Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera

The paper analyzes metaparalog diversity in an Arctic Pelagibacterales population, showing high diversity within a single population and highlighting the importance of pangenome studies for microbiology.

The paper tracks clonal lineages of Pelagibacterales using O-chain biosynthesis genes across Mediterranean metagenomes, revealing stable diversity and co-varying consortia with ecological significance.

The paper characterizes CryoRhodopsins from cold environments, revealing their dual functionality and structural adaptations to low temperatures.

This paper identifies a distinct Type IV Secretion System (T4SS) in Patescibacteria, showing it evolved from monoderm bacteria via horizontal gene transfer and is adapted for non-conjugative functions.

The paper examines O-chain polysaccharide biosynthesis cluster diversity in Pelagibacterales using SAGs and long-read metagenomics, finding high diversity and limited recent horizontal gene transfer.

The paper characterizes microdiversity in marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeal populations using long-read metagenomic sequencing and identifies flexible genomic islands with functional roles.

RaFAH is a machine-learning method for virus-host prediction that outperforms existing methods with an F1-score of 0.97 at the phylum level, discovering new archaeal virus lineages and auxiliary metabolic genes.