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Jean Bousquet

Jean Bousquet

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
17556
World Ranking
5397
National Ranking
200

Overview

Jean Bousquet is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has a research focus that spans several interrelated fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work explores topics within these areas, with particular attention to forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and genetic diversity and population structure.

The scientist's research delves into both broad and specialized topics such as tree-ring climate responses, genomics and phylogenetic studies, bioenergy crop production and management, and forest management and policy.

Their publication record includes articles in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Gymnosperm, Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis), Indicates a Complex Physical Structure (2020) published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate (2020) published in New Phytologist
  • Connecting tree-ring phenotypes, genetic associations and transcriptomics to decipher the genomic architecture of drought adaptation in a widespread conifer (2021) published in Molecular Ecology
  • Breeding for adaptation to climate change: genomic selection for drought response in a white spruce multi-site polycross test (2022) published in Evolutionary Applications
  • Genomic selection for resistance to spruce budworm in white spruce and relationships with growth and wood quality traits (2020) published in Evolutionary Applications

Bousquet frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including P. Lenz, Nathalie Isabel, John Mackay, Simon Nadeau, and Jöerg Bohlmann, with the number of joint publications ranging from 9 to 14.

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears recurrently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Evolutionary Applications

Their research applies methodologies intersecting molecular biology and nature and landscape conservation, with significant engagement in global and planetary change issues. Subfields prominently represented in their work are molecular biology, genetics, and plant science.

Jean Bousquet's study areas contribute to understanding drought adaptation mechanisms in conifers, genomic architecture linking phenotype and genotype, and the genetic improvement of forest species for enhanced resilience against climate-related stresses and pest resistance.

Best Publications

  • The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution.

    Björn Nystedt;Nathaniel Robert Street;Anna Wetterbom;Andrea Zuccolo

  • Origin and diversification of endomycorrhizal fungi and coincidence with vascular land plants

    Luc Simon;Jean Bousquet;Roger C. Lévesque;Maurice Lalonde

  • Assembling the 20 Gb white spruce (Picea glauca) genome from whole-genome shotgun sequencing data

    Inanc Birol;Anthony Raymond;Shaun D. Jackman;Stephen Pleasance

  • Extensive variation in evolutionary rate of rbcL gene sequences among seed plants.

    Jean Bousquet;Steven H. Strauss;Allan H. Doerksen;Robert A. Price

  • DNA amplification from vegetative and sexual tissues of trees using polymerase chain reaction

    Jean Bousquet;Luc Simon;Maurice Lalonde

  • RAPDs as an aid to evaluate the genetic integrity of somatic embryogenesis-derived populations of Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.

    N. Isabel;L. Tremblay;M. Michaud;F. M. Tremblay

  • Scanning the genome for gene single nucleotide polymorphisms involved in adaptive population differentiation in white spruce.

    Marie-Claire Namroud;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Nicolas Juge;Jérôme Laroche

  • Complete congruence between gene diversity estimates derived from genotypic data at enzyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA loci in black spruce

    Nathalie Isabel;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Improved white spruce (Picea glauca) genome assemblies and annotation of large gene families of conifer terpenoid and phenolic defense metabolism.

    René L. Warren;Christopher I. Keeling;Macaire Man Saint Yuen;Anthony Raymond

  • Insights into Conifer Giga-Genomes

    Amanda R. De La Torre;Inanc Birol;Jean Bousquet;Pär K. Ingvarsson

  • Segregating random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) in Betula alleghaniensis.

    A. Roy;N. Frascaria;J. MacKay;J. Bousquet

  • Molecular evolution of angiosperm mitochondrial introns and exons

    Jérôme Laroche;Peng Li;Laurent Maggia;Jean Bousquet

  • Genotypic variation in wood density and growth traits of poplar hybrids at four clonal trials

    Alfas Pliura;S.Y. Zhang;John MacKay;Jean Bousquet

  • Glacial vicariance in Eurasia: mitochondrial DNA evidence from Scots pine for a complex heritage involving genetically distinct refugia at mid-northern latitudes and in Asia Minor

    Krassimir Naydenov;Sauphie Senneville;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Francine Tremblay

  • A mitochondrial DNA minisatellite reveals the postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a broad-range North American conifer.

    Julie Godbout;Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • A White Spruce Gene Catalog for Conifer Genome Analyses

    Philippe Rigault;Brian Boyle;Pierre Lepage;Janice E.K. Cooke

  • Variation in mitochondrial DNA reveals multiple distant glacial refugia in black spruce (Picea mariana), a transcontinental North American conifer.

    Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Disentangling the roles of history and local selection in shaping clinal variation of allele frequencies and gene expression in Norway spruce (Picea abies).

    Jun Chen;Thomas Källman;Xiaofei Ma;Niclas Gyllenstrand

  • The impact of climate change on growth of local white spruce populations in Québec, Canada

    Christophe Andalo;Christophe Andalo;Christophe Andalo;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Accuracy of genomic selection models in a large population of open-pollinated families in white spruce.

    J Beaulieu;J Beaulieu;T Doerksen;T Doerksen;S Clément;J MacKay

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Beaulieu
Jean Beaulieu Université Laval
John MacKay
John MacKay University of Oxford
Inanc Birol
Inanc Birol University of British Columbia
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Kermit Ritland
Kermit Ritland University of British Columbia
Janice E. K. Cooke
Janice E. K. Cooke University of Alberta
Hank A. Margolis
Hank A. Margolis National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Michele Morgante
Michele Morgante University of Udine
Richard A. Moore
Richard A. Moore BC Cancer Agency
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency

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