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Overview

Emilio O. Casamayor is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broader fields, Casamayor has contributed extensively to ecology, molecular biology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, and genetics.

The scientist's main areas of study involve microbial community ecology and physiology, gut microbiota and health, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, allergic rhinitis and sensitization, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Casamayor has published research in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Microbial Ecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environment International
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Microbiology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Microbial ecology of the atmosphere" (2022) published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "Climate mediates continental scale patterns of stream microbial functional diversity" (2020) in Microbiome
  • "Taxonomic and environmental distribution of bacterial amino acid auxotrophies" (2023) in Nature Communications
  • "Understanding stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in microbial communities along temporal, spatial and environmental scales" (2023) in Molecular Ecology
  • "Ecological and Metabolic Thresholds in the Bacterial, Protist, and Fungal Microbiome of Ephemeral Saline Lakes (Monegros Desert, Spain)" (2021) in Microbial Ecology

Casamayor's work often involves collaboration, with frequent coauthors including Xavier Triadó-Margarit, Joan Cáliz, Vicente J. Ontiveros, David Alonso, and Mateu Menéndez-Serra.

Best Publications

  • Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

    Albert Barberán;Scott T Bates;Emilio O Casamayor;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • 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

  • Ecology of the rare microbial biosphere of the Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E. Galand;Emilio O. Casamayor;David L. Kirchman;Connie Lovejoy

  • 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

  • Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River

    E. González-Toril;E. Llobet-Brossa;E. O. Casamayor;R. Amann

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

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

  • Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea.

    Jean-Christophe Auguet;Albert Barberan;Emilio O Casamayor

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

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

  • DOES ECOSYSTEM SIZE DETERMINE AQUATIC BACTERIAL RICHNESS

    Isabel Reche;Elvira Pulido-Villena;Rafael Morales-Baquero;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Differential photoinhibition of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidation

    Stephanie N. Merbt;Stephanie N. Merbt;David A. Stahl;Emilio O. Casamayor;Eugènia Martí

  • High mountain lakes : extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes

    Jordi Catalán;Lluís Camarero;Marisol Felip;Sergi Pla

  • Dynamics of bacterial community succession in a salt marsh chronosequence: evidences for temporal niche partitioning

    Francisco Dini-Andreote;Michele de Cássia Pereira e Silva;Xavier Triadó-Margarit;Emilio O Casamayor

  • Distribution of prokaryotic genetic diversity in athalassohaline lakes of the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile.

    Cecilia S. Demergasso;Emilio O. Casamayor;Guillermo Chong;Pedro A. Galleguillos

  • Global phylogenetic community structure and β-diversity patterns in surface bacterioplankton metacommunities

    Albert Barberán;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Hydrography shapes bacterial biogeography of the deep Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E Galand;Pierre E Galand;Marianne Potvin;Emilio O Casamayor;Connie Lovejoy

  • Viability and potential for immigration of airborne bacteria from Africa that reach high mountain lakes in Europe.

    Anna Hervàs;Lluís Camarero;Isabel Reche;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Changes in marine bacterioplankton phylogenetic composition during incubations designed to measure biogeochemically significant parameters

    Ramon Massana;Carlos PedrόsߚAliό;Emilio O. Casamayor;Josep M. Gasol

  • High bicarbonate assimilation in the dark by Arctic bacteria

    Laura Alonso-Sáez;Pierre E Galand;Emilio O Casamayor;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Unique archaeal assemblages in the Arctic Ocean unveiled by massively parallel tag sequencing

    Pierre E Galand;Emilio O Casamayor;David L Kirchman;Marianne Potvin

  • A long-term survey unveils strong seasonal patterns in the airborne microbiome coupled to general and regional atmospheric circulations

    Joan Cáliz;Xavier Triadó-Margarit;Lluís Camarero;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • A survey on bacteria inhabiting the sea surface microlayer of coastal ecosystems.

    Hélène Agogué;Emilio O. Casamayor;Emilio O. Casamayor;Muriel Bourrain;Ingrid Obernosterer

  • Microbial ecology of an extreme acidic environment, the Tinto river (vol 69, pg 4853, 2003)

    E. Gonzalez-Toril;E. Llobet-Brossa;E. O. Casamayor;R. Amann

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Pedrós-Alió
Carlos Pedrós-Alió Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Albert Barberán
Albert Barberán University of Arizona
Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Carles M. Borrego
Carles M. Borrego Catalan Institute for Water Research
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Pierre E. Galand
Pierre E. Galand Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Jordi Catalan
Jordi Catalan Spanish National Research Council
A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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