Francisco R-Valera
@frovalera
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Emeritus Professor of Microbiology. Working on genomics and metagenomics
Alicante, Spain
Joined January 2010
Using Illumina MAGs to do population genomics=fixing a smartphone with a can-opener. Sorry
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Rhodopsins galore in our recent collaborations with Kirill Kovalev: Cryo and further on FArhodopsins to come soon
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No me lo puedo creer. El pueblo de Madrid se levanto en armas contra los franceses para poner en el poder a...Fernando VII, que locura! Ayudando a los ingleses que nos habian hundido la flota en Trafalgar!!🙄
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How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity | Annual Reviews -
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One major conundrum of modern microbiology is the large pangenome (gene pool) present in microbes, which is much larger than those found in complex organisms such as humans. Here, we argue that this...
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writing the intro of a manuscript to enhance the novelty of your work rather than reflecting what is really known has become a common, but highly unethical, behavior
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It is not WHAT you say, it is WHO you are and from WHERE you say it
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The catch-22 of scientific careers: To publish in high-profile journals you have to be a high-profile scientist but to be a high-profile scientist to have to publish in high-profile journals
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Finally!! Leveraging SAGs to identify phage-host relationships. I've been suggesting it to SAG wizards for years. Contrasting defense strategies of oligotrophs and copiotrophs revealed by single-cell-resolved virus–host pairing of freshwater bacteria
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The ecological importance of virus–host interactions is unclear due to the limited ability of metagenomics to resolve virus–host pairs and the infection state of individual cells. We addressed these...
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I hate two-tier journals with one high impact and one or several low impact. It is a mean way not to lose money coming from less appealing author names/institutions, not to mention subjective and discriminatory
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https://t.co/q64fcyYYKz The diversity of gene pools carried by different strains of bacteria is maintained due to the control exercised by viral predation that maintains a high strain diversity and facilitates the degradation of dissolved organic matter in the ocean.
annualreviews.org
One major conundrum of modern microbiology is the large pangenome (gene pool) present in microbes, which is much larger than those found in complex organisms such as humans. Here, we argue that this...
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In 40 years of work I have never passed the first filter of these "so-called" high-profile journals. The editors feel that itis not adequate to pass to revision. Could that be because my name is Rodriguez and I work at a second-rate Spanish institution? Who are these guys anyway?
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More population genomics through long-read metagenomics from my lab https://t.co/qLeMPImBZd
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The knowledge of the different population-level processes operating within a species, and the genetic variability of the individual prokaryotic genomes, is key to understanding the adaptability of...
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https://t.co/tirg6AM8ms 130 different clones from the same Pelagibacter species at a single point in time and space in the Western Med
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In this study, we have used single-amplified genomes (SAGs) and long-read metagenomics to examine the intrapopulation diversity of the O-chain polysaccharide biosynthesis cluster (OBC) in marine...
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The median size of prokaryotic proteins is remarkably constant and ca. 280 amino acids
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Proteins from Illumina assembly are much shorter. Hopefully long read seq will fix it
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