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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
76
Citations
37046
World Ranking
1382
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Ramon Rosselló-Móra is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans significant topics within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, and environmental science, with substantial contributions to subfields such as molecular biology, ecology, plant science, clinical biochemistry, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on topics including genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, gut microbiota and health, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, protist diversity and phylogeny, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Ramon Rosselló-Móra has co-authored extensively with several researchers. Frequent collaborators include Tomeu Viver, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Rudolf Amann, Stephanus N. Venter, and Roth E. Conrad.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in a range of scientific journals. The most common venues for publication are Systematic and Applied Microbiology, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The ISME Journal, and Nature Microbiology.

Notable recent papers by Ramon Rosselló-Móra include:

  • International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision), 2023, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • An ANI gap within bacterial species that advances the definitions of intra-species units, 2023, mBio
  • Species-Level Analysis of Human Gut Microbiota With Metataxonomics, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition

    Michael Richter;Ramon Rosselló-Móra

  • JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison.

    Michael Richter;Ramon Rosselló-Móra;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Jörg Peplies

  • Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

    Pablo Yarza;Pelin Yilmaz;Elmar Pruesse;Frank Oliver Glöckner

  • The species concept for prokaryotes.

    Ramon Rosselló-Mora;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Wilhelm Frederiksen;George M Garrity;Patrick A D Grimont

  • Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes.

    Brian J. Tindall;Ramón Rosselló-Mora;Hans-Jürgen Busse;Wolfgang Ludwig

  • The All-Species Living Tree project: a 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains

    Pablo Yarza;Michael Richter;Jörg Peplies;Jean Euzeby

  • Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy.

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Ramon Rosselló-Móra;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Methane formation from long-chain alkanes by anaerobic microorganisms.

    Karsten Zengler;Hans H. Richnow;Ramon Rosselló-Mora;Walter Michaelis

  • Microbial Community Composition of Wadden Sea Sediments as Revealed by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

    Enrique Llobet-Brossa;Ramon Rosselló-Mora;Rudolf I. Amann

  • The Microbial Genomes Atlas (MiGA) webserver: taxonomic and gene diversity analysis of Archaea and Bacteria at the whole genome level

    Luis M Rodriguez-R;Santosh Gunturu;William T Harvey;Ramon Rosselló-Mora

  • Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea.

    Ramon Rosselló-Móra;Rudolf Amann

  • 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

  • Reclassification of Shewanella putrefaciens Owen's genomic group II as Shewanella baltica sp. nov.

    Frank Ziemke;Manfred G. Höfle;Jorge Lalucat;Ramon Rossellö-Mora

  • Update of the All-Species Living Tree Project based on 16S and 23S rRNA sequence analyses

    Pablo Yarza;Wolfgang Ludwig;Jean Euzéby;Rudolf Amann

  • Extremely halophilic Bacteria in crystallizer ponds from solar salterns

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

  • Combined use of 16S ribosomal DNA and 16S rRNA to study the bacterial community of polychlorinated biphenyl-polluted soil.

    Balbina Nogales;Edward R. B. Moore;Enrique Llobet-Brossa;Ramon Rosselló-Mora

  • International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision).

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  • Description of Bacillus toyonensis sp. nov., a novel species of the Bacillus cereus group, and pairwise genome comparisons of the species of the group by means of ANI calculations

    Guillermo Jiménez;Mercedes Urdiain;Ana Cifuentes;Aránzazu López-López

  • Anaerobic Oxidation of o -Xylene, m -Xylene, and Homologous Alkylbenzenes by New Types of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

    Gerda Harms;Karsten Zengler;Ralf Rabus;Frank Aeckersberg

  • Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea: Sequencing a Myriad of Type Strains

    Nikos C. Kyrpides;Philip Hugenholtz;Jonathan A. Eisen;Tanja Woyke

  • Species concept for prokaryotes

    Ramón Rosselló-Mora

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Peter Kämpfer
Peter Kämpfer University of Giessen
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology
Hans-Jürgen Busse
Hans-Jürgen Busse University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Karl-Heinz Schleifer
Karl-Heinz Schleifer Technical University of Munich
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Edward R. B. Moore
Edward R. B. Moore University of Gothenburg
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin Technical University of Munich
Wolfgang Ludwig
Wolfgang Ludwig Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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