Institution: EBD

Research Groups: Computational Biology at EBD

Position: Tenured Scientist at CSIC

Home page: https://fortunalab.org

Contact email: fortuna@ebd.csic.es

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8374-1941

BCB Committee: Outreach

BCB Community: No communities assigned.

BCB Tools: Avida: a digital evolution software platform for studying evolution, OntoAvida, avidaR

BCB Services:

Research topics: Microbial Communities, Population dynamics, Ecological modelling, Evolutionary modelling, Phylogenetic Analysis, Systems Biology, Deep Learning in Biology, Knowledge graphs, Bioinformatics education, FAIRfication, Biological Databases, Biological Ontologies, Data Repositories, Analysis packages (R, Python, etc.), Web-service, Cloud Computing, Containers Computing, High-performance Computing

Biography: Miguel is a computational biologist who tries to harness evolution by engineering species interactions to help fight human diseases. After several years of postdoctoral stages at Princeton (USA) and Zurich (Switzerland), he currenly works as a Group Leader at the Doñana Biological Station (EBD), a research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Seville (Spain).

Publications
Displayed publications: 39

Ortega, R., Wulff, E., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). Ontology for the Avida digital evolution platform. Scientific Data, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02514-3

Ortega, R., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). avidaR: an R library to perform complex queries on an ontology-based database of digital organisms. PeerJ Computer Science, 9, e1568. Portico. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1568

Gomes, S. I. F., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., & Merckx, V. S. F. T. (2022). Mycoheterotrophic plants preferentially target arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that are highly connected to autotrophic plants. New Phytologist, 235(5), 2034–2045. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18310

Fortuna, M. A. (2022). The phenotypic plasticity of an evolving digital organism. Royal Society Open Science, 9(9). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220852

Fortuna, M. A., Beslon, G., & Ofria, C. (2022). Editorial: Digital evolution: Insights for biologists. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1037040

Fortuna, M. A., Nagavci, A., Barbour, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2020). Partner Fidelity and Asymmetric Specialization in Ecological Networks. The American Naturalist, 196(3), 382–389. https://doi.org/10.1086/709961

Losapio, G., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Schmid, B., Michalet, R., Neumeyer, R., Castro, L., Cerretti, P., Germann, C., Haenni, J., Klopfstein, S., Ortiz‐Sanchez, F. J., Pont, A. C., Rousse, P., Schmid, J., Sommaggio, D., & Schöb, C. (2019). Plant interactions shape pollination networks via nonadditive effects. Ecology, 100(3). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2619

Cámara-Leret, R., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2019). Indigenous knowledge networks in the face of global change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(20), 9913–9918. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821843116

Fortuna, M. A., Barbour, M. A., Zaman, L., Hall, A. R., Buckling, A., & Bascompte, J. (2019). Coevolutionary dynamics shape the structure of bacteria‐phage infection networks. Evolution, 73(5), 1001–1011. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13731

Yang, X., Yan, C., Zhao, Q., Holyoak, M., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Jansen, P. A., & Zhang, Z. (2018). Ecological succession drives the structural change of seed-rodent interaction networks in fragmented forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 419–420, 42–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.023

Melián, C. J., Matthews, B., de Andreazzi, C. S., Rodríguez, J. P., Harmon, L. J., & Fortuna, M. A. (2018). Deciphering the Interdependence between Ecological and Evolutionary Networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33(7), 504–512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.009

Fortuna, M. A., Zaman, L., Wagner, A., & Bascompte, J. (2017). Non-adaptive origins of evolutionary innovations increase network complexity in interacting digital organisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735), 20160431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0431

Deschepper, P., Brys, R., Fortuna, M. A., & Jacquemyn, H. (2017). Analysis of spatial genetic variation reveals genetic divergence among populations of Primula veris associated to contrasting habitats. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09154-9

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., Selva, N., & Bascompte, J. (2016). Seasonal species interactions minimize the impact of species turnover on the likelihood of community persistence. Ecology, 97(4), 865–873. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1013.1

Lavabre, J. E., Gilarranz, L. J., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2016). How does the functional diversity of frugivorous birds shape the spatial pattern of seed dispersal? A case study in a relict plant species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1694), 20150280. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0280

Barbour, M. A., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Nicholson, J. R., Julkunen-Tiitto, R., Jules, E. S., & Crutsinger, G. M. (2016). Genetic specificity of a plant–insect food web: Implications for linking genetic variation to network complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(8), 2128–2133. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513633113

Rodewald, A. D., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2015). Does removal of invasives restore ecological networks? An experimental approach. Biological Invasions, 17(7), 2139–2146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0866-7

Melián, C. J., Seehausen, O., Eguíluz, V. M., Fortuna, M. A., & Deiner, K. (2015). Diversification and biodiversity dynamics of hot and cold spots. Ecography, 38(4), 393–401. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01162

Pilosof, S., Fortuna, M. A., Cosson, J.-F., Galan, M., Kittipong, C., Ribas, A., Segal, E., Krasnov, B. R., Morand, S., & Bascompte, J. (2014). Host–parasite network structure is associated with community-level immunogenetic diversity. Nature Communications, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6172

Rodewald, A. D., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2014). Community‐level demographic consequences of urbanization: an ecological network approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83(6), 1409–1417. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12224

Pilosof, S., Fortuna, M. A., Vinarski, M. V., Korallo‐Vinarskaya, N. P., & Krasnov, B. R. (2013). Temporal dynamics of direct reciprocal and indirect effects in a host–parasite network. Journal of Animal Ecology, 82(5), 987–996. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12090

Fortuna, M. A., Zaman, L., Wagner, A. P., & Ofria, C. (2013). Evolving Digital Ecological Networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 9(3), e1002928. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002928

Albert, E. M., Fortuna, M. A., Godoy, J. A., & Bascompte, J. (2013). Assessing the robustness of networks of spatial genetic variation. Ecology Letters, 16(s1), 86–93. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12061

Krasnov, B. R., Fortuna, M. A., Mouillot, D., Khokhlova, I. S., Shenbrot, G. I., & Poulin, R. (2012). Phylogenetic Signal in Module Composition and Species Connectivity in Compartmentalized Host-Parasite Networks. The American Naturalist, 179(4), 501–511. https://doi.org/10.1086/664612

Fortuna, M. A., Krishna, A., & Bascompte, J. (2012). Habitat loss and the disassembly of mutalistic networks. Oikos, 122(6), 938–942. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00042.x

Fortuna, M. A., Bonachela, J. A., & Levin, S. A. (2011). Evolution of a modular software network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(50), 19985–19989. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115960108

Fortuna, M. A., Stouffer, D. B., Olesen, J. M., Jordano, P., Mouillot, D., Krasnov, B. R., Poulin, R., & Bascompte, J. (2010). Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin? Journal of Animal Ecology, 79(4), 811–817. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01688.x

Fortuna, M. A., Popa-Lisseanu, A. G., Ibáñez, C., & Bascompte, J. (2009). The roosting spatial network of a bird‐predator bat. Ecology, 90(4), 934–944. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0174.1

Fortuna, M. A., Albaladejo, R. G., Fernández, L., Aparicio, A., & Bascompte, J. (2009). Networks of spatial genetic variation across species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(45), 19044–19049. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907704106

Rezende, E. L., Albert, E. M., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2009). Compartments in a marine food web associated with phylogeny, body mass, and habitat structure. Ecology Letters, 12(8), 779–788. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01327.x

Fortuna, M. A., García, C., Guimarães Jr., P. R., & Bascompte, J. (2008). Spatial mating networks in insect‐pollinated plants. Ecology Letters, 11(5), 490–498. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01167.x

Jovani, R., & Fortuna, M. A. (2007). The shape of the past in the World Wide Web: Scale-free patterns and dynamics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 385(2), 683–688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.07.023

Selva, N., & Fortuna, M. A. (2007). The nested structure of a scavenger community. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1613), 1101–1108. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0232

Fortuna, M. A., & Melián, C. J. (2007). Do scale-free regulatory networks allow more expression than random ones? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 247(2), 331–336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.03.017

Fortuna, M. A., Gómez-Rodríguez, C., & Bascompte, J. (2006). Spatial network structure and amphibian persistence in stochastic environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1592), 1429–1434. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3448

Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2006). Habitat loss and the structure of plant–animal mutualistic networks. Ecology Letters, 9(3), 281–286. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00868.x

Penteriani, V., A. Fortuna, M., J. Melián, C., Otalora, F., & Ferrer, M. (2006). Can prey behaviour induce spatially synchronic aggregation of solitary predators? Oikos, 113(3), 497–505. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14547.x

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