Beatriz Dı́ez

Polar Marine Microbial Communities as Reservoirs of Polyester Degrading Enzymes

This study identifies diverse polyester-degrading enzymes in polar marine microbes, revealing their potential for cold-adapted plastic bioremediation.

Metabolic ecology, microbial community structure, and gene-centric metagenomics

The paper integrates metabolic ecology with DNA shotgun sequencing to predict metagenomic structure, showing compatibility with observed data from human, aquatic, and terrestrial microbiomes.

Global patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in hot springs microbiomes

The paper tests a new ecological model predicting microbial diversity patterns in hot springs, finding temperature and pH influence taxonomic and functional diversity.

Across-lineage prediction of within-KO sequence diversity by temperature and pH differs among subcellular compartments in hydrothermal spring communities

The paper examines how temperature and pH affect sequence diversity in microbial compartments across metagenomes from hydrothermal springs, finding pH has a stronger impact than temperature.

Plasmidome-defensome interactions drive adaptation of 'Fervidacidithiobacillus caldus' in natural and industrial extreme acidic environments

The paper analyzes plasmid diversity and defense systems in Fervidacidithiobacillus caldus across natural and industrial environments, revealing host-plasmid interactions that drive adaptation.

Fine-scale spatial patterns in hot springs mat bacterial communities

This study examines macroecological patterns in bacterial communities of hot springs mats at a fine spatial scale, finding sublinear species-area scaling and increasing abundance-occupancy trends.