2026 Mya Breitbart: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	77	4701	4334	2278	2048	190	28055

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Biology and Biochemistry

4701

4334

2278

2048

190

28055

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index

Citations

28055

World Ranking

4701

National Ranking

2278

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mya Breitbart is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work intersects numerous subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Endocrinology.

Their research covers key topics such as:

Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Plant Virus Research Studies
Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Echinoderm biology and ecology
Marine and coastal plant biology

Several frequent coauthors collaborate extensively with Breitbart, contributing to the depth and scope of their research. These include:

Ian Hewson
Makenzie Kerr
Karyna Rosario
Shen Jean Lim
Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas

Breitbart's research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Fisheries Oceanography
PeerJ
mBio
Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Among notable recent papers, the following stand out for their publication year and venue:

"Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community," 2020, Nature Communications
"Cressdnaviricota: a Virus Phylum Unifying Seven Families of Rep-Encoding Viruses with Single-Stranded, Circular DNA Genomes," 2020, Journal of Virology
"Relationships among microbial indicators of fecal pollution, microbial source tracking markers, and pathogens in Costa Rican coastal waters," 2020, Water Research
"A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea," 2023, Science Advances
"Prokaryotic and Viral Community Composition of Freshwater Springs in Florida, USA," 2020, mBio

The recognition of their contributions to science includes fellowships such as:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2007

Best Publications

Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities

Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon;Bjarne Andresen;Joseph M. Mahaffy

1202
Citations
The marine viromes of four oceanic regions

Florent E Angly;Ben Felts;Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon

1143
Citations
Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes

Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Robert A. Edwards;Dana Hall;Florent Angly

1140
Citations
Here a virus, there a virus, everywhere the same virus?

Mya Breitbart;Forest L. Rohwer

1043
Citations
Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

974
Citations
Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces

Mya Breitbart;Ian Hewson;Ben Felts;Joseph M. Mahaffy

948
Citations
RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses

Tao Zhang;Mya Breitbart;Wah Heng Lee;Jin-Quan Run

917
Citations
Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

725
Citations
Laboratory Procedures to Generate Viral Metagenomes

Rebecca V Thurber;Matthew Haynes;Mya Breitbart;Linda Wegley

690
Citations
Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

Peter Simmonds;Mike J. Adams;Mária Benkő;Mya Breitbart

689
Citations
Metagenomic and Small-Subunit rRNA Analyses Reveal the Genetic Diversity of Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi, and Viruses in Soil

Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Mya Breitbart;James Nulton;Peter Salamon

678
Citations
Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology.

Robert A Edwards;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Linda Wegley;Matthew Haynes

639
Citations
Marine viruses: truth or dare.

Mya Breitbart

609
Citations
Phage Puppet Masters of the Marine Microbial Realm

Mya Breitbart;Chelsea Bonnain;Kema Malki;Natalie A Sawaya

532
Citations
Diversity of Bacteria Associated with the Caribbean Coral Montastraea franksi

Forest Rohwer;Mya Breitbart;J. Jara;Farooq Azam

520
Citations
Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments.

Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lin Lin Li;Linda Wegley;Mike Furlan

493
Citations
Viral diversity and dynamics in an infant gut

Mya Breitbart;Matthew Haynes;Scott Kelley;Florent Angly

394
Citations
Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature

Ramy K. Aziz;Mya Breitbart;Robert A. Edwards

382
Citations
Diversity and population structure of a near-shore marine-sediment viral community.

Mya Breitbart;Ben Felts;Scott Kelley;Joseph M. Mahaffy

374
Citations
Role of Elevated Organic Carbon Levels and Microbial Activity in Coral Mortality

David I. Kline;Neilan M. Kuntz;Mya Breitbart;Nancy Knowlton

362
Citations