• A rapid and affordable amplicon-based method for next generation genome sequencing of the infectious bursal disease virus 

      Techera, Claudia; Tomás, Gonzalo; Grecco, Sofía; Williman, Joaquín; Hernández, Martín; Olivera, Valeria Soledad; Bandac, Alejandro; Vagnozzi, Ariel Eduardo; Panzera, Yanina; Marandino, Ana; Pérez, Ruben (Elsevier, 2023-12)
      The infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) causes a severe immunosuppressive disorder in young chickens. IBDV evolution resulted in the emergence of strains with divergent genetic, antigenic, and pathogenic characteristics. ...
    • An in silico analysis revealed a novel evolutionary lineage of putative mitoviruses 

      Jacquat, Andrés Gustavo; Ulla, Sofía Belén; Debat, Humberto Julio; Muñoz-Adalia, Emigdio Jordán; Theumer, Martín Gustavo; García Pedrajas, M. Dolores; Dambolena, José Sebastián (Wiley, 2022-09-09)
      Mitoviruses (family Mitoviridae) are small capsid-less RNA viruses that replicate in the mitochondria of fungi and plants. However, to date, the only authentic animal mitovirus infecting an insect was identified as Lutzomyia ...
    • Argentine agricultural policy: economic analysis and impact assessment using the producer support estimate (PSE) approach 

      Lema, Rolando Daniel; Gallacher, Marcos (OECD Publishing, 2015-08-11)
      This paper analyzes agricultural policy in Argentina and calculates the degree of support received by producers and consumers. We present a summary of developments in the agricultural policy environment that have occurred ...
    • Birds and hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), with discussions about hypotheses on tick evolution 

      Guglielmone, Alberto; Nava, Santiago (2017)
      The relationship between birds (Aves) and hard ticks (Ixodidae) was analyzed for the 386 of 721 tick extant species whose larva, nymph and adults are known as well as their natural hosts. A total of 136 (54 Prostriata= ...
    • Coevolución tecnológica e institucional en el agro argentino 

      Genoves, Javier Marcelo (Universidad de Salamanca, 2016-10-01)
      El presente trabajo supone, a partir de las propuestas de Crosby (1986) y Diamond (1998) sobre la coevolución de los componentes biológicos, tecnológicos e institucionales de la expansión europea, una reinterpretación de ...
    • Ecology and evolution of papaya ringspot virus 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Brugo Carivali, María Florencia; Perotto, Maria Cecilia; Luciani, Cecilia Elizabeth; Giolitti, Fabian; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Portal, Orelvis (Elsevier, 2023-04-06)
      Carica papaya L., native to south of Mexico and Central America, is the third most cultivated tropical crop worldwide. Although more than 35 viruses have been reported infecting papaya, only papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) ...
    • Equine influenza virus in Asia: phylogeographic pattern and molecular features reveal circulation of an autochthonous lineage 

      Miño, Samuel; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Guo, Wei; Zhang, Haili; Qi, Ting; Du, Cheng; Zhang, Xiang; Wang, Jingfei; Campos, Rodolfo; Wang, Xiaojun (American Society for Microbiology, 2019-07)
      Equine influenza virus (EIV) causes severe acute respiratory disease in horses. Currently, the strains belonging to the H3N8 subtype are divided into two clades, Florida clade 1 (FC1) and Florida clade 2 (FC2), which emerged ...
    • Exploring the ancestral mechanisms of regulation of horizontally acquired nitrogenases 

      Pascuan, Cecilia Gabriela; Fox, Ana Romina; Soto, Gabriela Cinthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2015-10)
      The vast majority of Pseudomonas species are unable to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Although several studies have demonstrated that some strains belonging to the genus Pseudomonas sensu stricto do have the ability to fix ...
    • La genómica de las micobacterias 

      Viale, Mariana; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Zarraga, Ana Maria; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Romano, Maria Isabel; Bigi, Fabiana (Office International des Epizooties, 2016)
      Las especies Mycobacterium bovis y Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis son los agentes causales de la tuberculosis y la paratuberculosis en animales, respectivamente. Además, ambas micobacterias, pero fundamentalmente ...
    • Illuminating the Plant Rhabdovirus Landscape through Metatranscriptomics Data 

      Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Debat, Humberto Julio (MDPI, 2021-07-05)
      Rhabdoviruses infect a large number of plant species and cause significant crop diseases. They have a negative-sense, single-stranded unsegmented or bisegmented RNA genome. The number of plant-associated rhabdovirid sequences ...
    • Insights into the evolution of the eucalypt CER1 and CER3 genes involved in the synthesis of alkane waxes 

      Hernandez, Mariano Agustín; Vaillancourt, René E.; Potts, Brad M.; Butler, Jakob B. (Springer, 2024-01-15)
      The genes ECERIFERUM1 (CER1) and ECERIFERUM3 (CER3) encode the biosynthesis of alkane waxes, a key component of the plant cuticle. To study the evolution of CER1 and CER3 in a highly diverse group of eucalypts, we performed ...
    • Leptospira species molecular epidemiology in the genomic era 

      Caimi, Karina Cynthia; Repetto, Silvia A.; Varni, Vanina Delia; Ruybal, Paula (Elsevier, 2017-10)
      Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease which global burden is increasing often related to climatic change. Hundreds of whole genome sequences from worldwide isolates of Leptospira spp. are available nowadays, together with ...
    • Manejo de Bosque con Ganadería Integrada (MBGI). 

      Peri, Pablo Luis; Raffaele, Estela (CIEFAP, 2016-06)
      El Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca, en conjunto con la Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable, firmaron en 2015 un acuerdo general sobre principios y lineamientos nacionales para el manejo de bosques ...
    • 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 ...
    • Plant growth-promoting genes can switch to be virulence factors via horizontal gene transfer 

      Stritzler, Margarita; Soto, Gabriela; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2018-10)
      There are increasing evidences that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a critical mechanism of bacterial evolution, while its complete impact remains unclear. A main constraint of HGT effects on microbial evolution seems ...
    • The ammonium channel NOD26 is the evolutionary innovation that drives the emergence, consolidation, and dissemination of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in angiosperms 

      Frare, Romina Alejandra; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Alleva, Karina Edith; Soto, Gabriela Cinthia (Springer, 2018-10)
      Increasing evidence indicates that N-fixing symbiosis has evolved several times in the N-fixing clade of angiosperms and that this evolution is driven by a single evolutionary innovation. However, the genetics of this ...
    • The Piroplasmida Babesia, Cytauxzoon, and Theileria in farm and companion animals : species compilation, molecular phylogeny, and evolutionary insights 

      Schnittger, Leonhard; Ganzinelli, Sabrina Belen; Bhoora, Raksha; Omondi, David; Nijhof, Ard M.; Florin-Christensen, Mónica (Springer, 2022-05)
      The order Piroplasmida, including the genera Babesia, Cytauxzoon, and Theileria is often referred to as piroplasmids and comprises of dixenous hemoprotozoans transmitted by ticks to a mammalian or avian host. Although ...
    • Understanding the intracellular-to-extracellular localization switch of polyhydroxybutyrate polymerase in pseudomonas backgrounds as a microevolutionary process 

      Stritzler, Margarita; Berini, Carolina Andrea; Jozefkowicz, Cintia; Soto, Gabriela Cinthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Elsevier, 2018-11)
      After gene duplication, paralogous genes evolve independently, and consequently, the new proteins encoded by these duplicated genes are exposed to changes in their subcellular location. Although there are increasing evidence ...