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Laure Guillou

Laure Guillou

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
12279
World Ranking
3976
National Ranking
162

Overview

Laure Guillou is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research portfolio includes studies on ecology, molecular biology, global and planetary change, oceanography, and parasitology.

The scientist's work addresses main topics such as protist diversity and phylogeny, microbial community ecology and physiology, parasite biology and host interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Estelle Bigeard, Catharina Alves-de-Souza, Ehsan Kayal, Jérémy Szymczak, and Erwan Corre.

Publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, notably bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Parasitology, BMC Biology, Frontiers in Microbiology, and ISME Communications.

Notable recent papers produced by Laure Guillou include:

  • Rapid protein evolution, organellar reductions, and invasive intronic elements in the marine aerobic parasite dinoflagellate Amoebophrya spp, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Oyster hemolymph is a complex and dynamic ecosystem hosting bacteria, protists and viruses, 2020, Animal Microbiome
  • Cryptic species in the parasitic Amoebophrya species complex revealed by a polyphasic approach, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • From the sxtA4 Gene to Saxitoxin Production: What Controls the Variability Among Alexandrium minutum and Alexandrium pacificum Strains?, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Intracellular development and impact of a marine eukaryotic parasite on its zombified microalgal host, 2022, The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;David Bass;David Bass;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukes;Julius Lukes

  • Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata)

    Laure Guillou;Manon Viprey;Aurélie Chambouvet;R.M. Welsh

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • Control of toxic marine dinoflagellate blooms by serial parasitic killers.

    Aurelie Chambouvet;Pascal Morin;Dominique Marie;Laure Guillou

  • Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of novel marine stramenopiles.

    Ramon Massana;Jose Castresana;Vanessa Balagué;Laure Guillou

  • Validation and Application of a PCR Primer Set to Quantify Fungal Communities in the Soil Environment by Real-Time Quantitative PCR

    Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré;Richard Christen;Samuel Dequiedt;Christophe Mougel

  • Abundance and diversity of prymnesiophytes in the picoplankton coμmunity from the equatorial Pacific Ocean inferred from 18S rDNA sequences

    Seung Yeo Moon-van der Staay;Georg W. M. van der Staay;Laure Guillou;Daniel Vaulot

  • BOLIDOMONAS : A NEW GENUS WITH TWO SPECIES BELONGING TO A NEW ALGAL CLASS,THE BOLIDOPHYCEAE (HETEROKONTA)

    Laure Guillou;Marie-Josèphe Chrétiennot-Dinet;Linda K. Medlin;Hervé Claustre

  • Eukaryotic Richness in the Abyss: Insights from Pyrotag Sequencing

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Richard Christen;Béatrice Lecroq;Dipankar Bachar

  • Unveiling the organisms behind novel eukaryotic ribosomal DNA sequences from the ocean.

    Ramon Massana;Laure Guillou;Beatriz Díez;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Picoeukaryotic diversity in an oligotrophic coastal site studied by molecular and culturing approaches

    Ramon Massana;Vanessa Balagué;Laure Guillou;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Diversity of Picoplanktonic Prasinophytes Assessed by Direct Nuclear SSU rDNA Sequencing of Environmental Samples and Novel Isolates Retrieved from Oceanic and Coastal Marine Ecosystems

    Laure Guillou;Wenche Eikrem;Marie-Josèphe Chrétiennot-Dinet;Florence Le Gall

  • Ecotype diversity in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae).

    Francisco Rodríguez;Evelyne Derelle;Laure Guillou;Florence Le Gall

  • PhytoREF: a reference database of the plastidial 16S rRNA gene of photosynthetic eukaryotes with curated taxonomy

    Johan Decelle;Sarah Romac;Rowena F Stern;El Mahdi Bendif

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the ‘Nannochloris-like’ algae and diagnoses of Picochlorum oklahomensis gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)

    William J. Henley;Janice L. Hironaka;Laure Guillou;Mark A. Buchheim

  • Oligonucleotide Probes for the Identification of Three Algal Groups by Dot Blot and Fluorescent Whole‐Cell Hybridization

    Nathalie Simon;Lisa Campbell;Erla Örnolfsdottir;René Groben

  • Genetic diversity and molecular detection of three toxic dinoflagellate genera (Alexandrium, Dinophysis, and Karenia) from French coasts.

    Laure Guillou;Elisabeth Nézan;Valérie Cueff;Evelyne Erard-Le Denn

  • Flow Cytometry Analysis of Marine Picoplankton

    D. Marie;N. Simon;L. Guillou;F. Partensky

  • Wide genetic diversity of picoplanktonic green algae (Chloroplastida) in the Mediterranean Sea uncovered by a phylum-biased PCR approach.

    Manon Viprey;Laure Guillou;Martial Ferréol;Daniel Vaulot

  • Pigment suites and taxonomic groups in Prasinophyceae

    Mikel Latasa;Renate Scharek;Florence Le Gall;Laure Guillou

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Christian Jeanthon
Christian Jeanthon Université Paris Cité
Uwe John
Uwe John Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frédéric Partensky
Frédéric Partensky Sorbonne University
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Ian Probert
Ian Probert Université Paris Cité
Dominique Marie
Dominique Marie Sorbonne University
Gernot Glöckner
Gernot Glöckner University of Cologne

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