Chantal Abergel

Chantal Abergel publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chantal Abergel sits on this spectrum.

Chantal Abergel D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chantal Abergel sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus

  Didier Raoult;Stéphane Audic;Catherine Robert;Chantal Abergel

  1231
  Citations

• Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser

  M. Marvin Seibert;Tomas Ekeberg;Filipe R.N.C. Maia;Martin Svenda

  1084
  Citations

• Comparative Genomics of Multidrug Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

  Pierre-Edouard Fournier;David Vallenet;Valérie Barbe;Stéphane Audic

  1058
  Citations

• Pandoraviruses: amoeba viruses with genomes up to 2.5 Mb reaching that of parasitic eukaryotes.

  Nadège Philippe;Nadège Philippe;Matthieu Legendre;Gabriel Doutre;Yohann Couté

  691
  Citations

• Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology

  Matthieu Legendre;Julia Bartoli;Lyubov Shmakova;Sandra Jeudy

  568
  Citations

• Identification of specificity-determining residues in antibodies.

  Eduardo A. Padlan;Chantal Abergel;Jennifer P. Tipper

  489
  Citations

• 3DCoffee: combining protein sequences and structures within multiple sequence alignments.

  Orla O'Sullivan;Karsten Suhre;Chantal Abergel;Desmond G Higgins

  426
  Citations

• Comparative Analysis of Acinetobacters: Three Genomes for Three Lifestyles

  David Vallenet;Patrice Nordmann;Valérie Barbe;Laurent Poirel

  407
  Citations

• Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae

  Defne Arslan;Matthieu Legendre;Virginie Seltzer;Chantal Abergel

  396
  Citations

• Three-dimensional reconstruction of the giant mimivirus particle with an X-ray free-electron laser

  Tomas Ekeberg;Martin Svenda;Chantal Abergel;Filipe R. N. C. Maia;Filipe R. N. C. Maia

  368
  Citations

• In-depth study of Mollivirus sibericum, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infecting Acanthamoeba

  Matthieu Legendre;Audrey Lartigue;Lionel Bertaux;Sandra Jeudy

  329
  Citations

• The rapidly expanding universe of giant viruses: Mimivirus, Pandoravirus, Pithovirus and Mollivirus.

  Chantal Abergel;Matthieu Legendre;Jean-Michel Claverie

  294
  Citations

• Mimivirus and the emerging concept of "giant" virus.

  Jean-Michel Claverie;Hiroyuki Ogata;Stéphane Audic;Chantal Abergel

  243
  Citations

• 3DCoffee@igs: a web server for combining sequences and structures into a multiple sequence alignment

  Olivier Poirot;Karsten Suhre;Chantal Abergel;Eamonn O'Toole

  240
  Citations

• Mimivirus and its Virophage

  Jean-Michel Claverie;Chantal Abergel

  238
  Citations

• Genome of Phaeocystis globosa virus PgV-16T highlights the common ancestry of the largest known DNA viruses infecting eukaryotes

  Sebastien Santini;Sandra Jeudy;Julia Bartoli;Olivier Poirot

  201
  Citations

• mRNA deep sequencing reveals 75 new genes and a complex transcriptional landscape in Mimivirus.

  Matthieu Legendre;Stéphane Audic;Olivier Poirot;Pascal Hingamp

  177
  Citations

• Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics

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  167
  Citations

• Mimivirus Giant Particles Incorporate a Large Fraction of Anonymous and Unique Gene Products

  Patricia Renesto;Chantal Abergel;Philippe Decloquement;Danielle Moinier

  163
  Citations

• Escherichia coli ykfE ORFan Gene Encodes a Potent Inhibitor of C-type Lysozyme

  Vincent Monchois;Chantal Abergel;James Sturgis;Sandra Jeudy

  155
  Citations