2022

Salvador X, Fernández-Vilert R, Moles J* (in press) On the presence of elusive sea slugs and snails in the
western Mediterranean (Mollusca: Gastropoda): new records. Journal of Natural History.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.226423

Schächinger P,* Schrödl M, Wilson NG, Moles J (2022) Crossing the Polar front – Antarctic species
discovery in the nudibranch genus Tritoniella (Gastropoda). Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-022-00541-3

2021

Moles J,* Berning MI, Hooker Y, Padula V, Wilson NG, Schrödl M (2021) Due South: the evolutionary
history of Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Tritoniidae nudibranchs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
162:107209.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107209

Moles J,* Cunha TJ, Lemer S, Combosch D, Giribet G (2021) Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics
of Polyplacophora. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87:eyaa019.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab019

Cardona L*, Lloret-Lloret E, Moles J, Avila C (2021) Latitudinal changes in the trophic structure of benthic
coastal food webs in the Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Environmental Research 167:105290.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105290

Rossi ME,* Avila C, Moles J (2021) Orange is the new white: genetic diversity in Tritonia species from the
Southern Ocean (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Polar Biology 44:559–573.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02813-8

Moles J,* Giribet G (2021) A polyvalent and universal tool for genomic studies in gastropod molluscs
(Heterobranchia: Tectipleura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 155:106996.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106996

Moles J,* Derkarabetian S, Schiaparelli S, Schrödl M, Troncoso JS, Wilson NG, Giribet G (2021) An
approach using ddRADseq and machine learning for understanding speciation in Antarctic
Antarctophilinidae gastropods. Scientific Reports 11:8473.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87244-5

Fernández-Vilert R,* Giribet G, Salvador X, Moles J (2021) Assessing the systematics of Tylodinidae
(Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Umbraculida) in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean:
resurrecting Tylodina rafinesquii Philippi, 1836. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87:eyaa031.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa031

Riesgo A,* Taboada S, Kenny NJ, Santodomingo N, Moles J, Leiva C, Cox E, Avila C, Cardona L,
Maldonado M (2021) Recycling resources: silica of diatom frustules as a source for spicule building in
Antarctic siliceous demosponges. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192:259–276.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa058

2019

Moles J,* Riesgo A (2019) A junior freckled nudibranch: Chromatic variability in Felimida species
(Gastropoda; Chromodorididae) from the Canary Islands. Spixiana 42:193–202.

Moles J,* Avila C, Malaquias MAE (2019) Unmasking Antarctic mollusc lineages: novel evidence from
philinoid snails (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea). Cladistics 35:487–513.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12364

2018

Núñez-Pons L,* Work TM, Angulo-Preckler C, Moles J, Avila C (2018) Exploring the pathology of an
epidermal disease affecting a circum-Antarctic sea star. Scientific Reports 8: 11353.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29684-0

Fernández-Vilert R, Giménez J, Mas G, Figueroa I, Moles J* (2018) First records of the Red Sea alien
mollusc Haminoea cyanomarginata (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in the Western
Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History 52: 1817−1823.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1497212

Angulo-Preckler C,* Figuerola B, Núñez-Pons L, Moles J, Martín-Martín R, Rull-Ruch J, Gómez-Garreta
A, Avila C (2018) Macrobenthic patterns at the shallow marine waters in the caldera of the active volcano
of Deception Island, Antarctica. Continental Shelf Research 157:20−31
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2018.02.005

Koutsouveli V, Taboada S, Moles J, Cristobo J, Ríos P, Bertran A, Solà J, Avila C, Riesgo A* (2018)
Insights into the reproduction of some Antarctic dendroceratid, poecilosclerid, and haplosclerid
demosponges. PLoS ONE: e0192267.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192267

2017

Moles J,* Avila C, Malaquias MAE (2017) Systematic revision of the Antarctic gastropod family
Newnesiidae (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) with the description of a new genus and a new abyssal
species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: zlx089.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx089

Figuerola B,* Angulo-Preckler C, Núñez-Pons L, Moles J, Sala-Comorera L, García-Aljaro C, Blanch AR,
Avila C (2017) Experimental evidence of chemical defence mechanisms in Antarctic bryozoans. Marine
Environmental Research 129:68−75.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.04.014

Moles J,* Mas G, Figueroa I, Fernández-Vilert R, Salvador X, Giménez J (2017) As fast as a hare:
colonization of the heterobranch Aplysia dactylomela (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Anaspidea) into the western
Mediterranean Sea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 58:341−345.
doi: 10.21411/CBM.A.97547B71

Moles J,* Wägele H, Cutignano A, Fontana A, Ballesteros M, Avila C (2017) Giant embryos and hatchlings
of Antarctic nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Marine Biology 164:114
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-017-3143-8

Moles J,* Wägele H, Schrödl M, Avila C (2017) A new Antarctic heterobranch clade is sister to all other
Cephalaspidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zoologica Scripta 46:127−137.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12199

Moles J,* Wägele H, Uhl G, Avila C (2017) Bipolarity in sea slugs: a new species of Doridunculus
(Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Onchidoridoidea) from Antarctica. Organisms Diversity & Evolution
17:101−109.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-016-0309-z

2016

Moles J,* Wägele H, Ballesteros M, Pujals Á, Uhl G, Avila C (2016) The end of the cold loneliness: 3D
reconstruction of Doto antarctica (Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) and description of the sympatric D.
carinova n. sp. PLoS ONE 7: e0157941.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157941

Nuzzo G, Cutignano A,* Moles J, Avila C, Fontana A (2016) Exiguapyrone and exiguaone, new
polypropionates from the Mediterranean cephalaspidean mollusc Haminoea exigua. Tetrahedron Letters
57:71−74.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.11.067

Moles J,* Wägele H, Cutignano A, Fontana A, Avila C (2016) Distribution of granuloside in the Antarctic
nudibranch Charcotia granulosa (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Charcotiidae). Marine Biology 163:1−11.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2831-0

2015

Cutignano A,* , Moles J,  Avila C, Fontana A (2015) Granuloside, a unique linear homosesterterpene from
the Antarctic nudibranch Charcotia granulosa. Journal of Natural Products 78:1761–1764.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00378

Moles J,* Núñez-Pons L, Taboada S, Figuerola B, Cristobo J, Avila C (2015) Anti-predatory chemical
defences in Antarctic benthic fauna. Marine Biology 162:1813−1821.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-015-2714-9

Moles J,* Figuerola B, Campanyà N, Monleón-Getino T, Taboada S, Avila C (2015) Distribution patterns
in Antarctic and Subantarctic echinoderms. Polar Biology 38:799−813.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1640-5

Moles J,* Avila C, Kim I-H (2015) Anthessius antarcticus n. sp. (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Anthessidae)
from Antarctic waters living in association with Charcotia granulosa (Mollusca: Nudibranchia:
Charcotiidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 35:97–104.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002290

2014

Moles J,* Torrent A, Alcaraz MJ, Ruhí R, Avila C (2014) Anti-inflammatory activity in selected Antarctic
benthic organisms. Frontiers in Marine Science 1:24.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2014.00024

2013

Figuerola B,* Núñez-Pons L, Moles J, Avila C (2013) Feeding repellence in Antarctic bryozoans.
Naturwissenschaften 100:1069–1081.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1112-8