• Ancient Human Mitogenome of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego): An Argentine Collaborative Project 

      Arencibia, Valeria; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Crespo, Cristian; Maldonado, Lucas; Lichtenstein, Gabriel; Kamenetzky, Laura; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Zangrando, Atilio F.; Tessone, Augusto; Avena, Sergio; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Dejean, Cristina (Cambridge University Press, 2023-05)
      The increasing use of massively parallel sequencing in the study of current and ancient human populations has enabled new approaches to bioanthropological and archaeological issues; however, its application to archaeological ...
    • Anthropogenic infection of domestic cats with SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B.1.1.7 lineage in Buenos Aires 

      Pecora, Andrea; Malacari, Darío Amilcar; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria; Díaz, María de los Ángeles; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Carusso, Cristian; Mundo, Silvia Leonor; Gonzalez Lopez Ledesma, María Mora; Gamarnik, Andrea Vanesa; Rinaldi, Osvaldo; Vidal, Osvaldo; Mas, Javier; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (Frontiers Media, 2022-03)
      SARS-CoV-2 reverse zoonosis, particularly to domestic animals, and the potential role of infected animals in perpetuating the spread of the virus is an issue of increasing concern. In this case report, we identified the ...
    • Argentine navy icebreaker ship “Almirante Irizar” sludge microbial composition analysis for biohydrogen production 

      García, Rodrigo E.; Pin Viso, Natalia Daniela; Gerosa, Fernando A.; Nishinakamasu, Veronica; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Farber, Marisa Diana; Lavorante, María J. (Springer, 2023-06)
      Sludge from the wastewater treatment plant of the Argentinean Navy icebreaker ship “Almirante Irizar” was used as inoculum for biohydrogen production. The bacterial community was monitored throughout the fermentation, by ...
    • Assessing the hidden diversity underlying consensus sequences of SARS-CoV-2 using VICOS, a novel bioinformatic pipeline for identification of mixed viral populations 

      Goya, Stephanie; Sosa, Ezequiel Jorge; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes Soledad; Torres, Carolina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Acuña, Dolores; Ceballos, Santiago; Distefano, Ana Julia; Dopazo, Hernán; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Fass, Monica Irinia; Fernandez Do Porto, Darío Augusto; Fernandez, Ailen; Gallego, Fernando; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Gramundi, Ivan; Lusso, Silvina; Marti, Marcelo Adrián; Mazzeo, Melina; Mistchenko, Alicia Susana; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Natale, Mónica; Nardi, Cristina; Ousset, Julia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Pintos, Carolina; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Pianciola, Luis; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Turjanski, Adrián; Valinotto, Laura; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Zaiat, Jonathan; Zubrycki, Jeremias Enrique; Aulicino, Paula; Viegas, Mariana (Elsevier, 2023-02)
      Introduction: Coinfection with two SARS-CoV-2 viruses is still a very understudied phenomenon. Although next generation sequencing methods are very sensitive to detect heterogeneous viral populations in a sample, there is ...
    • Cost-Effective Method to Perform SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance: Detection of Alpha, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta in Argentina 

      Torres, Carolina; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Acuña, Dolores; Alexay, Sofía; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Debat, Humberto Julio; Fay, Fabián; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Giri, Adriana A.; Goya, Stephanie; Konig, Guido Alberto; Lucero, Horacio; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Pianciola, Luis; Sfalcin, Javier A.; Acevedo, Raúl M.; Bengoa Luoni, Sofía Ailin; Bolatti, Elisa M.; Brusés, Bettina; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Casal, Pablo E.; Cerri, Agustina; Chouhy, Diego; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Fernandez, Ailen; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Fernández Do Porto, Darío; Formichelli, Laura; Gismondi, María Inés; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Lorenzini Campos, Melina; Lusso, Silvina; Marquez, Nathalie; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Mussin, Javier; Natale, Mónica; Oria, Griselda; Pisano, María Belén; Posner, Victoria; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Viegas, Mariana (Frontiers Media, 2021-12-10)
      The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with concerning characteristics to public health has attracted the attention of the scientific community and governments both regionally and globally since the end of 2020. The most ...
    • ddRADseq‑mediated detection of genetic variants in sugarcane 

      Molina, Catalina; Aguirre, Natalia Cristina; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Marcucci Poltri, Susana Noemi; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Acevedo, Alberto (Springer, 2022-11-11)
      Sugarcane (Saccharum sp.), a world-wide known feedstock for sugar production, bioethanol, and energy, has an extremely complex genome, being highly polyploid and aneuploid. A double-digestion restriction site-associated ...
    • Genetic diversity of the polyphagous pest Rachiplusia nu across crops and locations in the Argentine Pampas 

      Decker Franco, Cecilia; San Blas, Germán; Balbi, Emilia Ines; Fichetti, Patricia; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Toledo, Andrea Vanesa; Arneodo Larochette, Joel Demian (Wiley, 2023-09-19)
      Rachiplusia nu (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Plusiinae) is a defoliator of soybean (Glycine max L., Fabaceae), sunflower (Helianthus annuus L., Asteraceae), alfalfa (Medicago sativa L., Fabaceae), and horticultural ...
    • Genome-wide diversity in lowland and highland maize landraces from southern South America: population genetics insights to assist conservation 

      Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Gutierrez, Ángela Verónica; Fass, Monica Irinia; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Vera, Pablo; Puebla, Andrea; Defacio, Raquel Alicia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BioRxiv, 2024-02)
      Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) landraces are traditional American crops with high genetic variability that conform a source of original alleles for conventional maize breeding. Northern Argentina, one the southernmost regions ...
    • Main and epistatic QTL analyses for Sclerotinia Head Rot resistance in sunflower 

      Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Nishinakamasu, Veronica; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Di Rienzo, Julio Alejandro; Escande, Alberto; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Cervigni, Gerardo Domingo Lucio; Paniego, Norma Beatriz (PLOS, 2017-12)
      Sclerotinia Head Rot (SHR), a disease caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is one of the most limiting factors in sunflower production. In this study, we identified genomic loci associated with resistance to SHR to support ...
    • MIP 2.0 para el control sostenible del tizón tardío de la papa en Argentina 

      Lucca, Ana Maria Florencia; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Cabarrou, Guido (Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce, INTA, 2020-11)
      Proponemos transitar un camino que ofrece las ultimas herramientas para combatir la enfermedad más importante del cultivo de papa, Phytophthora infestans desde el enfoque de Manejo integrado de plagas.
    • Novel B2 mitogenomes from Continental southern Patagonia's Late Holocene : New insights into the peopling of the Southern Cone = Nuevos mitogenomas B2 del holoceno tardío del sur de la Patagonia Continental : Nuevos hallazgos sobre el poblamiento del Cono Sur 

      Arencibia, Valeria; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Crespo, Cristian; Russo, M. Gabriela; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Lia, Veronica Viviana; García Guraieb, Solana; Goñi, Rafael A.; Avena, Sergio; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Dejean, Cristina (Wiley, 2023-08)
      Objectives: The main aim of this study is to discuss the migratory processes and peopling dynamics that shaped the genetic variability of populations during the settlement of the Southern Cone, through the analysis of ...
    • Omicron Waves in Argentina: Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages BA.1, BA.2 and the Emerging BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/BA.5 

      Torres, Carolina; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Acuña, Dolores; Zambrana Montaño, Romina Micaela; Culasso, Andrés Carlos Alberto; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Ceballos, Santiago; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Debat, Humberto Julio; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Espul, Carlos; Fay, Fabián; Fernández, María Ailén; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Fernandez Muñoz, Juan Manuel; Ferrini, Florencia; Gallego, Fernando; Giri, Adriana Angélica; Cerri, Agustina; Bolatti, Elisa; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Goya, Stephanie; Gramundi, Iván; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Konig, Guido Alberto; Leiva, Viviana; Lucero, Horacio; Marquez, Nathalie; Nardi, Cristina; Ortiz, Belén; Pianciola, Luis; Pintos, Carolina Beatriz; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Rastellini, Carolina Victoria; Rojas, Alejandro Ezequiel; Sfalcin, Javier; Suárez, Ariel; Tittarelli, Estefanía; Toro, Rosana; Villanova, Gabriela Vanina; Ziehm, María Cecilia; Zimmermann, María Carla; Zunino, Sebastián; Proyecto PAIS Working Group; Valinotto, Laura; Viegas, Mariana (MDPI, 2023-01-22)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has lately been driven by Omicron. This work aimed to study the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages during the third and fourth waves of COVID-19 in Argentina. Molecular surveillance was performed ...
    • Optimizing ddRADseq in non-model species: a case study in Eucalyptus dunnii maiden 

      Aguirre, Natalia Cristina; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Zaina, Giusi; Rivas, Juan Gabriel; Acuña, Cintia Vanesa; Villalba, Pamela Victoria; Garcia, Martin Nahuel; Gonzalez, Sergio; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Martinez, Maria Carolina; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Morgante, Michele; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Marcucci Poltri, Susana Noemi (MDPI, 2019-08)
      Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) and its derived protocols, such as double digest RADseq (ddRADseq), offer a flexible and highly cost-effective strategy for efficient plant genome sampling. This has ...
    • Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Africanized Apis mellifera colonies with natural tolerance to Varroa destructor and contrasting defensive behavior 

      Bianchi, Eliana Mariel; Ferrari, Carolina; Aguirre, Natalia Cristina; Filippi, Carla Valeria; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Gennari, Gerardo Pablo; Rodriguez, Graciela Adriana; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Acuña, Cintia Vanesa; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz (Frontiers Media, 2023-08-31)
      Africanized Apis mellifera colonies with promising characteristics for beekeeping have been detected in northern Argentina (subtropical climate) and are considered of interest for breeding programs. Integral evaluation of ...
    • Plastome genomics in South American maize landraces: chloroplast lineages parallel the geographic structuring of nuclear gene pools 

      Lopez, Mariana Gabriela; Fass, Monica Irina; Rivas, Juan Gabriel; Carbonell-Caballero, José; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Defacio, Raquel Alicia; Dopazo, Joaquín; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Lia, Verónica Viviana (Oxford University Press, 2021-03)
      Background and Aims: The number of plastome sequences has increased exponentially during the last decade. However, there is still little knowledge of the levels and distribution of intraspecific variation. The aims of this ...
    • Population structure and genetic diversity characterization of a sunflower association mapping population using SSR and SNP markers 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Aguirre, Natalia Cristina; Rivas, Juan Gabriel; Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Cordes, Diego Darío; Moreno, Maria Valeria; Fusari, Corina Mariana; Alvarez, Daniel; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BMC, 2015-02)
      Background: Argentina has a long tradition of sunflower breeding, and its germplasm is a valuable genetic resource worldwide. However, knowledge of the genetic constitution and variability levels of the Argentinean germplasm ...
    • Rapid and cloning‑free screening of edited alfalfa via next‑generation sequencing 

      Stritzler, Margarita; Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Bottero, Ana Emilia; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Frare, Romina Alejandra; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Tajima, Hiromi; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Blumwald, Eduardo; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia (Springer, 2022-07)
      The identification of full knockout plants is frequently the rate-limiting step of the research and commercial projects searching the complete loss of the function of target genes via the CRISPR/Cas9 system. This problem ...
    • SNP genotyping by heteroduplex analysis 

      Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Fusari, Corina Mariana; Lia, Veronica Viviana; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana (Springer, 2015-10)
      Heteroduplex-based genotyping methods have proven to be technologically effective and economically efficient for low- to medium-range throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) determination. In this chapter we describe ...
    • Sunflower: a potential fructan-bearing crop? 

      Martínez-Noël, Giselle M. A.; Dosio, Guillermo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Insani, Ester Marina; Tognetti, Jorge (2015-10)
      Grain filling in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) mainly depends on actual photosynthesis, being the contribution of stored reserves in stems (sucrose, hexoses, and starch) rather low. Drought periods during grain filling ...
    • The genomic analysis of a wide peach germplasm collection revealed genetic relationships between European landraces and American ferals and landraces 

      Aballay, Maximiliano Martín; Ksouri, Najla; Valentini, Gabriel Hugo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Gogorcena Aoiz, Yolanda; Sanchez, Gerardo (ISHS, 2022-12)
      The advance of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies allows the implementation of high-throughput genotyping at a reasonable cost. This open the possibility to learn more about phylogenetic relationships, genetic ...