P. Lopez-Garcia

The paper examines microbial community assembly in an Andean wetland, finding that both abiotic factors and biotic interactions shape prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities, with strong correlations between photosynthetic eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

This study resolves the phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea and identifies four independent adaptations to hypersaline environments through phylogenomic analysis and gene transfer mechanisms.

This paper describes a new thermophilic cyanobacterium, Gloeomargarita ahousahtiae, isolated from a hot spring, characterized by intracellular carbonate inclusions and distinct phenotypic features.

The paper characterizes four new ancyromonad genera and updates their taxonomy using morphology, behavior, and molecular phylogenetic analyses.

The paper describes new apusomonad species and genera, updates their taxonomy, and provides insights into their evolutionary history and morphology.

This paper models the coevolution of reproducers and replicators to identify conditions for the origin of genomes and symmetrical cell division.

This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of eukaryotic chromatin by combining proteomics and phylogenetic analysis, revealing pre-eukaryotic origins of chromatin functions and eukaryotic innovations.

The paper identifies a new gene family associated with intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate biomineralization in cyanobacteria and expands its known phylogenetic and environmental distribution.

The paper estimates virus-to-microbe ratios using metagenomic data across ecosystems, finding viruses outnumber cells by ~13x in freshwater and ~2-4x in marine/saline plankton, but only ~2x in non-aquatic environments.

The paper sequences single-cell genomes of two parasitic fungi, identifies a new phylum, and reveals evolutionary patterns in flagellum loss and metabolic reduction across Holomycota.

This study characterizes Vampirococcus lugosii, a CPR bacterium that parasitizes photosynthetic bacteria, revealing its unique predation mode and genomic adaptations.

The paper investigates protist community structure in Lake Baikal along latitudinal and vertical gradients, finding depth strongly influences communities while latitude and coastal vs. open water have minor or no effects.

This paper develops a transgenic mouse expressing QBP1 to block traumatic memory consolidation, showing impaired aversive memory and reduced amyloid oligomerization.

The paper identifies highly diverse ultrasmall archaea in polyextreme geothermal environments and hypothesizes adaptations to extreme conditions.

This study investigates how helix propensity and hydrophobic core packing affect the mechanical stability of coiled coil heterodimers using single-molecule force spectroscopy.

This study generates transcriptome data for an aphelid and uses phylogenomic analysis to suggest fungi evolved from a phagotrophic opisthosporidian ancestor.