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76
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22015
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1409
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79

Didier Lereclus 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 Didier Lereclus sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 202 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Didier Lereclus 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 Didier Lereclus sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Didier Lereclus is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader fields, their work spans several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Genetics, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine.

The main topics covered in their research include Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research, Insect Resistance and Genetics, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Insect and Pesticide Research, Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

Lereclus has published numerous papers, with recent works including:

  • Rap-Phr Systems from Plasmids pAW63 and pHT8-1 Act Together To Regulate Sporulation in the Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar kurstaki HD73 Strain, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Immune Inhibitor A Metalloproteases Contribute to Virulence in Bacillus Endophthalmitis, 2021, Infection and Immunity
  • The quorum-sensing peptidic inhibitor rescues host immune system eradication: A novel infectivity mechanism, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The signaling peptide PapR is required for the activity of the quorum-sensor PlcRa in Bacillus thuringiensis, 2020, Microbiology
  • Optimal Response to Quorum-Sensing Signals Varies in Different Host Environments with Different Pathogen Group Size, 2020, mBio

Coauthorship has been a part of Lereclus's research activity, with frequent collaborators including Leyla Slamti, Émilie Verplaetse, Michel Gohar, Stéphane Perchat, and Haibo Chen. Collaboration counts range from three to thirteen papers with these individuals.

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Research in Microbiology, mBio, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Pesticidal Crystal Proteins

    E. Schnepf;N. Crickmore;J. Van Rie;D. Lereclus

  • Revision of the Nomenclature for the Bacillus thuringiensis Pesticidal Crystal Proteins

    N. Crickmore;D. R. Zeigler;J. Feitelson;E. Schnepf

  • The Bacillus cereus Group: Bacillus Species with Pathogenic Potential

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Didier Lereclus;Theresa M. Koehler

  • Construction of cloning vectors for Bacillus thuringiensis.

    Olivia Arantes;Didier Lereclus

  • Transformation and expression of a cloned δ-endotoxin gene in bacillus thuringiensis

    D. Lereclus;O. Arantès;J. Chaufaux;M.-M. Lecadet

  • PlcR is a pleiotropic regulator of extracellular virulence factor gene expression in Bacillus thuringiensis

    Hervé Agaisse;Myriam Gominet;Ole Andreas Økstad;Anne‐Brit Kolstø

  • Bacillus thuringiensis: an impotent pathogen?

    Ben Raymond;Paul R. Johnston;Christina Nielsen-LeRoux;Didier Lereclus

  • How does Bacillus thuringiensis produce so much insecticidal crystal protein

    H Agaisse;D Lereclus

  • The insect Galleria mellonella as a powerful infection model to investigate bacterial pathogenesis.

    Nalini Ramarao;Christina Nielsen-Leroux;Didier Lereclus

  • The PlcR Virulence Regulon of Bacillus cereus

    Michel Gohar;Karoline Faegri;Stéphane Perchat;Solveig Ravnum

  • Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus Group occasionally associated with food poisoning

    Marie-Hélène Guinebretière;Marie-Hélène Guinebretière;Sandrine Auger;Sandrine Auger;Nathalie Galleron;Nathalie Galleron;Matthias Contzen

  • A cell-cell signaling peptide activates the PlcR virulence regulon in bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group.

    Leyla Slamti;Didier Lereclus;Didier Lereclus

  • Nukleotidsekvenser til styring af ekspressionen af DNAsekvenser i en værtscelle

    Agaisse Herve;Lereclus Didier

  • The plcR regulon is involved in the opportunistic properties of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus cereus in mice and insects.

    Sylvie Salamitou;Sylvie Salamitou;Françoise Ramisse;Michel Brehélin;Denis Bourguet

  • Identification of a Bacillus thuringiensis gene that positively regulates transcription of the phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C gene at the onset of the stationary phase.

    D Lereclus;H Agaisse;M Gominet;S Salamitou

  • STAB-SD: a Shine–Dalgarno sequence in the 5′ untranslated region is a determinant of mRNA stability

    Hervé Agaisse;Didier Lereclus

  • Two-dimensional electrophoresis analysis of the extracellular proteome of Bacillus cereus reveals the importance of the PlcR regulon.

    Michel Gohar;Ole Andreas Økstad;Nathalie Gilois;Vincent Sanchis;Vincent Sanchis

  • How the insect pathogen bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and Xenorhabdus/Photorhabdus occupy their hosts

    Christina Nielsen-LeRoux;Sophie Gaudriault;Sophie Gaudriault;Nalini Ramarao;Didier Lereclus

  • Extending the Bacillus cereus group genomics to putative food-borne pathogens of different toxicity.

    Alla Lapidus;Eugene Goltsman;Sandrine Auger;Nathalie Galleron

  • Structural and functional analysis of the promoter region involved in full expression of the cryIIIA toxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis.

    Hervé Agaisse;Didier Lereclus

  • Overproduction of encapsulated insecticidal crystal proteins in a Bacillus thuringiensis spo0A mutant.

    Didier Lereclus;Hervé Agaisse;Myriam Gominet;Josette Chaufaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Brit Kolstø
Anne-Brit Kolstø University of Oslo
Alejandra Bravo
Alejandra Bravo National Autonomous University of Mexico
Christophe Nguyen-The
Christophe Nguyen-The University of Avignon
Stéphane Aymerich
Stéphane Aymerich University of Paris-Saclay
Michael S. Gilmore
Michael S. Gilmore Harvard Medical School
Jacques Mahillon
Jacques Mahillon Université Catholique de Louvain
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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