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Alejandro Lopez-Cortes
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
205 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Reviewer 70

Contributions by subject area

Biotechnology
Ecology
Microbiology
Bioinformatics
Marine Biology
Biogeochemistry
Biological Oceanography

Alejandro Lopez-Cortes

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Alejandro is a research scientist at the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California, México. He has a background in Biology and Microbiology. His research focuses on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of microbial communities that develop in hypersaline and marine environments to understand their origin and evolution on Earth. He leads the laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Biotechnology of CIBNOR.

Biodiversity Biogeochemistry Biotechnology Ecology Microbiology

Work details

Scientist researcher

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
June 1987 - February 2018
Planeación Ambiental y Conservación
Alejandro is a research scientist at the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California, México. He has a background in Biology and Microbiology. His research focuses on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of microbial communities that develop in hypersaline and marine environments to understand their origin and evolution on Earth. He leads the laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Biotechnology of CIBNOR.

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Reviewed 2
May 7, 2018
Screening of polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing bacteria and PhaC-encoding genes in two hypersaline microbial mats from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Carolina A. Martínez-Gutiérrez, Hever Latisnere-Barragán, José Q. García-Maldonado, Alejandro López-Cortés
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4780 PubMed 29761063

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December 14, 2021
The metabolic core of the prokaryotic community from deep-sea sediments of the southern Gulf of Mexico shows different functional signatures between the continental slope and abyssal plain
Mónica Torres-Beltrán, Lluvia Vargas-Gastélum, Dante Magdaleno-Moncayo, Meritxell Riquelme, Juan Carlos Herguera-García, Alejandra Prieto-Davó, Asunción Lago-Lestón
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12474 PubMed 34993013
May 6, 2020
Diversity of cultivable protease-producing bacteria and their extracellular proteases associated to scleractinian corals
Hongfei Su, Zhenlun Xiao, Kefu Yu, Qinyu Huang, Guanghua Wang, Yinghui Wang, Jiayuan Liang, Wen Huang, Xueyong Huang, Fen Wei, Biao Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9055 PubMed 32411529