Publications

  • Bianchini G and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. TreeViewer: flexible, modular software to visualise and manipulate phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution – in press
  • Bellas CM, Campbell K, Mundy CJ, Tanter M, Sánchez‐Baracaldo, P. Nitrogen and sulfur metabolisms encoded in prokaryotic communities associated with sea ice algae. ISME Comms doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00337-2 (2023)
  • Druce, E, Grego M, Bolhuis H, Johnes PJ, and Sánchez-Baracaldo. Draft Genome Sequences of Synechococcus sp. strains CCAP1479/9, CCAP1479/10, CCAP1479/13, CCY0621, and CCY9618: Five Freshwater Syn/Pro Clade Picocyanobacteria. J. Genomics 11:26-36. doi: 10.7150/jgen.81013 (2023)
  • Enzingmüller-Bleyl TC, Boden JS, Herrmann AJ, Ebel KW, Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel N, Michelle M. Gehringer MM. On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12515 Geobiology. 00:1–14 (2022).
  • Campbell K, Matero I, Bellas C, Turpin-Jelfs T, Anhaus P, Graeve M, Fripiat F, Tranter M, Landy JC, Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Leu E, C Katlein C, Mundy CJ, Rysgaard S, Tedesco L, Haas C, Nicolaus M. Perspectives on the study of sea ice microbial communities in a changing Arctic. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01658-z Ambio. 51, 318–332 (2022).
  • Naafs BDA, Bianchini G, Monteiro F, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. The occurrence of 2-methylhopanoids in modern bacteria and the geological record. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12465 Geobiology. 20:41–59 (2022).
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P, Bianchini G, Wilson, J and Knoll A.  Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history. Trends Microbiology. doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.05.008 30:143–157 (2022).  
  • Boden J, Konhauser KO, Robbins LJ, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. Timing the Evolution of Cyanobacterial Antioxidants: Superoxide Dismutases. Nature Communications. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.05.008
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P, Bianchini G, Wilson, J and Knoll A.  Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history. Trends Microbiology. (2021). doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.05.008
  • Raven JA and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2021) Gloeobacter and the implications for a freshwater origin of Cyanobacteria. Phycologia. doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.1881729
  • Boden J, Grego M, Bolhuis H, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2021) Draft genome sequences of three filamentous Cyanobacteria isolated from brackish habitats. Journal of Genomics. 9: 20-24. doi: 10.7150/jgen.53678
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo P and Raven JA. (2021) The appearance of eukaryotic microalgae. accepted.
  • Oliver T, Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Larkum AW, Rutherford AW, Cardona T. (2021). Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148400
  • Bianchini G and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2020) sMap: Evolution of Independent, Dependent and Conditioned Discrete Characters in a Bayesian Framework. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 00:1–8. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13540
  • Urrejola C, von Dassow P., van den Engh G., Salas L., Mullineaux, C., Vicuña R., Sánchez-Baracaldo P (2020).  Loss of filamentous multicellularity in Cyanobacteria – the extremophile Gloeocapsopsis sp. UTEX B3054 retained multicellular features at the genomic and behavioral level. Journal of Bacteriology 202:e00514-19 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00514-19
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo P and Cardona T. (2020). On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria. New Phytologist. . 225: 1440–1446 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16249.
  • Schad M, Konhauser KO, Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Kappler A, Bryce C. (2019) How did the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis influence the temporal and spatial development of the microbial iron cycle on ancient Earth? Free Radical Biology and Medicine.  140:154-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.07.014
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Bianchini G, Di Cesare A, Callieri C, and Chrismas NAM.  (2019) Insights into the Evolution of Picocyanobacteria and Phycoerythrin Genes (mpeBA and cpeBA). Front. Microbiol. 10:45. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00045
  • Cardona T, Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Rutherford AW, and, Larkum A. (2019) Early Archean origin of Photosystem II.  Geobiology.  1–24. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12322
  • Chrismas NA, Williamson CJ, Yallop, ML, Anesio AM, and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2018)  Photoecology of the Antarctic cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya sp. BC1307 brought to light via community analysis, comparative genomics and photophysiology. Mol Ecol 27:5279–5293. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14
  • Nash MV, Anesio AM, Barker G, Tranter M, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Nielsen T, Turpin-Jelfs T, Liane G. Benning LG, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2018) Metagenomic insights into diazotrophic communities across Arctic glacier forefields (2018). FEMS Microbiol Ecol. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy114.
  • Di Cesar, A, Cabello Yeves PJ, Chrismas N, Sánchez-Baracaldo P., Salcher MM, and Callieri, C. (2018) Genome analysis of the freshwater planktonic Vulcanococcus limneticus sp. nov. reveals horizontal transfer of nitrogenase operon and alternative pathways of nitrogen utilization. BMC Genomics 19:259. doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4648-3.
  • Chrismas NAM, Anesio AM, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2018) The future of genomics in polar and alpine cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 94. doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy032.
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Bianchini G, Huelsenbeck JP, Raven JA, Pisani D, and Knoll A. (2017) Reply to Nakov et al.: Model choice requires biological insight when studying the ancestral habitat of photosynthetic eukaryotes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1717417114.
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo P, Raven JA, Pisani D, and Knoll A.( 2017) Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited terrestrial and freshwater habitats. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA  doi/10.1073/pnas.1620089114
  • Raven, J.A. Beardall, J., and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. ( 2017) The possible evolution, and future, of CO2 concentrating mechanism. Journal of Experimental Botany.  erx110. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erx110 .
  • Chrismas N, Anesio A, Barker G, and Sánchez-Baracaldo P. (2016) Genomic mechanisms for cold tolerance and production of exopolysaccharides in the Arctic cyanobacterium Phormidesmis priestleyi BMC Genome Biology 17:533. DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-2846-4
  • Cornejo-Castillo F. M., Cabello A. M., Salazar G., Sánchez-Baracaldo P., Lima-Mendez G., Hingamp P., Alberti, A., Sunagawa, S., Bork P,  de Vargas, C., Raes J, Bowler, C., Wincker, P, Zehr, J.,  Gasol, J., Massana, R., Acinas, S.  (2016). Cyanobacterial symbionts diverged in the late Cretaceous to become lineage-specific nitrogen fixation factories in single-celled phytoplankton. Nature Communications, 7:11071, doi: 10.1038/ncomms11071.
  • Schirrmeister, B. E., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., and Wacey, D. (2016). Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian. International Journal of Astrobiology, 15(3), 187-204 doi:10.1017/S1473550415000579
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2015).Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria. Scientific Reports, 5, 17418; doi: 10.1038/srep17418.
  • Chrismas, N. A. M., Anesio, A., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2015). Multiple adaptations to polar and alpine environments within cyanobacteria: a phylogenomic and Bayesian approach.  Microbiol. 6, 1070. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01070.
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. and Thomas, G. (2014). Adaptation and convergent evolution within the Jamesonia-Eriosorus complex in high-elevation biodiverse Andean hotspots. PLoS ONE 9(10): e110618. 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110618.
  • Bombar, D., Heller, P., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Carter, B. J., and Zehr, J. P. (2014). Comparative genomics reveals surprising divergence of two closely related strains of uncultivated UCYN-A cyanobacteria. ISME J 8, 2530–2542. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.167.
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Ridgwell, A., and Raven, J. A. (2014). A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle. Current Biology 24, 652–657. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.041.
  • Raven, J. A., Beardall, J., Larkum, A. W., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2013). Interactions of photosynthesis with genome size and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368(1622).  doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0264
  • Becker, S., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Singh, A. K., and Hayes, P. K. (2012). Spatio-temporal niche partitioning of closely related picocyanobacteria clades and phycocyanin pigment types in Lake Constance (Germany). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 80, 488–500. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01316.x.
  • Blank, C. E., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2010). Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria–a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen. Geobiology 8, 1–23. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00220.x.
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Handley, B. A., and Hayes, P. K. (2008). Picocyanobacterial community structure of freshwater lakes and the Baltic Sea revealed by phylogenetic analyses and clade-specific quantitative PCR. Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 154, 3347–3357. doi:10.1099/mic.0.2008/019836-0.
  • Hayes, P. K., El Semary, N. A., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2007) The taxonomy of cyanobacteria; molecular insights into a difficult problem. In: Unraveling the Algae. Natural History Museum, pp. 93–101. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00966.x
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Hayes, P. K., and Blank, C. E. (2005). Morphological and habitat evolution in the Cyanobacteria using a compartmentalization approach. Geobiology 3, 145–165. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2005.00050.x.
  • Hegarty, M, Jones, J., Wilson, I, Barker, G., Coghill, J., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Abbott, R., Edwards, K., and Hiscock, S. (2005). Development of anonymous cDNA microarrays to study changes to the Senecio floral transcriptome during hybrid speciation. Molecular Ecology 18: 2493–2510. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02608.x
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2004). Phylogenetic relationships of the Subfamily Taenitidoideae, Pteridaceae.  American Fern Journal. 94: 126–142. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1640/0002-8444(2004)094[0126:PROTST]2.0.CO;2
  • Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2004). Phylogenetics and biogeoraphy of the neotropical fern genera Jamesonia and Eriosorus, Pteridaceae.  American Journal of Botany. 91:274–284. doi: 10.3732/ajb.91.2.274
  • Bown, P., Plumb, J., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Hayes, P. K., and Brodie, J. (2003). Sequence heterogeneity of green (Chlorophyta) endophytic algae associated with a population of Chondrus crispus Stackhouse (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta). European Journal of Phycology 38:153–163. doi:10.1080/0967026031000095525
  • Reiser, L., Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., and Hake S. (2000). Knots in the family tree: Evolutionary relationships and functions of knox homeobox genes. Plant Molecular Biology 42:151–166. doi: 1023/A:1006384122567
  • Arens N. C., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (2000). Variation in tree stipe length in association with canopy height: tracking preferred habitat through morphological change. American Fern Journal 90:1–15. doi: 10.2307/1547257
  • Arens N. C., and Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. (1998). Distribution of tree ferns (Cyatheaceae) across the successional mosaic in an Andean cloud forest, Nariño, Colombia. American Fern Journal 88: 60–71. doi: 10.2307/1547225