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Yannick Gueguen is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research spans several interconnected scientific areas primarily focused on marine bivalves, aquaculture diseases, and microbial ecology.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science and Immunology and Microbiology. Within these fields, they have contributed significantly to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Immunology, Ecology, Endocrinology, and Molecular Biology. Their work addresses a spectrum of topics including Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Vibrio Bacteria Research Studies, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, and Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yannick Gueguen are:

  • Bruno Petton
  • Julien de Lorgeril
  • Jérémie Vidal-Dupiol
  • Lionel Dégremont
  • Guillaume Mitta

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Animal Microbiome
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Recent significant publications by Yannick Gueguen include:

  • Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection, 2022, Microbiome
  • A Sustained Immune Response Supports Long-Term Antiviral Immune Priming in the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas, 2020, mBio
  • Microbiota Composition and Evenness Predict Survival Rate of Oysters Confronted to Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Recent advances in bivalve-microbiota interactions for disease prevention in aquaculture, 2021, Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • Differential basal expression of immune genes confers Crassostrea gigas resistance to Pacific oyster mortality syndrome, 2020, BMC Genomics

Best Publications

  • Insights into the anti-microbial defense of marine invertebrates: the penaeid shrimps and the oyster Crassostrea gigas

    Evelyne Bachère;Yannick Gueguen;Marcelo Gonzalez;Julien de Lorgeril

  • Different secretory repertoires control the biomineralization processes of prism and nacre deposition of the pearl oyster shell

    Benjamin Marie;Caroline Joubert;Alexandre Tayalé;Isabelle Zanella-Cléon

  • Immune-suppression by OsHV-1 viral infection causes fatal bacteraemia in Pacific oysters

    de Lorgeril J;Lucasson A;Petton B;Toulza E

  • Immune gene discovery by expressed sequence tags generated from hemocytes of the bacteria-challenged oyster, Crassostrea gigas.

    Yannick Gueguen;Jean Paul Cadoret;Didier Flament;Catherine Barreau-Roumiguière

  • Characterization of a defensin from the oyster Crassostrea gigas. Recombinant production, folding, solution structure, antimicrobial activities, and gene expression.

    Yannick Gueguen;Amaury Herpin;André Aumelas;Julien Garnier

  • Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Pinctada margaritifera calcifying mantle and shell: focus on biomineralization

    Caroline Joubert;David Piquemal;Benjamin Marie;Laurent Manchon

  • Bacterial community characterization of water and intestine of the shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris in a biofloc system.

    Emilie Cardona;Yannick Gueguen;Yannick Gueguen;Kevin Magré;Bénédicte Lorgeoux

  • Recombinant expression and anti-microbial activity of anti-lipopolysaccharide factor (ALF) from the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

    Kunlaya Somboonwiwat;Michael Marcos;Anchalee Tassanakajon;Sirawut Klinbunga

  • PenBase, the shrimp antimicrobial peptide penaeidin database: Sequence-based classification and recommended nomenclature

    Yannick Gueguen;Julien Garnier;Lorenne Robert;Marie-Paule Lefranc

  • A Very Efficient β-Glucosidase Catalyst for the Hydrolysis of Flavor Precursors of Wines and Fruit Juices

    Yannick Gueguen;Patrick Chemardin;Guilhem Janbon;and Alain Arnaud

  • Molecular and biochemical characterization of an endo-beta-1,3- glucanase of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

    Y. Gueguen;W.G.B. Voorhorst;J. van der Oost;W.M. de Vos

  • Molecular characterization of two isoforms of defensin from hemocytes of the oyster Crassostrea gigas.

    M. Gonzalez;Y. Gueguen;G. Desserre;J. de Lorgeril

  • Generation and analysis of a 29,745 unique Expressed Sequence Tags from the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) assembled into a publicly accessible database: the GigasDatabase

    Elodie Fleury;Arnaud Huvet;Christophe Lelong;Julien de Lorgeril

  • Evidence of a bactericidal permeability increasing protein in an invertebrate, the Crassostrea gigas Cg-BPI.

    Marcelo Gonzalez;Yannick Gueguen;Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón;Bernard Romestand

  • Ionizing radiation biomarkers in epidemiological studies – An update

    Janet Hall;Penny A. Jeggo;Catharine West;Maria Gomolka

  • Antimicrobial peptides in marine invertebrate health and disease.

    Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón;Rafael Diego Rosa;Paulina Schmitt;Cairé Barreto

  • Rapid accumulation of an interleukin 17 homolog transcript in Crassostrea gigas hemocytes following bacterial exposure

    Steven Roberts;Yannick Gueguen;Julien de Lorgeril;Frederick Goetz

  • Genetic and biochemical characterization of a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

    J. van der Oost;W.G.B. Voorhorst;S.W.M. Kengen;A.C.M. Geerling

  • Gonad transcriptome analysis of pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera: identification of potential sex differentiation and sex determining genes

    Vaihiti Teaniniuraitemoana;Arnaud Huvet;Peva Levy;Christophe Klopp

  • Oyster hemocytes express a proline-rich peptide displaying synergistic antimicrobial activity with a defensin.

    Yannick Gueguen;Romestand Bernard;Fievet Julie;Schmitt Paulina

Frequent Co-Authors

Evelyne Bachère
Evelyne Bachère University of Montpellier
Guillaume Mitta
Guillaume Mitta University of Montpellier
Arnaud Huvet
Arnaud Huvet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Philippe Bulet
Philippe Bulet Grenoble Alpes University
Guilhem Janbon
Guilhem Janbon Institut Pasteur
Daniel Prieur
Daniel Prieur University of Western Brittany
Pierre Boudry
Pierre Boudry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Anchalee Tassanakajon
Anchalee Tassanakajon Chulalongkorn University
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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