Heroen Verbruggen

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

Babak Shaban, Mar Quiroga, Robert Turnbull, Edoardo Tescari, Kim-Anh Lê Cao, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Open Source Software

MetaGenePipe (MGP) is an efficient, flexible, portable, and scalable metagenomics pipeline that uses performant bioinformatics sof..

Unravelling microalgal-bacterial interactions in aquatic ecosystems through 16S rRNA gene-based co-occurrence networks.

BLD Uthpala Pushpakumara, Kshitij Tandon, Anusuya Willis, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2023  |  Sci Rep

Interactions between microalgae and bacteria can directly influence the global biogeochemical cycles but the majority of such inte..

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

BABAK SHABAN, Maria del Mar Quiroga, Robert Turnbull, EDOARDO TESCARI, KIM-ANH LE CAO, HEROEN VERBRUGGEN

Software / Code  |  2023

MetaGenePipe (MGP) is an efficient, flexible, portable, and scalable metagenomics pipeline that uses performant bioinformatics sof..

Every refuge has its price: Ostreobium as a model for understanding how algae can live in rock and stay in business.

Kshitij Tandon, Marisa M Pasella, Cintia Iha, Francesco Ricci, Juntong Hu, Charles J O'Kelly, Mónica Medina, Michael Kühl, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2023  |  Semin Cell Dev Biol

Ostreobium is a siphonous green alga in the Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta) that burrows into calcium carbonate (CaCO3) substrates. In ..

Phylogenomic analysis of pseudocryptic diversity reveals the new genus Deltalsia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta)

Pilar Diaz-Tapia, Ivan Rodriguez-Bujan, Christine A Maggs, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2023  |  JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Molecular analyses, in combination with morphological studies, provide invaluable tools for delineating red algal taxa. However, m..

Genomic view of the diversity and functional role of archaea and bacteria in the skeleton of the reef-building corals Porites lutea and Isopora palifera.

Kshitij Tandon, Francesco Ricci, Joana Costa, Mónica Medina, Michael Kühl, Linda L Blackall, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Gigascience

At present, our knowledge on the compartmentalization of coral holobiont microbiomes is highly skewed toward the millimeter-thin c..

Structure and formation of the perforated theca defining the Pelagophyceae (Heterokonta), and three new genera that substantiate the diverse nature of the class

Richard Wetherbee, Trevor T Bringloe, Allison van de Meene, Robert A Andersen, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

The pelagophytes, a morphologically diverse class of marine heterokont algae, have been historically united only by DNA sequences...

Whole genome population structure of North Atlantic kelp confirms high-latitude glacial refugia

Trevor T Bringloe, Antoine Fort, Masami Inaba, Ronan Sulpice, Cliodhna Ni Ghriofa, Agnes Mols-Mortensen, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Christophe Vieira, Hiroshi Kawai, Takeaki Hanyuda, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Birgit Olesen, Samuel Starko, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2022  |  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coastal refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago) have been hypothesized at high latitudes in the North Atlantic..

Ten Ostreobium (Ulvophyceae) strains from Great Barrier Reef corals as a resource for algal endolith biology and genomics

Marisa M Pasella, Ming-Fen Eileen Lee, Vanessa R Marcelino, Anusuya Willis, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2022  |  PHYCOLOGIA

Ostreobium is a genus of siphonous green algae that lives as an endolith in carbonate substrates under extremely limited light con..

Arctic marine forest distribution models showcase potentially severe habitat losses for cryophilic species under climate change

Trevor T Bringloe, David P Wilkinson, Jesica Goldsmit, Amanda M Savoie, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Kathleen A Macgregor, Kimberly L Howland, Christopher W McKindsey, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Arctic is among the fastest-warming areas of the globe. Understanding the impact of climate change on foundational Arctic mari..