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Guillaume Mitta is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their academic work primarily addresses topics related to marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and marine ecosystems.

Key areas of study for this researcher include global and planetary change, ecology, immunology, molecular biology, and biotechnology. Their focus on marine environments is reflected in research topics such as coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine sponges and natural products, parasite biology and host interactions, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Guillaume Mitta has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "The Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome, a Polymicrobial and Multifactorial Disease: State of Knowledge and Future Directions", 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection", 2022, Microbiome
  • "A Sustained Immune Response Supports Long-Term Antiviral Immune Priming in the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas", 2020, mBio
  • "Microbiota Composition and Evenness Predict Survival Rate of Oysters Confronted to Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome", 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Differential basal expression of immune genes confers Crassostrea gigas resistance to Pacific oyster mortality syndrome", 2020, BMC Genomics

The researcher has collaborated frequently with other scientists, including Jérémie Vidal-Dupiol, Bruno Petton, Julien de Lorgeril, Ève Toulza, and Jean-Michel Escoubas.

Guillaume Mitta's work is often published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Microbiology, iScience, and Animal Microbiome.

Best Publications

  • Outbreak of urogenital schistosomiasis in Corsica (France): an epidemiological case study

    Jérôme Boissier;Sébastien Grech-Angelini;Bonnie L Webster;Jean-François Allienne

  • Original involvement of antimicrobial peptides in mussel innate immunity.

    Guillaume Mitta;Franck Vandenbulcke;Philippe Roch

  • Myticin, a novel cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptide isolated from haemocytes and plasma of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis.

    Guillaume Mitta;Florence Hubert;Thierry Noël;Philippe Roch

  • Immune-suppression by OsHV-1 viral infection causes fatal bacteraemia in Pacific oysters

    de Lorgeril J;Lucasson A;Petton B;Toulza E

  • Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail.

    Coen M Adema;Ladeana W Hillier;Catherine S Jones;Eric S Loker

  • Mussel defensins are synthesised and processed in granulocytes then released into the plasma after bacterial challenge

    Guillaume Mitta;Franck Vandenbulcke;Florence Hubert;Philippe Roch

  • Involvement of Mytilins in Mussel Antimicrobial Defense

    Guillaume Mitta;Franck Vandenbulcke;Florence Hubert;Michel Salzet

  • Mytilin B and MGD2, two antimicrobial peptides of marine mussels: gene structure and expression analysis.

    Guillaume Mitta;Florence Hubert;Elisabeth A. Dyrynda;Pierre Boudry

  • Differential distribution and defence involvement of antimicrobial peptides in mussel

    Guillaume Mitta;Franck Vandenbulcke;Thierry Noel;Bernard Romestand

  • Who is the puppet master? Replication of a parasitic wasp-associated virus correlates with host behaviour manipulation

    Nolwenn M Dheilly;Fanny Maure;Marc Ravallec;Richard Galinier

  • Excretory-secretory proteome of larval Schistosoma mansoni and Echinostoma caproni, two parasites of Biomphalaria glabrata.

    François Guillou;Emmanuel Roger;Yves Moné;Anne Rognon

  • Cloning and real-time PCR testing of 14 potential biomarkers in Eisenia fetida following cadmium exposure.

    F. Brulle;G. Mitta;C. Cocquerelle;D. Vieau

  • Molecular Characterization of Two Novel Antibacterial Peptides Inducible upon Bacterial Challenge in an Annelid, the Leech Theromyzon tessulatum

    Aurélie Tasiemski;Franck Vandenbulcke;Guillaume Mitta;Jérôme Lemoine

  • Schistosomiasis reaches Europe

    Jérôme Boissier;Hélène Moné;Guillaume Mitta;M Dolores Bargues

  • Solution structure and activity of the synthetic four-disulfide bond Mediterranean mussel defensin (MGD-1).

    Yin-Shan Yang;Guillaume Mitta;Alain Chavanieu;Bernard Calas

  • Innate immune responses of a scleractinian coral to vibriosis.

    Jeremie Vidal-Dupiol;Ophélie Ladrière;Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón;Pierre-Eric Sautière

  • Schistosomiasis haematobium, Corsica, France.

    Antoine Berry;Hélène Moné;Xavier Iriart;Gabriel Mouahid

  • Coral bleaching under thermal stress: putative involvement of host/symbiont recognition mechanisms

    Jeremie Vidal-Dupiol;Mehdi Adjeroud;Emmanuel Roger;Laurent Foure

  • Antimicrobial peptides in marine invertebrate health and disease.

    Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón;Rafael Diego Rosa;Paulina Schmitt;Cairé Barreto

  • A Large Repertoire of Parasite Epitopes Matched by a Large Repertoire of Host Immune Receptors in an Invertebrate Host/Parasite Model

    Yves Moné;Benjamin Gourbal;David Duval;Louis Du Pasquier

Frequent Co-Authors

André Théron
André Théron University of Perpignan
Mehdi Adjeroud
Mehdi Adjeroud Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Yannick Gueguen
Yannick Gueguen University of Montpellier
Raymond J. Pierce
Raymond J. Pierce University of Lille
Didier Aurelle
Didier Aurelle Aix-Marseille University
Pierre Pontarotti
Pierre Pontarotti Aix-Marseille University
Hélène Moné
Hélène Moné University of Perpignan
Michel Salzet
Michel Salzet University of Lille
David Rollinson
David Rollinson Natural History Museum
Anthony T. Papenfuss
Anthony T. Papenfuss Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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