List of Publications

Below, please, find a list of my publications (only those with impact factor). As you can see, we have been working on extremophiles and many different types of microorganisms.

2021

Gómez, E.J., J.A. Delgado, J.M. González. 2021. Influence of water availability and temperature on estimates of microbial extracellular enzyme activity. PeerJ 9: e10994. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10994.

Santana, M.M., T. Dias, J.M. González, C. Cruz. 2021. Transformation of organic and inorganic sulfur-adding perspectives to new players in soil and rhizosphere. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 160: 108306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108306.

2020

Gómez, E., J.A. Delgado, J.M. González. 2020. Environmental factors affect the response of microbial extracellular enzyme activity in soils when determined as a function of water availability and temperature. Ecology and Evolution 10: 10105-10115. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6672.

Rekadwad, B., J.M. González, C.N. Khobragade. 2020. One plate-double nutrient endospore activation method. Bio-Protocol, Bio-101: e3474. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3474.

Gómez, E., J.A. Delgado, J.M. González. 2020. Persistence of microbial extracellular enzymes in soils under different temperatures and water availabilities. Ecology and Evolution 10: 10167-10176. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6677.

Macías-Benítez, S., A.M. García-Martínez, P. Caballero Jímenez, J.M. González, M. Tejada Moral, J. Parrado. 2020. Rhizospheric organic acids as biostimulants: monitoring feedbacks on soil microorganisms and biochemical properties. Frontiers in Plant Science, section Crop and Product Physiology 11: 633. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00633.

Benammar, L., K. Inan Bektas, T. Menasria, A.O. Beldüz, H.I. Güller, I.K. Bedaida, J.M. González, A. Ayachi. 2020. Diversity and enzymatic potential of thermophilic bacteria associated with terrestrial hot springs in Algeria. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 51: 1987-2007.

González, J.M., E. Puerta-Fernández, M.M. Santana, B. Rekadwad. 2020. On a non-discrete concept of prokaryotic species. Microorganisms 8(11): 1723. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8111723.

2019

Moxley, E., E. Puerta-Fernández, E.J. Gómez, J.M. González. 2019. Influence of the abiotic factors temperature and water content on bacterial 2-chlorophenol biodegradation in soils. Frontiers in Environmental Science 7: 41. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2019.00041.

2018

González, J.M. 2018. Molecular tunnels in enzymes and thermophily. A case study on the relationship to growth temperature. MDPI Microorganisms 6: 109. doi:10.3390/microorganisms6040109.

Diánez, F, F. Marín, M. Santos, F.J. Gea, M.J. Navarro, M. Piñeiro, J.M. González. 2018. Genetic analysis and in vitro enzymatic determination of bacterial community in compost teas from different sources. Compost Science & Utilization. doi: 10.1080/1065657X.2018.1496045.

Rekadwad, B., J.M. González. 2018. Multidisciplinary involvement and potential of thermophiles. Folia Microbiologica 64(3): 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12223-018-0662-8.

2017

Santana, M.M, J.M. González, C. Cruz. 2017. Nitric oxide accumulation: the evolutionary trigger for phytopathogenesis. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01947.

Cuecas, A., W. Kanoksilapatham, J.M. González. 2017. Evidence of horizontal gene transfer by transposase gene analyses in Fervidobacterium species. PLoS One 12(4): e0173961. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173961.

Cardozo, F.A., J.M. González, V.A. Feitosa, A. Pessoa, I.N.G. Rivera. 2017. Bioconversion of α-chitin into N-acetyl-glucosamine using chitinases produced by marine-derived Aeromonas caviae isolates. World Journal Microbiology and Biotechnology 33: 201-211. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-017-2373-8.

Rekadwad, B.N., J.M. González. 2017. Correcting names of bacteria deposited in national microbial repositories: an analysed sequence data necessary for taxonomic re-categorization of misclassified bacteria – one example, genus Lysinibacillus. Data in brief 13: 761-778. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.06.042.

Dominguez, M.T., E. Gutierrez, B.R. Gonzalez-Dominguez, J.M. Avila, C. Ramo, J.M. González, L.V. Garcia. 2017. Impacts of protected colonial birds on soil microbial communities: when protection leads to degradation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 105: 59-70. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.11.007.

2016

Cuecas, A., J. Cruces, J.F. Galisteo-López, X. Peng, J.M. González. 2016. Cellular viscosity in prokaryotes and thermal stability of low-molecular weight biomolecules. Biophysical Journal 111(4): 875-882. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.07.024.

Santana, M.M., J.M. González, M.I. Clara. 2016. Inferring pathways leading to organic-sulfur mineralization in the Bacillales. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 42: 31-45. doi: 10.3109/1040841X.2013.877869.

Kanoksilapatham, W., P. Pasomsup, P. Keawram, A. Cuecas, M.C. Portillo, J.M. González. 2016. Fervidobacterium thailandense sp. nov., a novel extreme thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring in Northern Thailand. International Journal of Systematics and Environmental Microbiology 66: 5023-5027. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001463.

Muñoz, C., F.G. Fermoso, M. Rivas, J.M. González. 2016. Barium enhances extracellular hydrolytic enzyme activity. AIMS Microbiology 2(4): 402-411. doi: 10.3934/microbiol.2016.4.402.

Rekadwad, B., J.M. González, N. Chandrahasya. 2016. Genomic analysis of a marine bacterium: A bioinformatics for comparison, evaluation and interpretation of DNA sequences. BioMed Research International, Microbiology 2016: 7215379. doi: 10.1155/2016/7215379.

Gaspar, H., R. Ferreira, J.M. González, M.I. da Clara, M.M. Santana. 2016. Influence of temperature and copper on Oxalobacteraceae in soil enrichments. Current Microbiology 72: 370-376.

Villahermosa, D., A. Corzo, E. Garcia-Robledo, J.M. González, S. Papaspyrou. 2016. Kinetics of indigenous nitrate reducing sulfide oxidizing activity in microaerophilic wastewater biofilms. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0149096. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149096

2015

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo, M. Piñeiro-Vidal. 2015. Latitude-dependent underestimation of microbial extracellular enzyme activity in soils. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 12: 2427-2434. doi:10.1007/s13762-014-0635-7

Lucena-Padrós, H., J.M. González, B. Caballero-Guerrero, J.L. Ruiz-Barba, A. Maldonado-Barragán. 2015. Vibrio olivae sp. nov., isolated from Spanish-style green olive fermentations. International Journal of Systematics and Environmental Microbiology 65: 1895-1901. It can also be found here.

Reina, M., M.C. Portillo, L. Serrano, E.C.H.E.T. Lucassen, J.G.M. Roelofs, A. Romero, J.M. González. 2015. The interplay of hydrological, chemical and microbial processes in the formation of floating surface iron-rich films in aquatic environments at a circumneutral pH. Limnetica 34: 365-380.

Kanoksilapatham, W., P. Keawram, J.M. González, F. Robb. 2015. Isolation, characterization and survival strategies of Thermotoga sp. strain PD524, a hyperthermophile from a hot spring in Northern Thailand. Extremophiles 19(4): 853-861 doi: 10.1007/s00792-015-0761-2

Ferreira, R., H. Gaspar, J.M. González, M.I. Clara, M.M. Santana. 2015. Copper and temperature modify microbial communities, ammonium and sulfate release in soil. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 178: 953-962. doi: 10.1002/jpln.201500318

Santana, M.M., J.M. González. 2015. High temperature microbial activity in upper soil layers. FEMS Microbiology Letters 362: 1-4. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnv182

Sant’Anna, F.H., A. Slovodkin, T. Sokolova, F.T. Robb, J.M. González. 2015. Genome analysis of three genomes within the thermophilic hydrogenogenic bacterial species Caldanaerobacter subterraneus with a focus on carbon monoxide dehydrogenase evolution and hydrolase diversity. BMC Genomics 16: 757. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1955-9

2014

Lucena-Padrós, H., J.M. González, B. Caballero-Guerrero, J.L. Ruiz-Barba, A. Maldonado-Barragán. 2014. Propionibacterium olivae sp. nov., and Propionibacterium damnosus sp. nov., isolated from spoiled packaged Spanish-style green olives. International Journal of Systematics and Environmental Microbiology 64: 2980-2985. It can also be found here.

Lucena-Padrós, H., J.M. González, B. Caballero-Guerrero, J.L. Ruiz-Barba, A. Maldonado-Barragán. 2014. Enterococcus olivae sp. nov., isolated from Spanish-style green olive fermentation. International Journal of Systematics and Environmental Microbiology 64: 2534-2539. It can also be found here.

Cuecas, A., M.C. Portillo, W. Kanoksilapatham, J.M. González. 2014. Bacterial distribution along a 50ºC temperature gradient reveals a parcelled out hot spring environment. Microbil Ecology 68: 729-739.

González, J.M. 2014. Evaluating putative chimeric sequences from PCR-amplified products. In, K. Nelson et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Metagenomics, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_791-1

Gazulla, M.F., E. Sánchez, J.M. González, M. Orduña. 2014. Comportamiento de tejas de differente color (rojo y paja) frente al deterioro. Bolletin de la Sciedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio 53: 227-234.

2013

Villahermosa, D., A. Corzo, J.M. González, M.C. Portillo, E. Garcia-Robledo, S. Papaspyrou. 2013. Reduction of Net Sulfide Production Rate by Nitrate in Wastewater Bioreactors. Kinetics and Changes in the Microbial Community. Water, Air & Soil Pollution 224: 1738.

Santana, M.M, M.C. Portillo, J.M. González, M.I.E. Clara. 2013. Characterization of new soil thermophilic bacteria potentially involved in soil fertilization. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 176: 47-56.

Sánchez-Porro, C., R. de la Haba, N. Cruz-Hernández, J.M. González, C. Reyes-Guirao, L. Navarro-Sampedro, M. Carballo, A. Ventosa. 2013. Draft Genome of the Marine Gammaproteobacterium Halomonas titanicae. Genome Announcements 1(2): e00083-13.

Rincón, B., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González, R. Borja. 2013. Microbial communities analyses in a two-stage anaerobic digestion process treating two-phase olive mill solid residue. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (in press).

2012

Kanoksilapatham, W., P. Pasomsup, M.C. Portillo, P. Keawram, J.M. González. 2012. Identification and characterization of a freshwater Pyrococcus sp. strain PK 5017 and identification of pfu-like IS elements in Thermococcus sibiricus MM 739. International Journal of Biology 4: 11-22.

Santana, M., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González. 2012. Mutualistic growth of the sulfate-reducer Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough with different carbohydrates. Microbiology 81(6): 663-668.

Santana, M.M., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González, I. Clara. 2012. Characterization of new soil thermophilic bacteria potentially involved in soil fertilization. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (in press).

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo, P. Belda-Ferre, A. Mira. 2012. Amplification by PCR artificially reduces the proportion of the rare biosphere in microbial communities. Plos One 7(1): e29973.

Portillo, M.C., M. Santana, J.M. González. 2012. Presence and potential role of thermophilic bacteria in temperate terrestrial environments. Naturwissenschaften 99: 43-53.

Zimmermann, J., M.C. Portillo, L. Serrano, W. Ludwig, J.M. González. 2012. Acidobacteria in freshwater ponds at Doñana National Park, Spain. Microbial Ecology 63: 844-855.

Sanchez-Moral, S., M.C. Portillo, I. Janices, S. Cuezva, A. Fernandez-Cortes, J.C. Cañaveras, J.M. González. 2012. The role of microorganisms in the formation of calcitic moonmilk deposits and speleothems in Altamira Cave. Geomorphology 139-140: 285-292.

2011

Rincón, B., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González, V. Fernandez-Cegri, M.A. De La Rubia, R. Borja. 2011. Feasibility of sunflower oil cake degradation with three different anaerobic consortia. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A 46: 1412-1416.

Gazulla, M.F., E. Sánchez, J.M. González, M.C. Portillo, M. Orduña. 2011. Relationship between certain ceramic roofing tile characteristics and biodegradation. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 31: 2753-2761.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2011. Moonmilk deposits originate from specific bacterial communities in Altamira Cave (Spain). Microbial Ecology 61: 182-189.

Portillo, M.C., M.F. Gazulla, E. Sánchez, J.M. González. 2011. A procedure to evaluate the resistance to biological colonization as a characteristic for product quality of ceramic roofing tiles. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 31: 351-359.

Portillo, M.C., D. Villahermosa, A. Corzo, J.M. González. 2011. Microbial community fingerprints by differential display denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DD-DGGE). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 351-354.

2010

Sahin, N., J.M. González, T. Iizuka, J.E. Hill. 2010. Characterization of two aerobic ultramicrobacteria isolated from urban soil and description of Oxalicibacterium solurbis sp. nov. FEMS Microbiology Letters 307: 25-29.

Santana, M., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González. 2010. Cloning strategy to obtain recombinant proteins identical to the native forms. Journal of Biotechnology 149: 21-23.

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo. 2010. Spider fibers and the apparent fungal colonization of rock-art caves. Naturwissenschaften 97: 115-116.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2010. Differential effects of distinct bacterial biofilms in a cave environment. Current Microbiology 60: 435-438.

2009

Portillo, M.C., C. Saiz-Jimenez, J.M. González. 2009. Molecular characterization of total and metabolically active bacterial communities of “white colonizations” in Altamira Cave, Spain. Research in Microbiology 160: 41-47.

Portillo, M.C., V. Sririn, W. Kanoksilapatham, J.M. González. 2009. Differential microbial communities in hot spring mats from Western Thailand. Extremophiles 13: 321-331.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2009. Sulfate-reducing bacteria are common members of bacterial communities in Altamira Cave (Spain). Science of the Total Environment 407: 1114-1122.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2009. Members of the Candidate Division OP10 are spread in a variety of environments. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 25:347-353.

Laiz, L., A.Z. Miller, V.Jurado, E. Akatova, S. Sanchez-Moral, J.M. González, A. Dionisio, M.F. Macedo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2009. Isolation of five Rubrobacter strains from biodeteriorated monuments. Naturwissenschaften 96: 71-79.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2009. Fluorescent measurements of DNA, RNA, and proteins to perform comparative analyses of microbial communities from the environment. Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology 17: 398-410.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2009. Comparing bacterial community fingerprints from white colonizations in Altamira Cave (Spain). World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 25: 1347-1352.

Portillo, M.C., E. Porca, S. Cuezva, S. Sanchez-Moral, J.M. González. 2009. Is the availability of different nutrients a critical factor for the impact of bacteria on subterraneous carbon budgets? Naturwissenschaften 96: 1035-1042.

Portillo, M.C., R. Alloza, J.M. González. 2009. Three different cases of biodeterioration involving phototrophic microbial communities in a natural shelter containing prehistoric paintings. Science of the Total Environment 407:4876-4881.

Stomeo, F., M.C. Portillo, J.M. González. 2009. Assessment of bacterial and fungal growth on natural substrates. Consequences for preserving caves with prehistoric paintings. Current Microbiology 59:321-325.

Portillo, M.C., V. Sririn, W. Kanoksilapatham, J.M. González. 2009. Pigment profiles and bacterial communities from Thailand thermal mats. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 96: 559-567.

Sahin, N., M.C. Portillo, Y. Kato, P. Schumann. 2009. Description of Oxalicibacterium horti sp. nov. and Oxalicibacterium faecigallinarum sp. nov., new aerobic, yellow-pigmented, oxalotrophic bacteria. FEMS Microbiological Letters 296: 198-202.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. Gonzalez. 2009. CRISPR-elements in the Thermococcales: evidence of associated horizontal gene transfer in Pyrococcus furiosus. Journal of Applied Genetics 50: 421-430.

2008

Portillo, M.C., M. Reina, L. Serrano, C. Saiz-Jimenez, J.M. González. 2008. Role of specific microbial communities on the bioavailability of iron in the Doñana National Park. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 30: 165-170.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2008. Metabolically active microbial communities of yellow and grey colonizations on the walls of Altamira Cave, Spain. Journal of Applied Microbiology 104: 681-691.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2008. Microbial communities and immigration in volcanic environments of Canary Islands (Spain). Naturwissenschaften 95:307-315.

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2008. Diverse microbial communities and the conservation of prehistoric paintings. Microbe 3: 72-77.

Rincón, B., R. Borja, J.M. González, M.C. Portillo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2008. Influence of organic loading rate and hydraulic retention time on the performance, stability and microbial communities of one-stage anaerobic digestion of two-phase olive mill solid residue. Bioengineering and Biotechnology 40:253-261.

Portillo, M.C., J.M. González. 2008. Statistical differences between molecular fingerprints from microbial communities. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 94: 157-163.

Stomeo, F., M.C. Portillo, L. J.M. González, L. Laiz, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2008. Members of the genus Pseudonocardia represent the major constituent of white colonizations developing in two caves with paleolithic paintings. International Journal of Biodegradation and Bioterioration 62: 483-486.

Jurado, V., P. Boiron, R.M. Kroppenstedt, F. Laurent, A. Couble, L. Laiz, H.-P. Klenk, J.M. González, C. Saiz-Jimenez, D. Mouniée, E. Bergeron, V. Rodríguez-Nava. 2008. Nocardia altamirensis sp. nov., isolated from Altamira Cave, Cantabria, Spain. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58: 2210-2214.

Miller, A.Z., L. Laiz, J.M. González, A. Dionisio, M.F. Macedo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2008. Reproducing stone monument photosynthetic-based colonization under laboratory conditions. Science of the Total Environment 405: 278-285.

2007

Garcia de Lomas, J., A. Corzo, M.C. Portillo, J.M. González, J.A. Andrade, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2007. Effect of nitrate on biogenic sulfide production and microbial community composition in sewage reactors. Water Research 41: 3121-3131.

Groth, I., G.Y.A. Tan, L. Laiz, J.M. González, B. Schütze, J. Wink, M. Goodfellow. 2007. Amycolatopsis nigrescens sp. nov., isolated from the Roman catacomb of St. Callistus. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57: 513-519.

Canganella, F., G. Bianconi, C. Kato, and J.M. González. 2007. Microbial ecology of submerged marine caves and holes characterised by high levels of hydrogen sulphide. Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology 6: 61-70.

Bonazza, A., C. Sabbioni, N. Ghedini, B. Hermosin, V. Jurado, J.M. González, and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2007. Did smoke from the Kuwait oil well fires affect Iranian archaeological heritage? Environmental Science & Technology 41: 2378-2386.

Saiz-Jimenez, C., J.M. Gonzalez. 2007. Aerobiology and cultural heritage: some reflections and future challenges. Aerobiologia 23: 89-90.

González, J. M., F. T. Robb. 2007. Counterselection of prokaryotic ribosomal RNA during reverse transcription using non-random hexameric oligonucleotides. Journal of Microbiological Methods 71: 288-291.

2006

Krausova, V.I., F.T. Robb, and J.M. González. 2006. Biodegradation of dichloromethane in an estuarine environment. Hydrobiologia 599: 77-83.

Groth, I., P. Schumann, B. Schütze, J.M. González, L. Laiz, M.-L. Suihko, E. Stackebrandt. 2006. Myceligenerans crystallogenes sp. nov., isolated from Roman catacombs. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 283-287.

Garcia de Lomas, J., A. Corzo, J.M. Gonzalez, J.A. Andrades, E. Iglesias, M.J. Montero. 2006. Nitrate promotes biological oxidation of sulfide in wastewaters: experiment at plant-scale. Bioengineering and Biotechnology 93: 801-81.

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2006. Metabolically active Crenarchaeota in Altamira Cave. Naturwissenschaften 93: 42-45.

Zimmermann, J., J.M. González, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2006. Epilithic biofilms in Saint Callixtus Catacombs (Rome) harbour a broad spectrum of Acidobacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 89: 203-208.

Sokolova, T., J. Hanel, R.U. Onyenwoke, A.-L. Reysenbach, A. Banta, R. Geyer, J.M. González, W.B. Whitman, J. Wiegel. 2006. Novel chemolithotrophic, thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria Thermolithobacter ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermolithobacter carboxydivorans sp. nov. Extremophiles 11: 145-157.

Carmona, N., L. Laiz, J.M. González, M. García-Heras, M.A. Villegas, and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2006. Biodeterioration of historic stained glasses from the Cartuja de Miraflores (Spain). International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 58: 155-161.

Jurado, V., J.M. González, L. Laiz, and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2006. Aurantimonas altamirensis sp. nov., a novel member of the order Rhizobiales isolated from Altamira Cave. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 2583-2585.

2005

González, J.M., and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. A simple fluorimetric method for the estimation of DNA-DNA relatedness between closely related microorganisms by thermal denaturation temperature. Extremophiles 9: 75-79.

Jurado, V., I, Groth, J. M. González, L. Laiz, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Agromyces salentinus sp. nov. and Agromyces neoliticus sp. nov., two novel species of the genus Agromyces. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 153-157.

González, J.M., J. Zimmermann, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Evaluating putative chimeric sequences from PCR amplified products and other cross-over events. Bioinformatics 21: 333-337.

González, J.M., M.C. Portillo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Multiple displacement amplification as a pre-PCR reaction to process difficult to amplify samples and low copy number sequences from natural environments. Environmental Microbiology 7: 1024-1028.

Kanoksilapatham, W., J.M. González, D.L. Maeder, J. DiRuggiero, and F.T. Robb. 2005. A proposal to rename the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus woesei as Pyrococcus furiosus, sub sp. woesei. Archaea 1: 277-283.

Jurado, V., L. Laiz, J.M. González, M. Hernández-Marine, M. Valens, and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Phyllobacterium catacumbae sp. nov., a member of the order ‘Rhizobiales’ isolated from Roman catacombs. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 1487-1490.

Groth, I., P. Schumann, B. Schütze, J.M. González, L. Laiz, C. Saiz-Jimenez, E. Stackebrandt. 2005. Isoptericola hypogeus sp. nov., isolated from the Roman catacomb Domitilla. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 1715-1719.

Sanchez-Moral, S., L. Luque, S. Cuezva, V. Soler, D. Benavente, L. Laiz, J.M. González and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Deterioration of building materials in Roman Catacombs: The influence of visitors. Science of the Total Environment 349: 260-276.

Jurado, V., I, Groth, J. M. González, L. Laiz, B. Schuetze and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Agromyces italicus, sp. nov., Agromyces humatus, sp. nov., and Agromyces lapidis, sp. nov., isolated from Roman catacombs. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 871-875.

Jurado, V., I. Groth, J.M. González, L. Laiz and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Agromyces subbeticus, sp. nov., a novel species isolated from a cave in Southern Spain. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 1897-1901.

Zimmermann, J., J.M. González, C. Saiz-Jimenez, W. Ludwig. 2005. Detection and phylogenetic relationships of a highly diverse uncultured acidobacterial community on paleolithic paintings in Altamira Cave using 23S rRNA sequence analyses. Geomicrobiology Journal 22: 379-388. Tercero de los 10 artículos más citados de Geomicrobiology Journal 2004-2008.

Cañaveras, J.C., S. Cuezva, S. Sanchez-Moral, J. Lario, L. Laiz, J.M. González, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. On the origin of fiber calcite crystal in moonmilk deposits. Naturwissenschaften 93: 27-32.

González, J.M., and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Application of molecular nucleic acid-based techniques for the study of microbial communities in monuments. International Microbiology 8: 189-194.

Rincón, B., F. Raposo, R. Borja, J.M. González, M.C. Portillo, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2005. Performance and microbial communities of a continuous stirred tank anaerobic reactor treating two-phases olive mill solid wastes at low organic loading rates. Journal of Biotechnology 4: 534-543.

Wu, M., Q. Ren, A.S. Durkin, S.C. Daugherty, L.M. Brinkac, R.J. Dodson, R. Madupu, S.A. Sullivan, J.F. Kolonay, W.C. Nelson, L.J. Tallon, K.M. Jones, W.C. Nierman, J.M. González, F.T. Robb, J.A. Eisen. 2005. Life in hot carbon monoxide: The genome sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901. PLoS Genetics 1: 563-574.

2004

González, J.M., and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2004. Microbial diversity in biodeteriorated monuments as studied by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Journal of Separation Science 27: 174-180.

Ortiz-Martinez, A.., J.M. González, L.I. Evtushenko, V. Jurado, L. Laiz, I. Groth, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2004. Reclassification of Agromyces fucosus subsp. hippuratus as Agromyces hippuratus sp. nov., comb. nov. and emended description of the species Agromyces fucosus. International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 1553-1556.

Shahamat, M., M. Alavi, E.M. Watts, J.M. González, K. Sowers, D. Maeder, and F. Robb. 2004. Development of two PCR-based techniques for detecting helical and coccoid forms of Helicobacter pylori. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42: 3613-3619.

González, J.M., V. Jurado, L. Laiz, C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2004. Pectinatus portalensis nov. sp., a relatively fast-growing, novel Pectinatus species isolated from a wastewater treatment plant. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 86: 241-247.

Sokolova, T.G., J.M. González, N.A. Kostrikina, N.A. Chernyh, T.V. Slepova, E.A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, F.T. Robb. 2004. Thermosinus carboxydivorans, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic carbon monoxide oxidizing hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot spring of Yellowstone National Park. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 2353-2359.

2003

González, J. M., and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2003. Optical thermal cycler for use as a fluorimetric plate reader to estimate DNA concentrations. BioTechniques 34: 710-712.

Christoffersen, K., and J.M. González. 2003. An approach to measure ciliate grazing on living heterotrophic nanoflagellates. Hydrobiologia 491: 159-166.

Krausova, V.I., F.T. Robb, and J.M. González. 2003. Biodegradation of dichloromethane in cultures and natural samples. Journal of Microbiological Methods 54: 419-422.

González, J.M., A. Ortiz-Martinez, M.A. Gonzalez-delValle, L. Laiz, and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2003. An efficient strategy for screening large cloned libraries of amplified 16S rDNA sequences from complex environmental communities. Journal of Microbiological Methods 55: 459-463.

2002

Lee, M., J. M. González, and F. T. Robb. 2002. Extremely thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) from the freshwater archaeon Thermococcus waiotapuensis. Cloning and Comparison with two marine hyperthermophilic GDHs. Extremophiles 6: 151-159.

González, J. M., and C. Saiz-Jimenez. 2002. A fluorimetric method for the estimation of G+C mol% content in microorganisms by thermal denaturation temperature. Environmental Microbiology 4: 770-773.

2001

Sokolova, T. G., J. M. González, N. A. Kostrikina, N. A. Chernyh, T. P. Tourova, C. Kato, E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, and F. T. Robb. 2001. Carboxydobrachium pacificum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, thermophilic, CO-utilizing marine bacterium from Okinawa Trough. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51: 141-149.

2000

González, J. M., and F. T. Robb. 2000. Genetic analysis of the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, cooF and cooS, genes from the bacterium Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans. FEMS Microbiology Letters 191: 243-247.

1999

González, J. M. 1999. Bacterivory rate estimates and fraction of active bacterivores in natural protist assemblages from aquatic systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65: 1463-1469.

González, J. M., D. Sheckells, M. Vareike, D. Kupratkina, K. Borges and F. T. Robb. 1999. Thermococcus waiotapuensis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon from freshwater hot springs in New Zealand. Archives of Microbiology 172: 95-101.

Maeder, D. L., R. Weiss, D. Dunn, J. Cherry, J. M. González, J. DiRuggiero, J. R. Brown, and F. T. Robb. 1999. Divergence mechanisms inferred from the genomic sequences of the hyperthermophilic archaei, Pyrococcus furiosus and Pyrococcus horikoshii. Genetics 152: 1299-1305.

González, J. M., and F. T. Robb. 1999. Plasmid extraction from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi. Molecular Biotechnology 11:221-224.

1998

González, J. M., Y. Masuchi, F. T. Robb, J. W. Ammerman, D. L. Maeder, M. Yanagibayashi, J. Tamaoka and C. Kato. 1998. Pyrococcus horikoshii sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a hydrothermal vent at the Okinawa Trough. Extremophiles 2: 123-130.

González, J. M., J.-P. Torréton, P. Dufour and L. Charpy. 1998. Temporal and spatial dynamics of the pelagic microbial foodweb in an atoll lagoon. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 16:53-64.

1997

Canganella, F., J. M. González, M. Yanagibayashi, C. Kato and K. Horikoshi. 1997. Pressure and temperature effects on growth and viability of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus peptonophilus. Archives of Microbiology 168: 1-7.

1996

González, J. M., C. Kato and K. Horikoshi. 1996. A membrane-bound, sodium dodecyl sulfate-resistant protease from an extremely thermophilic archaebacterium Thermococcus sp. Journal of Marine Biotechnology 4: 159-164.

González, J. M., C. Kato and K. Horikoshi. 1996. Culturability and survival of an extremely thermophile isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Archives of Microbiology 166: 64-67.

González, J. M. 1996. A general purpose program for obtaining Most Probable Number tables. Journal of Microbiological Methods 26: 215-218.

González, J. M. 1996. Efficient size-selective bacterivory by phagotrophic nanoflagellates in aquatic ecosystems. Marine Biology 126: 785-789.

1995

González, J. M. 1995. Modeling enteric bacteria survival in aquatic ecosystems. Hydrobiologia 316: 109-116.

González, J. M., C. Kato and K. Horikoshi. 1995. Thermococcus peptonophilus sp. nov., a fast-growing, extremely thermophilic archaebacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Archives of Microbiology 164: 159-164.

1993

González, J. M., B. F. Sherr and E. B. Sherr. 1993. Differential feeding by marine nanoflagellates on growing vs. starved bacteria, and motile vs. non-motile bacteria. Marine Ecology Progress Series 102: 257-267.

González, J. M., B. F. Sherr and E. B. Sherr. 1993. Digestive enzyme activity as a quantitative measure of protistan grazing: the acid lysozyme assay for bacterivory. Marine Ecology Progress Series 100: 197-206.

1992

González, J. M., J. Iriberri, L. Egea and I. Barcina. 1992. Characterization of culturability, protistan grazing, and death of enteric bacteria in aquatic ecosystems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 58: 998-1004.

González, J. M., and C. A. Suttle. 1992. Grazing by marine phagotrophic nanoflagellates on viruses and virus-sized particles. Ingestion and digestion. Marine Ecology Progress Series 94: 1-10.

1991

Barcina, I., J. M. González, J. Iriberri and L. Egea. 1991. Role of protozoa in the regulation of enteric bacteria populations in sea water. Marine Microbial Food Webs 5: 179-187.

1990

Barcina, I., J. M. González, J. Iriberri and L. Egea. 1990. Survival strategy of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis in illuminated fresh and marine systems. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 68: 189-198.

González, J. M., E. Sherr and B. Sherr. 1990. Size-selective grazing on bacteria by natural assemblages of estuarine flagellates and ciliates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 56: 583-589. Cuarto artículo más citado en Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales según Current Contents 30: 3-5 (1994).

González, J. M., J. Iriberri, L. Egea and I. Barcina. 1990. Differential rates of digestion of bacteria by freshwater and marine phagotrophic protozoa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 56: 1851-1857.

1989

Barcina, I., J. M. González, J. Iriberri and L. Egea. 1989. Effect of visible light on progressive dormancy of E. coli cells during the survival process in natural fresh waters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 55: 246-251.

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