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Eric Bapteste

Eric Bapteste

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
8066
World Ranking
5508
National Ranking
246

Overview

Eric Bapteste is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Aging, and Plant Science.

Their work covers multiple main topics such as Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eric Bapteste include:

  • Philippe Lopez
  • Jérôme Teulière
  • Charles Bernard
  • Eduardo Corel
  • Yanyan Li

Their publications have appeared prominently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Ageing Research Reviews
  • BioEssays
  • GeroScience

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric Bapteste include:

  • "Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi", 2022, Nature
  • "Beyond arbitrium: identification of a second communication system in Bacillus phage phi3T that may regulate host defense mechanisms", 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Rich Repertoire of Quorum Sensing Protein Coding Sequences in CPR and DPANN Associated with Interspecies and Interkingdom Communication", 2020, mSystems
  • "The Epistemic Revolution Induced by Microbiome Studies: An Interdisciplinary View", 2021, Biology
  • "The leaderless communication peptide (LCP) class of quorum-sensing peptides is broadly distributed among Firmicutes", 2023, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The timing of eukaryotic evolution: Does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils?

    Emmanuel J. P. Douzery;Elizabeth A. Snell;Eric Bapteste;Frédéric Delsuc

  • Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis.

    W. Ford Doolittle;Eric Bapteste

  • The analysis of 100 genes supports the grouping of three highly divergent amoebae: Dictyostelium, Entamoeba, and Mastigamoeba

    Eric Bapteste;Henner Brinkmann;Jennifer A. Lee;Dorothy V. Moore

  • Phylogenomics of Eukaryotes: Impact of Missing Data on Large Alignments

    Hervé Philippe;Elizabeth A Snell;Eric Bapteste;Philippe Lopez

  • The genome of Salinibacter ruber: Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea

    E. F. Mongodin;K. E. Nelson;S. Daugherty;R. T. DeBoy

  • Higher-level classification of the Archaea: evolution of methanogenesis and methanogens.

    Éric Bapteste;Céline Brochier;Yan Boucher

  • Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

    Sébastien Halary;Jessica W. Leigh;Bachar Cheaib;Philippe Lopez

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    Eric Bapteste;Maureen A O'Malley;Robert G Beiko;Marc Ereshefsky

  • Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking

    Eric Bapteste;Leo van Iersel;Axel Janke;Scot Kelchner

  • Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking?

    E Bapteste;E Bapteste;E Susko;E Susko;J Leigh;J Leigh;D MacLeod;D MacLeod

  • Eubacterial phylogeny based on translational apparatus proteins

    Céline Brochier;Eric Bapteste;David Moreira;Hervé Philippe

  • Phylogenetic reconstruction and lateral gene transfer

    Eric Bapteste;Yan Boucher;Jessica Leigh;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Chimeric origins of ochrophytes and haptophytes revealed through an ancient plastid proteome.

    Richard G Dorrell;Gillian Gile;Giselle McCallum;Raphaël Méheust

  • Network-Thinking: Graphs to Analyze Microbial Complexity and Evolution

    Eduardo Corel;Philippe Lopez;Raphaël Méheust;Eric Bapteste

  • Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi

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  • Local Mobile Gene Pools Rapidly Cross Species Boundaries To Create Endemicity within Global Vibrio cholerae Populations

    Yan Boucher;Otto X Cordero;Alison Takemura;Dana E Hunt

  • Towards a processual microbial ontology.

    Eric Bapteste;John Dupré

  • Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent

    Eric Bapteste;Philippe Lopez;Frédéric Bouchard;Fernando Baquero

  • Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery.

    Guillaume Bernard;Jananan S Pathmanathan;Romain Lannes;Philippe Lopez

  • The potential value of indels as phylogenetic markers: position of trichomonads as a case study.

    Eric Bapteste;Hervé Philippe

  • The two tempos of nuclear pore complex evolution: highly adapting proteins in an ancient frozen structure.

    Eric Bapteste;Robert L Charlebois;Robert L Charlebois;Dave MacLeod;Céline Brochier

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    William Martin;Tal Dagan;John Dupre;François-Joseph Lapointe

Frequent Co-Authors

James O. McInerney
James O. McInerney University of Nottingham
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
Hervé Philippe
Hervé Philippe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David A. Walsh
David A. Walsh Concordia University
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter

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