The ecological success of freshwater microorganisms is mediated by streamlining and biotic interactions

Rodríguez-Gijón A, Pacheco-Valenciana A, Milke F, Dharamshi JE, Hampel JJ, Damashek J, Wienhausen G, Rodriguez-R LM, and Garcia SL.

bioRxiv (2025). DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.24.644981.

Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria

Pacheco-Valenciana A, Tausch A, Dharamshi JE, Bergland F, Delgado-Zambrano LF, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Andersson AF, and Garcia SL.

bioRxiv (2025). DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.28.650956.

Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales

Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K.

bioRxiv (2025). DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.26.656076.

2024

Does genome size matter? Comparative (meta) genomics to investigate the ecological meaning of genome size in aquatic prokaryotes

Rodríguez-Gijón A

Stockholm University (2024). ISBN: 978-91-8014-995-2.

2023

Linking prokaryotic genome size variation to metabolic potential and environment

Rodríguez-Gijón A, Buck M, Andersson AF, Izabel-Shen D, Nascimento FJA, Garcia SL.

ISME Communications 3(1) (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s43705-023-00231-x.

Shotgun metagenomes from productive lakes in an urban region of Sweden

Rodríguez-Gijón A, Hampel JJ, Dharamshi JE, Bertilsson S, Garcia SL.

Scientific Data 10, 810 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02722-x.

The understory microclimate in agroforestry now and in the future – a case study of Arabica coffee in its native range

Zignol F, Kjellström E, Hylander K, Ayalew B, Zewdie B, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Tack AJM.

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 340, 109586 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109586.

Limited diversity of epibiont bdelloid rotifers and no pattern of codiversification with the highly diverse endemic amphipods of a coastal zone of Lake Baikal

Fontaneto D, Sottoriva E, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Bedulina D, Gurkov A, Timoshkin OA, Ivanenko VN.

The European Zoological Journal 90(1): 354-365 (2023). DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2023.2205875.

2022

Microbial functional genes are driven by gradients in sediment stoichiometry, oxygen, and salinity across the Baltic benthic ecosystem

Broman E, Izabel-Shen D, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Bonaglia S, Garcia SL, Nascimento FJA.

Microbiome 10(1) (2022). DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01321-z.

Uniting diversity to create a more inclusive academic environment.

Delemotte L, Garcia SL, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Sezgin E, Vihervaara A.

Journal of Cell Science 135(7): jcs259977 (2022). DOI: 10.1242/jcs.259977.

A genomic perspective across Earth’s microbiomes reveals that genome size in Archaea and Bacteria is linked to ecosystem type and trophic strategy.

Rodríguez-Gijón A, Nuy J, Mehrshad M, Buck M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Garcia SL.

Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.761869.

2021

A Survey Of Azorean Rotifers.

Fontaneto D, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Garlaschè G.

AÇOREANA 11: 79-84 (2021). DOI: Na.

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