Filip Husník

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Filip Husník is a scholar working on Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Filip Husník has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Insect Science, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Filip Husník's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (23 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers). Filip Husník is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (23 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers). Filip Husník collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Japan and Czechia. Filip Husník's co-authors include John P. McCutcheon, Patrick J. Keeling, Václav Hypša, Eva Nováková, Tomáš Chrudimský, Vittorio Boscaro, Rebecca P. Duncan, Alex C. C. Wilson, Laura Ross and Emma E. George and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Filip Husník

37 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

2013 314 citations Filip Husník, Naruo Nikoh et al. Cell profile →
Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes

2017 312 citations Filip Husník, John P. McCutcheon Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Filip Husník Canada	22	849	760	499	367	264	39	1.8k
Renate Radek Germany	21	645 0.8×	467 0.6×	321 0.6×	300 0.8×	625 2.4×	96	1.4k
Silvia Bulgheresi Austria	16	449 0.5×	450 0.6×	577 1.2×	313 0.9×	204 0.8×	33	1.6k
Federico Abascal Spain	3	210 0.2×	787 1.0×	268 0.5×	278 0.8×	284 1.1×	3	1.4k
Jean-Emmanuel Longueville France	4	159 0.2×	487 0.6×	346 0.7×	315 0.9×	217 0.8×	5	1.4k
Megan Woolfit Australia	25	968 1.1×	859 1.1×	222 0.4×	370 1.0×	789 3.0×	32	2.5k
Nicolas Blot France	19	917 1.1×	720 0.9×	461 0.9×	285 0.8×	950 3.6×	26	2.0k
Tatiana Teixeira Torres Brazil	18	322 0.4×	471 0.6×	195 0.4×	171 0.5×	224 0.8×	40	1.1k
Gordon M. Bennett United States	21	1.2k 1.4×	327 0.4×	259 0.5×	652 1.8×	317 1.2×	36	1.7k
Irene L. G. Newton United States	29	1.7k 2.0×	418 0.6×	476 1.0×	241 0.7×	658 2.5×	67	2.5k
Clément Goubert United States	12	401 0.5×	1.4k 1.9×	318 0.6×	1.2k 3.3×	617 2.3×	23	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Filip Husník

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Fields of papers citing papers by Filip Husník

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Filip Husník

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Filip Husník. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Filip Husník based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Filip Husník. Filip Husník is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Husník, Filip, et al.. (2026). Recurrent horizontal gene transfers across diverse termite genomes. Evolution.

Choi, Jinyeong, et al.. (2025). Accelerated Pseudogenization in the Ancient Endosymbionts of Giant Scale Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(6).

Lax, Gordon, et al.. (2024). Genomic analyses of Symbiomonas scintillans show no evidence for endosymbiotic bacteria but does reveal the presence of giant viruses. PLoS Genetics. 20(4). e1011218–e1011218. 1 indexed citations

Roy, Michael C., et al.. (2023). Bacterial communities and toxin profiles of Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae) from the Pacific island of Okinawa, Japan. European Journal of Protistology. 89. 125976–125976. 2 indexed citations

Park, Eunji, Takeo Horiguchi, Filip Husník, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics shows that novel tapeworm-like traits of haplozoan parasites evolved from within the Peridiniales (Dinoflagellata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 186. 107859–107859. 3 indexed citations

Garber, Arkadiy I., et al.. (2022). Pseudofinder: Detection of Pseudogenes in Prokaryotic Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(7). 59 indexed citations

Tanaka, Hirotaka, et al.. (2022). Two new species of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from Japan. Zootaxa. 5168(3). 306–318. 2 indexed citations

Boscaro, Vittorio, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Emma E. George, et al.. (2022). All essential endosymbionts of the ciliate Euplotes are cyclically replaced. Current Biology. 32(15). R826–R827. 8 indexed citations

Marshall, Hollie, et al.. (2021). Sex‐specific expression and DNA methylation in a species with extreme sexual dimorphism and paternal genome elimination. Molecular Ecology. 30(22). 5687–5703. 28 indexed citations

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Roy, Michael C., et al.. (2021). Diversity and toxicity of Pacific strains of the benthic dinoflagellate Coolia (Dinophyceae), with a look at the Coolia canariensis species complex. Harmful Algae. 109. 102120–102120. 8 indexed citations

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Massana, Ramón, David López‐Escardó, Aleix Obiol, et al.. (2020). Gene expression during bacterivorous growth of a widespread marine heterotrophic flagellate. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 154–167. 16 indexed citations

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Husník, Filip, Václav Hypša, & Alistair C. Darby. (2020). Insect—Symbiont Gene Expression in the Midgut Bacteriocytes of a Blood-Sucking Parasite. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(4). 429–442. 14 indexed citations

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George, Emma E., Filip Husník, Daria Tashyreva, et al.. (2020). Highly Reduced Genomes of Protist Endosymbionts Show Evolutionary Convergence. Current Biology. 30(5). 925–933.e3. 38 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Matthias M., et al.. (2019). Chromulinavorax destructans, a pathogen of microzooplankton that provides a window into the enigmatic candidate phylum Dependentiae. PLoS Pathogens. 15(5). e1007801–e1007801. 31 indexed citations

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Husník, Filip & John P. McCutcheon. (2017). Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 16(2). 67–79. 312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Husník, Filip & John P. McCutcheon. (2016). Repeated replacement of an intrabacterial symbiont in the tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(37). E5416–24. 168 indexed citations

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Nováková, Eva, Václav Hypša, Petr Nguyen, Filip Husník, & Alistair C. Darby. (2016). Genome sequence of Candidatus Arsenophonus lipopteni, the exclusive symbiont of a blood sucking fly Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 72–72. 30 indexed citations

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Kyselková, Martina, Tomáš Chrudimský, Filip Husník, et al.. (2016). Characterization oftet(Y)-carrying LowGC plasmids exogenously captured from cow manure at a conventional dairy farm. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(6). fiw075–fiw075. 13 indexed citations

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Husník, Filip, Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga, et al.. (2013). Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis. Cell. 153(7). 1567–1578. 314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Husník, Filip, Tomáš Chrudimský, & Václav Hypša. (2011). Multiple origins of endosymbiosis within the Enterobacteriaceae (γ-Proteobacteria): convergence of complex phylogenetic approaches. BMC Biology. 9(1). 87–87. 78 indexed citations

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