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Ramon Massana is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics frequently explored by Ramon Massana include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Ramon Massana's recent notable publications are:

  • Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota, 2020, Microbiome
  • Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities, 2021, Communications Biology
  • A metagenomic assessment of microbial eukaryotic diversity in the global ocean, 2020, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment, 2022, Science Advances
  • Oceanic heterotrophic flagellates are dominated by a few widespread taxa, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • ISME Communications
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • Science Advances

Ramon Massana collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors, among whom the most frequent are:

  • Ramiro Logares
  • Josep M. Gasol
  • Caterina R. Giner
  • Aleix Obiol
  • Marta Sebastián

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

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

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

  • Vertical distribution and phylogenetic characterization of marine planktonic Archaea in the Santa Barbara Channel.

    Ramon Massana;Alison Murray;C.M. Preston;Edward F. DeLong

  • Application of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) to study the diversity of marine picoeukaryotic assemblages and comparison of DGGE with other molecular techniques.

    Beatriz Dı́ez;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Terence L. Marsh;Ramon Massana

  • Mapping of picoeucaryotes in marine ecosystems with quantitative PCR of the 18S rRNA gene.

    Fei Zhu;Ramon Massana;Fabrice Not;Dominique Marie

  • Study of genetic diversity of eukaryotic picoplankton in different oceanic regions by small-subunit rRNA gene cloning and sequencing.

    Beatriz Dı́ez;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Ramon Massana

  • Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata)

    Laure Guillou;Manon Viprey;Aurélie Chambouvet;R.M. Welsh

  • Seasonal and Spatial Variability of Bacterial and Archaeal Assemblages in the Coastal Waters near Anvers Island, Antarctica

    Alison Murray;C.M. Preston;Ramon Massana;Lance T. Taylor

  • 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

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

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

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Global phylogeography of marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus reveals a distinct partitioning of lineages among oceanic biomes.

    Katrin Zwirglmaier;Ludwig Jardillier;Martin Ostrowski;Sophie Mazard

  • Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

    Meredith D. M. Jones;Meredith D. M. Jones;Irene Forn;Catarina Gadelha;Martin J. Egan;Martin J. Egan

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • A few cosmopolitan phylotypes dominate planktonic archaeal assemblages in widely different oceanic provinces.

    Ramon Massana;Edward F. DeLong;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

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

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

  • Distribution, phylogeny, and growth of cold-adapted picoprasinophytes in arctic seas

    Connie Lovejoy;Warwick F. Vincent;Sylvia Bonilla;Suzanne Roy

  • Diversification and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins.

    Dikla Man;Weiwu Wang;Gazalah Sabehi;L. Aravind

  • Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of novel marine stramenopiles.

    Ramon Massana;Jose Castresana;Vanessa Balagué;Laure Guillou

  • Diversity and distribution of marine microbial eukaryotes in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas.

    Connie Lovejoy;Ramon Massana;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Carlos Pedrós-Alió
Carlos Pedrós-Alió Spanish National Research Council
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Laure Guillou
Laure Guillou Sorbonne University
Dolors Vaqué
Dolors Vaqué Spanish National Research Council
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Michael E. Sieracki
Michael E. Sieracki National Science Foundation

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