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List of works by Amparo Latorre

A classification scheme for mobilization regions of bacterial plasmids.

scientific article published on February 2004

A genomic reappraisal of symbiotic function in the aphid/Buchnera symbiosis: reduced transporter sets and variable membrane organisations

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A new method for extracting skin microbes allows metagenomic analysis of whole-deep skin

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A simple DNA extraction method suitable for PCR detection of genetically modified maize

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

A small microbial genome: the end of a long symbiotic relationship?

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Active and secreted IgA-coated bacterial fractions from the human gut reveal an under-represented microbiota core

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Altered metabolism of gut microbiota contributes to chronic immune activation in HIV-infected individuals.

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An 18S rDNA-based molecular phylogeny of aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: braconidae)

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Assessing gut microbial diversity from feces and rectal mucosa

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Assessing the nucleotide diversity of three aphid species by RAPD

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Bacteria associated with Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) larvae and their cactus host Isolatocereus dumortieri.

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Bacterial antisense RNAs are mainly the product of transcriptional noise

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Bacterial endosymbionts of insects: insights from comparative genomics

scientific article published in November 2004

Blattabacteria, the endosymbionts of cockroaches, have small genome sizes and high genome copy numbers.

scientific article published in December 2008

Characterization of a Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-encoding gene region in Drosophila willistoni

scientific article published on September 1994

Chromosomal stasis versus plasmid plasticity in aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.

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Clostridium difficile heterogeneously impacts intestinal community architecture but drives stable metabolome responses

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Coexistence of Wolbachia with Buchnera aphidicola and a secondary symbiont in the aphid Cinara cedri

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Colonization of America by Drosophila subobscura: association between Odh gene haplotypes, lethal genes and chromosomal arrangements

scientific article published in August 2004

Comparative Transcriptomics of Fat Bodies between Symbiotic and Quasi-Aposymbiotic Adult Females of Blattella germanica with Emphasis on the Metabolic Integration with Its Endosymbiont Blattabacterium and Its Immune System

scientific article published on 11 April 2024

Comparative analysis of two genomic regions among four strains of Buchnera aphidicola, primary endosymbiont of aphids

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Comparative genomics of Blattabacterium cuenoti: the frozen legacy of an ancient endosymbiont genome

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Comparative genomics of Serratia spp.: two paths towards endosymbiotic life.

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Comparative molecular evolution of primary (Buchnera) and secondary symbionts of aphids based on two protein-coding genes

scientific article published in August 2002

Complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum" BT-QVLC, an obligate symbiont that supplies amino acids and carotenoids to Bemisia tabaci

scientific article published on December 2012

Complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Tremblaya princeps" strain PCVAL, an intriguing translational machine below the living-cell status

scientific article published on October 2011

Complete genome sequence of Acidaminococcus intestini RYC-MR95, a Gram-negative bacterium from the phylum Firmicutes.

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DNA barcodes reveal the presence of the introduced freshwater leech Helobdella europaea in Spain

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Daily follow-up of bacterial communities in the human gut reveals stable composition and host-specific patterns of interaction

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in natural populations of aphids: is the hidden diversity fully unraveled?

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Diet shapes the gut microbiota of the omnivorous cockroach Blattella germanica

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Differential effects of antibiotic therapy on the structure and function of human gut microbiota

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Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab and Cry3Aa endotoxins on predatory Coleoptera tested through artificial diet-incorporation bioassays

scientific article published on 28 September 2009

Evidence for Succession and Putative Metabolic Roles of Fungi and Bacteria in the Farming Mutualism of the Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Evolution of small prokaryotic genomes

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Evolution of the leucine gene cluster in Buchnera aphidicola: insights from chromosomal versions of the cluster

scientific article (publication date: May 2004)

Evolution of the secondary symbiont "Candidatus serratia symbiotica" in aphid species of the subfamily lachninae

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Evolutionary convergence and nitrogen metabolism in Blattabacterium strain Bge, primary endosymbiont of the cockroach Blattella germanica

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Extreme genome reduction in Buchnera spp.: toward the minimal genome needed for symbiotic life

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Factors behind junk DNA in bacteria

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Functional consequences of microbial shifts in the human gastrointestinal tract linked to antibiotic treatment and obesity

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Genetic differentiation in the striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba from European waters according to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) restriction analysis

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Genome degeneration and adaptation in a nascent stage of symbiosis

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Genome economization in the endosymbiont of the wood roach Cryptocercus punctulatus due to drastic loss of amino acid synthesis capabilities

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Genome evolution in the primary endosymbiont of whiteflies sheds light on their divergence

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Genome reduction and potential metabolic complementation of the dual endosymbionts in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Genome reduction of the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola in a recent evolutionary time scale

scientific article published on 14 October 2006

Genome size reduction through multiple events of gene disintegration in Buchnera APS.

scientific article published in November 2001

Genomics of intracellular symbionts in insects.

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

Goethe's dream. Challenges and opportunities for synthetic biology

scientific article published in August 2009

Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach

Host-based divergence in populations of the pea aphid: insights from nuclear markers and the prevalence of facultative symbionts

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How does Tremblaya princeps get essential proteins from its nested partner Moranella endobia in the Mealybug Planoccocus citri?

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Identification of the weevil immune genes and their expression in the bacteriome tissue

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Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

Instability of the faecal microbiota in diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome

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Interplay between gut microbiota metabolism and inflammation in HIV infection

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Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote-animal symbioses

scientific article published on March 2008

Legionella pneumophila pangenome reveals strain-specific virulence factors.

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Linkage disequilibria between mtDNA haplotypes and chromosomal arrangements in a natural population of Drosophila subobscura

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Mealybugs nested endosymbiosis: going into the 'matryoshka' system in Planococcus citri in depth

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Metabolic stasis in an ancient symbiosis: genome-scale metabolic networks from two Blattabacterium cuenoti strains, primary endosymbionts of cockroaches

scientific article (publication date: 18 January 2012)

Metagenomics of human microbiome: beyond 16s rDNA.

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Metatranscriptomic approach to analyze the functional human gut microbiota

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Mitochondrial DNA evolution in experimental populations of Drosophila subobscura

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Mitochondrial DNA variability in three Mediterranean populations of Aphanius iberus

Molecular characterization of cyclic and obligate parthenogens in the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi (L.).

scientific article published in April 1996

Molecular characterization of the leucine cluster in Buchnera sp. strain PSY, a primary endosymbiont of the aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae

scientific article published on May 2002

Molecular evidence for ongoing complementarity and horizontal gene transfer in endosymbiotic systems of mealybugs

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Molecular evidence to suggest the origin of a colonization: Drosophila subobscura in America

scientific article published in December 2011

Molecular markers linked to breeding system differences in segregating and natural populations of the cereal aphid Rhopalosiphum padi L.

scientific article published in June 1999

Molecular phylogeny of the families Campulidae and Nasitrematidae (Trematoda) based on mtDNA sequence comparison

scientific article published in May 1998

Molecular systematics of aphids and their primary endosymbionts

scientific article published in September 2001

New Insights on the Evolutionary History of Aphids and Their Primary Endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola

scientific article (publication date: 16 February 2011)

New clues about the evolutionary history of metabolic losses in bacterial endosymbionts, provided by the genome of Buchnera aphidicola from the aphid Cinara tujafilina

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

No exception to the rule: Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum cell wall revisited

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Patterns and rates of nucleotide substitution, insertion and deletion in the endosymbiont of ants Blochmannia floridanus.

scientific article published in October 2008

Patterns of puffing activity and chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila subobscura

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

Patterns of puffing activity and chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila subobscura. IV. Position effect at the boundaries of the E12 inversion

scientific article published in November 1987

Phylogenetic relationships of the family Campulidae (Trematoda) based on 18S rRNA sequences.

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Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2011)

Plasmids in the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola with the smallest genomes. A puzzling evolutionary story.

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Reconstructing the ancestor of Mycobacterium leprae: the dynamics of gene loss and genome reduction.

scientific article published on 10 July 2007

Reductive genome evolution in Buchnera aphidicola

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Reinventing the Wheel and Making It Round Again: Evolutionary Convergence in Buchnera-Serratia Symbiotic Consortia between the Distantly Related Lachninae Aphids Tuberolachnus salignus and Cinara cedri

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Scanty microbes, the 'symbionelle' concept

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Seasonal Changes in the Endosymbiotic Consortia of Aphids from the Genus Cinara

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Selecting microbial strains from pine tree resin: biotechnological applications from a terpene world

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Serratia symbiotica from the aphid Cinara cedri: a missing link from facultative to obligate insect endosymbiont

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Side-stepping secondary symbionts: widespread horizontal transfer across and beyond the Aphidoidea.

scientific article published in April 2003

Small but powerful, the primary endosymbiont of moss bugs, Candidatus Evansia muelleri, holds a reduced genome with large biosynthetic capabilities

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Snapshots of a shrinking partner: Genome reduction in Serratia symbiotica

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Staphylococcus prevails in the skin microbiota of long-term immunodeficient mice.

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Structural alterations of faecal and mucosa-associated bacterial communities in irritable bowel syndrome.

scientific article published in March 2012

Structural analyses of a hypothetical minimal metabolism

scientific article published on October 2007

Structural and functional changes in the gut microbiota associated to Clostridium difficile infection

scientific article published on 4 July 2014

Study of the viral and microbial communities associated with Crohn's disease: a metagenomic approach.

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Succession of the gut microbiota in the cockroach Blattella germanica

scientific article published on June 2014

Symbionts and pathogens: what is the difference?

scientific article published on January 2013

The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of mobile genetic elements: release 2.0

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The active human gut microbiota differs from the total microbiota

scientific article published on 28 July 2011

The cockroach Blattella germanica obtains nitrogen from uric acid through a metabolic pathway shared with its bacterial endosymbiont.

scientific article published on July 2014

The effect of superoxide dismutase alleles on aging in Drosophila

scientific article published in January 1993

The evolutionary fate of nonfunctional DNA in the bacterial endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.

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The evolutionary history of symbiotic associations among bacteria and their animal hosts: a model

scientific article published on January 2009

The frontier between cell and organelle: genome analysis of Candidatus Carsonella ruddii

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The genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 provides insights into genome reduction, symbiont motility, and its settlement in Bemisia tabaci

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The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: comparative analysis of reduced genomes

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The striking case of tryptophan provision in the cedar aphid Cinara cedri.

scientific article published on 27 June 2008

Toward minimal bacterial cells: evolution vs. design

scientific article published on 03 December 2008

Two host clades, two bacterial arsenals: evolution through gene losses in facultative endosymbionts

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Unravelling the bacterial diversity found in the semi-arid Tablas de Daimiel National Park wetland (central Spain)

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Virulence factor rtx in Legionella pneumophila, evidence suggesting it is a modular multifunctional protein

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What Symbionts Teach us about Modularity

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Why are the genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria so stable?

scientific article published in April 2003

gNOMO: a multi-omics pipeline for integrated host and microbiome analysis of non-model organisms

scientific article published on 05 August 2020