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Biology and Biochemistry
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
22691
World Ranking
3191
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Daniele Daffonchio is affiliated with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, and Insect Science.

Their work extensively covers topics within Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Daffonchio include:

  • Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Introducing the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative: Identifying Microbial Research Priorities and Approaches To Better Understand, Protect, and Rehabilitate Mangrove Ecosystems, 2020, mSystems
  • Compartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees, 2021, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • The effect of plant domestication on host control of the microbiota, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Hydrolytic Profile of the Culturable Gut Bacterial Community Associated With Hermetia illucens, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ramona Marasco
  • Marco Fusi
  • Grégoire Michoud
  • Elisa Garuglieri
  • Carlos M. Duarte

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to prominent journals and venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Microbial Biotechnology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress

    Lieven Wittebolle;Massimo Marzorati;Lieven Clement;Annalisa Balloi

  • How to get more out of molecular fingerprints: practical tools for microbial ecology.

    Massimo Marzorati;Lieven Wittebolle;Nico Boon;Daniele Daffonchio

  • Release and persistence of extracellular DNA in the environment.

    Kaare M. Nielsen;Pål J. Johnsen;Douda Bensasson;Daniele Daffonchio

  • Improved plant resistance to drought is promoted by the root-associated microbiome as a water stress-dependent trait

    Eleonora Rolli;Ramona Marasco;Gianpiero Vigani;Besma Ettoumi

  • Comparison of Different Primer Sets for Use in Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis of Complex Bacterial Communities

    Massimiliano Cardinale;Lorenzo Brusetti;Paola Quatrini;Sara Borin

  • A drought resistance-promoting microbiome is selected by root system under desert farming.

    Ramona Marasco;Eleonora Rolli;Besma Ettoumi;Gianpiero Vigani

  • Bacteria of the genus Asaia stably associate with Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malarial mosquito vector

    Guido Favia;Irene Ricci;Claudia Damiani;Noura Raddadi

  • Acetic Acid Bacteria, Newly Emerging Symbionts of Insects

    Elena Crotti;Aurora Rizzi;Bessem Chouaia;Irene Ricci

  • The Enigma of Prokaryotic Life in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins

    Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen;Henk Bolhuis;Sara Borin;Daniele Daffonchio

  • Biotechnological applications of extremophiles, extremozymes and extremolytes

    Noura Raddadi;Ameur Cherif;Daniele Daffonchio;Mohamed Neifar

  • Delayed larval development in Anopheles mosquitoes deprived of Asaia bacterial symbionts.

    Bessem Chouaia;Paolo Rossi;Sara Epis;Sara Epis;Michela Mosca

  • Thuricin 7: a novel bacteriocin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis BMG1.7, a new strain isolated from soil

    A. Cherif;H. Ouzari;D. Daffonchio;H. Cherif

  • Gut microbiome dysbiosis and honeybee health

    C. Hamdi;A. Balloi;J. Essanaa;E. Crotti

  • Grapevine rootstocks shape underground bacterial microbiome and networking but not potential functionality

    Ramona Marasco;Eleonora Rolli;Marco Fusi;Grégoire Michoud

  • Asaia, a versatile acetic acid bacterial symbiont, capable of cross-colonizing insects of phylogenetically distant genera and orders.

    Elena Crotti;Claudia Damiani;Massimo Pajoro;Elena Gonella

  • PCR fingerprinting of whole genomes: the spacers between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes and of intergenic tRNA gene regions reveal a different intraspecific genomic variability of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus licheniformis

    Daniele Daffonchio;Sara Borin;Giuseppe Frova;Pier Luigi Manachini

  • Two-Stage vs Single-Stage Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion: Comparison of Energy Production and Biodegradation Efficiencies

    Andrea Schievano;Alberto Tenca;Barbara Scaglia;Giuseppe Merlino

  • Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic-anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline

    D Daffonchio;S Borin;T Brusa;L Brusetti

  • Homoduplex and Heteroduplex Polymorphisms of the Amplified Ribosomal 16S-23S Internal Transcribed Spacers Describe Genetic Relationships in the “Bacillus cereus Group”

    Daniele Daffonchio;Ameur Cherif;Sara Borin

  • Thematic Issue on Horizontal Gene Transfer Review Release and persistence of extracellular DNA in the environment

    Kaare M. Nielsen;Pål J. Johnsen;Douda Bensasson;Daniele Daffonchio

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Borin
Sara Borin University of Milan
Alberto Alma
Alberto Alma University of Turin
Claudio Bandi
Claudio Bandi University of Milan
Abdellatif Boudabous
Abdellatif Boudabous Tunis University
Fabio Fava
Fabio Fava University of Bologna
Nico Boon
Nico Boon Ghent University
Marco Genchi
Marco Genchi University of Parma
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Peter N. Golyshin
Peter N. Golyshin Bangor University
Fabrizio Adani
Fabrizio Adani University of Milan

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