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Fabrice Legeai

Fabrice Legeai

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Genetics

D-Index
44
Citations
13320
World Ranking
4245
National Ranking
219

Overview

Fabrice Legeai is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and works primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, prominently including:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Plant and animal studies

Among the recent papers published by Fabrice Legeai are the following:

  • "Global patterns in genomic diversity underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance in the aphid crop pest Myzus persicae," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Adaptation by copy number variation increases insecticide resistance in the fall armyworm," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "The genome sequence of the grape phylloxera provides insights into the evolution, adaptation, and invasion routes of an iconic pest," 2020, BMC Biology
  • "Chromosomal scale assembly of parasitic wasp genome reveals symbiotic virus colonization," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps," 2020, BMC Biology

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • BMC Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • BMC Genomics

Fabrice Legeai works collaboratively with several co-authors, including Anthony Bretaudeau, Stéphanie Robin, Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, Nicolas Montagné, and Denis Tagu, with multiple joint publications recorded.

Best Publications

  • The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla.

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean Marc Aury;Benjamin Noel;Alberto Policriti

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • Predotar: A tool for rapidly screening proteomes for N-terminal targeting sequences

    Ian Small;Nemo Peeters;Fabrice Legeai;Claire Lurin

  • Rapid transcriptional plasticity of duplicated gene clusters enables a clonally reproducing aphid to colonise diverse plant species

    Thomas C. Mathers;Yazhou Chen;Gemy Kaithakottil;Fabrice Legeai;Fabrice Legeai

  • FEELnc: a tool for long non-coding RNA annotation and its application to the dog transcriptome.

    Valentin Wucher;Fabrice Legeai;Benoît Hédan;Guillaume Rizk

  • Two genomes of highly polyphagous lepidopteran pests (Spodoptera frugiperda, Noctuidae) with different host-plant ranges

    Anaïs Gouin;Anthony Bretaudeau;Anthony Bretaudeau;Kiwoong Nam;Sylvie Gimenez

  • Study of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

    N. Nicot;V. Chiquet;B. Gandon;L. Amilhat

  • Extensive synteny conservation of holocentric chromosomes in Lepidoptera despite high rates of local genome rearrangements

    E. d'Alençon;H. Sezutsu;Fabrice Legeai;E. Permal

  • Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) host-plant variants: two host strains or two distinct species?

    Pascaline Dumas;Pascaline Dumas;Fabrice Legeai;Claire Lemaitre;Erwan Scaon

  • An Expressed Sequence Tag collection from the male antennae of the Noctuid moth Spodoptera littoralis: a resource for olfactory and pheromone detection research.

    Fabrice Legeai;Sébastien Malpel;Nicolas Montagné;Christelle Monsempes

  • Large-scale gene discovery in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera)

    Beatriz Sabater-Muñoz;Fabrice Legeai;Claude Rispe;Joël Bonhomme

  • Analysis of Virion Structural Components Reveals Vestiges of the Ancestral Ichnovirus Genome

    Anne-Nathalie Volkoff;Veronique Jouan;Serge Urbach;Sylvie Samain

  • A Comparison of the Olfactory Gene Repertoires of Adults and Larvae in the Noctuid Moth Spodoptera littoralis

    Erwan Poivet;Aurore Gallot;Nicolas Montagné;Nicolas Glaser

  • AphidBase: a centralized bioinformatic resource for annotation of the pea aphid genome

    Fabrice Legeai;Shuji Shigenobu;Shuji Shigenobu;Shuji Shigenobu;Jean-Pierre Gauthier;John Colbourne

  • Bioinformatic prediction, deep sequencing of microRNAs and expression analysis during phenotypic plasticity in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Fabrice Legeai;Guillaume Rizk;Thomas Walsh;Owain Edwards

  • Whole genome sequence of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines.

    Jacob A. Wenger;Bryan J. Cassone;Fabrice Legeai;J. Spencer Johnston

  • Large Gene Family Expansion and Variable Selective Pressures for Cathepsin B in Aphids

    Claude Rispe;Mayako Kutsukake;Vincent Doublet;Sylvie Hudaverdian

  • Genome scans reveal candidate regions involved in the adaptation to host plant in the pea aphid complex

    Jaquiéry J;Stoeckel S;Nouhaud P;Mieuzet L

  • Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of seasonal photoperiodism in the pea aphid

    G. le Trionnaire;F. Francis;S. Jaubert-Possamai;J. Bonhomme

  • Candidate chemosensory genes in female antennae of the noctuid moth Spodoptera littoralis

    Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly;Fabrice Legeai;Nicolas Montagné;Christelle Monsempes

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Tagu
Denis Tagu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Christophe Simon
Jean-Christophe Simon University of Rennes
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Jean-Marc Aury
Jean-Marc Aury University of Paris-Saclay
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Hadi Quesneville
Hadi Quesneville University of Paris-Saclay
Julie Poulain
Julie Poulain French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Joelle Amselem
Joelle Amselem INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Saskia A. Hogenhout
Saskia A. Hogenhout Norwich Research Park
Marina Marcet-Houben
Marina Marcet-Houben Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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