Purificación López-García

This study investigates the extracellular morphology and behavior of choanoflagellates to infer traits of their last common ancestor with animals.

The paper investigates redox distribution of Asgard archaea and co-occurring taxa in microbial mats from an early Proterozoic ecosystem analog, revealing their ecological niches and potential roles in early eukaryogenesis.

The paper re-evaluates the eukaryotic Tree of Life using an independent phylogenomic dataset, finding different placements for some lineages and supporting a small number of high-rank supergroup lineages.

The paper uses nucleomorph genes to reconstruct the phylogeny of cryptophyte plastids, finding they are sister to Cyanidiophytina, suggesting an ancient origin of red complex plastids outside known Rhodophyta subgroups.

The paper identifies intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate biomineralization in Methylococcaceae, suggesting horizontal gene transfer from cyanobacteria.

The paper describes a tripartite interaction between a patescibacterial epibiont, its gammaproteobacterial host, and their phages, revealing host specificity and genetic adaptations.

The paper investigates hyperparasitism in hypersaline environments by analyzing viruses and virus satellites associated with haloarchaea and nanohaloarchaea, revealing new viral families and gene transfers.

The paper conducts a genomic and phylogenetic analysis of the SELMA complex in CASH lineages to infer the evolutionary history of secondary red plastids.

This paper uses phylogenomic analyses of flagellated protists to revise the eukaryotic tree of life, supporting monophyly of Opimoda and inferring ancestral traits.

The paper analyzes metagenomes and proteomes from geothermal brines to show that archaea and bacteria have highly acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in extreme salinity conditions.

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

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.

The paper describes two new mantamonad species and provides transcriptomic and genomic data for one, offering insights into the CRuMs supergroup's evolutionary history.