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Rodrigo Costa
Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico
Publications - 90
Citations - 5600
Rodrigo Costa is an academic researcher from Instituto Superior Técnico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rhizosphere & Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 82 publications receiving 4732 citations. Previous affiliations of Rodrigo Costa include United States Department of Energy & University of Lisbon.
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Survival of Escherichia coli in the environment: fundamental and public health aspects
TL;DR: The data suggest that E. coli can persist, for varying periods of time, in such terrestrial and aquatic habitats as soil, manure and water and its acid tolerance may be expected to confer a fitness asset in the more acidic environments.
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Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome
Torsten Thomas,Lucas Moitinho-Silva,Miguel Lurgi,Johannes R. Björk,Johannes R. Björk,Cole G. Easson,Carmen Astudillo-García,Julie B. Olson,Patrick M. Erwin,Susanna López-Legentil,Heidi M. Luter,Andia Chaves-Fonnegra,Rodrigo Costa,Peter J. Schupp,Laura Steindler,Dirk Erpenbeck,Jack A. Gilbert,Jack A. Gilbert,Rob Knight,Gail Ackermann,Jose V. Lopez,Michael W. Taylor,Robert W. Thacker,José M. Montoya,Ute Hentschel,Nicole S. Webster +25 more
TL;DR: It is shown that sponges are a reservoir of exceptional microbial diversity and major contributors to the total microbial diversity of the world's oceans, and a model of independent assembly and evolution in symbiont communities across the entire host phylum is supported.
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Effects of site and plant species on rhizosphere community structure as revealed by molecular analysis of microbial guilds
TL;DR: Bacterial fingerprints of soil DNA revealed a high number of equally abundant faint bands, while rhizosphere fingerprints displayed a higher proportion of dominant bands and reduced richness, suggesting selection of bacterial populations in this environment.
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Bacterial diversity of the rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays) grown in tropical soil studied by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis
Newton C. M. Gomes,Holger Heuer,J. Schönfeld,Rodrigo Costa,Leda C. Mendonça-Hagler,Kornelia Smalla +5 more
TL;DR: The rhizosphere fingerprints showed a reduced complexity for young plants with up to five dominating bands while for mature plants patterns similar to those of soil were observed, indicating that the dominant population found at all plant growth stages can be assigned to Arthrobacter populations.
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Dynamics of Fungal Communities in Bulk and Maize Rhizosphere Soil in the Tropics
Newton C. M. Gomes,Olajire Fagbola,Rodrigo Costa,Norma Gouvêa Rumjanek,Arno Buchner,Leda Mendona-Hagler,Kornelia Smalla +6 more
TL;DR: The cloning and sequencing approach provided information on the phylogeny of dominant amplifiable fungal populations and allowed us to determine a number of fungal phylotypes that contribute to each of the dominant DGGE bands.