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Siv G. E. Andersson

Siv G. E. Andersson

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D-Index
70
Citations
18431
World Ranking
2273
National Ranking
27

Overview

Siv G. E. Andersson is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their work spans subfields including molecular biology, genetics, pharmacology, pathology and forensic medicine, and ecology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics with significant focus on genomics and phylogenetic studies, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, microbial community ecology and physiology, insect and pesticide research, and plant and animal studies.

Recent publications by Siv G. E. Andersson include:

  • Phylogeny and Expansion of Serine/Threonine Kinases in Phagocytotic Bacteria in the Phylum Planctomycetota (2024), published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Genome Evolution of a Symbiont Population for Pathogen Defense in Honeybees (2022), published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • The Subcellular Proteome of a Planctomycetes Bacterium Shows That Newly Evolved Proteins Have Distinct Fractionation Patterns (2021), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Evolutionary Remodeling of the Cell Envelope in Bacteria of the Planctomycetes Phylum (2020), published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Antibiotics should not be used for back/leg pain (2020), published in Acta Orthopaedica

Frequent co-authors working with Andersson include:

  • Christian Seeger
  • Karl Dyrhage
  • Peter Fritzell
  • Tomas Bergström
  • Bodil Jönsson

Andersson's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Acta Orthopaedica
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • microLife
  • Bioinformatics

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria

    Siv G. E. Andersson;Alireza Zomorodipour;Jan O. Andersson;Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén

  • The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

    Laurent Philippot;Siv G. E. Andersson;Tom J. Battin;James I. Prosser

  • genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R

    Lionel Guy;Jens Roat Kultima;Siv G. E. Andersson

  • Reductive evolution of resident genomes

    Siv G.E Andersson;Charles G Kurland

  • Codon preferences in free-living microorganisms.

    S. G. E. Andersson;C. G. Kurland

  • 50 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Endosymbiotic Bacteria

    Ivica Tamas;Lisa Klasson;Björn Canbäck;A. Kristina Näslund

  • The complete genome sequence of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.

    Pär Larsson;Petra C F Oyston;Patrick Chain;May C Chu

  • Origin and Evolution of the Mitochondrial Proteome

    Charles Kurland;Charles Kurland;S G E Andersson

  • Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

    Christina Toft;Siv G. E. Andersson

  • On the origin of mitochondria: a genomics perspective

    Siv G E Andersson;Olof Karlberg;Björn Canbäck;Charles G Kurland

  • A LIM-homeodomain combinatorial code for motor-neuron pathway selection

    Stefan Thor;Stefan Thor;Siv G. E. Andersson;Andrew Tomlinson;John B. Thomas

  • Insights into the evolutionary process of genome degradation

    Jan O Andersson;Siv Ge Andersson

  • The louse-borne human pathogen Bartonella quintana is a genomic derivative of the zoonotic agent Bartonella henselae

    Cecilia M. Alsmark;A. Carolin Frank;E. Olof Karlberg;Boris-Antoine Legault

  • RK2, a glial-specific homeodomain protein required for embryonic nerve cord condensation and viability in Drosophila

    Gerard Campbell;Harald Göring;Tina Lin;Eric Spana

  • Bartonella Adhesin A Mediates a Proangiogenic Host Cell Response

    Tanja Riess;Siv G.E. Andersson;Andrei Lupas;Martin Schaller

  • The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans.

    Lisa Klasson;Joakim Westberg;Panagiotis Sapountzis;Kristina Näslund

  • The Orientia tsutsugamushi genome reveals massive proliferation of conjugative type IV secretion system and host–cell interaction genes

    Nam-Hyuk Cho;Hang-Rae Kim;Jung-Hee Lee;Se-Yoon Kim

  • The dual origin of the yeast mitochondrial proteome.

    Olof Karlberg;Björn Canbäck;Charles G. Kurland;Siv G. E. Andersson

  • The evolution of chronic infection strategies in the α-proteobacteria

    Jacques Batut;Siv G. E. Andersson;David O'Callaghan

  • A phylogenomic approach to microbial evolution.

    Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén;Siv G. E. Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles G. Kurland
Charles G. Kurland Lund University
Thijs J. G. Ettema
Thijs J. G. Ettema Wageningen University & Research
Kostas Bourtzis
Kostas Bourtzis International Atomic Energy Agency
Ramunas Stepanauskas
Ramunas Stepanauskas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Jan Andersson
Jan Andersson Uppsala University
Richard W. Titball
Richard W. Titball University of Exeter
Alex Mira
Alex Mira Foundation Center
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christoph Dehio
Christoph Dehio University of Basel
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council

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