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Francois Balloux is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant work in the subfields of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Epidemiology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Francois Balloux include:

  • Lucy van Dorp
  • Cedric Tan
  • Damien Richard
  • Mislav Acman
  • Liam P. Shaw

The common publication venues for Balloux's research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Francois Balloux include:

  • Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Role of mobile genetic elements in the global dissemination of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Large-scale network analysis captures biological features of bacterial plasmids, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations

    Thibaut Jombart;Sébastien Devillard;François Balloux

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • The estimation of population differentiation with microsatellite markers.

    François Balloux;Nicolas Lugon-Moulin

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

    Bodo Linz;Francois Balloux;Yoshan Moodley;Andrea Manica

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Morten Rasmussen;Xiaosen Guo;Yong Wang;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2.

    Lucy van Dorp;Mislav Acman;Damien Richard;Liam P. Shaw

  • Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast.

    Daniel C. Jeffares;Clemency Jolly;Mimoza Hoti;Doug Speed

  • SAK/PLK4 is required for centriole duplication and flagella development.

    M. Bettencourt-Dias;A. Rodrigues-Martins;L. Carpenter;M. Riparbelli

  • Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

    Giovanna Morelli;Yajun Song;Yajun Song;Camila J Mazzoni;Mark Eppinger

  • Does heterozygosity estimate inbreeding in real populations

    F. Balloux;W. Amos;T. Coulson

  • The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Morten Arendt Rendt Rasmussen;Sarah L. Anzick;Michael R. Waters;Pontus Skoglund

  • The Population Genetics of Clonal and Partially Clonal Diploids

    François Balloux;François Balloux;Laurent Lehmann;Thierry de Meeûs

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Matthias Steinrücken;Matthias Steinrücken;Kelley Harris;Stephan Schiffels

  • Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

    Simon J. O’Hanlon;Adrien Rieux;Rhys A. Farrer;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Gonçalo M. Rosa

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1.

    Ruobing Wang;Lucy van Dorp;Liam P. Shaw;Phelim Bradley

  • Pathogen-Driven Selection and Worldwide HLA Class I Diversity

    Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;Marie Charpentier;Jean François Guégan

  • Geography predicts neutral genetic diversity of human populations.

    Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;François Balloux

  • Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage.

    Rhys A. Farrer;Lucy A. Weinert;Jon Bielby;Trenton W. J. Garner

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Manica
Andrea Manica University of Cambridge
Judith Breuer
Judith Breuer University College London
Xavier Didelot
Xavier Didelot University of Warwick
Richard A. Nichols
Richard A. Nichols Queen Mary University of London
Jérôme Goudet
Jérôme Goudet University of Lausanne
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Trenton W. J. Garner
Trenton W. J. Garner Zoological Society of London
Laurent Lehmann
Laurent Lehmann University of Lausanne
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu

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