Ferdinand Marlétaz

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Ferdinand Marlétaz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ferdinand Marlétaz has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ferdinand Marlétaz's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers). Ferdinand Marlétaz is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers). Ferdinand Marlétaz collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and United States. Ferdinand Marlétaz's co-authors include Cédric Finet, Vincent Laudet, Michael Schubert, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Peter W. H. Holland, Linda Z. Holland, Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg, Annick Berne-Dedieu, Charles P. Scutt and Charles F. Delwiche and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ferdinand Marlétaz

45 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution

2020 231 citations Oleg Simakov, Ferdinand Marlétaz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ferdinand Marlétaz United Kingdom	24	1.3k	480	406	317	295	45	2.1k
Iker Irisarri Germany	29	1.2k 1.0×	507 1.1×	447 1.1×	406 1.3×	492 1.7×	64	2.2k
Jordi Paps United Kingdom	23	1.1k 0.8×	325 0.7×	231 0.6×	283 0.9×	386 1.3×	34	1.8k
Corinne Da Silva France	36	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 2.5×	490 1.2×	225 0.7×	518 1.8×	81	3.7k
Cassandra G. Extavour United States	29	1.6k 1.2×	254 0.5×	1.1k 2.8×	471 1.5×	313 1.1×	79	2.8k
William E. Browne United States	20	1.4k 1.1×	392 0.8×	531 1.3×	500 1.6×	505 1.7×	35	2.6k
Lixy Yamada Japan	25	1.2k 1.0×	219 0.5×	334 0.8×	149 0.5×	209 0.7×	40	1.9k
Andrea B. Kohn United States	26	1.0k 0.8×	176 0.4×	260 0.6×	302 1.0×	492 1.7×	48	2.3k
Gregor Bucher Germany	29	2.0k 1.6×	505 1.1×	538 1.3×	337 1.1×	154 0.5×	65	2.5k
Michel Vervoort France	29	3.1k 2.5×	644 1.3×	583 1.4×	213 0.7×	243 0.8×	58	4.1k
Jr‐Kai Yu Taiwan	34	2.0k 1.5×	185 0.4×	446 1.1×	115 0.4×	332 1.1×	74	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ferdinand Marlétaz

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Gavriouchkina, Daria, Yongkai Tan, Elise Parey, et al.. (2025). A single-cell atlas of the bobtail squid visual and nervous system highlights molecular principles of convergent evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(7). 1245–1262. 1 indexed citations

Gavriouchkina, Daria, Elise Parey, Luke A. Sarre, et al.. (2025). The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan. Nature. 645(8082). 964–973. 2 indexed citations

Mukherjee, Arnab, Jiřı́ Damborský, Zbyněk Prokop, et al.. (2025). Functional Characterization of Luciferase in a Brittle Star Indicates Parallel Evolution Influenced by Genomic Availability of Haloalkane Dehalogenase. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(5). 1 indexed citations

Lin, Che-Yi, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Pedro Manuel Martínez‐García, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-level genome assemblies of 2 hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002661–e3002661. 7 indexed citations

Parey, Elise, Olga Ortega‐Martinez, Jérôme Delroisse, et al.. (2024). The brittle star genome illuminates the genetic basis of animal appendage regeneration. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1505–1521. 10 indexed citations

Marlétaz, Ferdinand, et al.. (2023). Single-cell transcriptomics refuels the exploration of spiralian biology. Briefings in Functional Genomics. 22(6). 517–524. 3 indexed citations

Leite, Daniel J., Luis Alfonso Yáñez-Guerra, Fraser Simpson, et al.. (2023). Single-cell atlases of two lophotrochozoan larvae highlight their complex evolutionary histories. Science Advances. 9(31). eadg6034–eadg6034. 15 indexed citations

Sánchez, Gustavo, Fernando Ángel Fernández‐Álvarez, Oleg Simakov, et al.. (2021). Phylogenomics illuminates the evolution of bobtail and bottletail squid (order Sepiolida). Communications Biology. 4(1). 819–819. 23 indexed citations

Ramos‐Silva, Paula, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Frédéric Marin, & Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg. (2021). Evolution and biomineralization of pteropod shells. Journal of Structural Biology. 213(4). 107779–107779. 13 indexed citations

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Peijnenburg, Katja T. C. A., A.W. Janssen, Deborah Wall-Palmer, et al.. (2020). The origin and diversification of pteropods precede past perturbations in the Earth’s carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(41). 25609–25617. 31 indexed citations

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Simakov, Oleg, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jia‐Xing Yue, et al.. (2020). Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(6). 820–830. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sánchez, Gustavo, et al.. (2019). New bobtail squid (Sepiolidae: Sepiolinae) from the Ryukyu islands revealed by molecular and morphological analysis. Communications Biology. 2(1). 465–465. 10 indexed citations

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Marlétaz, Ferdinand, Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg, Taichiro Goto, Noriyuki Satoh, & Daniel S. Rokhsar. (2019). A New Spiralian Phylogeny Places the Enigmatic Arrow Worms among Gnathiferans. Current Biology. 29(2). 312–318.e3. 165 indexed citations

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Hargreaves, Adam D, Long Zhou, Ferdinand Marlétaz, et al.. (2017). Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent reveals a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29). 7677–7682. 24 indexed citations

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Maeso, Ignacio, Thomas L. Dunwell, Christopher D. R. Wyatt, et al.. (2016). Evolutionary origin and functional divergence of totipotent cell homeobox genes in eutherian mammals. BMC Biology. 14(1). 45–45. 34 indexed citations

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Acemel, Rafael D., Juan J. Tena, Ibai Irastorza-Azcárate, et al.. (2016). A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation. Nature Genetics. 48(3). 336–341. 87 indexed citations

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Marlétaz, Ferdinand, Jordi Paps, Ignacio Maeso, & Peter W. H. Holland. (2014). Discovery and Classification of Homeobox Genes in Animal Genomes. Methods in molecular biology. 1196. 3–18. 4 indexed citations

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Finet, Cédric, Ruth Timme, Charles F. Delwiche, & Ferdinand Marlétaz. (2010). Multigene Phylogeny of the Green Lineage Reveals the Origin and Diversification of Land Plants. Current Biology. 20(24). 2217–2222. 157 indexed citations

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Marlétaz, Ferdinand & Yannick Le Parco. (2008). Careful with understudied phyla: The case of chaetognath. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 251–251. 12 indexed citations

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Marlétaz, Ferdinand, Linda Z. Holland, Vincent Laudet, & Michael Schubert. (2006). Retinoic acid signaling and the evolution of chordates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 99 indexed citations

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