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Overview

Didier Debroas is a researcher affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Parasitology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics focus extensively on microbial community ecology and physiology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and protist diversity and phylogeny. Additional research interests include bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, parasitic infections and diagnostics, as well as insect and pesticide research.

Debroas has authored several notable papers, including:

  • Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems (2020), published in Environment International
  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations (2021), published in Quaternary
  • Honeybee gut microbiota dysbiosis in pesticide/parasite co-exposures is mainly induced by Nosema ceranae (2020), published in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
  • Assessing the response of micro-eukaryotic diversity to the Great Acceleration using lake sedimentary DNA (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • A phylogenetic framework to investigate the microsporidian communities through metabarcoding and its application to lake ecosystems (2021), published in Environmental Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Anne Moné, Claire Hennequin, Arthur Monjot, Cécile Lepère, and Geneviève Bricheux.

Key publication venues where Debroas often contributes comprise Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environment International, and Quaternary.

Best Publications

  • Plastics in the North Atlantic garbage patch: A boat-microbe for hitchhikers and plastic degraders

    Didier Debroas;Anne Mone;Alexandra Ter Halle

  • A strong link between marine microbial community composition and function challenges the idea of functional redundancy.

    Pierre E. Galand;Olivier Pereira;Corentin Hochart;Jean Christophe Auguet

  • Structure of the rare archaeal biosphere and seasonal dynamics of active ecotypes in surface coastal waters

    Mylène Hugoni;Mylène Hugoni;Najwa Taib;Najwa Taib;Didier Debroas;Didier Debroas;Isabelle Domaizon

  • Assessing the diversity and specificity of two freshwater viral communities through metagenomics

    Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Francois Enault;Francois Enault;Agnès Robin;Agnès Robin;Viviane Ravet;Viviane Ravet

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

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

  • Metavir 2: new tools for viral metagenome comparison and assembled virome analysis

    Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Jeremy Tournayre;Jeremy Tournayre;Antoine Mahul;Didier Debroas;Didier Debroas

  • Genetic diversity of small eukaryotes in lakes differing by their trophic status.

    Marie Lefranc;Aurélie Thénot;Cécile Lepère;Didier Debroas

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Evolution and Diversity of the Microviridae Viral Family through a Collection of 81 New Complete Genomes Assembled from Virome Reads

    Simon Roux;Mart Krupovic;Axel Poulet;Didier Debroas

  • Monitoring human enteric viruses in wastewater and relevance to infections encountered in the clinical setting: a one-year experiment in central France, 2014 to 2015

    Maxime Bisseux;Jonathan Colombet;Audrey Mirand;Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso

  • Metavir: a web server dedicated to virome analysis

    Simon Roux;Michaël Faubladier;Antoine Mahul;Nils Paulhe

  • Overview of freshwater microbial eukaryotes diversity: a first analysis of publicly available metabarcoding data.

    Didier Debroas;Isabelle Domaizon;Jean-Francois Humbert;Ludwig Jardillier

  • Active microorganisms thrive among extremely diverse communities in cloud water

    Pierre Amato;Muriel Joly;Ludovic Besaury;Anne Oudart

  • Short‐term dynamics of diversity patterns: evidence of continual reassembly within lacustrine small eukaryotes

    Jean-François Mangot;Isabelle Domaizon;Isabelle Domaizon;Najwa Taib;Najwa Taib;Nemr Marouni;Nemr Marouni

  • Viruses as key reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment.

    Didier Debroas;Cléa Siguret

  • Assessment of viral community functional potential from viral metagenomes may be hampered by contamination with cellular sequences

    Simon Roux;Mart Krupovic;Didier Debroas;Didier Debroas;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

  • Metagenomic approach studying the taxonomic and functional diversity of the bacterial community in a mesotrophic lake (Lac du Bourget – France)

    Didier Debroas;Jean-François Humbert;Jean-François Humbert;François Enault;Gisèle Bronner

  • Succession and Regulation Factors of Small Eukaryote Community Composition in a Lacustrine Ecosystem (Lake Pavin)

    Cécile Lepère;Delphine Boucher;Ludwig Jardillier;Isabelle Domaizon

  • Anaerobic Microbial Communities in Lake Pavin, a Unique Meromictic Lake in France

    Anne-C. Lehours;Corinne Bardot;Aurelie Thenot;Didier Debroas

  • Unexpected importance of potential parasites in the composition of the freshwater small-eukaryote community.

    Cécile Lepère;Isabelle Domaizon;Didier Debroas

  • Comparison of the structure and composition of bacterial communities from temperate and tropical freshwater ecosystems.

    Jean-F. Humbert;Jean-F. Humbert;Ursula Dorigo;Philippe Cecchi;Brigitte Le Berre

  • Bacterial communities associated with Microcystis colonies differ from free-living communities living in the same ecosystem

    Bushra Parveen;Bushra Parveen;Viviane Ravet;Viviane Ravet;Chakib Djediat;Isabelle Mary;Isabelle Mary

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Domaizon
Isabelle Domaizon Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Télesphore Sime-Ngando
Télesphore Sime-Ngando University of Clermont Auvergne
Simon Roux
Simon Roux Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-François Humbert
Jean-François Humbert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Pierre E. Galand
Pierre E. Galand Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
Marie-Elodie Perga
Marie-Elodie Perga University of Lausanne
Stéphan Jacquet
Stéphan Jacquet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
Christian Amblard
Christian Amblard University of Clermont Auvergne

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