Laurent Duret

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1 Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia. Nature 2006 5.06
2 Integr8 and Genome Reviews: integrated views of complete genomes and proteomes. Nucleic Acids Res 2005 4.15
3 Tree pattern matching in phylogenetic trees: automatic search for orthologs or paralogs in homologous gene sequence databases. Bioinformatics 2005 3.62
4 Recombination drives the evolution of GC-content in the human genome. Mol Biol Evol 2004 3.50
5 Genome-wide studies highlight indirect links between human replication origins and gene regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 2.77
6 The relationship among gene expression, the evolution of gene dosage, and the rate of protein evolution. PLoS Genet 2010 2.20
7 Adaptation or biased gene conversion? Extending the null hypothesis of molecular evolution. Trends Genet 2007 2.18
8 Translational control of intron splicing in eukaryotes. Nature 2008 2.15
9 Neutral effect of recombination on base composition in Drosophila. Genet Res 2003 2.11
10 Comparative sequence analysis of the X-inactivation center region in mouse, human, and bovine. Genome Res 2002 2.04
11 Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations. Nat Commun 2011 2.03
12 Databases of homologous gene families for comparative genomics. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 2.01
13 The endogenous retroviral locus ERVWE1 is a bona fide gene involved in hominoid placental physiology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 1.98
14 The origin, evolution, and functional impact of short insertion-deletion variants identified in 179 human genomes. Genome Res 2013 1.83
15 Genome-scale coestimation of species and gene trees. Genome Res 2012 1.82
16 Preventing dangerous nonsense: selection for robustness to transcriptional error in human genes. PLoS Genet 2011 1.63
17 Evolutionary origin and maintenance of coexpressed gene clusters in mammals. Mol Biol Evol 2006 1.62
18 GC-biased gene conversion promotes the fixation of deleterious amino acid changes in primates. Trends Genet 2008 1.54
19 ROSO: optimizing oligonucleotide probes for microarrays. Bioinformatics 2004 1.53
20 Ftx is a non-coding RNA which affects Xist expression and chromatin structure within the X-inactivation center region. Hum Mol Genet 2010 1.53
21 Pervasive positive selection on duplicated and nonduplicated vertebrate protein coding genes. Genome Res 2008 1.45
22 Ultra-fast sequence clustering from similarity networks with SiLiX. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 1.40
23 HOPPSIGEN: a database of human and mouse processed pseudogenes. Nucleic Acids Res 2005 1.38
24 The Paramecium germline genome provides a niche for intragenic parasitic DNA: evolutionary dynamics of internal eliminated sequences. PLoS Genet 2012 1.38
25 Relationship between gene expression and GC-content in mammals: statistical significance and biological relevance. Hum Mol Genet 2004 1.33
26 No evidence for tissue-specific adaptation of synonymous codon usage in humans. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.32
27 The decline of isochores in mammals: an assessment of the GC content variation along the mammalian phylogeny. J Mol Evol 2004 1.28
28 Identification and characterization of human Mex-3 proteins, a novel family of evolutionarily conserved RNA-binding proteins differentially localized to processing bodies. Nucleic Acids Res 2007 1.28
29 Detecting positive selection within genomes: the problem of biased gene conversion. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2010 1.25
30 XACT, a long noncoding transcript coating the active X chromosome in human pluripotent cells. Nat Genet 2013 1.20
31 Evidence that functional transcription units cover at least half of the human genome. Trends Genet 2004 1.15
32 Homology-dependent methylation in primate repetitive DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 1.13
33 Gene expression in a paleopolyploid: a transcriptome resource for the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia. BMC Genomics 2010 1.12
34 Integrated databanks access and sequence/structure analysis services at the PBIL. Nucleic Acids Res 2003 1.11
35 Evidence of selection on the domesticated ERVWE1 env retroviral element involved in placentation. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.09
36 Expected relationship between the silent substitution rate and the GC content: implications for the evolution of isochores. J Mol Evol 2002 1.06
37 Placenta-specific INSL4 expression is mediated by a human endogenous retrovirus element. Biol Reprod 2002 1.03
38 Polymorphix: a sequence polymorphism database. Nucleic Acids Res 2005 1.03
39 Differential retention of metabolic genes following whole-genome duplication. Mol Biol Evol 2009 1.02
40 The relationship between DNA replication and human genome organization. Mol Biol Evol 2009 1.00
41 Evidence for widespread GC-biased gene conversion in eukaryotes. Genome Biol Evol 2012 1.00
42 Identitag, a relational database for SAGE tag identification and interspecies comparison of SAGE libraries. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 0.99
43 Is RAD-seq suitable for phylogenetic inference? An in silico assessment and optimization. Ecol Evol 2013 0.99
44 GC-biased gene conversion in yeast is specifically associated with crossovers: molecular mechanisms and evolutionary significance. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.95
45 Unexpected observations after mapping LongSAGE tags to the human genome. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 0.95
46 GC content evolution of the human and mouse genomes: insights from the study of processed pseudogenes in regions of different recombination rates. J Mol Evol 2006 0.93
47 The GC content of primates and rodents genomes is not at equilibrium: a reply to Antezana. J Mol Evol 2006 0.93
48 Patterns of selection against transposons inferred from the distribution of Tc1, Tc3 and Tc5 insertions in the mut-7 line of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 2003 0.92
49 Meiotic recombination favors the spreading of deleterious mutations in human populations. Hum Mutat 2011 0.91
50 ISG20L2, a novel vertebrate nucleolar exoribonuclease involved in ribosome biogenesis. Mol Cell Proteomics 2007 0.89
51 Monoallelic expression and tissue specificity are associated with high crossover rates. Trends Genet 2009 0.89
52 Natural history of the ERVWE1 endogenous retroviral locus. Retrovirology 2005 0.88
53 Silencing specific Paramecium tetraurelia genes by feeding double-stranded RNA. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.87
54 Subcellular localization of 14-3-3 proteins in Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites and evidence for a lipid raft-associated form. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2003 0.87
55 Paramecium tetraurelia: the renaissance of an early unicellular model. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.86
56 High-quality sequence clustering guided by network topology and multiple alignment likelihood. Bioinformatics 2012 0.85
57 Immunocytochemistry of Paramecium cytoskeletal structures. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.81
58 Mass culture of Paramecium tetraurelia. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.81
59 Maintaining clonal Paramecium tetraurelia cell lines of controlled age through daily reisolation. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.80
60 Strong heterogeneity in mutation rate causes misleading hallmarks of natural selection on indel mutations in the human genome. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.78
61 DNA microinjection into the macronucleus of paramecium. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2010 0.78
62 Physical and transcript map of the autosomal dominant colobomatous microphthalmia locus on chromosome 15q12-q15 and refinement to a 4.4 Mb region. Eur J Hum Genet 2004 0.78
63 Optimization of multiplexed RADseq libraries using low-cost adaptors. Genetica 2015 0.76
64 Bioinformatics with a French accent. Genome Biol 2005 0.75
65 Unbiased estimate of synonymous and non-synonymous substitution rates with non-stationary base composition. Mol Biol Evol 2017 0.75