David Moreira

17.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
215 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

David Moreira is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, David Moreira has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Molecular Biology, 147 papers in Ecology and 44 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in David Moreira's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (133 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (113 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (81 papers). David Moreira is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (133 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (113 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (81 papers). David Moreira collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and Mexico. David Moreira's co-authors include Purificación López‐García, Hervé Philippe, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera, Jonathan Lombard, Karim Benzerara, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, Carlos Pedrós‐Alió, Philippe Deschamps, Hervé Le Guyader and Jan Šlapeta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Moreira

213 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton

2001 701 citations Purificación López‐García, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Moreira France	61	7.5k	6.8k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	215	11.7k
Purificación López‐García France	61	6.8k 0.9×	6.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	219	11.0k
Jörg Overmann Germany	59	6.0k 0.8×	6.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	297	12.3k
David M. Ward United States	63	5.1k 0.7×	6.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	653 0.5×	144	11.4k
Anna‐Louise Reysenbach United States	52	4.7k 0.6×	6.2k 0.9×	2.9k 1.7×	1.0k 0.7×	716 0.5×	112	9.5k
Christopher L. Dupont United States	57	3.9k 0.5×	4.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	2.7k 1.8×	583 0.4×	150	9.3k
Colomban de Vargas France	57	4.7k 0.6×	6.9k 1.0×	848 0.5×	3.9k 2.6×	659 0.5×	131	10.1k
Bland J. Finlay United Kingdom	52	4.7k 0.6×	6.7k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	3.2k 2.1×	729 0.5×	135	10.2k
James Stegen United States	46	4.8k 0.6×	8.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	147	14.2k
Koki Horikoshi Japan	75	11.7k 1.6×	8.5k 1.2×	5.0k 2.9×	1.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.9×	582	22.2k
Karl O. Stetter Germany	84	12.5k 1.7×	7.3k 1.1×	4.1k 2.4×	487 0.3×	980 0.7×	242	19.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Moreira

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ponce-Toledo, Rafael I., David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, & Philippe Deschamps. (2025). Molecular Phylogeny of the SELMA Translocation Machinery Recounts the Evolution of Complex Photosynthetic Eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(9). 1 indexed citations

Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Ana, Ying Liu, David Moreira, et al.. (2025). Viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts reveal intricate nested interactions. Nature Microbiology. 10(11). 2673–2685.

Aguilar, Pablo, David Moreira, Paola Bertolino, et al.. (2024). Exploring the prokaryote-eukaryote interplay in microbial mats from an Andean athalassohaline wetland. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4). e0007224–e0007224. 5 indexed citations

Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Ana, et al.. (2024). Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1856–1869. 4 indexed citations

Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Ana, Álvaro Rodríguez del Río, Charley McCarthy, et al.. (2024). Expanded phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea shows multiple independent adaptations to hypersaline environments. Nature Microbiology. 9(4). 964–975. 17 indexed citations

Torruella, Guifré, Luis Javier Galindo, David Moreira, & Purificación López‐García. (2024). Phylogenomics of neglected flagellated protists supports a revised eukaryotic tree of life. Current Biology. 35(1). 198–207.e4. 12 indexed citations

Thomazo, Christophe, Miguel Iniesto, Didier Jézéquel, et al.. (2023). Biogeochemical processes captured by carbon isotopes in redox-stratified water columns: a comparative study of four modern stratified lakes along an alkalinity gradient. Biogeosciences. 20(12). 2347–2367. 5 indexed citations

López‐García, Purificación, Ana Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Mart Krupovìč, et al.. (2023). Metagenome-derived virus-microbe ratios across ecosystems. The ISME Journal. 17(10). 1552–1563. 32 indexed citations

Torruella, Guifré, Luis Javier Galindo, David Moreira, et al.. (2022). Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep‐branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(2). e12956–e12956. 5 indexed citations

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Benzerara, Karim, Élodie Duprat, Tristan Bitard‐Feildel, et al.. (2022). A New Gene Family Diagnostic for Intracellular Biomineralization of Amorphous Ca Carbonates by Cyanobacteria. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(3). 22 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A., Edward Susko, Laura Eme, et al.. (2022). Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(3). 253–262. 60 indexed citations

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Halary, Sébastien, Cécile Bernard, Charlotte Duval, et al.. (2022). Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis . Environmental Microbiology. 25(3). 751–765. 7 indexed citations

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Moreira, David, Yvan Zivanovic, Ana Isabel López‐Archilla, Miguel Iniesto, & Purificación López‐García. (2021). Reductive evolution and unique predatory mode in the CPR bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii. Nature Communications. 12(1). 72 indexed citations

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Yubuki, Naoji, Luis Javier Galindo, Purificación López‐García, et al.. (2019). Ancient Adaptive Lateral Gene Transfers in the Symbiotic Opalina–Blastocystis Stramenopile Lineage. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(3). 651–659. 7 indexed citations

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Moreira, David, Ludwig Jardillier, Paola Bertolino, Sergey A. Karpov, & Purificación López‐García. (2016). Diversity and temporal dynamics of Cryptomycota and Aphelida, two overlooked groups of parasites in freshwater ecosystems. Protistology. 10(2). 1 indexed citations

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Martín-Cuadrado, Ana-Belén, Inmaculada García-Heredia, R. García López, et al.. (2014). A new class of marine Euryarchaeota group II from the mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum. The ISME Journal. 9(7). 1619–1634. 65 indexed citations

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Moreira, David & Purificación López‐García. (2014). The rise and fall of Picobiliphytes: How assumed autotrophs turned out to be heterotrophs. BioEssays. 36(5). 468–474. 26 indexed citations

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Gómez, Fernando, David Moreira, & Purificación López‐García. (2011). Avances en el estudio de los dinoflagelados (Dinophyceae) con la filogenia molecular. Hidrobiológica. 21(3). 343–364. 14 indexed citations

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Gómez, Fernando, Purificación López‐García, & David Moreira. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the sand-dwelling dinoflagellates Amphidiniopsis hirsuta and A. swedmarkii (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae). Acta Protozoologica. 50(3). 141–153. 9 indexed citations

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Šlapeta, Jan, Purificación López‐García, & David Moreira. (2005). Global Dispersal and Ancient Cryptic Species in the Smallest Marine Eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(1). 23–29. 179 indexed citations

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