Josefa Antón

The paper examines how Caulerpa prolifera expansion in coastal lagoons alters sediment microbial communities, revealing functional shifts and highlighting the importance of integrating metagenomics with experimental validation.

The paper examines how salinity and host phylogeny influence viral niche breadth and evolution in hypersaline environments, finding that viruses have broader niches than hosts at high salinity.

This study shows that biological complexity affects virus-host dynamics by altering population-level lysis, mutation rates, and evolutionary trajectories.

This study shows that episomal virus maintenance in Salinibacter ruber allows population recovery from infection and supports virus-bacterial coexistence under high MOI.

The paper identifies a 99.5% ANI gap in bacteriophage genomes that can define intra-species units, proposing 'genomovars' as a standardized classification.