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Claude Lemieux

Claude Lemieux

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Genetics

D-Index
57
Citations
9938
World Ranking
3432
National Ranking
134

Overview

Claude Lemieux is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their work primarily engages with molecular biology and ecology, addressing topics such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, and diatoms and algae research.

Their recent publications reflect a diverse range of interests in these scientific domains. Notable papers include:

  • Haslea silbo, A Novel Cosmopolitan Species of Blue Diatoms, 2021, Biology
  • Complete mitogenome of the invasive land flatworm Platydemus manokwari, 2020, Mitochondrial DNA Part B
  • Morphological and molecular identification reveals that waters from an isolated oasis in Tamanrasset (extreme South of Algerian Sahara) are colonized by opportunistic and pollution-tolerant diatom species, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Extreme Enlargement of the Inverted Repeat Region in the Plastid Genomes of Diatoms from the Genus Climaconeis, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Nitzschia anatoliensis sp. nov., a cryptic diatom species from the highly alkaline Van Lake (Turkey), 2021, PeerJ

Lemieux has frequently published in journals such as Mitochondrial DNA Part B, PhytoKeys, Frontiers in Marine Science, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Biology.

Their coauthors include Monique Turmel, Romain Gastineau, Christian Otis, Andrzej Witkowski, and Jean-Luc Mouget, reflecting active collaboration within their research community.

The main research topics covered by Lemieux encompass:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Algal Biology and Biofuel Production
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

The subfields of study within their work include molecular biology, ecology, biomaterials, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as global and planetary change.

Best Publications

  • An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature

    Lang Bf;Burger G;O'Kelly Cj;Cedergren R

  • GENOME STRUCTURE AND GENE CONTENT IN PROTIST MITOCHONDRIAL DNAS

    Michael W. Gray;B. Franz Lang;Robert Cedergren;G. Brian Golding

  • The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Nephroselmis olivacea: Insights into the architecture of ancestral chloroplast genomes

    Monique Turmel;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux

  • The chloroplast ycf3 and ycf4 open reading frames of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are required for the accumulation of the photosystem I complex.

    Eric Boudreau;Yuichiro Takahashi;Claude Lemieux;Monique Turmel

  • Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution

    Claude Lemieux;Christian Otis;Monique Turmel

  • The Chloroplast Genomes of the Green Algae Pyramimonas, Monomastix, and Pycnococcus Shed New light on the Evolutionary History of Prasinophytes and the Origin of the Secondary Chloroplasts of Euglenids

    Monique Turmel;Marie-Christine Gagnon;Charley J. O'Kelly;Christian Otis

  • The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Chara vulgaris Sheds New Light into the Closest Green Algal Relatives of Land Plants

    Monique Turmel;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux

  • The chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences of the charophyte Chaetosphaeridium globosum: Insights into the timing of the events that restructured organelle DNAs within the green algal lineage that led to land plants

    Monique Turmel;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux

  • The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor. Two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algae

    M Turmel;C Lemieux;G Burger;B F Lang

  • The Mitochondrial Genome of Chara vulgaris: Insights into the Mitochondrial DNA Architecture of the Last Common Ancestor of Green Algae and Land Plants

    Monique Turmel;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux

  • Flexible DNA target site recognition by divergent homing endonuclease isoschizomers I-CreI and I-MsoI.

    Brett Chevalier;Monique Turmel;Claude Lemieux;Raymond J. Monnat

  • The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Green Alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) Reveals Unusual Structural Features and New Insights into the Branching Order of Chlorophyte Lineages

    Jean-François Pombert;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux;Monique Turmel

  • Mobile introns: definition of terms and recommended nomenclature.

    Bernard Dujon;Marlene Belfort;Ronald A. Butow;Claude Jacq

  • A clade uniting the green algae Mesostigma viride and Chlorokybus atmophyticus represents the deepest branch of the Streptophyta in chloroplast genome-based phylogenies

    Claude Lemieux;Christian Otis;Monique Turmel

  • The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of Mesostigma viride Identifies This Green Alga as the Earliest Green Plant Divergence and Predicts a Highly Compact Mitochondrial Genome in the Ancestor of All Green Plants

    Monique Turmel;Christian Otis;Claude Lemieux

  • Chloroplast phylogenomic analysis resolves deep-level relationships within the green algal class Trebouxiophyceae

    Claude Lemieux;Christian Otis;Monique Turmel

  • The Chlamydomonas chloroplast clpP gene contains translated large insertion sequences and is essential for cell growth

    Changzhi Huang;Shenglong Wang;Ling Chen;Claude Lemieux

  • The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early diverging ulvophytes

    Jean-François Pombert;Claude Lemieux;Monique Turmel

  • A mutation in the 530 loop of Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA causes resistance to streptomycin

    Pierre Melancon;Claude Lemieux;Léa Brakier-Gingras

  • The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of Scenedesmus obliquus Reflects an Intermediate Stage in the Evolution of the Green Algal Mitochondrial Genome

    Aurora M. Nedelcu;Robert W. Lee;Claude Lemieux;Michael W. Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Monique Turmel
Monique Turmel Université Laval
Réjean Tremblay
Réjean Tremblay Université du Québec à Rimouski
David Sankoff
David Sankoff University of Ottawa
Barry L. Stoddard
Barry L. Stoddard Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Philip S. Perlman
Philip S. Perlman Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kjetill S. Jakobsen
Kjetill S. Jakobsen University of Oslo
Marlene Belfort
Marlene Belfort University at Albany, State University of New York
Bernard Dujon
Bernard Dujon Institut Pasteur
Jean-David Rochaix
Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray Dalhousie University

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