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Purificación López-García

Purificación López-García

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
76
Citations
18200
World Ranking
1013
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Purificación López-García is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on molecular biology and ecology.

The scientist's work often addresses topics related to microbial communities, protist diversity, and phylogeny. Their main topics of study include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition

López-García has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in well-regarded venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Purificación López-García are:

  • The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited (2020, Nature Microbiology)
  • Reductive evolution and unique predatory mode in the CPR bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota (2021, Nature Communications)
  • A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

The scientist collaborates frequently with other experts, including:

  • David Moreira
  • Karim Benzerara
  • Luis Javier Galindo
  • Miguel Iniesto
  • Rosaluz Tavera

López-García's research impact is reflected in citations and membership recognition. In 2020, they were inducted as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Autochthonous eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal sediment and experimental microcolonizers at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Hervé Philippe;Françoise Gail;David Moreira

  • Symbiosis between methanogenic archaea and δ-proteobacteria as the origin of eukaryotes : The syntrophic hypothesis

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

    Jonathan Lombard;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • The molecular ecology of microbial eukaryotes unveils a hidden world

    David Moreira;Purificación López-Garcı́a

  • Ancestral lipid biosynthesis and early membrane evolution

    Juli Peretó;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids

    Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo;Philippe Deschamps;Purificación López-García;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation

    Maria G. Pachiadaki;Eva Sintes;Kristin Bergauer;Julia M. Brown

  • Bacterial Mode of Replication with Eukaryotic-Like Machinery in a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon

    Hannu Myllykallio;Philippe Lopez;Purificación López-Garcı́a;Roland Heilig

  • Metabolic symbiosis at the origin of eukaryotes

    Purificación López-Garcı́a;David Moreira

  • Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean, a warm bathypelagic habitat.

    Ana-Belen Martín-Cuadrado;Purificación López-García;Juan-Carlos Alba;David Moreira

  • Global Dispersal and Ancient Cryptic Species in the Smallest Marine Eukaryotes

    Jan Šlapeta;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • An Early-Branching Microbialite Cyanobacterium Forms Intracellular Carbonates

    Estelle Couradeau;Karim Benzerara;Emmanuelle Gérard;David Moreira

  • Bacterial diversity in hydrothermal sediment and epsilonproteobacterial dominance in experimental microcolonizers at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Sébastien Duperron;Pascal Philippot;Julien Foriel

  • Intracellular Ca-carbonate biomineralization is widespread in cyanobacteria

    Karim Benzerara;Feriel Skouri-Panet;Jinhua Li;Céline Férard

  • The extent of protist diversity: insights from molecular ecology of freshwater eukaryotes

    Jan Šlapeta;David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Nanoscale detection of organic signatures in carbonate microbialites.

    Karim Benzerara;Nicolas Menguy;Purificación López-García;Tae-Hyun Yoon

  • Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study.

    Charles Bachy;John R Dolan;Purificación López-García;Philippe Deschamps

  • An updated view of kinetoplastid phylogeny using environmental sequences and a closer outgroup: proposal for a new classification of the class Kinetoplastea.

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García;Keith Vickerman

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

    Enrique Lara;David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Eukaryotic diversity associated with carbonates and fluid–seawater interface in Lost City hydrothermal field

    Purificación López-García;Alexander Vereshchaka;David Moreira

  • Global eukaryote phylogeny: Combined small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA trees support monophyly of Rhizaria, Retaria and Excavata.

    David Moreira;Sophie von der Heyden;David Bass;Purificación López-García

Frequent Co-Authors

David Moreira
David Moreira University of Paris-Saclay
Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera Miguel Hernandez University
Hervé Martin
Hervé Martin University of Clermont Auvergne
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
François Guyot
François Guyot French National Museum of Natural History
Gordon E. Brown
Gordon E. Brown Stanford University
Nicolas Menguy
Nicolas Menguy Sorbonne University
Ricardo Amils
Ricardo Amils Spanish National Research Council
Stephan Kempe
Stephan Kempe Technical University of Darmstadt

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