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Enrique Lara is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on related subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Lara's work addresses a range of topics with emphasis on Protist diversity and phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Polar Research and Ecology, and Algal biology and biofuel production.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lara include:

  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems (2020, Environment International)
  • Contribution of soil algae to the global carbon cycle (2022, New Phytologist)
  • Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Assessing the life-cycle sustainability of algae and bacteria-based wastewater treatment systems: High-rate algae pond and sequencing batch reactor (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)

Frequent coauthors in Lara's collaborative work include:

  • David Singer
  • Edward A. D. Mitchell
  • Rubén González-Miguéns
  • Stefan Geisen
  • Carmen Soler-Zamora

Lara's contributions have appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with multiple works in:

  • European Journal of Protistology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The selection of Lara's research reflects an interdisciplinary approach integrating molecular biology techniques and ecological theory to explore biodiversity and ecosystem processes, particularly focused on microbial and protist communities across various environments. The work spans global carbon cycling, environmental gradients in alpine ecosystems, and applications including wastewater treatment sustainability assessments.

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • The revised classification of eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;Sina M. Adl;Alastair G. B. Simpson;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukeš

  • Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;David Bass;David Bass;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukes;Julius Lukes

  • Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research.

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A D Mitchell;Sina Adl;Michael Bonkowski

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

    Frédéric Mahé;Colomban de Vargas;David Bass;Lucas Czech

  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

    David Singer;Christophe V.W. Seppey;Guillaume Lentendu;Micah Dunthorn

  • Secondary Metabolites Help Biocontrol Strain Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 To Escape Protozoan Grazing

    Alexandre Jousset;Enrique Lara;Luis G. Wall;Claudio Valverde

  • The Environmental Clade LKM11 and Rozella Form the Deepest Branching Clade of Fungi

    Enrique Lara;David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae

    Humphrey Graham Smith;Anatoly Bobrov;Enrique Lara

  • An unexpected role for mixotrophs in the response of peatland carbon cycling to climate warming

    Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Constant Signarbieux;Constant Signarbieux;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza

  • COI Barcoding of Nebelid Testate Amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): Extensive Cryptic Diversity and Redefinition of the Hyalospheniidae Schultze

    Anush Kosakyan;Thierry J. Heger;Thierry J. Heger;Brian S. Leander;Milcho Todorov

  • The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms

    Daniel J. G. Lahr;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Edward A. D. Mitchell;Laura A. Katz;Laura A. Katz

  • Tipping point in plant-fungal interactions under severe drought causes abrupt rise in peatland ecosystem respiration.

    Vincent E.J. Jassey;Vincent E.J. Jassey;Vincent E.J. Jassey;Monika Katarzyna Reczuga;Malgorzata Zielinska;Sandra Slowinska

  • Contribution of soil algae to the global carbon cycle.

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  • Distribution patterns of soil microbial eukaryotes suggests widespread algivory by phagotrophic protists as an alternative pathway for nutrient cycling

    Christophe V.W. Seppey;David Singer;Kenneth Dumack;Bertrand Fournier

  • Cultivation-independent analysis reveals a shift in ciliate 18S rRNA gene diversity in a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-polluted soil.

    Enrique Lara;Cédric Berney;Hauke Harms;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Current and future perspectives on the systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature of testate amoebae

    Anush Kosakyan;Fatma Gomaa;Enrique Lara;Daniel J.G. Lahr

  • Pan-oceanic distribution of new highly diverse clades of deep-sea diplonemids

    Enrique Lara;David Moreira;Alexander Vereshchaka;Purificación López-García

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel
Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Vincent E. J. Jassey
Vincent E. J. Jassey Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Alexandre Buttler
Alexandre Buttler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station

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