Publicaciones Recientes

A continuación, se presentan las publicaciones más recientes del personal del Departamento de Biología, en orden cronológico inverso.

  • Ruber Rodríguez Barreras, (Mar. 31, 2024). Recent Molecular Techniques to Strengthen Ecological Studies in Echinoderms, Revista de Biología Tropical, l, ISSN: 2215-2075, Vol. 72(S1): e58880.
  • Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, Claudia P. Ruiz-Diaz, Marcos A. Quiñones-Otero & Carlos Toledo-Hernández, (2023).  Uneven demographic consequences of the 2022 diseases outbreak for the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico, PeerJ, 11:e16675. doi: 10.7717/peerj.16675.
  • Almeda Castro, Aslin, Puente Rolón, Alberto R., Díaz Lameiro, Alondra M., First Report of Reptarenavirus in the Invasive Red-tail boa,
    Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758, from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal of Science (2023), 53: pp. 353–357.
  • Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, Edwin E. Traverso Avilés, Orestes Quesada González, Carlos Ríos-Velázquez, Patricia Ortiz-Bermudez, Robert Ross and Alan D. Levine. (Oct 2023), RING Program: The CFAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pathway Initiative, J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, Volume 94, Supplement 2.
  • Kiara L. Pérez Medina, Hernán Torres-Pratts and Sandra L. Maldonado Ramírez, (2023). Are Gasteromycetes Silent Helpers in Habitat Conservation?, Caribbean Journal of Science (2023), 53: pp. 18–36.
  • Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, Anelisse Dominicci-Maura, Eduardo L. Tosado-Rodríguez & Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, (2023).  The Epibiotic Microbiota of Wild Caribbean Sea Urchin Spines Is Species Specific, Microorganisms, 11 (2), 391.
  • Alondra M. Díaz-Lameiro, Catalina I. Villamil, Tony Gamble, Brendan J. Pinto, Alexandra Herrera-Martínez, Richard thomas, Justin M. Bernstewin, James E. titus-McQuillan, Stuart V. Nielsen, Eliacim Agosto-Torres, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Fernando J. Bird-Picó, Taras K. Oleksyk, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado & Juan D. Daza.  A New Species of Sphaerodactylus (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) form the Northwest Limestone Region of Puerto Rico. Ichtiology and Herpetology 110, No. 3, 2022, 449-465.
  • Walter W. Wolfsberger, Nikole M. Ayala, Stephanie O. Castro-Marquez, Valerie M. Irizarry-Negron, Antoliy Potapchuk, Khrystyna Shchubelka, Ludvig Potish, Audrey J. Majeske, Luis Figueroa Oliver, Alondra Díaz Lameiro, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado, Gabriella Lindgren & Taras K. Oleksyk. 2022.Published in Scientific Reports as a doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04537-5.
  • Alondra M. Díaz-Lameiro, Jennifer G.L. Kennedy, Stephanie Craig, William H. Isbell, Peter W. Stahl & D. Andrew Merriwether. 2022. Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science. Volume 141, May 2022, 105593.
  • Ramón A. Rosario-Rodríguez, Carlos A. Acevedo-Suárez, First report of infection caused by the protozoan Ophryocystis elektroscirrha McLaughlin & Myers (Neogregarinida: Ophryocystidae) in the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus megalippe f. portoricensis. Clark (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Puerto Rico, Revista Chilena de Entomología (2020) 46 (3): 521-523.
  • Use of Drones to Recover Fungal Spores and Pollen from the Lower Atmosphere, Caribbean Journal of Sciences Vol 50(1) : 151-170, 2020. Zuleimary Vélez, Dra. Sandra L. Maldonado.
  • Montalvo-Rodríguez, R.; Maupin-Furlow, J.A. Insights through Genetics of Halophilic Microorganisms and Their Viruses. Genes 2020, 11, 388.
  • Zayas-Rivera J., Rivera-López Y., Velázquez-Méndez M., Romero Oliveras N., Montalvo-Rodríguez R. 2020. Draft genome sequence of a novel species of Halococcus (strain IIIV-5B), an endophytic archaeon isolated from the leaf tissue of Avicennia germinans. Microbiol Resour Announc 9:e00421 20.https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00421-20.
  • Rodriguez-Medina J, Kim HG, Castro J,Contreras CM, Glon CL, Goyal A, Guo BY,Knowles S, Lin JC, McGuiness CL, Sorkin E,Stefani J, Yegireddi SJ, Chaganti S, Cui D, DeckSL, Deokule Y, Douglas H, Kenaston M, O’Brien A, Patterson E, Schoppa N, Tran Vo D, Tran K,Tran T-L, Pérez-Irizarry V, Carrasquillo-Nieves K, Montalvo Rodriguez R, Yao AI, Albeck JG,Facciotti MT, Nord AS, Furrow RE. 2020. Draft genome sequences of 16 halophilic prokaryotes isolated from diverse environments. Microbiol Resour Announc 9:e01540 19.https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01540-19.
  • Queiroz MS, López-Hernández D, Locke SA, Pinto HA, Anjos LA. 2020. Metacercariae of Heterodiplostomum lanceolatum (Trematoda: Proterodiplostomidae) found in Leptodactylus podicipinus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Brazil: a morphological, molecular and ecological study. Journal of Helminthology. 94:e66.
  • Cardona-Cardona V. Z., Y. Loperena-Alvarez, G. Ramos-Marrero, J. Schellekens, Ríos-Velázquez. 2019. Characterization of a Puerto Rican Isolate of Aspergillus sp. with High Copper Resistance. 49(2-3). Caribbean Journal of Science.https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a1Caribbean Journal of Science Volume 49(2-3).
  • Rodriguez-Reyes M.G. and Rios-Velazquez. 2019. Soil metagenome datasets underneath the Arecibo Observatory reflector dish. Data in Brief, 104710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104710.
  • Sotomayor-Mena R.G. and Rios-Velazquez. 2019. Soil microbiome dataset from Guanica dry forest in Puerto Rico generated by shotgun sequencing. Data in brief, 28, 104919. https://doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104919.
  • Appeldoorn, R.S., Alfaro, M., Ballantine, D., Bejarano, I., Ruiz, H.J., Schizas, N.V., Schmidt, W.E., Sherman, C.E., Weil E. (2019). Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems:Puerto Rico in Coral Reefs of the World 12. Springer. 1003pp.
  • (Dra. Rosa Buxeda). Artículo sobre Amgen Bio Talents e itinerario del Bioscience Week 2019. Octubre 2019.
  • Caffara M, Locke SA, Halajian A, Luus-Powell WJ, Benini D, Tedesco P, Kasembele GK, Fioravanti ML. 2019. Molecular data show Clinostomoides Dollfus, 1950 is a junior synonym of Clinostomum Leidy, 1856, with redescription of metacercariae of Clinostomum brieni n. comb. 2019. Parasitology. 146(6): 805-13.
  • López-Hernández D, Locke SA, Alves de Assis JC, Drago FB, de Melo AL, Leite Rabelo EM, Pinto HA. 2019 Molecular, morphological and experimental studies of cercariae from five species of Diplostomoidea (Trematoda: Digenea) infecting Biomphalaria straminea (Mollusca: Planorbidae) in Brazil. Acta Tropica. 199:105082
  • Rebeca I. Colon-Rios, Eddalys L. Valentin-Hernandez & Sandra L. Maldonado Ramirez. 2019. Endophytic fungi in Billbergia Pyramidalis: A preliminary survey. JOUST Vol. 5, Issue 1, August 2019.
  • Rosado-Rodriguez, G., Sanchez-Martinez E., Maldonado-Ramirez, SL & Otero, E. 2019. Cultivable Yeasts Associated with Demosponges from Puerto Rico. Studies in Fungi 4(1): 153-161(2019). ISSN 2465-4973. Doi 10.5943/sif/4/1/18
  • Sofiia Kolchanova, Sergei Kliver, Aleksei Komissarov, Pavel Dobrinin, Gaik Tamazian, Kirill Grigorev, Walter W. Wolfsberger, Audrey J. Majeske, Jafet Velez-Valentin, Ricardo Valentin de la Rosa, Joanne R. Paul-Murphy, David Sanchez-Migallon Guzman, Michael H. Court, Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado and Taras K. Oleksyk. 2019. Genomes of Three Closely Related Caribbean Amazons Provide Insight for Species History and Conservation, Genes 2019, 10, 54; doi:10.3390/genes10010054.
  • Massol-Deyá, A., The Energy Uprising: A community-Driven Search for Sustainability and Sovereignty in Puerto Rico, pp. 298-308. September 2019. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1333-aftershocks-of-disaster
  • Massol-Deyá, A. 2019. Our Energy Insurrection. In ‘Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm’ Haymarket Books, 298-307.
  • Massol-Deyá, A. 2019. Our Energy Insurrection. In ‘Voices from Puerto Rico’ Redsugarcane Press, 93-98.
  • Ricardo L. Couto-Rodríguez & Rafael Montalvo-Rodríguez. 2019. Temporal Analysys of the Microbial Community from the Crystallizer Ponds in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Using Metagenomics. Genes 2019, 10, 422; doi:10.3390/genes10060422.
  • V. Z. Cardona-Cardona, Y. Loperena-Alvarez, G. Ramos-Marrero, J. Schellekens, C. Ríos-Velázquez. 2019. Characterization of a Puerto Rican Isolate of Aspergillus sp. with High Copper Resistance. 49(2-3). Caribbean Journal of Science. https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a1Caribbean Journal of Science Volume 49(2-3).
  • Narayanan Narayanan, Getu Beyene, Raj Deepika Chauhan, Eliana Gaitán-Solís, Jackson Gehan, Paula Butts, Dimuth Siritunga, Ihuoma Okwuonu, Arthur Woll, Dulce M. Jiménez-Aguilar, Erick Boy, Michael A. Grusak, Paul Anderson and Nigel J. Taylor, 2019.  Biofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin, Nature Biotechnology, volume 37, pages144–151.
  • Hammerman, Rivera-Vicens R.E., Galaska M.P, Weil, E, Appledoorn, R., Alfaro, M. and Nikolaos V. Schizas. 2018 Population connectivity of the plating coral Agaricia lamarcki from southwest Puerto Rico. Coral Reefs (2018) 37:183–191.
  • Sean A. Locke, Alex Van Dam, Monica Caffara, Hudson Alves Pinto, Danimar López-Hernández, Christopher A. Blanar. 2018. Validity of the Diplostomoidea and Diplostomida (Digenea, Platyhelminthes) upheld in plylogenomic analysis, International Journal of Parasitology, 48 (2018) 1043-1059.
  • Li WX, Zou H, Wu SG, Xiong F, Li M, Ma XR, Marcogliese DJ, Locke SA, Wang GT. 2018. Richness and diversity of communities of Dactylogyrus spp. in the wild and farmed goldfish Carassius auratus. Journal of Parasitology. 104(4): 353-8. Journal IF: 1.395.
  • López-Hernández D, Locke SA, de Melo AL, Rabelo ÉML, Pinto HA. 2018. Molecular, morphological and experimental assessment of the life cycle of Posthodiplostomum nanum Dubois 1937 (Trematoda: Diplostomidae) from Brazil, with phylogenetic evidence of paraphyly in the genus Posthodiplostomum Dubois, 1936. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 63: 95-103.
  • Valadão MC, Silva BCM, López-Hernández D, Araújo JV, Locke SA, Pinto HA. 2018. A molecular phylogenetic study of the caecal fluke of poultry, Postharmostomum commutatum (= P. gallinum) (Trematoda: Brachylaimidae). Parasitology Research. 117(12): 3927-34.
  • Massol-Deyá, A., E. González, J. Delgado, A. Dragoni y A. Massol-Deyá. 2018. Casa Pueblo y la transformación de la política forestal desde la autogestión comunitaria. In ‘Ambiente y Democracia’ Editorial UPR, pp. 106-129.
  • Massol-Deyá, A. 2018. Amores que luchan. Ediciones Callejón, 253pp.
  • Massol-Deyá, A., J. C. Stephens and J. L. Colón. 2018. Renewable energy for Puerto Rico. Science 362 (6410): 7.
  • Díaz, E., D. Pérez, J. Delgado, and A. Massol-Deyá. 2018. Longitudinal survey of lead, cadmium, and copper in seagrass Syringodium filiforme from a former bombing range (Vieques, Puerto Rico) Toxicology Reports 5:6-11.
  • Rodriguez-Nuñez, K.M., J.M. Rullan-Cardec andC. Rios-Velazquez. 2018.The metagenome of bromeliads phytotelma in Puerto Rico. J. Data in Brief. 16, 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.065.
  • Rabelo-Fernandez R.J., K. Santiago, L. Morales-Valeand C. Rios-Velazquez. 2018. The metagenome of Caracolus marginella gut microbiome using culture independent approaches and shotgun sequencing. J. Data in Brief. 16, 501-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.11.043.
  • Rodriguez-Ramos L.E.,  C. Rios-Velazquez. 2018. Microbiome dataset from Clara Cave and Empalme Sinkhole waters in Puerto Rico. Data in Brief. 21, 1674-1677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.028.
  • Soriano   Berliza M., L.M. Del Valle-Perez, L. Morales-Vale and C. Rios-Velazquez. 2018. Datasets generated by shotgun sequencing of metagenomic libraries of the Guajataca water reservoir. Data in Brief. 21, 2531-2535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.114.
  • Beyene, G., Solomon, F., Chauhan, R., Gaitan-Solis, E., Narayanan, N., Gehan, J., Siritunga, D., Stevens, R., Jifon, J., Van Eck, J., Linsler, E., Gehan, M., Ilyas, M., Fregene, M., Anderson, P., Sayre, R., Taylor, N., and Cahoon, E. 2018. Provitamin A Biofortification of Cassava Enhances Shelf-Life but Reduces Dry Matter Content of Storage Roots Due to Altered Carbon Partitioning into Starch, Plant Biotechnology Journal, 16(6):1186-1200.
  • Luciano-Roario, D., Cruz-Saavedra, L and Siritunga, D. 2018. Genetic Diversity of Puerto Rican Farmer-held Papaya (Carica papaya) using SSR Markers, HortScience, 53(8): 1109-1114.
  • Silas A. Rasmussen, Kenneth T. Kongstad, Paiman Khorsand-Jamal, Rubini Maya Kannagara, Majse Nafisi, Alex Van Dam, Mads Bennedsen, Bjorn Madsen, Finn Okkeals, Charlotte H. Gotfredsen, Dan Staerk, Ulf Thrane, Uffe H. Mortensen, Thomas O. Larsen, Rasmus J.N. Frandsen. 2018. On the Biosynthetic Origin of Carmic Acid. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 96 (2018) 51-61.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2018.03.002.