Publications

Preprints

Al-Tameemi, Z., and  A. Rodríguez-Verdugo. 2024. Cross-feeding maintains diversification in an experimentally evolved microbial community. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.27.587025

Abdoli, P., C. Vulin, M. Lepiz, A.B. Chase, C. Weihe, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo. 2023. Substrate complexity buffers negative interactions in a synthetic microbial community of leaf litter degraders. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.23.573222

Peer-reviewed articles

16) Rodríguez-Verdugo A. 2021. Evolving interactions and emergent functions in microbial consortia. Early-Career Special Series, mSystems. 6: e00774-21 https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00774-21

14) Rodríguez-Verdugo A. and M. Ackermann. 2021. Rapid evolution destabilizes species interactions in a fluctuating environment. The ISME Journal15:450-460.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00787-9

COLLABORATIVE WORK

18) Batarseh T.N., S.N. Batarseh, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, B. Gaut. 2023. Phenotypic and genotypic adaptation of Escherichia coli to thermal stress is contingent on genetic background. Molecular Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad108

17) Martiny J.B.H., A.C. Martiny, E. Brodie, A.B. Chase, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, K.K. Treseder, S. Allison. 2023. Investigating the eco-evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14209

15) Cruz-Loya M., E. Tekin, T. Manzhu Kang, N. Cardona, N. Lozano-Hunterlman, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, V.M. Savage, P.J. Yeh. 2021. Antibiotics shifts the temperature response curve of Escherichia coli growth. mSystems. 6:e00228-21 https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00228-21

13)  Rodríguez-Verdugo A., N. Lozano-Huntelman, M. Cruz-Loya, V. Savage and P. Yeh. 2020. Compounding effects of climate warming and antibiotic resistance. iScience. 23, 24 April 2020, 101024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101024

PREVIOUS PUBLICATION BY ALEJANDRA RODRIGUEZ-VERDUGO

12)  Rodríguez-Verdugo A., C. Vulin and M. Ackermann. 2019. The rate of environmental fluctuations shapes ecological dynamics in a two-species microbial system. Ecology Letters. 22:838-846 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13241

11)  Csillery K., A.Rodríguez-Verdugo, C. Rellstab, and F. Guillaume. 2018. Detecting the genomic signal of polygenic adaptation and the role of epistasis in evolution. Molecular Ecology. 27:606-612 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14499

10)  A. González-González,S.M. Hug,A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, J.S. Patel and B.S. Gaut. 2017. Adaptive mutations in RNA polymerase and the transcriptional terminator Rho have similar effects on Escherichia coligene expression. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(11):2839-2855 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx216

9)   Rodríguez-Verdugo, A., J. Buckley, and J. Stapley. 2017. The genomic basis of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Molecular Ecology.26:1456-1464 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14045

8)   Rodríguez-Verdugo A., O. Tenaillon, and B.S. Gaut. 2016. First-step mutations during adaptation restore the expression of hundreds of genes.Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(1):25-39 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv228

7)   Rodríguez-Verdugo A., D. Carrillo-Cisneros, A. Gonzalez-Gonzalez, B. S. Gaut, and A. F. Bennett. 2014. Different trade-offs result from alternate genetic adaptations to a common environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Stated of America.111: 12121-12126 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1406886111

6)   Achaz G., A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, B.S. Gaut, and O. Tenaillon. 2014. The reproducibility of adaptation in the light of experimental evolution with whole genome sequencing. In: Landy C. R. and N. Aubin-Horth, editors. Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes. Netherlands: Springer. p211-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7347-9_11

5)   Rodríguez-Verdugo A., B.S. Gaut, and O. Tenaillon. 2013. Evolution of Escherichia colirifampicin resistance in an antibiotic-free environment during thermal stress. BMC Evolutionary Biology.13:50. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-50

4)   Tenaillon O., A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, R.L. Gaut, P. McDonald, A.F. Bennett, A.D. Long, and B.S. Gaut. 2012. The molecular diversity of adaptive convergence. Science.335: 457-461 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1212986

3)   Rodríguez-Verdugo A., V. Souza, L.E. Eguiarte, and A.E. Escalante. 2012. Diversity across seasons of culturable Pseudomonasfrom a desiccation lagoon in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. International Journal of Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/201389

2)   Cerritos R., L.E. Eguiarte, M. Avitia, J. Siefert, M. Travisano, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, and V. Souza. 2011. Diversity of culturable thermo-resistant aquatic bacteria along an environmental gradient in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 99: 303-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-010-9490-9

1)   Escalante A.E., J. Caballero-Mellado, L. Martínez-Aguila, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, A. González-González, J. Toribio-Jiménez, and V. Souza. 2009. Pseudomonas cuatrocienegasensissp. nov., isolated from an evaporating lagoon in the Cuatro Ciénegas valley in Coahuila, México. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59: 1416-1420 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.006189-0