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Michael E. Hood

Michael E. Hood

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
7302
World Ranking
18965
National Ranking
7746

Michael E. Hood publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. Hood sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 132 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Michael E. Hood D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. Hood sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael E. Hood is affiliated with Amherst College in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, their subfields of study include Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics focused on evolutionary and genetic dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, and plant-virus research. Other notable areas of study involve plant and animal interactions, plant reproductive biology, yeasts and rust fungi studies, as well as plant pathogens and fungal diseases.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating-type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating-type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther-smut fungi (2022, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • Tempo of Degeneration Across Independently Evolved Nonrecombining Regions (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in the non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in anther-smut fungi (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Can disease resistance evolve independently at different ages? Genetic variation in age-dependent resistance to disease in three wild plant species (2022, Journal of Ecology)

Michael E. Hood has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Janis Antonovics
  • Tatiana Giraud
  • Emily L. Bruns
  • Marine Duhamel
  • Ricardo C. Rodrı́guez de la Vega

Their work has appeared predominantly in several publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Michael E. Hood received recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

    D. M. de Vienne;G. Refrégier;G. Refrégier;M. López‐Villavicencio;A. Tellier

  • Speciation in fungi

    Tatiana Giraud;Guislaine Refrégier;Mickaël Le Gac;Damien M. de Vienne

  • Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond

    S. Billiard;M. López‐Villavicencio;M. E. Hood;T. Giraud;T. Giraud

  • Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types.

    Sylvain Billiard;Manuela López-Villavicencio;Benjamin Devier;Michael E. Hood

  • High Variability of Mitochondrial Gene Order among Fungi

    Gabriela Aguileta;Damien M. de Vienne;Damien M. de Vienne;Oliver N. Ross;Oliver N. Ross;Michael E. Hood

  • Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution.

    G. Bernasconi;J. Antonovics;A. Biere;Deborah Charlesworth

  • PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE OF HOST-SPECIFIC CRYPTIC SPECIES IN THE ANTHER SMUT FUNGUS

    Mickael Le Gac;Michael E. Hood;Elisabeth Fournier;Tatiana Giraud

  • The population biology of fungal invasions.

    Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Alice Feurtey;Alice Feurtey;Michael E. Hood;Alodie Snirc;Alodie Snirc

  • Applications of KOH-aniline blue fluorescence in the study of plant-fungal interactions.

    M. E. Hood;H. D. Shew

  • The ecology and genetics of a host shift: microbotryum as a model system.

    Janis Antonovics;Michael Hood;Jessica Partain

  • Cophylogeny of the anther smut fungi and their caryophyllaceous hosts: prevalence of host shifts and importance of delimiting parasite species for inferring cospeciation.

    Guislaine Refrégier;Mickaël Le Gac;Florian Jabbour;Alex Widmer

  • Mating system of the anther smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum: selfing under heterothallism.

    Tatiana Giraud;Roxana Yockteng;Manuela López-Villavicencio;Guislaine Refrégier;Guislaine Refrégier

  • Dynamics of multiple infection and within-host competition by the anther-smut pathogen.

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  • Intratetrad mating, heterozygosity, and the maintenance of deleterious alleles in Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago violacea).

    Michael E Hood;Janis Antonovics

  • Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism

    Sara Branco;Hélène Badouin;Ricardo C. Rodríguez De La Vega;Jéröme Gouzy

  • Multiple infections by the anther smut pathogen are frequent and involve related strains.

    Manuela López-Villavicencio;Manuela López-Villavicencio;Odile Jonot;Odile Jonot;Amélie Coantic;Amélie Coantic;Michael E Hood

  • Dimorphic Mating-Type Chromosomes in the Fungus Microbotryum violaceum

    Michael E. Hood

  • Repeat-Induced Point Mutation and the Population Structure of Transposable Elements in Microbotryum violaceum

    Michael E. Hood;Melanie Katawczik;Tatiana Giraud

  • Chaos of Rearrangements in the Mating-Type Chromosomes of the Anther-Smut Fungus Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae

    Hélène Badouin;Michael E. Hood;Jérôme Gouzy;Jérôme Gouzy;Gabriela Aguileta

  • Multiple convergent supergene evolution events in mating-type chromosomes.

    Sara Branco;Fantin Carpentier;Ricardo C. Rodrí­guez de la Vega;Héléne Badouin

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatiana Giraud
Tatiana Giraud University of Paris-Saclay
Janis Antonovics
Janis Antonovics University of Virginia
Pierre Gladieux
Pierre Gladieux University of Montpellier
Jacqui A. Shykoff
Jacqui A. Shykoff University of Paris-Saclay
Christina A. Cuomo
Christina A. Cuomo Broad Institute
Jérôme Gouzy
Jérôme Gouzy Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Dominik Begerow
Dominik Begerow Ruhr University Bochum
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Alex Widmer
Alex Widmer ETH Zurich
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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