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David Moreira is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Moreira's work extensively covers subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, and Paleontology.

The scientist has contributed to a wide range of topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition

Moreira has published several papers with noteworthy examples such as:

  • 'Reductive evolution and unique predatory mode in the CPR bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii', 2021, Nature Communications
  • 'The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited', 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • 'Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria', 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • 'Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota', 2021, Nature Communications
  • 'A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution', 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

The research publication venues frequented by Moreira include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Current Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers throughout their career. The main coauthors include:

  • Purificación López-García
  • Karim Benzerara
  • Luis Javier Galindo
  • Miguel Iniesto
  • Guifré Torruella

Best Publications

  • Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton.

    Purificación López-García;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;David Moreira

  • The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts

    D Moreira;H Le Guyader;H Philippe

  • Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Autochthonous eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal sediment and experimental microcolonizers at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Hervé Philippe;Françoise Gail;David Moreira

  • Origins and Early Evolution of the Mevalonate Pathway of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in the Three Domains of Life

    Jonathan Lombard;David Moreira

  • Symbiosis between methanogenic archaea and δ-proteobacteria as the origin of eukaryotes : The syntrophic hypothesis

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

    Jonathan Lombard;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • The molecular ecology of microbial eukaryotes unveils a hidden world

    David Moreira;Purificación López-Garcı́a

  • Ancestral lipid biosynthesis and early membrane evolution

    Juli Peretó;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids

    Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo;Philippe Deschamps;Purificación López-García;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Early–branching or fast–evolving eukaryotes? An answer based on slowly evolving positions

    H Philippe;P Lopez;H Brinkmann;K Budin

  • Metabolic symbiosis at the origin of eukaryotes

    Purificación López-Garcı́a;David Moreira

  • Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean, a warm bathypelagic habitat.

    Ana-Belen Martín-Cuadrado;Purificación López-García;Juan-Carlos Alba;David Moreira

  • Global Dispersal and Ancient Cryptic Species in the Smallest Marine Eukaryotes

    Jan Šlapeta;Purificación López-García;David Moreira

  • An Early-Branching Microbialite Cyanobacterium Forms Intracellular Carbonates

    Estelle Couradeau;Karim Benzerara;Emmanuelle Gérard;David Moreira

  • Giant viruses, giant chimeras: The multiple evolutionary histories of Mimivirus genes

    David Moreira;Céline Brochier-Armanet

  • Bacterial diversity in hydrothermal sediment and epsilonproteobacterial dominance in experimental microcolonizers at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Sébastien Duperron;Pascal Philippot;Julien Foriel

  • The extent of protist diversity: insights from molecular ecology of freshwater eukaryotes

    Jan Šlapeta;David Moreira;Purificación López-García

  • Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study.

    Charles Bachy;John R Dolan;Purificación López-García;Philippe Deschamps

  • Efficient removal of PCR inhibitors using agarose-embedded DNA preparations

    David Moreira

  • An updated view of kinetoplastid phylogeny using environmental sequences and a closer outgroup: proposal for a new classification of the class Kinetoplastea.

    David Moreira;Purificación López-García;Keith Vickerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Purificación López-García
Purificación López-García University of Paris-Saclay
Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera Miguel Hernandez University
Hervé Philippe
Hervé Philippe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Céline Brochier-Armanet
Céline Brochier-Armanet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stephan Kempe
Stephan Kempe Technical University of Darmstadt
John R. Dolan
John R. Dolan Université Paris Cité
Enrique Lara
Enrique Lara Spanish National Research Council
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Jan Šlapeta
Jan Šlapeta University of Sydney

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