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Anthony Levasseur

Anthony Levasseur

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
15471
World Ranking
15946
National Ranking
554

Anthony Levasseur publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Levasseur sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 251 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Anthony Levasseur D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Levasseur sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anthony Levasseur is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and has a research focus primarily in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Epidemiology, and Plant Science.

Their main topics of research emphasize SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, encompassing clinical research studies and detection and testing. Additional areas include bacteriophages and microbial interactions, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and animal virus infections studies.

Levasseur has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, New Microbes and New Infections, and Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Levasseur include:

  • Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France (2020) in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Outcomes of 3,737 COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin and other regimens in Marseille, France: A retrospective analysis (2020) in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe (2021) in Nature
  • Mink, SARS-CoV-2, and the Human-Animal Interface (2021) in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • First cases of Omicron in France are exhibiting mild symptoms, November 2021-January 2022 (2022) in Infectious Diseases Now

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Levasseur include Didier Raoult, Philippe Colson, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Bernard La Scola, and Jérémy Delerce.

Best Publications

  • Expansion of the enzymatic repertoire of the CAZy database to integrate auxiliary redox enzymes

    Anthony Levasseur;Elodie Drula;Vincent Lombard;Pedro M Coutinho

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics

    Jean-Christophe Lagier;Saber Khelaifia;Maryam Tidjani Alou;Sokhna Ndongo

  • Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics

    Jean-Christophe Lagier;Grégory Dubourg;Matthieu Million;Frédéric Cadoret

  • Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

    Robert Riley;Asaf A. Salamov;Daren W. Brown;Laszlo G. Nagy

  • Genome sequence of the model mushroom Schizophyllum commune

    Robin A Ohm;Jan F de Jong;Luis G Lugones;Andrea Aerts

  • Genome sequence of the model medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum

    Shilin Chen;Jiang Xu;Chang Liu;Yingjie Zhu

  • Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France.

    Matthieu Million;Jean Christophe Lagier;Philippe Gautret;Philippe Colson

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald P. de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

  • The Genomes of the Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum Reveal Adaptation to Different Hosts and Lifestyles But Also Signatures of Common Ancestry

    Pierre J. G. M. De Wit;Ate van der Burgt;Bilal Ökmen;Ioannis Stergiopoulos;Ioannis Stergiopoulos

  • Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere

    Jônatas Abrahão;Jônatas Abrahão;Lorena Silva;Lorena Silva;Ludmila Santos Silva;Ludmila Santos Silva;Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil

  • Outcomes of 3,737 COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin and other regimens in Marseille, France: A retrospective analysis.

    Jean-Christophe Lagier;Matthieu Million;Philippe Gautret;Philippe Colson

  • Genome and transcriptome analyses of the mountain pine beetle-fungal symbiont Grosmannia clavigera, a lodgepole pine pathogen

    Scott DiGuistini;Ye Wang;Nancy Y. Liao;Greg Taylor

  • Insights on the Evolution of Mycoparasitism from the Genome of Clonostachys rosea

    Magnus Karlsson;Mikael Brandström Durling;Jaeyoung Choi;Chatchai Kosawang

  • FOLy: an integrated database for the classification and functional annotation of fungal oxidoreductases potentially involved in the degradation of lignin and related aromatic compounds.

    Anthony Levasseur;François Piumi;Pedro M. Coutinho;Corinne Rancurel

  • Fungal Strategies for Lignin Degradation

    Jean-Claude Sigoillot;Jean-Guy Berrin;Mathieu Bey;Laurence Lesage-Meessen

  • Natural and recombinant fungal laccases for paper pulp bleaching

    C. Sigoillot;E. Record;V. Belle;J. L. Robert

  • Mimivirus: leading the way in the discovery of giant viruses of amoebae

    Philippe Colson;Bernard La Scola;Anthony Levasseur;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

  • Exploring fungal biodiversity: organic acid production by 66 strains of filamentous fungi

    Nadège Liaud;Nadège Liaud;Christian Giniés;Christian Giniés;David Navarro;David Navarro;Nicolas Fabre

  • Additional file 8: of Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Bernard La Scola
Bernard La Scola Aix-Marseille University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Pierre-Edouard Fournier Aix-Marseille University
Eric Record
Eric Record INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Philippe Colson
Philippe Colson Aix-Marseille University
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Christophe Lagier
Jean-Christophe Lagier Aix-Marseille University
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Bernard Davoust
Bernard Davoust Aix-Marseille University

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