Fernando Santos Sánchez
@Fer_Nando_SS
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Profesor Titular de Microbiología en la Universidad de Alicante. Grupo de Ecología Microbiana Molecular. 👨🏼💻👨🏼🔬👨🏼🏫🐱🦠🌍
Alicante, España
Joined October 2011
annoSnake: a Snakemake workflow for taxonomic and functional annotation of metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
biorxiv.org
Omic technologies revolutionised research in microbiomics and helped decipher the complex community structure of gut microbiota, each comprising hundreds of species of bacteria, archaea, and protis...
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🚨New preprint out! We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research (1/8) https://t.co/BejXcSxauc
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Out Now! An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems including rare variants https://t.co/wQv19eNvvB
#CRISPR #Genetics #Biotechnology
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How do bacteria survive phage infections? Bae et al. explore diverse #antiphage defense systems, with a special focus on the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa due to its strain diversity and genomic adaptability. https://t.co/pCEwU3FfCo
#FEMSMicrobiolRev
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Viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts reveal intricate nested interactions https://t.co/OtwTbxjrfe
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Nature Microbiology - An exploration of the viromes of haloarchaea and their ultra-small DPANN symbionts reveals plasmid-derived satellites of viruses from both archaeal groups, highlighting the...
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Researchers discover vesicle formation by jumbo phages to evade bacterial defence mechanism.#phageresearch #news
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When infected with phages, bacteria exhibit defence mechanisms against phages. Scientists have now discovered "jumbo phages" that "cloak" their genetic material in order to evade these bacterial...
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Out Now! Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems https://t.co/nNOs6YncoY
#Phages #Microbiology #Ecosystems
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Biological context modulates virus-host dynamics and diversification https://t.co/eAJWxfohTb
#biorxiv_micrbio
biorxiv.org
Virus–bacterial interactions are fundamental to microbial ecology and evolution, but they have been studied mostly under simplified laboratory conditions. To better understand how ecological comple...
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Novel viruses of Haloquadratum walsbyi expand the known archaeal virosphere of hypersaline environments | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic
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Abstract. Solar salterns represent unique systems with low diversity microbial communities that serve as an excellent model for studying the evolution and
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Out Now! A call for caution in the biological interpretation of viral auxiliary metabolic genes https://t.co/DAHqMbOMi8
#Virology #Metagenomics #AuxiliaryMetabolicGenes
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Nature Microbiology - This Perspective discusses virus-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes and provides a framework for the biological interpretation of these genes.
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Out Now! Mycoviruses steer fungal fitness https://t.co/rreu3h8TSE
#Mycoviruses #FungalFitness #AspergillusFumigatus
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Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins
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SUMMARYUnderstanding protein functions is crucial for interpreting microbial life; however, reliable function annotation remains a major challenge in computational biology. Despite significant...
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Genetic exchange shapes ultra-small Patescibacteria metabolic capacities in the terrestrial subsurface
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Genomic fluidity and diversity in bacteria are mainly governed by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), leading to a variety of genome structures and physiological diversity. The predominantly uncultivated...
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Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria
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Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial...
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Taxonomic and Functional Features of Surface to Deep‐Sea Prokaryotic Communities in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean
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The North Pacific Ocean is characterised by a complex interplay of microbial metabolic pathways, where key processes such as carbon fixation (via the Calvin cycle, HP/HB cycle and Wood–Ljungdahl...
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The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org
We investigate the evolution of microbial metabolisms from the last universal common ancestor to the extant biota through comparative phylogenomics, reconciling the evolution of the genes that...
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Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?
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Arctic Ocean virus communities and their seasonality, bipolarity, and prokaryotic associations
nature.com
Nature Communications - Based on bulk DNA time-series sequencing of the surface Arctic Ocean, Calayag et al. show that planktonic viruses are strongly seasonal in abundance and community...
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