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Michel C. Milinkovitch

Michel C. Milinkovitch

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
10907
World Ranking
14463
National Ranking
265

Overview

Michel C. Milinkovitch is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, and Biophysics.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Collagen: Extraction and Characterization
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Silk-based biomaterials and applications

Michel C. Milinkovitch has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Biology
  • iScience
  • Science Advances
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Michel C. Milinkovitch are:

  • "Elephants evolved strategies reducing the biomechanical complexity of their trunk," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Genome mapping of a LYST mutation in corn snakes indicates that vertebrate chromatophore vesicles are lysosome-related organelles," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Reaction-diffusion in a growing 3D domain of skin scales generates a discrete cellular automaton," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "High-resolution confocal and light-sheet imaging of collagen 3D network architecture in very large samples," 2023, iScience
  • "Somitic positional information guides self-organized patterning of snake scales," 2023, Science Advances

Frequent collaborators of Michel C. Milinkovitch include:

  • Rory L. Cooper
  • Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh
  • Szabolcs Zakany
  • Paule Dagenais
  • Athanasia C. Tzika

Best Publications

  • Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons

    Jérémie Teyssier;Suzanne V. Saenko;Dirk van der Marel;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • Convergent adaptive radiations in Madagascan and Asian ranid frogs reveal covariation between larval and adult traits

    Franky Bossuyt;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • Local Endemism Within the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot

    Franky Bossuyt;Madhava Meegaskumbura;Natalie Beenaerts;David D.J. Gower

  • Amphibians as indicators of early tertiary "out-of-India" dispersal of vertebrates.

    Franky Bossuyt;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses Indicate a Wide and Ancient Radiation of African Hepatitis Delta Virus, Suggesting a Deltavirus Genus of at Least Seven Major Clades

    Nadjia Radjef;Emmanuel Gordien;Valeria Ivaniushina;Elyanne Gault

  • Sri Lanka: An Amphibian Hot Spot

    Madhava Meegaskumbura;Franky Bossuyt;Rohan Pethiyagoda;Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi

  • Revised phylogeny of whales suggested by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences

    Michel C. Milinkovitch;Michel C. Milinkovitch;Guillermo Orti;Axel Meyer

  • Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family ranidae

    Franky Bossuyt;Rafe M. Brown;David M. Hillis;David C. Cannatella

  • Independent adaptation to riverine habitats allowed survival of ancient cetacean lineages.

    Insa Cassens;Saverio S. Vicario;Victor V. Waddell;Heather H. Balchowsky

  • Stability of Cladistic Relationships between Cetacea and Higher-Level Artiodactyl Taxa

    John Gatesy;Michel Milinkovitch;Victor Waddell;Michael Stanhope

  • The metapopulation genetic algorithm: An efficient solution for the problem of large phylogeny estimation.

    Alan R. Lemmon;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • A hidden Markov model for progressive multiple alignment

    Ari Pekka Loytynoja;Michel Milinkovitch

  • Changes in Hox genes’ structure and function during the evolution of the squamate body plan

    Nicolas Di-Poï;Juan I. Montoya-Burgos;Hilary Miller;Olivier Pourquié;Olivier Pourquié;Olivier Pourquié

  • Evaluating intraspecific "network" construction methods using simulated sequence data: do existing algorithms outperform the global maximum parsimony approach?

    Insa Cassens;Patrick Mardulyn;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • Feeding specialization and host-derived chemical defense in Chrysomeline leaf beetles did not lead to an evolutionary dead end

    Arnaud Termonia;Ting H. Hsiao;Jacques M. Pasteels;Michel C. Milinkovitch

  • SOAP, cleaning multiple alignments from unstable blocks.

    Ari Pekka Loytynoja;Michel Milinkovitch

  • MITOCHONDRIAL DNA RATES AND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN EUROPEAN NEWTS (GENUS EUPROCTUS)

    Adalgisa Caccone;Adalgisa Caccone;Michel C. Milinkovitch;Valerio Sbordoni;Jeffrey R. Powell

  • The phylogeography of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus): a critical examination of network methods and rooting procedures

    I. Cassens;K. Van Waerebeek;P. B. Best;E. A. Crespo

  • Phylogeny of all major groups of cetaceans based on DNA sequences from three mitochondrial genes.

    Michel C. Milinkovitch;Axel Meyer;Jeffrey R. Powell

  • Precise colocalization of interacting structural and pigmentary elements generates extensive color pattern variation in Phelsuma lizards.

    Suzanne V Saenko;Jérémie Teyssier;Dirk van der Marel;Michel C Milinkovitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey R. Powell
Jeffrey R. Powell Yale University
Adalgisa Caccone
Adalgisa Caccone Yale University
Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule Collège de France
Ralph Tiedemann
Ralph Tiedemann University of Potsdam
Jacques Pasteels
Jacques Pasteels Université Libre de Bruxelles
James P. Gibbs
James P. Gibbs SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Claudio Ciofi
Claudio Ciofi University of Florence
Matthias Zwicker
Matthias Zwicker University of Maryland, College Park
Olivier Pourquié
Olivier Pourquié Brigham and Women's Hospital
Howard L. Snell
Howard L. Snell University of New Mexico

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