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Overview

Marcos Pérez-Losada is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States and has contributed extensively to multiple fields of scientific research, primarily focusing on medicine, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work intersects several subfields including molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, ecology, epidemiology, and plant science.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as gut microbiota and health, respiratory viral infections research, asthma and respiratory diseases, respiratory and cough-related research, pediatric health and respiratory diseases, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as HIV research and treatment.

Marcos Pérez-Losada has published papers in various frequently occurring venues, with notable contributions to Frontiers in Microbiology and Scientific Reports, as well as Research Square, Microorganisms, and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms (2020) published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • The Urine Microbiome of Healthy Men and Women Differs by Urine Collection Method (2020) published in International Neurourology Journal
  • Integrated omics endotyping of infants with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis and risk of childhood asthma (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Earthworms drastically change fungal and bacterial communities during vermicomposting of sewage sludge (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • High-throughput sequencing (HTS) for the analysis of viral populations (2020) published in Infection Genetics and Evolution

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Keith A. Crandall, Carlos A. Camargo, Kohei Hasegawa, Zhaozhong Zhu, and Robert J. Freishtat, reflecting interdisciplinary and cooperative engagement within their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Recombination in viruses: mechanisms, methods of study, and evolutionary consequences.

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Miguel Arenas;Juan Carlos Galán;Ferran Palero

  • Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times.

    Megan L. Porter;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Keith A. Crandall

  • Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls

    Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Matthew L. Bendall;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Sarven Sabuncyan

  • Pathogen typing in the genomics era: MLST and the future of molecular epidemiology.

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Patricia Cabezas;Patricia Cabezas;Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Keith A. Crandall

  • Population genetics of microbial pathogens estimated from multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Emily B. Browne;Aaron Madsen;Thierry Wirth

  • Phylogenetic assessment of the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa species complex (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Maigualida Ricoy;Jonathon C. Marshall;Jorge Domínguez

  • Molecular Systematics and Biogeography of the Southern South American Freshwater “Crabs” Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) Using Multiple Heuristic Tree Search Approaches

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Georgina Bond-Buckup;Carlos G. Jara;Keith A. Crandall

  • The tempo and mode of barnacle evolution.

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Margaret Harp;Jens T. Høeg;Yair Achituv

  • Extensive population subdivision of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) around the Iberian Peninsula indicated by microsatellite DNA variation.

    M Pérez-Losada;M Pérez-Losada;A Guerra;G R Carvalho;A Sanjuan

  • Unraveling the Evolutionary Radiation of the Thoracican Barnacles Using Molecular and Morphological Evidence: A Comparison of Several Divergence Time Estimation Approaches

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Jens T. Høeg;Keith A. Crandall

  • Phylogenetic species delimitation of the earthworms Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) and Eisenia andrei Bouché, 1972 (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Julio Eiroa;Salustiano Mato;Jorge Domínguez

  • Testing hypotheses of population structuring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea using the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis.

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Mark J. Nolte;Keith A. Crandall;Paul W. Shaw

  • Glucocorticoids modulate gastrointestinal microbiome in a wild bird.

    José C. Noguera;Manuel Aira;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Jorge Domínguez

  • Telescope: Characterization of the retrotranscriptome by accurate estimation of transposable element expression.

    Matthew L. Bendall;Matthew L. Bendall;Miguel de Mulder;Luis Pedro Iñiguez;Aarón Lecanda-Sánchez

  • The evolution of HIV: Inferences using phylogenetics

    Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Gregory F. Burton;Keith A. Crandall

  • Pleistocene glaciation leaves deep signature on the freshwater crab Aegla alacalufi in Chilean Patagonia.

    Jiawu Xu;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Carlos G. Jara;Keith A. Crandall

  • Global diversity of crabs (Aeglidae: Anomura: Decapoda) in freshwater

    Georgina Bond-Buckup;Carlos G. Jara;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Ludwig Buckup

  • Evolution of Afrotropical freshwater crab lineages obscured by morphological convergence

    Savel R. Daniels;Neil Cumberlidge;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Saskia A.E. Marijnissen

  • Metataxonomic and Metagenomic Approaches vs. Culture-Based Techniques for Clinical Pathology

    Sarah K. Hilton;Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Ian Toma

  • Dual Transcriptomic Profiling of Host and Microbiota during Health and Disease in Pediatric Asthma

    Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Marcos Pérez-Losada;Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Eduardo Castro-Nallar;Matthew L. Bendall;Robert J. Freishtat

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Jorge Domínguez
Jorge Domínguez Universidade de Vigo
Jens T. Høeg
Jens T. Høeg University of Copenhagen
Raphael P. Viscidi
Raphael P. Viscidi Johns Hopkins University
Ángel Guerra
Ángel Guerra Spanish National Research Council
David Posada
David Posada Universidade de Vigo
Joanne Cable
Joanne Cable Cardiff University
Brandon F. Keele
Brandon F. Keele National Institutes of Health
Douglas F. Nixon
Douglas F. Nixon Cornell University
Mario A. Ostrowski
Mario A. Ostrowski University of Toronto

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