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Natalya Yutin is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has focused research efforts primarily in Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work frequently intersects multiple scientific domains, spanning fundamental molecular biology to ecology and epidemiology.

The scientist's subfields of study include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases. The main topics covered in their research output comprise Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Plant Virus Research Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Respiratory viral infections research, Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Yutin's publication record demonstrates contributions to well-established scientific venues, with frequent articles appearing in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, Research Square, Nature Communications, and Nature Microbiology.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Natalya Yutin include the following:

  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World, 2020, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes, 2021, Microbiome
  • Cressdnaviricota: a Virus Phylum Unifying Seven Families of Rep-Encoding Viruses with Single-Stranded, Circular DNA Genomes, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • Analysis of metagenome-assembled viral genomes from the human gut reveals diverse putative CrAss-like phages with unique genomic features, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ancient Gene Capture and Recent Gene Loss Shape the Evolution of Orthopoxvirus-Host Interaction Genes, 2021, mBio

Research collaborations are an important aspect of Yutin's scientific career, with frequent coauthorship alongside Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf, Mart Krupovìč, Dmitry Antipov, and Mikhail Rayko. These partnerships reflect a network of scientists active in viral taxonomy, genomics, and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

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

  • A genomic update on clostridial phylogeny: Gram-negative spore formers and other misplaced clostridia.

    Natalya Yutin;Michael Y. Galperin

  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

    Eugene V. Koonin;Valerian V. Dolja;Mart Krupovic;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani

  • Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms

    Mickaël Boyer;Natalya Yutin;Isabelle Pagnier;Lina Barrassi

  • Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

    Natalya Yutin;Yuri I Wolf;Didier Raoult;Eugene V Koonin

  • Abundance of type I toxin–antitoxin systems in bacteria: searches for new candidates and discovery of novel families

    Elizabeth M. Fozo;Kira S. Makarova;Svetlana A. Shabalina;Natalya Yutin

  • The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis

    Natalya Yutin;Maxim Y Wolf;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin

  • Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut

    Natalya Yutin;Kira S. Makarova;Ayal B. Gussow;Mart Krupovic

  • Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

    Eugene V. Koonin;Natalya Yutin

  • "Megavirales", a proposed new order for eukaryotic nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses.

    Philippe Colson;Xavier De Lamballerie;Natalya Yutin;Sassan Asgari

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Phylogenomics of Prokaryotic Ribosomal Proteins

    Natalya Yutin;Pere Puigbò;Eugene V. Koonin;Yuri I. Wolf

  • Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components

    Frederik Schulz;Natalya Yutin;Natalia N. Ivanova;Davi R. Ortega

  • Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia.

    Shaobin Hou;Kira S Makarova;Jimmy H W Saw;Jimmy H W Saw;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin

  • A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics.

    Alina Pushkarev;Keiichi Inoue;Shirley Larom;José Flores-Uribe

  • The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

    Natalya Yutin;Kira S. Makarova;Sergey L. Mekhedov;Yuri I. Wolf

  • Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes.

    Natalya Yutin;Marcelino T. Suzuki;Hanno Teeling;Marc Weber

  • Evolution of diverse cell division and vesicle formation systems in Archaea

    Kira S. Makarova;Natalya Yutin;Stephen D. Bell;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses

    Christelle Desnues;Bernard La Scola;Natalya Yutin;Ghislain Fournous

  • Updated clusters of orthologous genes for Archaea: a complex ancestor of the Archaea and the byways of horizontal gene transfer

    Yuri I Wolf;Kira S Makarova;Natalya Yutin;Eugene V Koonin

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Yuri I. Wolf
Yuri I. Wolf National Institutes of Health
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Kira S. Makarova
Kira S. Makarova National Institutes of Health
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Oded Béjà
Oded Béjà Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Bernard La Scola
Bernard La Scola Aix-Marseille University
Pavel A. Pevzner
Pavel A. Pevzner University of California, San Diego
Catherine Robert
Catherine Robert Aix-Marseille University

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