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Silvia G. Acinas 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 a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Their recent papers reflect ongoing research activity and include:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome, 2022, Nature
  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota, 2020, Microbiome

Frequent co-authors associated with Silvia G. Acinas include:

  • Josep M. Gasol
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • Pablo Sánchez
  • Chris Bowler
  • Colomban de Vargas

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Ecology Resources

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

    Gipsi Lima-Mendez;Karoline Faust;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean.

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

    Ann C. Gregory;Ahmed A. Zayed;Nádia Conceição-Neto;Ben Temperton

  • Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons.

    Silvia G. Acinas;Luisa A. Marcelino;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Martin F. Polz

  • Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

    Jennifer R. Brum;J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza;Simon Roux;Guilhem Doulcier;Guilhem Doulcier

  • PCR-Induced Sequence Artifacts and Bias: Insights from Comparison of Two 16S rRNA Clone Libraries Constructed from the Same Sample

    Silvia G. Acinas;Ramahi Sarma-Rupavtarm;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Martin F. Polz

  • Ecology of marine Bacteroidetes: a comparative genomics approach

    Beatriz Fernandez-Gomez;Michael Richter;Margarete Schüler;Jarone Pinhassi

  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community

    Silvia G. Acinas;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Dana E. Hunt;Chanathip Pharino

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

    Eric Karsenti;Silvia G. Acinas;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Silvia G Acinas;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler

  • 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

  • Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

    Federico M. Ibarbalz;Nicolas Henry;Manoela C. Brandão;Séverine Martini

  • Prevalent genome streamlining and latitudinal divergence of planktonic bacteria in the surface ocean

    Brandon K. Swan;Ben Tupper;Alexander Sczyrba;Federico M. Lauro

  • 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

  • Metagenomic 16S rDNA Illumina tags are a powerful alternative to amplicon sequencing to explore diversity and structure of microbial communities

    Ramiro Logares;Shinichi Sunagawa;Guillem Salazar;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

    Stéphane Pesant;Fabrice Not;Marc Picheral;Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Stephane Pesant
Stephane Pesant University of Bremen

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