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Marina Marcet-Houben

Marina Marcet-Houben

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
44
Citations
9139
World Ranking
2909
National Ranking
47

Overview

Marina Marcet-Houben is affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a primary focus on genomics, phylogenetics, plant science, and infectious diseases.

Their recent publications include studies on cellular complexity, genome-wide catalogues of annotated gene phylogenies, and fungal pathogens. Notable works are:

  • Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Quest for Orthologs orthology benchmark service in 2022, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Genomic evidence for recurrent genetic admixture during the domestication of Mediterranean olive trees (Olea europaea L.), 2020, BMC Biology
  • PhylomeDB V5: an expanding repository for genome-wide catalogues of annotated gene phylogenies, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Functional Characterization of Clinical Isolates of the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus nidulans, 2020, mSphere

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Toni Gabaldón, Jèssica Gómez-Garrido, Tyler Alioto, Nicolas Parisot, and Patrice Bâa-Puyoulet.

Their work is often published in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Biology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Marcet-Houben's main fields of study encompass:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, subfields of focus include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Insect Science
  • Cell Biology

The core topics addressed by Marina Marcet-Houben in their research involve:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T. Clark;Asma R. Bankapur

  • Beyond the Whole-Genome Duplication: Phylogenetic Evidence for an Ancient Interspecies Hybridization in the Baker's Yeast Lineage.

    Marina Marcet-Houben;Toni Gabaldón

  • An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T Clark;Asma R Bankapur

  • Genome sequence of the necrotrophic fungus Penicillium digitatum, the main postharvest pathogen of citrus

    Marina Marcet-Houben;Ana-Rosa Ballester;Beatriz de la Fuente;Eleonora Harries

  • Phylogenomics supports microsporidia as the earliest diverging clade of sequenced fungi

    Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez;Marina Marcet-Houben;Toni Gabaldón

  • Genome sequence of the olive tree, Olea europaea

    Fernando Cruz;Irene Julca;Irene Julca;Jèssica Gómez-Garrido;Damian Loska

  • Acquisition of prokaryotic genes by fungal genomes.

    Marina Marcet-Houben;Toni Gabaldón

  • Molecular signatures of plastic phenotypes in two eusocial insect species with simple societies

    Solenn Patalano;Ana Vlasova;Chris Wyatt;Philip Ewels

  • PhylomeDB v4: zooming into the plurality of evolutionary histories of a genome.

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez;Leszek P. Pryszcz;Marina Marcet-Houben

  • Genome, Transcriptome, and Functional Analyses of Penicillium expansum Provide New Insights Into Secondary Metabolism and Pathogenicity

    Ana-Rosa Ballester;Marina Marcet-Houben;Elena Levin;Noa Sela

  • Extreme genomic erosion after recurrent demographic bottlenecks in the highly endangered Iberian lynx.

    Federico Abascal;André Corvelo;Fernando Cruz;Fernando Cruz;José L. Villanueva-Cañas

  • Comparative genomics of emerging pathogens in the Candida glabrata clade

    Toni Gabaldón;Tiphaine Martin;Marina Marcet-Houben;Pascal Durrens

  • Systematic phenotyping of a large-scale Candida glabrata deletion collection reveals novel antifungal tolerance genes.

    Tobias Schwarzmüller;Biao Ma;Ekkehard Hiller;Fabian Istel

  • Adaptation of S. cerevisiae to Fermented Food Environments Reveals Remarkable Genome Plasticity and the Footprints of Domestication.

    Jean Luc Legras;Virginie Galeote;Frederic Bigey;Carole Camarasa

  • Expansion of Signal Transduction Pathways in Fungi by Extensive Genome Duplication.

    Luis M. Corrochano;Alan Kuo;Marina Marcet-Houben;Silvia Polaino

  • PhylomeDB v3.0: an expanding repository of genome-wide collections of trees, alignments and phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy predictions

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Salvador Capella-Gutierrez;Leszek P. Pryszcz;Ivan Denisov

  • Whole genome sequencing of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus; Pleuronectiformes): a fish adapted to demersal life

    Antonio Figueras;Diego Robledo;André Corvelo;Miguel Hermida

  • Genetically encodable bioluminescent system from fungi

    Alexey A. Kotlobay;Karen S. Sarkisyan;Yuliana A. Mokrushina;Marina Marcet-Houben

  • Additional file 1 of An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T. Clark;Asma R. Bankapur

Frequent Co-Authors

Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Fabrice Legeai
Fabrice Legeai University of Rennes
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Marie-France Sagot
Marie-France Sagot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Amparo Latorre
Amparo Latorre University of Valencia
Jaime Huerta-Cepas
Jaime Huerta-Cepas Technical University of Madrid
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia
Ivo Gut
Ivo Gut Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico
Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz University College London

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