David Mayo-Muñoz

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 614 citations indexed

About

David Mayo-Muñoz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Mayo-Muñoz has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 614 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in David Mayo-Muñoz's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). David Mayo-Muñoz is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). David Mayo-Muñoz collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. David Mayo-Muñoz's co-authors include Rafael Pinilla‐Redondo, Søren J. Sørensen, Jakob Russel, Shiraz A. Shah, Peter C. Fineran, Roger A. Garrett, Nils Birkholz, Lennart Randau, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen and Robert D. Fagerlund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Mayo-Muñoz

12 papers receiving 606 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.

Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications

2024 49 citations David Mayo-Muñoz, Rafael Pinilla‐Redondo et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Mayo-Muñoz Denmark	9	473	280	91	88	68	12	614
Ruth Kiro Israel	9	547 1.2×	441 1.6×	200 2.2×	113 1.3×	99 1.5×	9	787
Clare Rollie United Kingdom	7	386 0.8×	255 0.9×	160 1.8×	72 0.8×	20 0.3×	7	499
Anna C. Llewellyn United States	7	536 1.1×	125 0.4×	171 1.9×	154 1.8×	42 0.6×	12	676
Anton Tikhonov Russia	7	534 1.1×	125 0.4×	158 1.7×	74 0.8×	22 0.3×	8	583
Hannah G. Hampton New Zealand	9	437 0.9×	511 1.8×	138 1.5×	104 1.2×	43 0.6×	13	742
Kommireddy Vasu India	7	381 0.8×	210 0.8×	149 1.6×	71 0.8×	43 0.6×	10	561
Ron L. Dy New Zealand	9	733 1.5×	463 1.7×	272 3.0×	188 2.1×	72 1.1×	10	1.0k
Rita Przybilski New Zealand	10	799 1.7×	503 1.8×	315 3.5×	199 2.3×	79 1.2×	13	1.0k
Bao Ton‐Hoang France	14	627 1.3×	239 0.9×	275 3.0×	64 0.7×	76 1.1×	20	803
Brendan J. O’Hara United States	7	208 0.4×	203 0.7×	65 0.7×	141 1.6×	25 0.4×	8	357

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Mayo-Muñoz

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Liang, Cui, Leah Smith, Oliver Dietrich, et al.. (2025). Phage arabinosyl-hydroxy-cytosine DNA modifications result in distinct evasion and sensitivity responses to phage defense systems. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(7). 1173–1190.e9. 2 indexed citations

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Ayala, Rafael, Bridget N. J. Watson, David Mayo-Muñoz, et al.. (2025). Global structural survey of the flagellotropic myophage φTE infecting agricultural pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3257–3257. 1 indexed citations

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, et al.. (2024). Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications. Nature Reviews Genetics. 25(4). 237–254. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, et al.. (2024). The role of noncoding RNAs in bacterial immunity. Trends in Microbiology. 33(2). 208–222. 2 indexed citations

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, Jakob Russel, Robert D. Fagerlund, et al.. (2023). Bacteriophages suppress CRISPR–Cas immunity using RNA-based anti-CRISPRs. Nature. 623(7987). 601–607. 43 indexed citations

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, Rafael Pinilla‐Redondo, Nils Birkholz, & Peter C. Fineran. (2023). A host of armor: Prokaryotic immune strategies against mobile genetic elements. Cell Reports. 42(7). 112672–112672. 60 indexed citations

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, Leah Smith, Carmela Garcia‐Doval, et al.. (2022). Type III CRISPR-Cas provides resistance against nucleus-forming jumbo phages via abortive infection. Molecular Cell. 82(23). 4471–4486.e9. 35 indexed citations

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Pinilla‐Redondo, Rafael, Jakob Russel, David Mayo-Muñoz, et al.. (2021). CRISPR-Cas systems are widespread accessory elements across bacterial and archaeal plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(8). 4315–4328. 61 indexed citations

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Russel, Jakob, Rafael Pinilla‐Redondo, David Mayo-Muñoz, Shiraz A. Shah, & Søren J. Sørensen. (2020). CRISPRCasTyper: Automated Identification, Annotation, and Classification of CRISPR-Cas Loci. The CRISPR Journal. 3(6). 462–469. 173 indexed citations

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Peng, Xu, et al.. (2020). Anti-CRISPR Proteins in Archaea. Trends in Microbiology. 28(11). 913–921. 17 indexed citations

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Pinilla‐Redondo, Rafael, David Mayo-Muñoz, Jakob Russel, et al.. (2019). Type IV CRISPR–Cas systems are highly diverse and involved in competition between plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(4). 2000–2012. 146 indexed citations

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Mayo-Muñoz, David, et al.. (2018). Anti-CRISPR-Based and CRISPR-Based Genome Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses. 10(12). 695–695. 25 indexed citations

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