Publications

* Co-first author † Corresponding author

Viral impacts on host physiology

Aging processes, developmental programs, and metabolic homeostasis

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Enteric viral infections promote systemic accelerated aging in Drosophila

González R†, Castelló-Sanjuán M, Saleh MC†

Science Advances (2025) 12:eaec1735

Persistent viral infections impact key biological traits in Drosophila melanogaster

Castelló-Sanjuán M, González R, Romoli O, Blanc H, Nigg J, Saleh MC†

PLoS Biology (2025) 23:e3003437

The pupal stage is a developmental window for RNA virus persistence in Drosophila

Castelló-Sanjuán M, González R, Bergman A, Blanc H, Frangeul L, Nigg J, Saleh MC†

bioRxiv (2025) 2025.11.07.687216

The interplay between Caenorhabditis elegans larval development and Orsay virus infection

Melero I†, Castiglioni VG, Olmo-Uceda MJ, Olmedo M, González R†, Elena SF†

iScience (2025) 28:114193

Transcriptional and hormonal profiling uncovers the interactions between plant developmental stages and RNA virus infection

Melero I, Gómez-Cadenas A, González R†, Elena SF†

Journal of General Virology (2024) 105:002023

Viral strain-dependent impact of plant developmental stages on the nestedness and modularity of plant-virus interaction matrices

Melero I, Elena SF, González R†

microPublication Biology (2023) 10.17912/micropub.biology.000943

Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus

Melero I, González R†, Elena SF†

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2023) 378:20220005

From foes to friends: viral infections expand the limits of host phenotypic plasticity

González R*†, Butković A*, Elena SF†

Advances in Virus Research (2020) 106:85-121

Environmental modulation of infections

Impact of the microbiome, space conditions, and abiotic factors

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Microbiome composition modulates the lethal outcome of Drosophila A virus infection

González R†, Castelló-Sanjuán M, Romoli O, Blanc H, Kobayashi H, Nigg J, Saleh MC†

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2025) 83:61

Cosmic silence and viral noise: transcriptomic crosstalk in Caenorhabditis elegans under simulated space conditions

Villena-Giménez A*, Legarda EG*, González R, Castiglioni VG, Elena SF†

Frontiers in Microbiology (2025) 17:1781245

Reduced gravity and muon flux absence affect Caenorhabditis elegans life history traits and viral infection

Villena-Giménez A, Castiglioni VG, Legarda EG, Muñoz-Sánchez JC, González R, Elena SF†

Microbiology Spectrum (2024) 14:e03580-25

Natural monobacterial environments modulate viral infection in Caenorhabditis elegans

González R†, Félix M-A†

PLoS Pathogens (2024) 20:e1011947

The interplay between the host microbiome and pathogenic viral infections

González R†, Elena SF

mBio (2021) 12:e02496-21

Virus evolution

Molecular evolutionary dynamics, selective pressures, and phylogenetics

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Experimental evolution of an RNA virus in Caenorhabditis elegans

Castiglioni VG, Olmo-Uceda MJ, Martín S, Félix M-A, González R†, Elena SF†

Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2024) 123:105623

A brief view on factors that affect plant virus evolution

Butković A*†, González R*†

Frontiers in Virology (2022) 2:994057

Defects in plant immunity modulate the rates and patterns of RNA virus evolution

Navarro R, Ambrós S, Butković A, Carrasco JL, González R, Martínez F, Wu B, Elena SF†

Virus Evolution (2022) veac059

Plant virus evolution under strong drought conditions results in a transition from parasitism to mutualism

González R, Butković A, Escaray F, Martínez-Latorre J, Melero I, Pérez-Parets E, Gómez-Cadenas A, Carrasco P, Elena SF†

PNAS (2021) 118:e2020990118

Highlighted in PNAS Commentary: Rapid emergence of virus-host mutualism under stress (Dolja VV, e2100936118)

Revisiting Orthotospovirus phylogeny using full-genome data and testing the contribution of selection, recombination and segments reassortment in the origin of new species

Butković A, González R, Elena SF†

Archives of Virology (2021) 166:491–499

Adaptation of turnip mosaic potyvirus to a specific niche reduces its genetic and environmental robustness

Butković A, González R, Cobo I, Elena SF†

Virus Evolution (2020) 6:veaa041

Role of host genetic diversity for susceptibility-to-infection in the evolution of virulence of a plant virus

González R, Butković A, Elena SF†

Virus Evolution (2019) 5:vez024

Mutagenesis scanning uncovers evolutionary constraints on tobacco etch potyvirus membrane-associated 6K2 protein

González R*, Wu B*, Li X*, Martínez F†, Elena SF†

Genome Biology and Evolution (2019) 11:1207–1222

Genetic architecture of host-virus interactions

Genetics of antiviral immunity and susceptibility factors

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Caenorhabditis elegans immune responses to intracellular pathogens

González R†, Félix M-A

Developmental & Comparative Immunology (2024) 154:105148

Caenorhabditis elegans defective-pharynx and constipated mutants are resistant to Orsay virus infection

González R†, Félix M-A†

microPublication Biology (2024) 10.17912/micropub.biology.001166

Genetic basis of Arabidopsis thaliana responses to infection by naïve and adapted isolates of turnip mosaic virus

Butković A*, Ellis TJ*, González R*, Jaegle B, Nordborg M†, Elena SF†

eLife (2023) 12:RP89749

A genome-wide association study identifies Arabidopsis thaliana genes that contribute to differences in the outcome of infection with two Turnip mosaic potyvirus strains

Butković A, González R, Rivarez MPS, Elena SF†

Virus Evolution (2020) veab063

Other contributions

Additional research and scientific communications

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A look back at the departmental Virology Days of the Institut Pasteur (Le Touquet, May 13-15, 2024)

González R*, Koh C*, Virlon B*, Merkling SH†, Vartanian JP†

Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (2025) mjae052

Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana rosette area unveils new genes involved in plant development

González R†, Butković A, Rivarez MPS, Elena SF

Scientific Reports (2020) 10:17600

The scale-of-choice effect and how estimates of assortative mating in the wild can be biased due to heterogeneous samples

Rolán-Alvarez E†, Carvajal-Rodríguez A, de Coo A, Cortés B, Estévez D, Ferreira M, González R, Briscoe AD

Evolution (2015) 69:1845–1857

Updated July 2026

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