François Seneca

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

François Seneca is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Seneca has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Oceanography and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in François Seneca's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (18 papers), Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (8 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (7 papers). François Seneca is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (18 papers), Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (8 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (7 papers). François Seneca collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Monaco. François Seneca's co-authors include Stephen R. Palumbi, Daniel J. Barshis, Jason T. Ladner, Thomas A. Oliver, Nikki Traylor‐Knowles, Christian R. Voolstra, Maren Ziegler, Lauren K. Yum, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen and Sylvain Forêt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

François Seneca

21 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change

2013 658 citations François Seneca, Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance

2017 423 citations Maren Ziegler, François Seneca et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Seneca Australia	17	1.9k	1.1k	474	471	426	22	2.3k
Mauricio Rodríguez‐Lanetty United States	27	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	470 1.0×	458 1.0×	377 0.9×	50	2.4k
David Abrego Australia	23	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	657 1.4×	269 0.6×	217 0.5×	35	2.1k
Chuya Shinzato Japan	26	1.7k 0.9×	731 0.6×	536 1.1×	570 1.2×	416 1.0×	99	2.6k
Robert Thacker United States	32	1.7k 0.9×	671 0.6×	584 1.2×	1.7k 3.7×	384 0.9×	102	3.0k
Craig Michell Saudi Arabia	21	1.2k 0.6×	524 0.5×	273 0.6×	257 0.5×	275 0.6×	36	1.8k
Javier Jara United States	11	1.7k 0.9×	974 0.9×	621 1.3×	209 0.4×	200 0.5×	12	1.9k
Pedro R. Frade Austria	23	1.5k 0.8×	840 0.7×	397 0.8×	177 0.4×	240 0.6×	40	1.7k
Galina V. Aglyamova United States	15	1.0k 0.6×	543 0.5×	426 0.9×	223 0.5×	208 0.5×	23	1.8k
Daniel J. Barshis United States	25	3.1k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	1.3k 2.7×	438 0.9×	282 0.7×	43	3.5k
Anny Cárdenas Germany	22	1.5k 0.8×	853 0.8×	339 0.7×	272 0.6×	284 0.7×	35	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by François Seneca

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Seneca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Seneca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of François Seneca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of François Seneca 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 François Seneca. François Seneca is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bonnet, Elodie, et al.. (2025). Exaiptasia pallida Infection Model Reveals the Critical Role of Vibrio parahaemolyticus T3SS Virulence Factors in Its Pathogenicity for Sea Anemones. Toxins. 17(4). 175–175.

Cowen, Lenore, et al.. (2024). Characterizing transcriptomic responses to sediment stress across location and morphology in reef-building corals. PeerJ. 12. e16654–e16654. 2 indexed citations

Seneca, François, et al.. (2022). An Increase of Seawater Temperature Upregulates the Expression of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Virulence Factors Implicated in Adhesion and Biofilm Formation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 840628–840628. 40 indexed citations

Tisthammer, Kaho H., Emma Timmins‐Schiffman, François Seneca, Brook L. Nunn, & Robert H. Richmond. (2021). Physiological and molecular responses of lobe coral indicate nearshore adaptations to anthropogenic stressors. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3423–3423. 27 indexed citations

Seneca, François, et al.. (2020). Gene expression kinetics of Exaiptasia pallida innate immune response to Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 768–768. 10 indexed citations

Ziegler, Maren, François Seneca, Lauren K. Yum, Stephen R. Palumbi, & Christian R. Voolstra. (2017). Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14213–14213. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

Ainsworth, Tracy D., et al.. (2015). In situ hybridisation detects pro-apoptotic gene expression of a Bcl-2 family member in white syndrome-affected coral. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 117(2). 155–163. 7 indexed citations

Rose, Noah H., François Seneca, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2015). Gene Networks in the Wild: Identifying Transcriptional Modules that Mediate Coral Resistance to Experimental Heat Stress. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(1). 243–252. 61 indexed citations

Seneca, François & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2015). The role of transcriptome resilience in resistance of corals to bleaching. Molecular Ecology. 24(7). 1467–1484. 110 indexed citations

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Tolleter, Dimitri, François Seneca, Jan C. DeNofrio, et al.. (2013). Coral Bleaching Independent of Photosynthetic Activity. Current Biology. 23(18). 1782–1786. 94 indexed citations

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Raina, Jean‐Baptiste, Dianne M. Tapiolas, Sylvain Forêt, et al.. (2013). DMSP biosynthesis by an animal and its role in coral thermal stress response. Nature. 502(7473). 677–680. 227 indexed citations

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Puill‐Stephan, Eneour, François Seneca, David J. Miller, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, & Bette L. Willis. (2012). Expression of Putative Immune Response Genes during Early Ontogeny in the Coral Acropora millepora. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e39099–e39099. 23 indexed citations

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Siboni, Nachshon, David Abrego, François Seneca, et al.. (2012). Using Bacterial Extract along with Differential Gene Expression in Acropora millepora Larvae to Decouple the Processes of Attachment and Metamorphosis. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37774–e37774. 33 indexed citations

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Leggat, William, et al.. (2011). Differential Responses of the Coral Host and Their Algal Symbiont to Thermal Stress. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26687–e26687. 127 indexed citations

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Ainsworth, Tracy D., Kenneth Wasmund, François Seneca, et al.. (2011). Defining the tipping point. A complex cellular life/death balance in corals in response to stress. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 160–160. 33 indexed citations

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Bay, Line K., et al.. (2010). A multilocus, temperature stress‐related gene expression profile assay in Acropora millepora, a dominant reef‐building coral. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(2). 328–334. 40 indexed citations

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Forêt, Sylvain, François Seneca, Daniëlle de Jong, et al.. (2010). Phylogenomics Reveals an Anomalous Distribution of USP Genes in Metazoans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(1). 153–161. 16 indexed citations

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Seneca, François, Sylvain Forêt, Eldon E. Ball, et al.. (2009). Patterns of Gene Expression in a Scleractinian Coral Undergoing Natural Bleaching. Marine Biotechnology. 12(5). 594–604. 78 indexed citations

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Bay, Line K., Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Hanne Jarmer, François Seneca, & Madeleine J. H. van Oppen. (2009). Transcriptomic variation in a coral reveals pathways of clonal organisation. Marine Genomics. 2(2). 119–125. 16 indexed citations

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Seneca, François, et al.. (2009). Variation in antioxidant gene expression in the scleractinian coral Acropora millepora under laboratory thermal stress. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 392. 93–102. 84 indexed citations

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