Laura Baldo

Laura Baldo

Professora agregada

ORCID: 0000-0003-4528-6674
Researcher ID: R-4921-2018
Àrea de coneixement : Ecologia

Grup de Recerca: IP Host-Microbiota Ecology and Evolution

Informació de contacte
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals
Av. Diagonal, 643 (Margalef building), 5th floor
9340 31375
baldo.laura(a)ub.edu

Formació acadèmica

PhD, Animal Biology . Department of Biology, University of Milano, Italy. . 17/01/2005 . (Doctorat )
BS, Biological Sciences . University of Milano, Italy . 01/10/2000 . (Diplomatura / Llicenciatura / Grau)

Linies de Recerca

Microbial symbiosis and animal diversification
Ecology and evolution of the gut microbiota in islands: the case of Podarcis lilfordi lizards from the Balearic islands
The role of the gut microbiota in the trophic adaptation of cichlid fishes

Projectes

EL PAPEL DE LAS COMUNIDADES MICROBIANAS EN LAS RADIACIONES ADAPTATIVAS DE LOS PECES CICLIDOS . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.CGL2017-82986-C2-2-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . IP: Laura Baldo
El paradigma de la persistencia de poblaciones pequeñas: demografía y genetica de la lagartija Balear . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PRD2018/25 . Govern de les Illes Balears . IP: Giacomo Tavecchia Rigamonti
Podarcis lilfordi's genome. Catalan Biogenome Project . 2020 . Ref.PRO2020-S02-BALDO . IEC . IP: Laura Baldo
Ecological restoration of human-impacted benthic marine ecosystems through active strategies and participatory approach (LIFE ECOREST) . 2021 - 2026 . Ref.LIFE20 NAT/ES/001270 . Unió Europea . IP: Andrea Gori

Publicacions en revistes

Werren, J.H.; Baldo, L.; Clark, M.E. (2008). Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology. Nature Reviews Microbiology . ISSN: 1740-1526
Baldo, L.; Bordenstein, S.R.; Wernegreen., J.J.; Werren, J.H. (2006). Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23, pp. 437 - 449 . ISSN: 0737-4038
Baldo, L.; Riera, J.L.; Tooming-Klunderud, A.; Mar Albà, M.; Salzburger, W. (2015). Gut microbiota dynamics during dietary shift in eastern african cichlid fishes. PLoS One, 10(5), p. e0127462 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 1932-6203
Santos, M.E.; Baldo,L.; Gu, L.; Boileau, N.; Musilova, Z.; Salzburger, W. (2016). Comparative transcriptomics of anal fin pigmentation patterns in cichlid fishes. Bmc Genomics, 17(1), p. 712 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 1471-2164
Laura Baldo; Joan Lluís Pretus; Joan Lluís Riera; Zuzana Musilova; Arnold Roger; Bitja Nyom; Walter Salzburger (2017). Convergence of gut microbiotas in the adaptive radiations of African cichlid fishes. The ISME Journal, 11(9), pp. 1975 - 1987 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.62 . ISSN: 1751-7362
Baldo, Laura; Riera,Joan Lluís; Mitsi, Konstantina; Pretus, Joan Lluís (2018). Processes shaping gut microbiota diversity in allopatric populations of the endemic lizard Podarcis lilfordi from Menorcan islets (Balearic Islands). FEMS Microbiology Ecology . https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix186 . ISSN: 0168-6496
Baldo, Laura; Riera, Joan Lluís; Salzburger, Walter; Barluenga, Marta (2019). Phylogeography and ecological niche shape the cichlid fish gut microbiota in Central American and African lakes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, p. 2372 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 1664-302X
Riera J.L.; Baldo L. (2020). Microbial co-occurrence networks of gut microbiota reveal community conservation and diet-associated shifts in cichlid fishes. Animal Microbiome, 2(1), pp. 1 - 13 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00054-4 . ISSN: 2524-4671
Baldo L; Tavecchia G; Rotger A; Igual JM; Riera JL (2022). Insular holobionts: persistence and seasonal plasticity of the Balearic wall lizard (Podarcis lilfordi) gut microbiota. PeerJ . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14511 . ISSN: 2167-8359
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 . https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsad008 . ISSN: 1340-2838

Activitats rellevants

Reviewer for several high-peer reviewed journals: .BMC Biology ; BMC Evolutionary Biology ; BMC Genomics; BMC Microbiology ; Environmental Microbiology ; European Journal of Entomology ; FEMS Microbiology Letters ; Heredity; Hydrobiologia ; Insect Molecular Biology; ISMEj; Molecular Biology and Evolution; Molecular Ecology ; Molecular Ecology Resources ; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ; PLoS One; Microbiome; North American Journal of Aquaculture: Fungal Ecology (FUNECO); Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) See https://publons.com/researcher/1244626/laura-baldo/ for recent activities

Més Informació: Personal web page (http://www.ub.edu/evok/)