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Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
97
Citations
30193
World Ranking
1769
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera is affiliated with Miguel Hernandez University in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Microbiology, and Plant Science.

They have focused extensively on topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Microbial infections and disease research.

Their recent publications include:

  • RaFAH: Host prediction for viruses of Bacteria and Archaea based on protein content, 2021, Patterns
  • Uncovering a hidden diversity: optimized protocols for the extraction of dsDNA bacteriophages from soil, 2020, Microbiome
  • High-resolution structural insights into the heliorhodopsin family, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New viral biogeochemical roles revealed through metagenomic analysis of Lake Baikal, 2020, Microbiome
  • Viral rhodopsins 1 are an unique family of light-gated cation channels, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors associated with Francisco Rodriguez-Valera include:

  • José M. Haro-Moreno
  • Mario López-Pérez
  • Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves
  • Riccardo Rosselli
  • Juan J. Roda-Garcia

They have published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Microbiome
  • The ISME Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera was named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

    Sergio G. Bartual;Harald Seifert;Corinna Hippler;M. Angeles Domínguez Luzon

  • Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lejla Pašić

  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

    Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Numerical Taxonomy of Moderately Halophilic Gram-negative Rods

    Antonio Ventosa;Emilia Quesada;Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Francisco Ruiz-Berraquero

  • Comparison of prokaryotic diversity at offshore oceanic locations reveals a different microbiota in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Milagros Zaballos;Arantxa López-López;Lise Ovreas;Sergio Galán Bartual

  • 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

  • Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds.

    Josefa Antón;Aharon Oren;Susana Benlloch;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

  • Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments.

    Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lin Lin Li;Linda Wegley;Mike Furlan

  • Diversity of Free-Living and Attached Bacteria in Offshore Western Mediterranean Waters as Depicted by Analysis of Genes Encoding 16S rRNA

    Silvia G. Acinas;Josefa Antón;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

  • Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially modified PstI sites

    F. J. M. Mojica;G. Juez;F. Rodriguez-Valera

  • Extremely halophilic Bacteria in crystallizer ponds from solar salterns

    Josefa Antón;Ramón Rosselló-Mora;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera;Rudolf Amann

  • Use of the 16S–23S ribosomal genes spacer region in studies of prokaryotic diversity

    Jesús Garcı́a-Martı́nez;Silvia G Acinas;Ana Isabel Antón;Francisco Rodrı́guez-Valera

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

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

  • Long stretches of short tandem repeats are present in the largest replicons of the Archaea Haloferax mediterranei and Haloferax volcanii and could be involved in replicon partitioning

    F.J.M. Mojica;C. Ferrer;G. Juez;F. Rodríguez-Valera

  • Classification of Non-alkaliphilic Halobacteria Based on Numerical Taxonomy and Polar Lipid Composition, and Description of Haloarcula gen. nov. and Haloferax gen. nov.

    Marina Torreblanca;F. Rodriguez-Valera;Guadalupe Juez;Antonio Ventosa

  • Detection and identification of bacterial DNA in patients with cirrhosis and culture-negative, nonneutrocytic ascites☆

    José Such;Rubén Francés;Carlos Muñoz;Pedro Zapater

  • The genome of Salinibacter ruber: Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea

    E. F. Mongodin;K. E. Nelson;S. Daugherty;R. T. DeBoy

  • The genome of the square archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi : life at the limits of water activity

    Henk Bolhuis;Peter Palm;Andy Wende;Michaela Falb

  • Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of.

    Bartual Sg;Seifert H;Hippler C;Luzon Mad

Frequent Co-Authors

Purificación López-García
Purificación López-García University of Paris-Saclay
Antonio Ventosa
Antonio Ventosa University of Seville
David Moreira
David Moreira University of Paris-Saclay
Alex Mira
Alex Mira Foundation Center
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg Max Planck Society
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elena P. Ivanova
Elena P. Ivanova RMIT University
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

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