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Nicolas D Franco-Sierra

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Velasquez-Restrepo S, Corrales Orozco M, Franco-Sierra N, Martinez-Ceron J, Diaz-Nieto J
PeerJ . 2024 Sep; 12:e17887. PMID: 39346050
Background: The Neotropics harbors the largest species richness of the planet; however, even in well-studied groups, there are potentially hundreds of species that lack a formal description, and likewise, many...
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Kirchgeorg S, Chang J, Ip Y, Jucker M, Geckeler C, Luthi M, et al.
Environ Sci Technol . 2024 Sep; 58(37):16410-16420. PMID: 39236253
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a powerful tool for studying biodiversity in forests and tree canopies. However, collecting representative eDNA samples from these high and complex environments remains challenging. Traditional...
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Cardona N, Franco-Sierra N, Correa Alvarez J
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour . 2021 Jan; 3(2):1158-1160. PMID: 33474450
The strain sp. UdeA0106 is an antagonist of nematodes, fungi, and garden symphylans from crops with high economic importance in Colombia (Salazar 2013; Salazar et al. 2014; Cardona et al....
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Laiton-Donato K, Villabona-Arenas C, Usme-Ciro J, Franco-Munoz C, Alvarez-Diaz D, Villabona-Arenas L, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis . 2020 Nov; 26(12):2854-2862. PMID: 33219646
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombia was first diagnosed in a traveler arriving from Italy on February 26, 2020. However, limited data are available on the origins and number of introductions...
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Franco-Munoz C, Alvarez-Diaz D, Laiton-Donato K, Wiesner M, Escandon P, Usme-Ciro J, et al.
Infect Genet Evol . 2020 Sep; 85:104557. PMID: 32950697
SARS-CoV-2 is a new member of the genus Betacoronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus crossed the species barrier and established in the human population taking advantage of the...
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Alvarez-Diaz D, Franco-Munoz C, Laiton-Donato K, Usme-Ciro J, Franco-Sierra N, Florez-Sanchez A, et al.
Infect Genet Evol . 2020 Jun; 84:104390. PMID: 32505692
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a public health problem unprecedented in the recent history of humanity. Different in-house real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) methods for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis and the appearance...
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Franco-Sierra N, Diaz-Nieto J
Ecol Evol . 2020 Apr; 10(7):3544-3560. PMID: 32274008
Molecular information is crucial for species identification when facing challenging morphology-based specimen identifications. The use of DNA barcodes partially solves this problem, but in some cases when PCR is not...
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Franco-Sierra N, Posada L, Santa-Maria G, Romero-Tabarez M, Villegas-Escobar V, Alvarez J
Funct Integr Genomics . 2020 Mar; 20(4):575-589. PMID: 32198678
Bacillus subtilis is a remarkably diverse bacterial species that displays many ecological functions. Given its genomic diversity, the strain Bacillus subtilis EA-CB0575, isolated from the rhizosphere of a banana plant,...
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Ramirez-Rios V, Franco-Sierra N, Correa Alvarez J, Saldamando-Benjumea C, Villanueva-Mejia D
Gene . 2016 Jan; 581(2):107-16. PMID: 26802972
The complete mitogenome of the potato tuber moth Tecia solanivora (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) was sequenced, annotated, characterized and compared with 140 species of the order Lepidoptera. The circular genome is 15,251...