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Cristiana Callieri

Cristiana Callieri

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Ecology and Evolution

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36
Citations
4281
World Ranking
7204
National Ranking
149

Overview

Cristiana Callieri is affiliated with the Water Research Institute in Italy. Their research primarily falls within the broad fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Ecology and Molecular Biology as key subfields. Additional areas of study include Pollution, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work spans several interconnected topics including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cristiana Callieri highlight contributions to microbial ecology and genomics of aquatic systems. Examples include:

  • The microbiome of the Black Sea water column analyzed by shotgun and genome centric metagenomics, 2021, Environmental Microbiome
  • α-cyanobacteria possessing form IA RuBisCO globally dominate aquatic habitats, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Elucidating the picocyanobacteria salinity divide through ecogenomics of new freshwater isolates, 2022, BMC Biology
  • Microdiversity and phylogeographic diversification of bacterioplankton in pelagic freshwater systems revealed through long-read amplicon sequencing, 2021, Microbiome
  • The vertical distribution of tetA and intI1 in a deep lake is rather due to sedimentation than to resuspension, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

The venues in which Cristiana Callieri frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Microbiome
  • Journal of Limnology
  • Environmental Microbiome

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research outputs, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves
  • Ester M. Eckert
  • Andrea Di Cesare
  • Francisco Rodríguez-Valera
  • Michaela M. Salcher

Best Publications

  • Freshwater autotrophic picoplankton: a review

    Cristiana Callieri;John G. Stockner

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  • Picophytoplankton in freshwater ecosystems: the importance of small-sized phototrophs

    Cristiana Callieri

  • Picoplankton and other non-bloom forming Cyanobacteria in lakes

    John Stockner;Cristiana Callieri;Gertrud Cronberg

  • Freshwater picocyanobacteria along a trophic gradient and light quality range

    Lajos Vörös;Cristiana Callieri;Katalin V.-Balogh;Roberto Bertoni

  • Investigations on pelagic food webs in mountain lakes - aims and methods

    Viera Straškrabová;Cristiana Callieri;Presentacion Carrillo;Luis Cruz-Pizarro

  • Constitutive presence of antibiotic resistance genes within the bacterial community of a large subalpine lake.

    Andrea Di Cesare;Ester M. Eckert;Alessia Teruggi;Diego Fontaneto

  • Freshwater Picocyanobacteria: Single Cells, Microcolonies and Colonial Forms

    Cristiana Callieri;Gertrud Cronberg;John G. Stockner

  • Freshwater picocyanobacteria along a trophic gradient and light quality range

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  • Synechococcus plasticity under environmental changes.

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  • Production and biomass of picophytoplankton and larger autotrophs in Andean ultraoligotrophic lakes: differences in light harvesting efficiency in deep layers

    Cristiana Callieri;Beatriz Modenutti;Claudia Queimaliños;Roberto Bertoni

  • Grazing by ciliates and heterotrophic nanoflagellates on picocyanobacteria in Lago Maggiore, Italy

    Cristiana Callieri;Satu Maaria Karjalainen;Silvia Passoni

  • Phylogenetic diversity of nonmarine picocyanobacteria.

    Cristiana Callieri;Manuela Coci;Gianluca Corno;Miroslav Macek

  • Picocyanobacteria success in oligotrophic lakes: fact or fiction?

    Cristiana Callieri;John Stockner

  • Single cells and microcolonies of freshwater picocyanobacteria: a common ecology

    Cristiana Callieri

  • Lake level fluctuations boost toxic cyanobacterial "oligotrophic blooms"

    Cristiana Callieri;Roberto Bertoni;Mario Contesini;Filippo Bertoni

  • Insights Into the Evolution of Picocyanobacteria and Phycoerythrin Genes ( mpeBA and cpeBA ).

    Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo;Giorgio Bianchini;Andrea Di Cesare;Cristiana Callieri

  • Picoplankton in Lake Maggiore, Italy

    Cristiana Callieri;Maria Luisa Pinolim

  • The microbiome of the Black Sea water column analyzed by shotgun and genome centric metagenomics.

    Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves;Cristiana Callieri;Antonio Picazo;Maliheh Mehrshad

  • Photosynthetic efficiency and seasonality of autotrophic picoplankton in Lago Maggiore after its recovery

    C. Callieri;R. Piscia

  • Fluorometric Characterization of Two Picocyanobacteria Strains from Lakes of Different Underwater Light Quality

    Cristiana Callieri;Enrica Amicucci;Roberto Bertoni;Lajos Vörös

  • Effect of UV-B and different PAR intensities on the primary production of the mixotrophic planktonic ciliate Stentor araucanus

    Beatriz E. Modenutti;Esteban G. Balseiro;Cristiana Callieri;Roberto Bertoni

  • The mesopelagic anoxic Black Sea as an unexpected habitat for Synechococcus challenges our understanding of global “deep red fluorescence”

    Cristiana Callieri;Violeta Slabakova;Nina Dzhembekova;Nataliya Slabakova

  • Photosynthetic response of pico- and nanoplanktonic algae to UVB, UVA and PAR in a high mountain lake

    Cristiana Callieri;Giuseppe Morabito;Yannick Huot;Patrick J. Neale

  • Grazing-induced Synechococcus microcolony formation: experimental insights from two freshwater phylotypes.

    Cristiana Callieri;Stefano Amalfitano;Gianluca Corno;Roberto Bertoni

  • Effects of predation pressure on bacterial abundance, diversity, and size-structure distribution in an oligotrophic system

    Gianluca Corno;Emanuele Caravati;Cristiana Callieri;Roberto Bertoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatriz Modenutti
Beatriz Modenutti National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Esteban Balseiro
Esteban Balseiro National Scientific and Technical Research Council
John G. Stockner
John G. Stockner University of British Columbia
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Karel Šimek
Karel Šimek Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Marina Manca
Marina Manca Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Orlando Vaselli
Orlando Vaselli University of Florence
Franco Tassi
Franco Tassi University of Florence
Patrick J. Neale
Patrick J. Neale Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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