Aurélien Miralles

Vita:

2006. PhD thesis, MNHN, Paris.

2006-08. Temporary research associate (ATER) at the MNHN and University Paris 11.

2009-11. Postdoc (AvH) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

2012-15. Two postdoc.,CEFE, CNRS, Montpellier.

2015-16. Postdoc.,Technische Universität Braunschweig.

2016-18. Postdoc.,ISYEB, MNHN, Paris.

2019. Postdoc., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munchen.

2021. Habilitation thesis (HDR), MNHN, Paris.

2022-ongoing. Postdoc (DFG) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Research interests:

1. Origin, evolution and structure of the herpetological diversity :

How many species of Amphibians and Reptiles remain to be discovered, what historical processes have shaped their current distribution on Earth or how to explain their remarkable diversification are among the various questions I am exploring through an integrative approach mainly combining phylogenomics, population genetics and comparative morpho-anatomy.

2. Inventorying biodiversity in the digital age : Concept and methods.

The hindsight I gained on applied taxonomy has led me to work on broader research themes addressed to the whole community of systematists. They are mostly dealing with cybertaxonomy and the automated integrative species delimitation, and contribute to equipping the taxonomy community with new tools fully adapted to its daily practices. This work also contribute to revise and strengthen the secular epistemological foundation on which the discipline is based.

3. The biodiversity and us : A matter of perceptions ?

For several years, I have been developing an innovative and transdisciplinary research activity, located at the border of cognitive sciences, biodiversity sciences and anthropology. This program aims more specifically at studying our empathic and emotional perceptions toward the different organisms living on Earth, through an evolutionary analytical framework.

Selected publications - for a complete list of publications, see http://www.amiralles.com

Miralles A., Koehler J, Glaw F, Wollenberg Valero KC, Crottini A, Rosa GM, du Preez L, Gehring P-S, Vieites DR, Ratsoavina FM, Vences M. (2023). An endless harvest: integrative revision of the Gephyromantis boulengeri and G. blanci complexes reveals six new species of mantellid frogs from Madagascar. Salamandra, 59(1):1-41.

Miralles A., Secondi J., Pabijan M., Babik B., Lemaire C., Crochet P-A. (2023, preprint). Inconsistent estimates of hybridization frequency in newts revealed by SNPs and microsatellites. BioRxiv.
Miralles A, Grandgeorge M, Raymond M (2022). Self-perceived empathic abilities of people with autism towards living beings mostly differs for humans. Scientific Reports, 6300,

Miralles A, Ducasse J, Brouillet S, Flouri T, Fujisawa T, Kapli P, Knowles LL, Kumari S, Stamatakis A, Sukumaran J, Lutteropp S, Vences M, Puillandre (2022). SPART, a versatile and standardized data exchange format for species partition information. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(1):430-438

Chapple DG, Roll U, Böhm M, Aguilar R, Amey AP, Austin CC, Baling M, Barley AJ, Bates MF, Bauer AM, Blackburn DG, Bowles P, Brown RM, Chandramouli SR, Chirio L, Cogger H, Colli GR, Conradie W, Couper PJ, Cowan MA, Craig MD, Das I, Datta-Roy A, Dickman CR, Ellis RJ, Fenner AL, Ford S, Ganesh SR, Gardner MG, Geissler P, Gillespie GR, Glaw F, Greenlees MJ, Griffith OW, Grismer LL, Haines ML, Harris DJ, Hedges SB, Hitchmough RA, Hoskin CJ, Hutchinson MN, Ineich I, Janssen J, Johnston GR, Karin BR, Keogh JS, Kraus F, LeBreton M, Lymberakis P, Masroor R, McDonald PJ, Mecke S, Melville J, Melzer S, Michael DR, Miralles A, Mitchell NJ, Nelson NJ, Nguyen TQ, de Campos Nogueira C, Ota H, Pafilis P, Pauwels OSG, Perera A, Pincheira-Donoso D, Reed RN, Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Riley JL, Rocha S, Rutherford PL, Sadlier RA, Shacham B, Shea GM, Shine R, Slavenko A, Stow A, Sumner J, Tallowin OJS, Teale R, Torres-Carvajal O, Trape JF, Uetz P, Ukuwela KDB, Valentine L, Van Dyke JU, van Winkel D, Vasconcelos R, Vences M, Wagner P, Wapstra E, While GM, Whiting MJ, Whittington CM, Wilson S, Ziegler T, Tingley R, Meiri S (2021). Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk. Biological Conservation, 257:109101

Vences M, Miralles A, Brouillet S, Ducasse J, Fedosov A, Kharchev V, Kostadinov I, Kumari S, Patmanidis S, Scherz MD, Puillandre N, Renner SS (2021). iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists. Megataxa, 006(2): 77-92

Miralles A, Bruy T, Wolcott K, Scherz MD, Begerow D, Beszteri B, Bonkowski M, Felden J, Gemeinholzer B, Glaw F, Glöckner FO, Hawlitschek O, Kostadinov I, Nattkemper TW, Printzen C, Renz J, Rybalka N, Stadler M, Weibulat T, Wilke T, Renner S, Vences M (2020). Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing. Systematic Biology, 69(6): 1231–1253

Ducasse J, Ung V, Lecointre G, Miralles A (2020). LIMES, a tool for comparing species partition. Bioinformatics, 2282-2283.

Miralles A , Raymond M, Lecointre G (2019). Empathy and compassion toward other species decrease with evolutionary divergence time. Scientific Reports, 9: 19555.

Miralles A , Marin J, Markus D, Herrel A, Hedges SB, Vidal N (2018). Molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Scolecophidia and its evolutionary implications. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(12): 1782-1793.

Cornelis G, Funk M, Vernochet C, Leal F, Tarazona OA, Meurice G, Heidmann O, Dupressoir A, Miralles A, Ramirez-Pinilla MP, Heidmann T (2017). An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placental Mabuya lizard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114: E10991-E11000.

Miralles A, Macleod A, Rodriguez A, Ibanez A, Glaw F, Jimenez G, Quezada G, Vences M, Steinfartz S (2017). Shedding light on the Imps of Darkness: An integrative taxonomic revision of the Galápagos marine iguanas (genus Amblyrhynchus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,181: 678-710.