Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Microbes

Unicell - Publications

2024

Prokina KI, Yubuki N, Tikhonenkov EV, Ciobanu MC, Lopez-Garcia P, Moreira D (2024) Refurbishing the marine parasitoid order Pirsoniales with newly (re)described marine and freshwater free-living predators J Euk Microbiol, 71: e13061

Bacchetta T, López-García P, Gutiérrez-Preciado A, Mehta N, Skouri-Panet F, Benzerara K, Ciobanu, M, Yubuki N, Tavera R, Moreira D (2023) Description of Gloeomargarita ahousahtiae sp. nov. (Gloeomargaritales), a thermophilic cyanobacterium with intracellular carbonate inclusions Eur J Phycol, online early

2023

López-García P, Gutiérrez-Preciado A, Krupovic M, Ciobanu M, Deschamps P, Jardillier L, López-Pérez M, Rodríguez-Valera F, Moreira D (2023) Metagenome-derived virus-microbe ratios across ecosystems ISME J, 17: 1552-1563

Torruella G, Galindo LA, Moreira D, Ciobanu M, Heiss AA, Yubuki N, Kim E, López-García P (2023) Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists J Euk Microbiol, 70: e12956

Galindo LJ, Torruella G, López-García P, Ciobanu M, Gutiérrez-Preciado A, Karpov SA, Moreira D (2023) Phylogenomics supports the monophyly of aphelids and fungi and identifies new molecular synapomorphies Syst Biol, 3: 505–515.

Yubuki N, Torruella G, Glindo LJ, Heiss AA, Ciobanu MC, Shiratoir T, Ishida K, Blas J, Kim E, Moreira D, Lopez-Garcia P, Eme L (2023) Molecular and morphological characterization of four new ancyromonad genera and proposal for an updated taxonomy of the Ancyromonadida J Euk Microbiol 70: e12997

2022

van Beveren F, Eme L, López-García P, Ciobanu M, Moreira D (2022) Independent size expansions and intron proliferation in red algal plastid and mitochondrial genomes Genome Biol Evol. 14:evac037

Belilla J, Iniesto M, Moreira D, Benzerara K, Gérard E, López-García JM, Kotopoulou E, López-García P (2022) Active microbial airborne dispersal and biomorphs as confounding factors for life detection in the cell-degrading brines of the polyextreme Dallol geothermal field. mBio 13: e00307-22

2021

Moreira D, Zivanovic Y, Lopez-Archilla AI, Iniesto M, López-García P. (2021). Reductive evolution and unique infection and feeding mode in the CPR predatory bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii. Nature Comms, 12: 2454

Irion S, Christaki U, Berthelot H, L’Helguen S, Jardillier L (2021) Small phytoplankton contribute greatly to CO2-fixation after the diatom bloom in the Southern Ocean ISME J 15: 2509–2522

2020

Yubuki N, López-García P, Reboul G, Brown MW, Pollet N, Moreira D (2020) Ancient adaptive lateral gene transfers in the symbiotic Opalina - Blastocystis stramenopile lineage. Mol Biol Evol 37: 651-659

2019

Belilla J, Moreira D, Jardillier J, Reboul G, Benzerara K, Lopez-Garcia JM, Bertolino P, Lopez-Archilla AI, López-García P (2019) Hyperdiverse archaea near life limits at the polyextreme geothermal Dallol area. Nature Ecol Evol, 3:1552–1561

Galindo LJ, Torruella G, Moreira D, Eglit Y, Simpson AGB, Völcker E, Clauβ S, López-García P (2019) Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of Fungi. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 374:20190094

2018

Torruella G, Grau-Bové X, Moreira D, Karpov SA, Burns J, Sebé-Pedrós A, Völker E, López-García P (2018) Global transcriptome analysis of the aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae supports the phagotrophic origin of fungi. Communications Biology, 1:231

Galindo LJ, Torruella G, Moreira D, Timpano H, Paskerova G, Smirnov A, Nassonova E, López-García P (2018) Evolutionary genomics of Metchnikovella incurvata (Metchnikovellidae), an early branching microsporidium. Genome Biol Evol, 10:2736-2748

Karpov SA, López-García P, Mamkaeva MA, Klimov VI, Vishnyakov AE, Tcvetkovab VS, Moreira D (2018) The chytrid-like parasites of algae Amoeboradix gromovi gen. et sp. nov. and Sanchytrium tribonematis belong to a new fungal lineage. Protist, 169(1):122-140

2017

Karpov S, Tcvetkova VS, Mamkaeva MA, Torruella G, Timpano H, Moreira D & López-García P (2017) Morphological and genetic diversity of Opisthosporidia: new aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae gen. et sp. nov., J Euk Microbiol, 64: 204–212

2016

Derelle R, López-García P, Timpano H & Moreira D (2016) A phylogenomic framework to study the diversity and evolution of stramenopiles. Mol Biol Evol, 33: 2890-2898

Karpov SA, López-García P, Mamkaeva MA, Vishnyakov AE, Moreira D (2016) The chytridiomycete Poliphagus parasiticus: molecular phylogeny supports the erection of a new chytrid order. Mycol Phytopathol, 50: 362-366

Gómez F, Takayama H, Moreira D & López-García P (2016) Unarmoured dinoflagellates with a small hyposome: Torodinium and Lebouridinium gen. nov. for Katodinium glaucum (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae). European Journal of Phycology 52, 226–241

2015

Gómez F, López-García P, Takayama H & Moreira D (2015) Balechina and the new genus Cucumeridinium, gen. nov. (Dinophyceae), unarmored dinoflagellates with thick cell covering. J Phycol, 51: 1088–1105.