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Gabriel A. B. Marais

Gabriel A. B. Marais

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
40
Citations
5605
World Ranking
19592
National Ranking
86

Overview

Gabriel A. B. Marais is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal and conducts research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Aging.

Their research tackles main topics such as Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Plant Reproductive Biology. Additionally, Gabriel Marais has contributed to areas involving Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Jean-François Lemaître
  • Djivan Prentout
  • Aline Muyle
  • Jos Käfer
  • Cristina Vieira

Their publications often appear in a set of recurring venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Gabriel Marais include:

  • "Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The wild grape genome sequence provides insights into the transition from dioecy to hermaphroditism during grape domestication," 2020, Genome Biology
  • "An efficient RNA-seq-based segregation analysis identifies the sex chromosomes of Cannabis sativa," 2020, Genome Research
  • "Dioecy Is Associated with High Genetic Diversity and Adaptation Rates in the Plant Genus Silene," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Mindfulness-Based Programs Improve Psychological Flexibility, Mental Health, Well-Being, and Time Management in Academics," 2020, European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education

Best Publications

  • Steps in the evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes

    D. Charlesworth;B. Charlesworth;Gabriel Marais;Gabriel Marais

  • Biased gene conversion: implications for genome and sex evolution

    Gabriel Marais

  • Does recombination improve selection on codon usage? Lessons from nematode and fly complete genomes.

    Gabriel Marais;Dominique Mouchiroud;Laurent Duret

  • A Gradual Process of Recombination Restriction in the Evolutionary History of the Sex Chromosomes in Dioecious Plants

    Michael Nicolas;Gabriel Marais;Vladka Hykelova;Vladka Hykelova;Bohuslav Janousek;Bohuslav Janousek

  • Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

    Ferdinand Marlétaz;Ferdinand Marlétaz;Panos N. Firbas;Ignacio Maeso;Juan J. Tena

  • Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals

    Jean François Lemaître;Victor Ronget;Morgane Tidière;Dominique Allainé

  • Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution.

    G. Bernasconi;J. Antonovics;A. Biere;Deborah Charlesworth

  • Recombination Rate and the Distribution of Transposable Elements in the Drosophila melanogaster Genome

    Carène Rizzon;Gabriel Marais;Manolo Gouy;Christian Biémont

  • Chromosomal redistribution of male-biased genes in mammalian evolution with two bursts of gene gain on the X chromosome.

    Yong E. Zhang;Maria D. Vibranovski;Patrick Landback;Gabriel A. B. Marais

  • Mammalian X chromosome inactivation evolved as a dosage-compensation mechanism for dosage-sensitive genes on the X chromosome.

    Eugénie Pessia;Takashi Makino;Marc Bailly-Bechet;Aoife McLysaght

  • Rapid De Novo Evolution of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Silene latifolia, a Plant with Young Sex Chromosomes

    Aline Muyle;Niklaus Zemp;Clothilde Deschamps;Sylvain Mousset

  • A Haploid System of Sex Determination in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp.

    Sophia Ahmed;Sophia Ahmed;J. Mark Cock;Eugenie Pessia;Remy Luthringer

  • Reductive genome evolution at both ends of the bacterial population size spectrum

    Bérénice Batut;Carole Knibbe;Gabriel Marais;Vincent Daubin

  • On the rarity of dioecy in flowering plants.

    Jos Käfer;Gabriel A. B. Marais;John R. Pannell

  • Evidence for widespread GC-biased gene conversion in eukaryotes.

    Eugénie Pessia;Alexandra Popa;Sylvain Mousset;Clément Rezvoy

  • Synonymous Codon Usage, Accuracy of Translation, and Gene Length in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Gabriel Marais;Laurent Duret

  • Transposons but Not Retrotransposons Are Located Preferentially in Regions of High Recombination Rate in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Laurent Duret;Gabriel Marais;Christian Biémont

  • Structural, functional, and evolutionary analysis of the unusually large stilbene synthase gene family in grapevine.

    Claire Parage;Raquel Tavares;Stéphane Réty;Raymonde Baltenweck-Guyot

  • Intron Size and Exon Evolution in Drosophila

    Gabriel Marais;Pierre Nouvellet;Peter D. Keightley;Brian Charlesworth

  • Evidence for Degeneration of the Y Chromosome in the Dioecious Plant Silene latifolia

    Gabriel A.B. Marais;Michael Nicolas;Roberta Bergero;Pierre Chambrier

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Widmer
Alex Widmer ETH Zurich
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Laurent Duret
Laurent Duret Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Brian Charlesworth
Brian Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Boris Vyskot
Boris Vyskot Czech Academy of Sciences
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean-Marc Aury
Jean-Marc Aury University of Paris-Saclay
Jim Leebens-Mack
Jim Leebens-Mack University of Georgia
Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhard Imperial College London
Yves Van de Peer
Yves Van de Peer Ghent University

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