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Olivier Jaillon is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. The primary fields of study in their research include Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers several subfields, notably Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Oceanography, with additional focus on Plant Science and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research centers around key topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Olivier Jaillon has contributed papers to several prominent publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature
  • The ISME Journal
  • ISME Communications

Their recent papers include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology" (2020), Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome" (2022), Science
  • "Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean" (2022), Cell Genomics
  • "Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome" (2021), Science Advances
  • "Compendium of 530 metagenome-assembled bacterial and archaeal genomes from the polar Arctic Ocean" (2021), Nature Microbiology

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Olivier Jaillon are:

  • Patrick Wincker
  • Chris Bowler
  • Colomban de Vargas
  • Daniele Iudicone
  • Lionel Guidi

Best Publications

  • The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla.

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean Marc Aury;Benjamin Noel;Alberto Policriti

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • Genome duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the early vertebrate proto-karyotype

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean-Marc Aury;Frédéric Brunet;Jean-Louis Petit

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita

    Pierre Abad;Pierre Abad;Jérôme Gouzy;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

  • The Complete Genome Sequence of the Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403

    Alexander Bolotin;Patrick Wincker;Stéphane Mauger;Olivier Jaillon

  • The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants

    Angélique D'hont;Jean Marc Aury;Franc Christophe Baurens

  • The rainbow trout genome provides novel insights into evolution after whole-genome duplication in vertebrates

    Camille Berthelot;Frédéric Brunet;Domitille Chalopin;Amélie Juanchich

  • Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

    Jean-Marc Aury;Olivier Jaillon;Laurent Duret;Benjamin Noel

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

    Ann C. Gregory;Ahmed A. Zayed;Nádia Conceição-Neto;Ben Temperton

  • Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication

    G Albert Wu;Simon Prochnik;Jerry Jenkins;Jerome Salse

  • Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

    Francis Martin;Annegret Kohler;Claude Murat;Raffaella Balestrini

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

    Eric Karsenti;Silvia G. Acinas;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Gene Loss and Evolutionary Rates Following Whole-Genome Duplication in Teleost Fishes

    Frédéric G. Brunet;Hugues Roest Crollius;Mathilde Paris;Jean-Marc Aury

  • Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Jean François Flot;Boris Hespeels;Xiang Li;Benjamin Noel

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • Metagenomic 16S rDNA Illumina tags are a powerful alternative to amplicon sequencing to explore diversity and structure of microbial communities

    Ramiro Logares;Shinichi Sunagawa;Guillem Salazar;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo

  • Estimate of human gene number provided by genome-wide analysis using Tetraodon nigroviridis DNA sequence

    H Roest Crollius;O Jaillon;A Bernot;C Dasilva

  • Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

    Stéphane Pesant;Fabrice Not;Marc Picheral;Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Marc Aury
Jean-Marc Aury University of Paris-Saclay
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Julie Poulain
Julie Poulain French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Daniele Iudicone
Daniele Iudicone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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