A compendium of genetic regulatory effects across pig tissues 

    Teng, Jinyan; Gao, Yahui; Yin, Hongwei; Bai, Zhonghao; Liu, Shuli; Zeng, Haonan; The PigGTEx Consortium; Bai, Lijing; Cai, Zexi; Zhao, Bingru; Li, Xiujin; Xu, Zhiting; Lin, Qing; Pan, Zhangyuan; Yang, Wenjing; Yu, Xiaoshan; Guan, Dailu; Hou, Yali; Keel, Brittney N.; Rohrer, Gary A.; Lindholm-Perry, Amanda K.; Oliver, William T.; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Quintanilla, Raquel (2024-01-04)

    The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) project has been established to develop a public resource of genetic regulatory variants in livestock, which is essential for linking genetic polymorphisms to variation ...

    Bacterial inclusion bodies are industrially exploitable amyloids 

    de Marco, Ario; Ferrer-Miralles, Neus; Garcia-Fruitós, Elena; Mitraki, Anna; Peternel, Spela; Rinas, Ursula; Trujillo-Roldán, Mauricio A; Valdez-Cruz, Norma A; Vázquez, Esther; Villaverde, Antonio (2018-10-24)

    Understanding the structure, functionalities and biology of functional amyloids is an issue of emerging interest. Inclusion bodies, namely protein clusters formed in recombinant bacteria during protein production processes, ...

    Characterization of melanin from Exophiala mesophila with the prospect of potential biotechnological applications 

    Medina-Armijo, Cristy; Yousef, Ibraheem; Berná, Antonio; PUERTA MARTÍNEZ, ANA MARIA; Esteve-Núñez, Abraham; Viñas, Marc; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc Xavier (2024-05-15)

    Introducion: Fungal melanin is an underexplored natural biomaterial of great biotechnological interest in different areas. This study investigated the physical, chemical, electrochemical, and metal-binding properties of ...

    Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and nf-core 

    Langer, Björn E.; Amaral, Andreia; Baudement, Marie-Odile; Bonath, Franziska; Charles, Mathieu; Krishna Chitneedi, Praveen; Clark, Emily L.; Di Tommaso, Paolo; Djebali, Sarah; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis (2025-07-29)

    Standardized analysis pipelines contribute to making data bioinformatics research compliant with the paradigm of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR), and facilitate collaboration. Nextflow ...

    Exophiala atacamensis, sp. nov., and E. crusticola from the Atacama Desert, northern Chile 

    Madrid, Hugo; Gené, Josepa; Quijada, Luis; Cantillo, Taimy; Gacitúa, Rodrigo; Valdés, Jorge; Sánchez, Carolina; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc Xavier; Wijayawardene, Nalin; Silva, Víctor; Godoy, Patricio (2023-02-07)

    In the course of a taxonomic survey on hyphomycetes from the Atacama Desert, four strains of slow-growing, cycloheximide-tolerant dematiaceous fungi were obtained from soil samples. These isolates presented a blastic ...

    Exploring the use of leucine zippers for the generation of a new class of inclusion bodies for pharma and biotechnological applications 

    Roca-Pinilla, Ramon; Fortuna, Sara; Natalello, Antonino; Sánchez-Chardi, Alejandro; Ami, Diletta; Alomar, Oscar; Garcia-Fruitos, Elena (2020-09-04)

    Background Inclusion bodies (IBs) are biologically active protein aggregates forming natural nanoparticles with a high stability and a slow-release behavior. Because of their nature, IBs have been explored to be used as ...

    Genomic architecture of carcass and pork traits and their association with immune capacity 

    Jové-Juncà, T.; Crespo-Piazuelo, D.; González-Rodríguez, O.; Pascual, M.; Hernández-Banqué, C.; Reixach, J.; Quintanilla, R.; Ballester, M. (2023-11-28)

    Carcass and pork traits have traditionally been considered of prime importance in pig breeding programmes. However, the changing conditions in modern farming, coupled with antimicrobial resistance issues, are raising the ...

    Gut eukaryotic communities in pigs: diversity, composition and host genetics contribution 

    Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc; Zingaretti, Laura M.; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Olga; Dalmau, Antoni; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester, Maria (2020-05-07)

    Background The pig gut microbiome harbors thousands of species of archaea, bacteria, viruses and eukaryotes such as protists and fungi. However, since the majority of published studies have been focused on prokaryotes, ...

    Identification of eQTLs associated with lipid metabolism in Longissimus dorsi muscle of pigs with different genetic backgrounds 

    Criado-Mesas, Lourdes; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Castelló, Anna; Fernández, Ana I.; Folch, Josep M. (2020-06-17)

    Intramuscular fat content and its fatty acid composition affect porcine meat quality and its nutritional value. The present work aimed to identify genomic variants regulating the expression in the porcine muscle (Longissimus ...

    Identification of strong candidate genes for backfat and intramuscular fatty acid composition in three crosses based on the Iberian pig 

    Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Criado-Mesas, Lourdes; Revilla, Manuel; Castelló, Anna; Noguera, José L.; Fernández, Ana I.; Ballester, Maria; Folch, Josep M. (2020-08-18)

    Meat quality has an important genetic component and can be modified by the fatty acid (FA) composition and the amount of fat contained in adipose tissue and muscle. The present study aimed to find genomic regions associated ...

    La peculiar respiración de las plantas: ¿Ineficiente o salvaguarda ante el estrés? 

    Fernández del Saz, Néstor; Ribas Carbó, Miquel; Florez-Sarasa, Igor (2025-02)

    La respiración celular es un proceso complejo que otorga vitalidad a los organismos, y que está estrechamente relacionado con el metabolismo y el estrés oxidativo. Las plantas poseen una respiración alternativa que, a pesar ...

    PigBiobank: a valuable resource for understanding genetic and biological mechanisms of diverse complex traits in pigs 

    Zeng, Haonan; Zhang, Wenjing; Lin, Qing; Gao, Yahui; Teng, Jinyan; Xu, Zhiting; Cai, Xiaodian; Zhong, Zhanming; Wu, Jun; Liu, Yuqiang; Diao, Shuqi; Wei, Chen; Gong, Wentao; Pan, Xiangchun; Li, Zedong; Huang, Xiaoyu; Chen, Xifan; Du, Jinshi; The PigGTEx Consortium; Zhao, Fuping; Zhao, Yunxiang; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Amills, Marcel; Clop, Alex; Karlskov-Mortensen, Peter; Fredholm, Merete; Li, Pinghua; Huang, Ruihua; Tang, Guoqing; Li, Mingzhou; Liu, Xiaohong; Chen, Yaosheng; Zhang, Qin; Li, Jiaqi; Yuan, Xiaolong; Ding, Xiangdong; Fang, Lingzhao; Zhang, Zhe (2023-11-13)

    To fully unlock the potential of pigs as both agricultural species for animal-based protein food and biomedical models for human biology and disease, a comprehensive understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms ...

    Removal of metals and emergent contaminants from liquid digestates in constructed wetlands for agricultural reuse 

    Porras-Socias, Pau; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Fernandes, Joana P.; De Menezes, Alexandre B.; Fernández García, Belén; Collins, Gavin; Alves, Maria João; Castro, Ricardo; Gomes, Carlos R.; Almeida, C. Marisa R.; Mucha, Ana Paula (2024-06-06)

    The Metallotolerance and Biosorption of As(V) and Cr(VI) by Black Fungi 

    Medina-Armijo, Cristy; Isola, Daniela; Illa, Josep; Puerta, Anna; Viñas, Marc; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc Xavier (2024-01-05)

    A collection of 34 melanized fungi isolated previously from anthropogenic contaminated sites were assessed for their tolerance to toxic concentrations of As(V) and Cr(VI) anions. Three strains of the species Cyphellophora ...