Anthony Levasseur

15.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
175 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Anthony Levasseur is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anthony Levasseur has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Infectious Diseases and 47 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Anthony Levasseur's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (51 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (27 papers). Anthony Levasseur is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (51 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (27 papers). Anthony Levasseur collaborates with scholars based in France, Burkina Faso and Saudi Arabia. Anthony Levasseur's co-authors include Didier Raoult, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, Vincent Lombard, Élodie Drula, Bernard La Scola, Éric Record, Pierre Pontarotti, Philippe Colson and Pierre‐Edouard Fournier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Anthony Levasseur

169 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Expansion of the enzymatic repertoire of the CAZy database to integrate auxiliary redox enzymes

2013 915 citations Anthony Levasseur, Pedro M. Coutinho et al. profile →
Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics

2018 581 citations Matthieu Million, Florence Fenollar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anthony Levasseur France	35	2.4k	1.6k	1.1k	946	880	175	5.2k
Parastoo Azadi United States	50	4.4k 1.9×	1.3k 0.8×	632 0.6×	760 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	254	8.6k
Huajun Zheng China	42	3.1k 1.3×	900 0.6×	730 0.6×	503 0.5×	600 0.7×	150	6.0k
Cheryl Heiner United States	18	3.6k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	341 0.4×	392 0.4×	21	5.7k
Qiandong Zeng United States	27	5.0k 2.1×	2.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	532 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	42	9.0k
Xiancai Rao China	35	2.6k 1.1×	864 0.6×	905 0.8×	257 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	122	5.6k
Luke Masson Canada	48	4.3k 1.8×	1.6k 1.1×	683 0.6×	325 0.3×	674 0.8×	136	6.7k
Philip J. Hill United Kingdom	37	2.9k 1.2×	414 0.3×	649 0.6×	472 0.5×	924 1.1×	87	4.7k
Jacques Mahillon Belgium	43	5.3k 2.3×	1.4k 0.9×	2.4k 2.1×	534 0.6×	541 0.6×	216	8.7k
Kelly P. Williams United States	32	2.8k 1.2×	936 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	373 0.4×	382 0.4×	77	5.1k
Katherine Huang United States	28	2.9k 1.2×	721 0.5×	1.7k 1.5×	347 0.4×	306 0.3×	51	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anthony Levasseur

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Coulibaly, Drissa, Safiatou Doumbo, Salimata Konaté, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota influences Plasmodium falciparum malaria susceptibility. New Microbes and New Infections. 65. 101586–101586.

Colson, Philippe, Jacques Fantini, P. Dudouet, et al.. (2023). From viral democratic genomes to viral wild bunch of quasispecies. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(11). e29209–e29209. 1 indexed citations

Colson, Philippe, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier, Jérémy Delerce, et al.. (2022). EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Culture and identification of a “Deltamicron” SARS‐CoV‐2 in a three cases cluster in southern France. Journal of Medical Virology. 94(8). 3739–3749. 49 indexed citations

Rolland, Clara, et al.. (2022). The Antibacterial Effect of Platelets on Escherichia coli Strains. Biomedicines. 10(7). 1533–1533. 8 indexed citations

Aherfi, Sarah, Lucile Pinault, Jean‐Pierre Baudoin, et al.. (2021). Incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle and proton gradient in Pandoravirus massiliensis : is it still a virus?. The ISME Journal. 16(3). 695–704. 17 indexed citations

Lemey, Philippe, Nick Ruktanonchai, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2021). Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. Nature. 595(7869). 713–717. 89 indexed citations

Davoust, Bernard, Oleg Mediannikov, Jean Akiana, et al.. (2021). Occurrence of Ten Protozoan Enteric Pathogens in Three Non-Human Primate Populations. Pathogens. 10(3). 280–280. 12 indexed citations

Boratto, Paulo Victor de Miranda, Graziele Pereira Oliveira, Jean‐Pierre Baudoin, et al.. (2020). Yaravirus: A novel 80-nm virus infecting Acanthamoeba castellanii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16579–16586. 35 indexed citations

Medkour, Hacène, Jean Akiana, Bernard Davoust, et al.. (2020). Enteroviruses from Humans and Great Apes in the Republic of Congo: Recombination within Enterovirus C Serotypes. Microorganisms. 8(11). 1779–1779. 11 indexed citations

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Jardot, Priscilla, et al.. (2020). Core gene-based molecular detection and identification of Acanthamoeba species. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1583–1583. 15 indexed citations

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Ndongo, S., et al.. (2020). Massilistercora timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human microbiota. New Microbes and New Infections. 35. 100664–100664. 3 indexed citations

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Abrahão, Jônatas Santos, Lorena Silva, Jacques Bou Khalil, et al.. (2018). Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere. Nature Communications. 9(1). 749–749. 189 indexed citations

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Levasseur, Anthony, et al.. (2018). Faustovirus E12 Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Complex Splicing in Capsid Gene. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2534–2534. 10 indexed citations

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Bouam, Amar, Nicholas Armstrong, Anthony Levasseur, & Michel Drancourt. (2018). Mycobacterium terramassiliense, Mycobacterium rhizamassiliense and Mycobacterium numidiamassiliense sp. nov., three new Mycobacterium simiae complex species cultured from plant roots. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9309–9309. 33 indexed citations

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Levasseur, Anthony, et al.. (2017). The Rhizome of Lokiarchaeota Illustrates the Mosaicity of Archaeal Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(10). 2635–2639. 14 indexed citations

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Bajrai, Leena H., Samia Benamar, Esam I. Azhar, et al.. (2016). Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae. Viruses. 8(11). 278–278. 69 indexed citations

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Levasseur, Anthony, et al.. (2016). Mycobacterium icosiumassiliensis sp. nov., a New Member in the Mycobacterium terrae Complex Isolated from Surface Water in Algeria. Current Microbiology. 73(2). 255–264. 3 indexed citations

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Sterck, Lieven, Dominique Swennen, Marina Marcet‐Houben, et al.. (2015). Differential gene retention as an evolutionary mechanism to generate biodiversity and adaptation in yeasts. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11571–11571. 46 indexed citations

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Poidevin, Laetitia, Jean‐Guy Berrin, Chloé Bennati-Granier, et al.. (2014). Comparative analyses of Podospora anserina secretomes reveal a large array of lignocellulose-active enzymes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 98(17). 7457–7469. 37 indexed citations

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Levasseur, Anthony, Sandrine Pagès, Henri‐Pierre Fierobe, et al.. (2004). Design and Production in Aspergillus niger of a Chimeric Protein Associating a Fungal Feruloyl Esterase and a Clostridial Dockerin Domain. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(12). 6984–6991. 29 indexed citations

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