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Dominique Pontier is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and has conducted extensive research across multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and environmental science. Their work spans various subfields, including infectious diseases, ecology, ecological modeling, genetics, and evolution. The research topics addressed include bat biology and ecology studies, viral infections and vectors, species distribution and climate change, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, viral infections and outbreaks research, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

The scientist has published articles in a variety of scholarly venues. Frequent publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have at least five contributions. Other venues with multiple publications are Ecology and Evolution and Biological Conservation. They have also published in Environmental DNA and Science Advances.

Among Dominique Pontier's recent scholarly papers are the following:

  • In silico and empirical evaluation of twelve metabarcoding primer sets for insectivorous diet analyses, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • eDNA metabarcoding reveals a core and secondary diets of the greater horseshoe bat with strong spatio-temporal plasticity, 2020, Environmental DNA
  • Adaptive duplication and genetic diversification of protein kinase R contribute to the specificity of bat-virus interactions, 2022, Science Advances
  • HDV-Like Viruses, 2021, Viruses

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers, including Maxime Leuchtmann and Ondine Filippi-Codaccioni, each with nine joint publications. Other significant coauthors include Stéphanie Jacquet with eight collaborations, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye with seven, and Nathalie Charbonnel with six.

Best Publications

  • Nitric oxide and salicylic acid signaling in plant defense.

    Daniel F. Klessig;Jörg Durner;Robert Noad;Duroy A. Navarre

  • The one health concept: 10 years old and a long road ahead

    Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón;Patrick Mavingui;Patrick Mavingui;Gilles Boetsch;Jérôme Boissier

  • The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication

    Carlos A. Driscoll;Marilyn Menotti-Raymond;Alfred L. Roca;Karsten Hupe

  • Revealing cryptic spatial patterns in genetic variability by a new multivariate method

    T. Jombart;S. Devillard;Anne-Béatrice Dufour;D. Pontier

  • NPR1 differentially interacts with members of the TGA/OBF family of transcription factors that bind an element of the PR-1 gene required for induction by salicylic acid.

    Jun-Ma Zhou;Youssef Trifa;Herman Silva;Dominique Pontier

  • Reinforcement of silencing at transposons and highly repeated sequences requires the concerted action of two distinct RNA polymerases IV in Arabidopsis

    Dominique Pontier;Galina Yahubyan;Danielle Vega;Agnès Bulski

  • Frequency-dependent maintenance of left handedness in humans

    Michel Raymond;Dominique Pontier;Anne-béatrice Dufour;Anders Pape Møller

  • Reiterated WG/GW motifs form functionally and evolutionarily conserved ARGONAUTE-binding platforms in RNAi-related components

    Mahmoud El-Shami;Dominique Pontier;Sylvie Lahmy;Laurence Braun

  • An analysis of demographic tactics in birds and mammals

    J.-M. Gaillard;D. Pontier;D. Allainé;J. D. Lebreton

  • Genetic markers in the playground of multivariate analysis

    T. Jombart;D. Pontier;Anne-Béatrice Dufour

  • Argonaute quenching and global changes in Dicer homeostasis caused by a pathogen-encoded GW repeat protein.

    Jacinthe Azevedo;Damien Garcia;Dominique Pontier;Stephanie Ohnesorge

  • Is there geographical variation in human handedness

    M Raymond;D Pontier

  • hsr203J, a tobacco gene whose activation is rapid, highly localized and specific for incompatible plant/pathogen interactions

    Dominique Pontier;Laurence Godiard;Yves Marco;Dominique Roby

  • Generation time: a reliable metric to measure life-history variation among mammalian populations.

    Jean‐Michel Gaillard;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Jean‐Dominique Lebreton;Christophe Bonenfant

  • Markers for hypersensitive response and senescence show distinct patterns of expression.

    Dominique Pontier;Susheng Gan;Richard M. Amasino;Dominique Roby

  • Activation of hsr203, a Plant Gene Expressed During Incompatible Plant-Pathogen Interactions, Is Correlated with Programmed Cell Death

    Dominique Pontier;Maurice Tronchet;Peter Rogowsky;Eric Lam

  • gemini: software for testing the effects of genotyping errors and multitubes approach for individual identification

    Nathaniel Valière;Pierre Berthier;Dominique Mouchiroud;Dominique Pontier

  • Knock-out of the Magnesium Protoporphyrin IX Methyltransferase Gene in Arabidopsis: EFFECTS ON CHLOROPLAST DEVELOPMENT AND ON CHLOROPLAST-TO-NUCLEUS SIGNALING *

    Dominique Pontier;Catherine Albrieux;Jacques Joyard;Thierry Lagrange

  • Measuring diversity from dissimilarities with Rao's quadratic entropy: are any dissimilarities suitable?

    Sandrine Pavoine;S. Ollier;D. Pontier

  • Density spatial organisation and reproductive tactics in the domestic cat and other felids

    O. Liberg;M. Sandell;Dominique Pontier;E. Natoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Franck Courchamp
Franck Courchamp University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Dominique Roby
Dominique Roby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Paul Gonzalez
Jean-Paul Gonzalez Georgetown University
Eric Lam
Eric Lam Sun Yat-sen University
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
Denis Réale
Denis Réale University of Quebec at Montreal

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