L. Felipe Benites
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2026
Deep-time consistency in proteome elemental composition across cellular and viral life. LF Benites, L Slocombe, SI Walker. In review. (preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19333)
Elemental Stoichiometry as an Ecological Biosignature with Applications to Life Detection. PC Vergeli, C Mathis, JF Malloy, LF Benites, CP Kempes, ET Reichert, H E Hartnett, Sara I Walker. In review (preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19252)
2024
Hot springs viruses at Yellowstone National Park have ancient origins and are adapted to their thermophilic hosts. LF Benites, TG Stephens, J Van Etten, T James, WC Christian, K Barry, IV Grigoriev, TR McDermott, D Bhattacharya. Communications Biology.
2023
Facultative lifestyle drives diversity of coral algal symbionts. D Bhattacharya, SG Timothy, CE Erin, LF Benites, CX Cheong. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Algae obscura: The potential of rare species as model systems. J Van Etten, LF Benites, TG Stephens, HS Yoon, D Bhattacharya. Journal of Phycology.
2022
Endosymbiotic ratchet accelerates divergence after organelle origin. D Bhattacharya, J Van Etten, LF Benites, S Timothy G. Bioessays.
Multiple waves of viral invasion in Symbiodiniaceae algal genomes. LF Benites, TG Stephens, D Bhattacharya. Virus Evolution.
Viruses of Rhodophyta: lack of cultures and genomic resources pose a threat to the growing red algal aquaculture industry. LF Benites, C Alves-Lima. Applied Phycology.
Long-Term Stability of Bacterial Associations in a Microcosm of Ostreococcus tauri (Chlorophyta, Mamiellophyceae). S Vacant, LF Benites, C Salmeron, L Intertaglia, M Norest, A Cadoudal, F Sanchez, C Caceres, P Gwenael. Frontiers in Plant Science.
Insights into agar and secondary metabolite pathways from the genome of the red alga Gracilaria domingensis (Rhodophyta: Gracilariales). NN Gouvea, C Alves-Lima, LF Benites, C Iha, VM Coutinho, VA Tobar, M Amaral, NS Yokoya, EM Soriano, MAS Graminha, J Collén, MC Oliveira, JC Setubal, P Colepicolo. Journal of Phycology
2021
Evolutionary genomics of sex-related chromosomes at the base of the green lineage. LF Benites, F Bucchini, S Sanchez-Brosseau, N Grimsley, K Vandepoele, G Piganeau. Genome Biology and Evolution.
Pervasive transmission of E484K and emergence of VUI-NP13L with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection events by two different lineages in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. RS. Francisco Jr, LF Benites, AP Lamarca, LG de Almeida, AW Hansen, JS Gularte, M Demoliner, AL Gerber, APC Guimarães, AKE Antunes, FH Heldt, L Mallmann, B Hermann, AL Ziulkoski, V Goes, K Schallenberger, M Fillipi, F Pereira, MN Weber, PR de Almeida, JD Fleck, ATR Vasconcelos, FR Spilki. Virus research.
2020
Virus-host coexistence in phytoplankton through the genomic lens. S Yau, M Krasovec, LF Benites, S Rombauts, M Groussin, E Vancaester, JM Aury, E Derelle, Y Desdevises, M-L Escande, N Grimsley, J Guy, H Moreau, S Sanchez-Brosseau, Y Van de Peer, K Vandepoele, S Gourbiere, G Piganeau. Science Advances.
Genome resolved biogeography of Mamiellales. J Leconte, LF Benites, T Vannier, P Wincker, G Piganeau, O Jaillon. Genes.
2019
Single cell ecogenomics reveals mating types of individual cells and ssDNA viral infections in the smallest photosynthetic eukaryotes. LF Benites, N Poulton, K Labadie, ME Sieracki, N Grimsley, G Piganeau. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Assessing the viral content of uncultured picoeukaryotes in the global‐ocean by single cell genomics. YM Castillo, JF Mangot, LF Benites, R Logares, M Kuronishi, H Ogata, O Jaillon, R Massana, M Sebastián, D Vaqué. Molecular Ecology.
2018
Megaviridae-like particles associated with Symbiodinium spp. from the endemic coral Mussismilia braziliensis. LF Benites, AW Silva-Lima, ID da Silva-Neto, PS Salomon. Symbiosis.
