Publications

Reconnecting the Cinchona (Rubiaceae) collections of La Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú (1777‑1816).

We uncovered a complex web of purchasing and reconnected Cinchona collections between Madrid and London by analysing 18-19th century archives at Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid.

2022

A highly contiguous, scaffold-level nuclear genome assembly for the fever tree (Cinchona pubescens Vahl) as a novel resource for Rubiaceae research.

Using hybrid genomic (live generated at the Nanopore Conference 2019) and RNA-seq data, we assembled and annotated the plastid and nuclear genome of the Andean fever tree (Cinchona pubescens).

2022

Museomics approach to genotype historical Cinchona barks.

We standardised laboratory protocols and bioinformatic workflows to genotype historical Cinchona barks.

2022

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

We examine conservation status and actions required to protect biodiversity and improve living standards and well-being for the Malagasy people.

2022

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

We characterize the biological history and diversity of the Malagasy island.

2022

Historical chemical annotations of Cinchona bark collections are comparable to results from current-day high‑pressure liquid chromatography technologies.

We found the content of quinine-like alkaloids from historical Cinchona barks were stable over time by comparing historical chemical annotations to HPLC estimations.

2019

Draft Genome Sequence of a Virulent Strain of Pasteurella multocida isolated From Alpaca.

We assembled and annotated the genome of the first Pasteurella multocida strain infecting alpaca.

2017

Book chapters

2022

DNA from museum collections

Nataly Allasi Canales, Andrew C. Clarke, Mark Nesbitt, Rafal Gutaker. Book chapter in Molecular Identification of Plants: From Sequence to Species, edited by Hugo de Boer, Brecht Vestraete, Marcella Rydmark and Barbara Gravendeel. Pensoft, 2022.

2022

Museomics

Nataly Allasi Canales, Nina Rønsted, Jazmín Ramos‑Madrigal. Book chapter in Molecular Identification of Plants: From Sequence to Species, edited by Hugo de Boer, Brecht Vestraete, Marcella Rydmark and Barbara Gravendeel. Pensoft, 2022.

2022

Bitter barks ‑ Legacies and futures of the famous Fever tree

Kim Walker and Nataly Allasi Canales. An essay in This Book is a Plant. Profile Books Ltd, 2022. ISBN: 9781788166911.

Scientific Abstracts

Genome‑wide identification of resistant genes in domesticated and wild rice varieties (Oryza spp; Poaceae)

2018

Allasi Canales, Nataly Olivia. Botany 2018 conference as a poster.

Maximum recovery of genomic DNA from bark collections to resolve the evolutionary history of the Fever tree

2019

Nataly Allasi Canales, Christopher J. Barnes, Mark Nesbitt, Kim Walker, Tobias Gress, Claus Cornett, Carla Maldonado, Alexandre Antonelli, Nina Rønsted. Genome, 14 June 2019. DOI: 10.1139/gen‑2019‑0083.