Gonzalo Giribet

My primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals and in the use of museum specimens for genomic research. In the lab we use genomic and morphological data from living and extinct animals to better understand invertebrate evolution and changes in their distributions through time. A large body of our work focuses on arthropods and mollusks, but we also investigate many other groups of invertebrates, including velvet worms, nemerteans, priapulans, and many smaller phyla.

Frigyik, E., Baker, C. M., Derkarabetian, S., Sirvid, P. J., & Giribet, G. (2025). Tiny hunters along the Alpine Fault: Integrative phylobiogeography demonstrates high geographic structure in a forest-dwelling Aotearoa harvester genus (Arachnida, Triaenonychidae: Algidia). Journal of Biogeography, 52, e15097. https:/doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15097 Giribet, G., Anilkumar, P. A., Goodwin, A., Stewart, R. S., Watkis, C. A., Whyte, D., & Hormiga, G. (2025). On the troglobitic velvet worm Speleoperipatus spelaeus Peck, 1975 (Onychophora, Peripatidae): assessing the status of a Critically Endangered Jamaican invertebrate. Subterranean Biology, 51, 49–59. https:/doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.51.151034 Sato, S., Appeldorff, C., Wangensteen, O. S., Garcés-Pastor, S., Laumer, C. E., Herranz, M., Giribet, G.,