Associate Professor of Anthropology
Tel.: +39 055 2743017
E-mail: roscoe.stanyon@unifi.it
Academic and Scientific Responsibilities
Editorial Board: BMC Genetics, Chromosome Research, American Journal of Primatology
Teaching
Courses of Human Genetics, Human Biology and Population Genetics for the Diploma in Natural Sciences, University of Florence
Comparative Genomics for the Masters and PhD program in Anthropology
Research Interests
Human and Primate Evolution
Molecular Cytogenetics
Comparative Genomics
Molecular Anthropology
Collaborators
Stephen J O’Brien, National Cancer Institute-Frederick
William Modi, CRES, San Diego Zoological Society
Mariano Rocchi and Nicoletta Archidiacono
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, University of Bari
Fengtang Yang, Sanger Center, Cambridge, UK
Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch
Publications 2005-2007
1. Svartman M, Stone G, Page J, & R Stanyon, 2004. A chromosome painting test of the basal Eutherian karyotype. Chromosome Research (Springer, New York) 12: 45-53. IF=3.0
2. Bigoni F, Houks M, Ryder OA, Wienberg J & R Stanyon, 2004. Chromosome painting shows that Pygathrix nemaeus has the most basal karyotype among Asian colobines. International Journal of Primatology (Plenum Press, New York) 25: 679-688. IF=1.4
3. Stanyon R, Stone G & F Bigoni, 2004. The ancestral genomes in primate phylogeny and origins: a molecular cytogenetic perspective. In Anthropoid Origins (eds. C.F. Ross and R.F. Kay). Kluwer, New York. p 79-90.
4. Stanyon R, Yang F, Morescalchi MA, & L Galleni, 2004. Chromosome painting in the long-tailed field mouse provides insight into the ancestral murid genome. Cytogenetetics and Genome Research (Karger, Basel)105(2-4):406-11. IF=2.1
5. Ruiz-Herrera A, Garcia F, Froenicke L, Ponsa P, Egozcue J, Garcia MC, & R Stanyon, 2004. Conservation of aphidicolin-induced fragile sites in Papionini (Primates) species and humans. Chromosome Research (Springer, New York) 12: 683–690. IF=3.0
6. Stanyon R, Bigoni F, Slaby T, Muller S, Stone G, Bonvicino, Neusser M & Seuanez HN. (2004). Multi-directional chromosome painting maps homologies between species belonging to three genera of New World monkeys and humans. Chromosoma 113: 301-315. IF=3.3
7. Stanyon R, Bruening R, Stone G, Shearin A, & F Bigoni, 2005. Reciprocal painting between humans, De Brazza's and patas monkeys reveals a major bifurcation in the Cercopithecini phylogenetic tree. Cytogenetics and Genome Research. (Karger, Basel) 108(1-3):175-82. IF=2.1
8. Dumas F, Bigoni F, Stone G, Sineo L & R Stanyon, 2005. Mapping Genomic Rearrangements in titi monkeys by Chromosome flow sorting and Multi-directional in situ hybridization. Chromosome Research (Springer, New York) 13: 85-6. IF=3.0
9. Svartman M, Stone G & R Stanyon, 2005. Molecular cytogenetics discards polyploidy in mammals. Genomics (Academic Press, London) 85 425–430. IF=3.2
10. Seo BM, Miura M, Sonoyama W, Coppe C, Stanyon R & S Shi, 2005. Recovery of Stem Cells from Cryopreserved Periodontal Ligament. Journal of Dental Research (Alessandria, USA) 84(10): 907-912. IF=3.2
11. Murphy WJ, Wilkerson AJ, Raudsepp T, Agarwala R, Schaffer AA, Stanyon R, & Chowdhary BP (2006). Novel gene acquisition on carnivore Y chromosomes. PLoS Genet 2(3): 353-363.
12. Stanyon R, Dumas F, Stone G, & Bigoni F (2006). Multidirectional chromosome painting reveals a remarkable syntenic homology between the greater galagos and the slow loris. Am J Primatol 62: 349-359. IF=1.7
13. Bigoni F, Stone G, Perelman P, & Stanyon R (2006). Cytotaxonomy of Colobinae primates with reference to reciprocal chromosome painting of Colobus guereza and humans. In (Sineo L & Stanyon R eds) Primate Cytogenetics and Comparative Genomics Firenze University Press, Firenze 2006, p19-32.
14. Svartman M, Stone G, & Stanyon R (2006). The Ancestral Eutherian Karyotype Is Present in Xenarthra. PLoS Genet 2(7): 1006-1011.
15. Stanyon R, Caramelli D, Chiarelli B (2006). Molecular Views of Human Evolution. Human Evolution 21(1): 19-31.
16. Buckley-Beason VA, Johnson WE, Nash WG, Stanyon R, Menninger JC, Driscoll CA, Howard J, Bush M, Page JE, Roelke ME, Stone G, Martelli PP, Wen C, Ling L, Duraaisingam RK, Lam PV & SJ O’Brien. 2006. Molecular evidence for species-level distinctions in clouded leopards. Current Biology 16: 2371-2376. IF = 11.7
17. Cardone MF, Alonso A, Pazienza M, Ventura M, Montemurro G, Carbone L, Jong de PJ, Stanyon R, D’addabbo P, Arcidiacono N, She X, Eichler EE, Warburton PE, Rocchi M. Independent centromere formation in a capricious, gene-free domain of chromosme 13q21 in Old World monkeys and pigs. Genome Biology 7 (10) IF=9.7
18. Romanenkko SA, Perelman PL, Serdukova NA, Trifonov VA, Biltueva LS, Wang J, Li T, Nie W, O’Brien PCM, Volobouev VT, Stanyon R, Ferguson-Smith MA, Yang F, Graphodatsky AS. Reciprocal chromosome painting between three laboratory rodent species. Mammalian Genome 17: 1183-1192. IF=2.7
19. Caramelli D, Lalueza-Fox C, Condemi S, Longo L, Dilani L, Manfredini A, de Saint Pierre M, Adoni F, Lari M, Giunti P, Ricci S, Casoli A, Calafell F, Mallegni F, Bertranpetit J, Stanyon R, Bertorelle G & Barbujani G. A highly divergent mtDNA sequence in a Neandertal individual from Italy. Current Biology 16: 630-632. IF=11.7
20. Rocchi M, Archidiacono N & Stanyon R (2006). Ancestral Genomes Reconstruction: an Integrated, Multi-Disciplinary Approach Is Needed. Genome Research: 16: 1441-1444. IF=10.1
21. Kellog ME, Burkett S, Dennis TR, Stone G, Gray BA, McGuire PM, Zori RT & R Stanyon (2007). Chromosome painting in the manatee supports Afrotheria and Paenungulata. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7(6). IF = 4.6
22. Caramelli D, Lalueza-Fox C, Capelli C, Lari M, Sampietro ML, Gigli E, Milani L, Pilli E, Guimaraes S, Chiarelli B, Marin VT, Casoli A, Stanyon R, Bertranpetit J & G Barbujani. (2007). Genetic analyusis of the sketal remains attributed to Francesco Petrarca. Forensic Sci Int
23. Ventura M, Antonacci F, Cardone MF, Stanyon R, D’Addabbo P, Cellamare A, Sprague JL, Eichler EE, Arcidiacono N & M Rocchi. Evolutionary Formation of New Centromeres in Macaque. Science (in press)
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