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Genetics and Molecular Biology
France
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
72
Citations
38680
World Ranking
2085
National Ranking
94

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Marc Aury is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science.

Their work covers a broad range of subfields, including plant science, molecular biology, ecology, genetics, and insect science. Within these areas, the main topics addressed consist of genomics and phylogenetic studies, chromosomal and genetic variations, microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, genetic diversity and population structure, plant disease resistance and genetics, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Jean-Marc Aury has contributed to several recent publications, notable among which are:

  • The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes, 2021, Nature
  • Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome, 2022, Science
  • Telomere-to-telomere gapless chromosomes of banana using nanopore sequencing, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean, 2022, Cell Genomics
  • Population genomics of apricots unravels domestication history and adaptive events, 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include Karine Labadie, Patrick Wincker, Corinne Cruaud, Caroline Belser, and Benjamin Istace.

Jean-Marc Aury's research has been published across a variety of scientific venues. The most common publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Open Research Europe, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Science.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • Genome duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the early vertebrate proto-karyotype

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean-Marc Aury;Frédéric Brunet;Jean-Louis Petit

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita

    Pierre Abad;Pierre Abad;Jérôme Gouzy;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

  • The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants

    Angélique D'hont;Jean Marc Aury;Franc Christophe Baurens

  • The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

    J. Mark Cock;Lieven Sterck;Pierre Rouzé;Delphine Scornet

  • Genome evolution across 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates

    Jackson Peter;Matteo De Chiara;Anne Friedrich;Jia-Xing Yue

  • The rainbow trout genome provides novel insights into evolution after whole-genome duplication in vertebrates

    Camille Berthelot;Frédéric Brunet;Domitille Chalopin;Amélie Juanchich

  • Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

    Jean-Marc Aury;Olivier Jaillon;Laurent Duret;Benjamin Noel

  • The genome of Theobroma cacao

    Xavier Argout;Jerome Salse;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Mark J Guiltinan

  • Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

    Francis Martin;Annegret Kohler;Claude Murat;Raffaella Balestrini

  • The coffee genome provides insight into the convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis

    Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Alexis Dereeper;Gaëtan Droc

  • Structural and functional partitioning of bread wheat chromosome 3B.

    Frédéric Choulet;Adriana Alberti;Sébastien Theil;Natasha Glover

  • Mapping the Epigenetic Basis of Complex Traits

    Sandra Cortijo;René Wardenaar;Maria Colomé-Tatché;Arthur Gilly

  • A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

    Jonathan Kreplak;Mohammed Amin Madoui;Petr Cápal;Petr Novák

  • The Rosa genome provides new insights into the domestication of modern roses.

    Olivier Raymond;Jérôme Gouzy;Jérémy Just;Hélène Badouin;Hélène Badouin

  • Gene Loss and Evolutionary Rates Following Whole-Genome Duplication in Teleost Fishes

    Frédéric G. Brunet;Hugues Roest Crollius;Mathilde Paris;Jean-Marc Aury

  • Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Jean François Flot;Boris Hespeels;Xiang Li;Benjamin Noel

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Corinne Da Silva
Corinne Da Silva University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay
Julie Poulain
Julie Poulain French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Corinne Cruaud
Corinne Cruaud Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission
Christophe Plomion
Christophe Plomion University of Bordeaux
Hadi Quesneville
Hadi Quesneville University of Paris-Saclay

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