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D-Index
65
Citations
21062
World Ranking
1746
National Ranking
213

David Bass publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Bass sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 164 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

David Bass D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Bass sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

David Bass is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and has produced extensive research primarily within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work has a significant focus on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Plant Science, and Parasitology.

The scientist's research topics include aquaculture disease management and microbiota, protist diversity and phylogeny, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, parasite biology and host interactions, parasitic infections and diagnostics, microbial community ecology and physiology, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

David Bass has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

The following recent papers highlight their contributions across different domains and years:

  • Understanding the role of the shrimp gut microbiome in health and disease, 2020, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems, 2020, Environment International
  • Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens, 2020, Nature Food
  • Probiotics and competitive exclusion of pathogens in shrimp aquaculture, 2020, Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Microsporidia: a new taxonomic, evolutionary, and ecological synthesis, 2022, Trends in Parasitology

Frequent collaborators of David Bass include:

  • Grant D. Stentiford
  • Georgia M. Ward
  • Ronny van Aerle
  • Kelly S. Bateman
  • Stuart Ross

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • The revised classification of eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;Sina M. Adl;Alastair G. B. Simpson;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukeš

  • Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

    Thorsten Stoeck;David Bass;Markus Nebel;Richard Christen

  • Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;David Bass;David Bass;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukes;Julius Lukes

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

    Meredith D. M. Jones;Meredith D. M. Jones;Irene Forn;Catarina Gadelha;Martin J. Egan;Martin J. Egan

  • Marine Fungi: Their Ecology and Molecular Diversity

    Thomas A. Richards;Meredith D. M. Jones;Guy Leonard;David Bass

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists.

    Sina M. Adl;Brian S. Leander;Alastair G. B. Simpson;John M. Archibald

  • The Pathobiome in Animal and Plant Diseases

    David Bass;David Bass;David Bass;Grant D. Stentiford;Grant D. Stentiford;Han Ching Wang;Britt Koskella

  • Understanding the role of the shrimp gut microbiome in health and disease.

    Corey C. Holt;David Bass;Grant D. Stentiford;Mark van der Giezen;Mark van der Giezen

  • New Paradigms to Help Solve the Global Aquaculture Disease Crisis.

    Grant D. Stentiford;Kallaya Sritunyalucksana;Timothy W. Flegel;Bryony A. P. Williams

  • Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

    Frédéric Mahé;Colomban de Vargas;David Bass;Lucas Czech

  • Yeast forms dominate fungal diversity in the deep oceans

    David Bass;Alexis Howe;Nick Brown;Hannah Barton

  • Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa).

    David Bass;Thomas Cavalier-Smith

  • Phylogeny of novel naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised.

    David Bass;Ema E.-Y. Chao;Sergey Nikolaev;Akinori Yabuki

  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

    David Singer;Christophe V.W. Seppey;Guillaume Lentendu;Micah Dunthorn

  • Diverse Applications of Environmental DNA Methods in Parasitology.

    David Bass;David Bass;Grant D. Stentiford;D.T.J. Littlewood;Hanna Hartikainen

  • Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry.

    Kelly Thornber;David Verner-Jeffreys;David Verner-Jeffreys;Steve Hinchliffe;Muhammad Meezanur Rahman

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Grant D. Stentiford
Grant D. Stentiford Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Thomas Cavalier-Smith University of Oxford
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Enrique Lara
Enrique Lara Spanish National Research Council
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel

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