My ambition is not filling the world with a massive amount of papers, just adding few good ones that can make a difference.
Key Publications (see Google Scholar for complete list)
- J Gomez-Garrido, Cruz F, Alioto TS, Feiner N, Uller T, Gut M, Sanchez Escudero I, Tavecchia G, Rotger A, Otalora Acevedo KE, Baldo L*. (2023) Chromosome-level genome assembly of Lilford’s wall lizard, Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) from the Balearic Islands (Spain). DNA Research, dsad008, article
- Baldo L*, Tavecchia G, Rotger A, Igual JM, Riera JL (2023). Insular holobionts: persistence and seasonal plasticity of the Balearic wall lizard (Podarcis lilfordi) gut microbiota. PeerJ 11:e14511 article
- Riera JL and Baldo L* (2020). Microbial co-occurrence networks of gut microbiota reveal community conservation and diet-associated shifts in cichlid fishes. Animal Microbiome 2, Article number: 36. article
- Baldo L*, Riera JL, Salzburger W and Barluenga M (2019). Phylogeography and ecological niche shape the cichlid fish gut microbiota in Central American and African lakes. Frontiers in Microbiology article
- Baldo L*, Riera JL, Mitsi K, Pretus JL (2018) Processes shaping gut microbiota diversity in allopatric populations of the endemic lizard Podarcis lilfordi from Menorcan islets (Balearic Islands). FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(2). article
- Baldo L*, Pretus JL, Riera JL, Musilova Z, Bitja Nyom AR, Salzburger W (2017) Convergence of gut microbiotas in the adaptive radiations of African cichlid fishes. ISMEj 11(9):1975-1987. article
- Baldo L*, Riera JL, Tooming-Klunderud A, Alba’ MM, and Salzburger W (2015). Gut microbiota dynamics during dietary shift in Eastern African cichlid fishes. Plos One 10(5):e0127462. article
- Baldo L*, Santos ME and Salzburger W (2011). Comparative transcriptomics of eastern African cichlid fishes shows signs of positive selection and a large contribution of untranslated regions to genetic diversity. Genome Biology and Evolution 3:443-55. article
- Baldo L*, De Queiroz A, Hayashi CHY, Marshall E and Gatesy J (2011). Nuclear-mitochondrial sequences as witnesses of past interbreeding and population diversity in the jumping bristletail Mesomachilis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28:195-210. article
- Baldo L*, Desjardins CA, RussellJA, StahlhutJK and Werren JH (2010). Accelerated Microevolution in an Outer Membrane Protein (OMP) of the Intracellular Bacteria Wolbachia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:48. article
- Raychoudhury R, Baldo L, Oliveira DCSG and Werren JH (2009). Modes of Acquisition of Wolbachia in Nasonia: Horizontal Transfer, Hybrid Introgression and Co-divergence. Evolution 63:165-83. article
- Werren JH*, BaldoL and ClarkME (2008). Wolbachia: Master Manipulators of Invertebrate Biology. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6:741-751. article
- Baldo L* and JH Werren (2007). Revisiting Wolbachia Supergroup Typing Based on WSP: Spurious Lineages and Discordance with MLST. Current Microbiology 55:81-7. article
- Baldo L*, Dunning Hotopp JC, Jolley KA,Bordenstein SR, Biber SA, Choudhury RR, Hayashi CY, Maiden MCJ, Tettelin H and Werren JH (2006). Multilocus Sequence Typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:7098-7110. article
- Baldo L*, Bordenstein SR, Wernegreen JJ and Werren JH (2006). Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23:437-449. article
- Baldo L*, Lo N and Werren JH (2005). Mosaic nature of the Wolbachia surface protein. Journal of Bacteriology 187: 5406-5418. article