• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Unveiling the genetic basis of Sclerotinia head rot resistance in sunflower 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Di Rienzo, Julio Alejandro; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Alvarez, Daniel; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Escande, Alberto; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BMC, 2020-07)
      Background: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a necrotrophic fungus that causes Sclerotinia head rot (SHR) in sunflower, with epidemics leading to severe yield losses. In this work, we present an association mapping (AM) approach ...