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Sébastien Duperron

Sébastien Duperron

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
3690
World Ranking
8110
National Ranking
370

Overview

Sébastien Duperron is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has a research focus spanning Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work emphasizes the subfields of Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Immunology.

The scientist's research predominantly explores topics related to microbial ecology and aquatic environments. Their main areas of work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Sébastien Duperron has contributed significantly to multiple research publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Microbiome-Aware Ecotoxicology of Organisms: Relevance, Pitfalls, and Challenges, 2020, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Host Species and Body Site Explain the Variation in the Microbiota Associated to Wild Sympatric Mediterranean Teleost Fishes, 2020, Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial utilization of rare earth elements at cold seeps related to aerobic methane oxidation, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Disruption of fish gut microbiota composition and holobiont's metabolome during a simulated Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanobacteria) bloom, 2023, Microbiome
  • The Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria and Microalgae at the French National Museum of Natural History: A Century Old But Still Alive and Kicking! Including in Memoriam: Professor Alain Couté, 2022, Cryptogamie Algologie

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microorganisms
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Preprints.org
  • Symbiosis

Sébastien Duperron has collaborated extensively with colleagues such as Charlotte Duval, Benjamin Marie, Sébastien Halary, Cécile Bernard, and Alison Gallet, with collaboration counts ranging from 12 to 29 coauthored pieces.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial diversity in hydrothermal sediment and epsilonproteobacterial dominance in experimental microcolonizers at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Sébastien Duperron;Pascal Philippot;Julien Foriel

  • A dual symbiosis shared by two mussel species, Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), from hydrothermal vents along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Claudia Bergin;Frank Zielinski;Anna Blazejak

  • Dual symbiosis in a Bathymodiolus sp mussel from a methane seep on the gabon continental margin (southeast Atlantic): 16S rRNA phylogeny and distribution of the symbionts in gills

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Thierry Nadalig;Jean-Claude Caprais;Myriam Sibuet

  • Diversity, relative abundance and metabolic potential of bacterial endosymbionts in three Bathymodiolus mussel species from cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Sébastien Duperron;Myriam Sibuet;Barbara J. MacGregor;Marcel M. M. Kuypers

  • Unexpected co‐occurrence of six bacterial symbionts in the gills of the cold seep mussel Idas sp. (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Halary;Sébastien Halary;Julien Lorion;Myriam Sibuet

  • Symbioses between deep-sea mussels (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolinae) and chemosynthetic bacteria: diversity, function and evolution.

    Sébastien Duperron;Julien Lorion;Julien Lorion;Sarah Samadi;Sarah Samadi;Olivier Gros

  • Identifying Toxic Impacts of Metals Potentially Released during Deep-Sea Mining—A Synthesis of the Challenges to Quantifying Risk

    Chris Hauton;Alastair Brown;Sven Thatje;Nélia C. Mestre

  • Microbial diversity associated with the hydrothermal shrimp Rimicaris exoculata gut and occurrence of a resident microbial community

    Lucile Durand;Magali Zbinden;Valérie Cueff-Gauchard;Sébastien Duperron

  • An overview of chemosynthetic symbioses in bivalves from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

    Sebastien Duperron;Sylvie Marylene Gaudron;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Marina Pais Ribeiro da Cunha

  • Evidence for chemoautotrophic symbiosis in a Mediterranean cold seep clam (Bivalvia: Lucinidae): comparative sequence analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA, APS reductase and RubisCO genes.

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Aline Fiala-Médioni;Jean-Claude Caprais;Karine Olu

  • Several deep-sea mussels and their associated symbionts are able to live both on wood and on whale falls

    Julien Lorion;Sébastien Duperron;Olivier Gros;Corinne Cruaud

  • The Diversity of Deep-Sea Mussels and Their Bacterial Symbioses

    Sébastien Duperron

  • Widespread occurrence of an intranuclear bacterial parasite in vent and seep bathymodiolin mussels.

    Frank U. Zielinski;Frank U. Zielinski;Annelie Pernthaler;Sébastien Duperron;Luciana Raggi

  • Intracellular Oceanospirillales bacteria inhabit gills of Acesta bivalves

    Sigmund Jensen;Sébastien Duperron;Nils-Kåre Birkeland;Martin Hovland;Martin Hovland

  • Colonization of organic substrates deployed in deep-sea reducing habitats by symbiotic species and associated fauna.

    S.M. Gaudron;F. Pradillon;F. Pradillon;M. Pailleret;M. Pailleret;Sébastien Duperron

  • Delayed Selfing as an Optimal Mating Strategy in Preferentially Outcrossing Species: Theoretical Analysis of the Optimal Age at First Reproduction in Relation to Mate Availability

    Anne Tsitrone;Sébastien Duperron;Patrice David

  • 3D FISH for the quantification of methane and sulphur-oxidizing endosymbionts in bacteriocytes of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus

    Sébastien Halary;Virginie Riou;Virginie Riou;Françoise Gaill;Thomas Boudier

  • Influence of CH 4 and H 2 S availability on symbiont distribution, carbon assimilation and transfer in the dual symbiotic vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus

    V. Riou;S. Halary;S. Halary;S. Duperron;S. Duperron;S. Bouillon;S. Bouillon

  • sFDvent: A global trait database for deep‐sea hydrothermal‐vent fauna

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  • Lifecycle ecology of deep-sea chemosymbiotic mussels: a review

    Sven R Laming;Sven R Laming;Sylvie Marylène Gaudron;Sylvie Marylène Gaudron;Sébastien Duperron

  • Diversity and distribution of methane-oxidizing microbial communities associated with different faunal assemblages in a giant pockmark of the Gabon continental margin

    Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita;Thierry Nadalig;Erwan Roussel;Eloise Delage

  • Response of Fish Gut Microbiota to Toxin-Containing Cyanobacterial Extracts: A Microcosm Study on the Medaka (Oryzias latipes)

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Halary;Myriam Habiballah;Alison Gallet

  • Cryptic frenulates are the dominant chemosymbiotrophic fauna at Arctic and high latitude Atlantic cold seeps.

    Arunima Sen;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Stéphane Hourdez;Bérénice Piquet

  • A tale of two chitons: is habitat specialisation linked to distinct associated bacterial communities?

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Marie-Anne Pottier;Marie-Anne Pottier;Nelly Léger;Nelly Léger;Sylvie M. Gaudron;Sylvie M. Gaudron

  • Data from: sFDvent: a global trait database for deep-sea hydrothermal-vent fauna

    Abbie S. Chapman;Stace E. Beaulieu;Ana Colaço;Andrey V. Gebruk

Frequent Co-Authors

Françoise Gaill
Françoise Gaill Ocean & Climate Platform
Sarah Samadi
Sarah Samadi French National Museum of Natural History
Marina R. Cunha
Marina R. Cunha University of Aveiro
Myriam Sibuet
Myriam Sibuet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Karine Olu
Karine Olu French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jean-Claude Caprais
Jean-Claude Caprais French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Ana Colaço
Ana Colaço University of the Azores
Germain Bayon
Germain Bayon French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Nicole Dubilier
Nicole Dubilier Max Planck Society

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