+ Publications

B. Díez*, J. Antón, N. Guixa-Boixereu, C. Pedrós-Alió and F. Rodríguez-Valera. 2000. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of virus assemblages present in a hypersaline environment. International Microbiology. 3:159-164.

B. Díez, C. Pedrós-Alió, and R. Massana*. 2001. Study of genetic diversity of eukaryotic picoplankton in different oceanic regions by small-subunit rRNA gene cloning and sequencing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67:2932-2941.

B. Díez, C. Pedrós-Alió*, T. L. Marsh, and R. Massana. 2001. Application of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) to study the diversity of marine picoeukaryotic assemblages and comparison of DGGE with other molecular techniques. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67:2942-2951.

E. O. Casamayor*, R. Massana, S. Benlloch, L. Øvreås, Beatriz Díez, et al. 2002. Changes in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryal assemblages along a salinity gradient by comparison of genetic fingerprinting methods in a multi-pond solar saltern. Environmental Microbiology. 4(6): 338-348.

R. Massana*, L. Guillou, B. Díez, and C. Pedrós-Alió. 2002. Unveiling the Organisms behind Novel Eukaryotic Ribosomal DNA Sequences from the Ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68:4554-4558.

J. M. Gasol*, E. O. Casamayor, I. Joint, K. Garde, K. Gustavson, S. Benlloch, Beatriz Díez, et al. 2004. Control of heterotrophic prokaryotic abundance and growth rate in hypersaline planktonic environments. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 34: 193–206.

B. Díez, R. Massana, M. Estrada, and C. Pedrós-Alió*. 2004. Distribution of eukaryotic picoplankton assemblages across hydrographic fronts in the Southern Ocean, studied by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Limnology and Oceanography. 49(4):1022–1034.

F. T. Maestre*, N. Martín, Beatriz Díez, R. López-Poma, F. Santos, I. Luque and J. Cortina. 2006. Watering, Fertilization, and Slurry Inoculation Promote Recovery of Biological Crust Function in Degraded Soils. Microbial Ecology. 52: 365-377.

B. Díez*, K. Bauer, and B. Bergman. 2007. Epilithic cyanobacterial communities of a marine tropical beach rock (Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef): diversity and diazotrophy. Applied Environmental Microbiology. 73:3656–3668.

J. Uku, M. Björk, B. Bergman, and B. Díez*. 2007. Characterization and comparison of prokaryotic epiphytes associated with three East African seagrasses. J. of Phycology. 43:768–779.

K. Bauer*, B. Díez, C. Lugomela, S. Seppälä, A. J. Borg, and B. Bergman. 2008. Variability in benthic diazotrophy and cyanobacterial diversity in a tropical intertidal lagoon. FEMS Microbial Ecology. 63(2):205-21.

B. Díez, B. Bergman, R. El-Shehawy*. 2008. Marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria: Out of the blue. Plant Biotechnology. 25:221–225.

R. A. Amer, B. Díez and R. El-Shehawy*. 2009. Diversity of hepatotoxic cyanobacteria in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 11:126-133.

G. Sandh*, R. El-Shehawy, B. Díez and B. Bergman. 2009. Temporal separation of cell division and diazotrophy in the marine diazotrophic cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 295 (2):281-288.

L. Mårtensson*, B. Díez, I. Wartiainen, W. Zheng, R. El- Shehawy and U. Rasmusssen. 2009. Diazotrophic diversity, nifH gene expression and nitrogenase activity in a rice paddy field in Fujian, China. Plant and Soil. 325:207-218.

R. Tavera* and B. Díez. 2009. Diversity dynamics of phototrophic planktonic microbial community on freshwater recreational area of Xochimilco, México. Hydrobiologia.636:353-368.

Domínguez-Escobar J, Beltrán Y, Bergman B, Díez B, Ininbergs K, Souza V, Falcón LI. 2011. Phylogenetic and molecular clock inferences of cyanobacterial strains within Rivulariaceae from distant environments. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 316(2):90-99.

Ribes M*, Jiménez E, Yahel G, López‐Sendino P, Díez B, Massana R, Sharp JH, Coma R. 2012. Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges. Environmental Microbiology. 14(5):1224-1239.

Díez B*, Bergman B, Pedrós-Alió C, Antó M, Snoeijs P. 2012. High cyanobacterial nifH gene diversity in Arctic seawater and sea ice brine. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 4:360-366.

R. Ghai, C. Mella Hernandez, A. Picazo, C. M. Mizuno, K. Ininbergs, B. Díez, et al. 2012. Metagenomes of Mediterranean Coastal Lagoons. Scientific Reports. 2:490. 10.1038/srep00490

R. Mackenzie, C. Pedrós-Alió, B. Díez*. 2013. Bacterial composition of microbial mats in hot springs in NorthernPatagonia: Variations with seasons and temperature. Extremophiles. 17:123-136. 10.1007/s00792-012-0499-z

M. Hamisi*, B. Díez, T. Lyimo, K. Ininbergs, B. Bergman. 2013. Epiphytic cyanobacteria of the seagrass Cymodocea rotundata: diversity, diel nifH expression and nitrogenase activity. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 5:367-376. 10.1111/1758-2229.12031

B. Díez*, L. Van Nieuwerburgh, P. Snoeijs. 2013. Water nutrient stoichiometry modifies the nutritional quality of phytoplankton and somatic growth of crustacean zooplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 489:93–105. 10.3354/meps10438

T. H. DeLuca*, O. Zackrisson, I. Bergman, B. Díez, and B. Bergman. 2013. Diazotrophy in Alluvial Meadows of Subarctic River Systems. PLOS ONE. 8: e77342. 10.1371/journal.pone.0077342.

B. Díez* and K. Ininbergs. Section II: Ecological services rendered by cyanobacteria. Chapter: Ecological Importance of Cyanobacteria. 2014. John Wiley & Sons Inc . New York. ISBN 9781119941279.

M. E. Alcamán, C. Fernández, A. Delgado, B. Bergman, B. Díez*. 2015. The cyanobacterium Mastigocladus covers the nitrogen demand of a terrestrial hot spring microbial mat. ISME Journal. 9: 2290-2303. doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.63

Rodríguez-Marconi S, De la Iglesia R, Díez B, Fonseca CA, Hajdu E, Trefault N. 2015. Characterization of Bacterial, Archaeal and Eukaryote Symbionts from Antarctic Sponges Reveals a High Diversity at a Three-Domain Level and a Particular Signature for This Ecosystem. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138837. 10.1371/journal.pone.0138837.

B. Díez* and K. Ininbergs. Section II: Ecological services rendered by cyanobacteria. Chapter: Ecological Importance of Cyanobacteria. 2014. John Wiley & Sons Inc . New York. ISBN 9781119941279.

M. A. Molina-Montenegro, C. Galleguillos, R. Oses, I. S. Acuña-Rodríguez, P. Lavín, J. Gallardo-Cerda, C. Torres-Díaz, B. Díez, G. E. Pizarro, C Atala. 2016. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and competitive ability deployed under a climate change scenario may promote the invasion of Poa annua in Antarctica. Biological Invasions.1-16. 10.1007/s10530-015-1033-x.

Moreno-Pino,Mario, De la Iglesia, Rodrigo, Valdivia, Nelson, Henríquez, Carlos; Galán, Alex, Díez, Beatriz; Trefault, Nicole. 2016. Variation in coastal Antarctic microbial community composition at sub- mesoscale: spatial distance or environmental filtering? FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 10.1093/femsec/fiw088.

D. Mandakovic, C. Trigo, D. Andrade, B. Riquelme, G. Gómez-Lillo, K. Soto-Liebe, B. Díez, M. Vásquez. 2016. CyDiv, a conserved and novel filamentous Cyanobacteria cell division protein, is involved in septum localization and cell tagging. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00094.

B. Díez*, J.A.A. Nylander, K. Ininbergs, C.L. Dupont, A. E. Allen, S. Yooseph, D. B. Rusch, B. Bergman. 2016. Metagenomic analysis of the Indian Ocean picocyanobacterial community: structure, potential function and evolution. PLOS ONE. 10.1371/journal.pone.0155757.

M. E. Alcamán, J. Alcorta, B. Bergman, M. Vásquez, M. Polz, B. Díez*. 2017. Physiological and gene expression responses to nitrogen regimes and temperatures in Mastigocladus sp. strain CHP1, a predominant thermotolerant cyanobacterium of hot Springs. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 40:102-113. 10.1016/j.syapm.2016.11.007.

M. I. Hamisi*, C. Lugomela, T. J. Lyimo, B. Bergman and B. Díez. 2017. Plankton composition, biomass, phylogeny and toxin genes in Lake Big Momela, Tanzania. African Journal of Aquatic Science. 42:109-121. 10.2989/16085914.2017.1334621.

M. E. Alcamán-Arias, L. Farías, J. Verdugo, T. Alarcón-Schumacher, B. Díez*. 2018. Microbial activity during a coastal summer phytoplankton Bloom on the Western Antarctic Peninsula in late summer. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 365 (10): fny090. 10.1093/femsle/fny090.

J. Alcorta, S. Espinoza, T. Viver, M. E. Alcamán, N. Trefault, R. Rosselló-Móra, B. Díez*. 2018. Temperature modulates Fischerella thermalis ecotypes in Porcelana hot spring. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 44 (6): 531-543. 10.1016/j.syapm.2018.05.006.

B. Fernández-Gómez, B. Díez*, M. Polz, J.I. Arroyo, F.D. Alfaro, et al. 2018. Bacterial community structure in a sympagic habitat expanding with global warming: brackish ice brine at 85-90 ºN. ISME Journal. 13(2):316-333. 10.1038/s41396-018-0268-9

S. Guajardo-Leiva, C. Pedrós-Alió, O. Salgado, F. Pinto, B. Díez*. Active Crossfire Between Cyanobacteria and Cyanophages in Phototrophic Mat Communities Within Hot Springs. Frontiers Microbiology. 2018. Frontiers Microbiology. 9: 2039. 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02039

M.E. Alcamán-Arias, C. Pedrós-Alió, J. Tamames, C. Fernández, D. Pérez-Pantoja, M. Vásquez and B. Díez*. Diurnal changes in active carbon and nitrogen pathways along the temperature gradient in Porcelana hot spring microbial mat. 2018. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9:2353. 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02353.

S. Fuentes, J. I. Arroyo, S. Rodríguez-Marconi, I. Masotti, T. Alarcón-Schumacher, M. F. Polz, N. Trefault, R. de la Iglesia, B. Díez*. 2018. Summer phyto- and bacterioplankton communities during low and high productivity scenarios in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology. 1-11. 10.1007/s00300-018-2411-5.

C. Urrejola, J. Alcorta, L. Salas, M. Vásquez, M. F Polz, R.Vicuña, B. Díez*. 2019. Genomic Mechanisms for Desiccation Tolerance and EPS Biosynthesis in the Atacama’s Cyanobacterium Gloeocapsopsis sp. 1H9. Frontiers in Microbiology, section Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology. 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00950.

T. Alarcón-Schumacher, S. Guajardo-Leiva, J. Antón, B. Díez*. 2019. Elucidating Viral Communities During a Phytoplankton Bloom on the West Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Microbiology.10.3389/fmicb.2019.01014.

L. Uribe-Lorio, L. Brenes, W. Hernández-Ascencio, R. Mora-Amador, G. González, C. Ramírez-Umaña, B. Díez, C. Pedrós-Alió. 2019. The influence of temperature and pH on community composition of microbial mats in hot springs from Costa Rica. MicrobiologyOpen. 00:e893. 10.1002/mbo3.893.

J. Alcorta, P. Vergara, L. A. Antonaru, M. E. Alcamán-Arias, D. J. Nürnberg, B. Díez*. 2019. Fischerella thermalis: a model organism to study thermophilic diazotrophy, photosynthesis and multicellularity in Cyanobacteria. Extremophiles. 23(6):635-647. 10.1007/s00792-019-01125-4.

P. B. Ramírez, S. Fuentes, B. Díez, I. Vargas, C. A. Bonilla. 2020. Climate and labile organic carbon fractions drive specific microbial community patterns under different soil types and land uses. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 141: 107692. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107692.

J. C. Fernández Cadena, P. Ruíz-Fernández, T. E. Fernández-Ronquillo, B. Díez, N. Trefault, S. Andrade, R. de la Iglesia*. 2020. Detection of sentinel bacteria in mangrove sediments contaminated with heavy metals. Marine Pollution Bolletin. 150: 110701. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110701.

C.Galarce, D.Fischer, B.Díez, I.T.Vargas,G. E. Pizarro*. 2020. Dynamics of biocorrosion in copper pipes under actual drinking water conditions. Water. 12(4): 1036. 10.3390/w12041036.

S.Guajardo-Leiva, J.Chnaiderman,,A.Gaggero*, B. Díez*. 2020. Metagenomic insights into the sewage RNA virosphere of a large city. Viruses. 12, 1050. 10.3390/v12091050.

J. Alcorta, T. Alarcón-Schumacher, O. Salgado, B. Díez*. 2020. Taxonomic novelty and distinctive genomic features of hot spring cyanobacteria. Frontiers in Genetics, section Evolutionary and Population Genetics. 10.3389/fgene.2020.568223.

M. Ampuero, S. Valenzuela, F. Valiente-Echeverría, R. Soto Rifo, G. P. Barriga, J. Chnaiderman, C. Rojas, Sergio Guajardo-Leiva, B. Díez and A. Gaggero*. 2020. SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Sewage in Santiago, Chile – Preliminary results. medRxiv preprint. 10.1101/2020.07.02.20145177

J. Alcorta and B. Díez*. La vulnerabilidad de los organismos al cambio climático: rol de la fisiología y la adaptación. Chapter: Cianobacterias en un mundo que se calienta: perspectivas evolutivas y fisiológicas. 2020. Francisco Bozinovic & Lohengrin A. Cavieres. CAPES-IEB. Ediciones UC.

M.E.Alcamán-Arias,S.Fuentes-Alburquenque,P. Vergara-Barros, J. Cifuentes-Anticevic, J. Verdugo, M.Polz, L. Farías, C. Pedrós-Alío, B. Díez*. 2021. Coastal bacterial community response to glacier melting in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Microorganisms. 9: 88. 10.3390/microorganisms9010088.

J. I. Tamayo-Leiva, J. Cifuentes-Anticevic, P. Aparicio Rizzo, J. I. Arroyo, I. Masotti and B. Díez*. Influence of estuarine water on the microbial community structure of Patagonian fjords. 2021. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10.3389/fmars.2021.611981

Andrés Ortíz-Ardila , Beatriz Díez, Crispín Celis, Pavel Jenicek, Rodrigo A Labatut. 2021. Microaerobic conditions in anaerobic sludge promote changes in bacterial composition favouring biodegradation of polymeric siloxanes. Environmental science: Processes and Impacts. 10.1039/D1EM00143D.

Alarcón-Schumacher T, Guajardo-Leiva S, Martinez-Garcia M, Díez B*. 2021. Ecogenomics and adaptation strategies of Southern Ocean viral communities. mSystems 6:e00396-21. 10.1128/mSystems.00396-21.8.

J. Cifuentes-Anticevic, M. E. Alcamán-Arias, T. Alarcón-Schumacher, J. Tamayo-Leiva, C. Pedrós-Alió, L. Farías, B. Díez*. 2021. Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in Antarctic coastal waters. mSphere. 10.1128/mSphere.00525-21.

S. Guajardo-Leiva, F. Santos, O. Salgado, C. Regeard, L. Quillet, B. Díez*. 2021. Unveiling Ecological and Genetic Novelty within Lytic and Lysogenic Viral Communities of Hot Spring Phototrophic Microbial Mats. Microbiology Spectrum. 10.1128/Spectrum.00694-21.

Paula BlázquezSánchez, Felipe Engelberger, Jerónimo CifuentesAnticevic, Christian Sonnendecker, Aransa Griñén, Javiera Reyes, Beatriz Díez, Victoria Guixé, Konstantin Richter, Wolfgang Zimmermann and César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento. 2022. Antarctic polyester hydrolases degrade aliphatic and aromatic polyesters at moderate temperatures. Applied Environmental Microbiology. 88 (1). 10.1128/AEM.01842-21.

JB. Ramond, K. Jordaan, B. Díez, SM. Heinzelmann, DA. Cowan. Microbial biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in arid ecosystems. 2022. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 86(2) e00109-21. 10.1128/mmbr.00109-21.

Arroyo, J.I.; Díez, B.; Kempes, C.P.; West, G.B.; Marquet, P.A. 2022. A general theory for temperature dependence in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (30): e2119872119. 10.1073/pnas.2119872119.

Muñoz-Villagrán, C., Grossolli-Gálvez, J., Acevedo-Arbunic, J., Vaelnzuela, X., Ferrer A., Díez, B. & Levican, G.* 2022. Characterization and genomic analysis of two novel psychrotolerant Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strains from polar and subpolar environments. Front. Microbiol. 10.3389/fmicb.2022.960324

Jordaan K, Stucken K, Díez B*. Chapter 8: C, N and P nutrient cycling in Drylands. In: Microbiology of Hot Deserts. Eds J-B Ramond & DA Cowan. Springer Nature Group. 2022. 161-203. 10.1007/978-3-030-98415-1.

Alcamán-Arias ME, Cifuentes-Anticevic J, Díez B, Testa G, Troncoso M, Bello E and Farías L (2022) Surface Ammonia- Oxidizer Abundance During the Late Summer in the West Antarctic Coastal System. Frontiers Microbiology. 13:821902. 10.3389/fmicb.2022.821902.

Alcamán-Arias, M.E.; Cifuentes-Anticevic, J.; Castillo-Inaipil, W.; Farías, L.; Sanhueza, C.; Fernández-Gómez, B.; Verdugo, J.; Abarzua, L.; Ridley, C.; Tamayo-Leiva, J.; Díez, B.* 2022. Dark diazotrophy during the Late Summer in Surface Waters of Chile Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula. Microorganisms. 10:1140. 10.3390/microorganisms10061140.

Salgado O, Guajardo-Leiva S, Moya-Beltrán A, Barbosa C, Ridley C, Tamayo-Leiva J, Quatrini R, Mojica FJM and Díez B* (2022) Global phylogenomic novelty of the Cas1 gene from hot spring microbial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13:1069452. 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1069452

Vergara-Barros, P.; Alcorta, J.; Casanova-Katny, A.; Nürnberg, D.J.; Díez, B*. 2022. Compensatory Transcriptional Response of Fischerella thermalis to Thermal Damage of the Photosynthetic Electron Transfer Chain. Molecules. 27, 8515. 10.3390/molecules27238515.

S. Ruiz Pereira, B. Díez, J. Cifuentes-Anticevic, S. Leray, F. Fernandoy, C. Marquardt, F. Lambert. 2023. Hydrological connections in a glaciated Andean catchment under permafrost conditions (33°S). Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 45:101311. 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101311.

Sergio Guajardo-Leiva, Katterinne N. Mendez, Claudio Meneses, Beatriz Díez, Eduardo Castro-Nallar*. (2023). A first insight into the microbial and viral communities of Comau Fjord a unique human-impacted ecosystem in Patagonia (42ºS). Microorganisms. 11(4):904. 10.3390/microorganisms11040904.

Molina-Mateo D, Valderrama BP, Zárate RV, Hidalgo S, Tamayo-Leiva J, Soto-González A, Guerra-Ayala S, Arriagada-Vera V, Oliva C, Díez B, Campusano JM. 2023. Kanamycin treatment in the pre-symptomatic stage of a Drosophila PD model prevents the onset of non-motor alterations. Neuropharmacology. 236:109573. 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2023.109573.

Castro-Nallar, E., Berríos-Farías, V., Díez, B., Guajardo-Leiva, S. 2023. Seasonal and Spatially Distributed Viral Metagenomes from Comau Fjord (42°S), Patagonia. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2023, 12(4) e00082-23. 10.1128/mra.00059-23

Konrad, R., Vergara-Barros, P., Alcorta, J., Alcamán-Arias, M.E., Levicán, G., Ridley, C., Díez, B*. 2023. Distribution and Activity of Sulfur-Metabolizing Bacteria along the Temperature Gradient in Phototrophic Mats of the Chilean Hot Spring Porcelana. Microorganisms. 11(7):1803. 10.3390/microorganisms11071803

Blázquez-Sánchez, P., Vargas, J.A., Furtado, A.A., Griñen, A., Leonardo, D.A., Sculaccio, S.A., Pereira, H.D., Sonnendecker, C., Zimmermann, W., Díez, B., Garratt, R.C., Ramírez-Sarmiento, C.A. 2023. Engineering the catalytic activity of an Antarctic PET-degrading enzyme by loop exchange. 2023. Protein Science.32(9) e4757. 10.1002/pro.4757.

Carla Barbosa, Javier Tamayo-Leiva, Jaime Alcorta, Oscar Salgado, Linda Daniele, Diego Morata, Beatríz Díez*. 2023. Effects of hydrogeochemistry on the microbial ecology of terrestrial hot springs. Spectrum. 11 (5). 10.1128/spectrum.00249-23.

Arisan Dilanaz, Moya-Beltrán Ana, Rojas-Villalobos Camila, Issotta Francisco, Castro Matías, Ulloa Ricardo, Chiacchiarini Patricia A., Díez Beatriz , Martín Alberto J. M., Ñancucheo Iván, Giaveno Alejandra, Johnson D. Barrie, Quatrini Raquel. 2024.
Acidithiobacillia class members originating at sites within the Pacific Ring of Fire and other tectonically active locations and description of the novel genus ‘Igneacidithiobacillus’. Frontiers in Microbiology (15). 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1360268

Javier Tamayo-Leiva, Jaime Alcorta, Felipe Sepúlveda, Sebastián Fuentes-Alburquenque, José Ignacio Arroyo, José Eduardo González-Pastor, Beatriz Díez*. 2024. Structure and dispersion of the conjugative mobilome in surface ocean bacterioplankton. ISME Communications. 4 (1), ycae059. 10.1093/ismeco/ycae059. ISSN 2730-6151..

Leonardo R. Castro, Samuel Soto-Mendoza, Luciana Riccialdelli, María L. Presta, Pamela Barrientos, Humberto E. González, Giovanni Daneri, Marcelo Gutiérrez, Paulina Montero, Italo Masotti, Beatriz Díez. 2024. Vertically distinct sources modulate stable isotope signatures and distribution of Mesozooplankton in central Patagonia: The Golfo de Penas – Baker Channel connection and analogies with the Beagle Channel. Journal of Marine Systems. 241:103892, ISSN 0924-7963. 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2023.103892.

Diego Segura, Karen Jordaan, Beatriz Díez*, Javier Tamayo‑Leiva, Sebastian Doetterl, Daniel Wasner, Jerónimo Cifuentes‑Anticevic, Angélica Casanova‑Katny. 2024. Diversity and functionality of soil prokaryotic communities in Antarctic volcanic soils: insights from penguin‑influenced environments. Polar Biology. 47: 945-961. 10.1007/s00300-024-03273-6.

Marianne Buscaglia, José Luis Iriarte, Frederik Schulz*, Beatriz Díez*. 2024. Adaptation strategies of giant viruses to low-temperature marine ecosystems. The ISME Journal. 10.1093/ismejo/wrae162.

Sauma-Sánchez, T., Alcorta, J., Tamayo-Leiva, J., Díez, B., Bezuidenhout, H., Cowan, D.A., Ramond, J. 2024. Functional redundancy buffers the effect of poly-extreme environmental conditions on Southern African dryland soil microbial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiae157. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae157

Guajardo-Leiva, S., Díez, B., Rojas-Fuentes, C., Chnaiderman, J., Castro-Nallar, E., Catril, V., Ampuero, M., Gaggero, A. 2025. From sewage to genomes: Expanding our understanding of the urban and semi-urban wastewater RNA birome. Environmental Research, 276:121509