerola. Do avian malaria parasites reduce vector longevity? Current Opinión in Insect Science
2018
M Ferraguti*, J Martínez-de la Puente, S Bensch, D Roiz, S Ruiz, V Duarte, RC Soriguer, J Figuerola. Ecological determinants of avian malaria infections: an integrative analysis at landscape, mosquito and vertebrate community levels. Journal Animal Ecology
L Campioni, J Martínez-de la Puente, J Figuerola, JP Granadeiro, MC Silva, P Catry. Absence of haemosporidian parasite infections in the long-lived Cory’s shearwater: evidence from molecular analyses and review of the literature. Parasitology Research
J Yan*, J Broggi, J Martínez-de la Puente, R Gutiérrez-López*, L Gangoso, RC Soriguer, J Figuerola. Does bird metabolic rate influence mosquito feeding preference? Parasites & Vectors
JJ Soler, C Ruiz‐Castellano, J Figuerola, J Martínez-de la Puente, M Ruiz‐ Rodríguez, G Tomás. Egg colouration predicts brood size, telomere length and body condition of spotless starling fledglings. Journal of Avian Biology
A Díez-Fernández*, J Martínez-de la Puente, S Ruiz, R Gutiérrez-López*, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Aedes vittatus in Spain: current distribution, barcoding characterization and potential role as a vector of human diseases. Parasites & Vectors
2018
J Martínez-de la Puente, M Ferraguti*, S Ruiz, D Roiz, F Llorente, E Pérez-Ramírez, MÁ Jiménez-Clavero, R Soriguer, J Figuerola. Mosquito community influences West Nile virus seroprevalence in wild birds: implications for the risk of spillover into human populations. Scientific Reports