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Overview

Carlos Pedrós-Alió is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on fields such as Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in the subfields of Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Pollution.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Gut Microbiota and Health.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Compendium of 530 metagenome-assembled bacterial and archaeal genomes from the polar Arctic Ocean, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Scientific novelty beyond the experiment, 2023, Microbial Biotechnology
  • Diversity and distribution of marine heterotrophic bacteria from a large culture collection, 2020, BMC Microbiology

Carlos Pedrós-Alió frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Javier Tamames, Silvia G. Acinas, Pablo Sánchez, Guillem Salazar, and Marta Royo-Llonch.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Communications Biology, ISME Communications, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

Best Publications

  • Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton.

    Purificación López-García;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;David Moreira

  • Application of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) to study the diversity of marine picoeukaryotic assemblages and comparison of DGGE with other molecular techniques.

    Beatriz Dı́ez;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Terence L. Marsh;Ramon Massana

  • Ecology of marine Bacteroidetes: a comparative genomics approach

    Beatriz Fernandez-Gomez;Michael Richter;Margarete Schüler;Jarone Pinhassi

  • The Rare Bacterial Biosphere

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  • Marine microbial diversity: can it be determined?

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  • Identification of and Spatio-Temporal Differences between Microbial Assemblages from Two Neighboring Sulfurous Lakes: Comparison by Microscopy and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis

    Emilio O. Casamayor;Hendrik Schäfer;Lluis Bañeras;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Study of genetic diversity of eukaryotic picoplankton in different oceanic regions by small-subunit rRNA gene cloning and sequencing.

    Beatriz Dı́ez;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Ramon Massana

  • Changes in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryal assemblages along a salinity gradient by comparison of genetic fingerprinting methods in a multipond solar saltern.

    Emilio O. Casamayor;Ramon Massana;Susana Benlloch;Lise Øvreås

  • Bacterial Community Structure Associated with a Dimethylsulfoniopropionate-Producing North Atlantic Algal Bloom

    José M. González;Rafel Simó;Ramon Massana;Joseph S. Covert

  • Light stimulates growth of proteorhodopsin-containing marine Flavobacteria

    Laura Gómez-Consarnau;José M. González;Montserrat Coll-Lladó;Pontus Gourdon

  • A few cosmopolitan phylotypes dominate planktonic archaeal assemblages in widely different oceanic provinces.

    Ramon Massana;Edward F. DeLong;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Prokaryotic genetic diversity throughout the salinity gradient of a coastal solar saltern

    Susana Benlloch;Arantxa López-López;Emilio O. Casamayor;Lise Øvreås

  • Distribution, phylogeny, and growth of cold-adapted picoprasinophytes in arctic seas

    Connie Lovejoy;Warwick F. Vincent;Sylvia Bonilla;Suzanne Roy

  • Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of novel marine stramenopiles.

    Ramon Massana;Jose Castresana;Vanessa Balagué;Laure Guillou

  • Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities

    Jean-François Ghiglione;Pierre E. Galand;Thomas Pommier;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Diversity and distribution of marine microbial eukaryotes in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas.

    Connie Lovejoy;Ramon Massana;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Spatial differences in bacterioplankton composition along the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean) assessed by molecular fingerprinting

    Michael Schauer;Ramon Massana;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Genome analysis of the proteorhodopsin-containing marine bacterium Polaribacter sp. MED152 (Flavobacteria)

    José M. González;Beatriz Fernández-Gómez;Antoni Fernàndez-Guerra;Laura Gómez-Consarnau

  • Viral lysis and bacterivory as prokaryotic loss factors along a salinity gradient

    Guixa-Boixareu N;Calderón-Paz Ji;Heldal M;Bratbak G

  • Role of vertical mixing in controlling the oceanic production of dimethyl sulphide

    Rafel Simó;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Role for urea in nitrification by polar marine Archaea.

    Laura Alonso-Saéz;Allison S Waller;Daniel R Mende;Kevin Bakker

  • Seasonal changes in the taxonomic composition of bacterioplankton in a coastal oligotrophic system

    Michael Schauer;Vanessa Balagué;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Ramon Massana

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Dolors Vaqué
Dolors Vaqué Spanish National Research Council
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Emilio O. Casamayor
Emilio O. Casamayor Spanish National Research Council
Jarone Pinhassi
Jarone Pinhassi Linnaeus University
Rafel Simó
Rafel Simó Spanish National Research Council
Marta Estrada
Marta Estrada Spanish National Research Council
Connie Lovejoy
Connie Lovejoy Université Laval
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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