Frederic Bertels

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Frederic Bertels is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederic Bertels has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Frederic Bertels's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers). Frederic Bertels is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers). Frederic Bertels collaborates with scholars based in Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland. Frederic Bertels's co-authors include Paul B. Rainey, Mikhail Pachkov, Erik van Nimwegen, Olin Silander, Beatrix Jones, Justin M. O’Sullivan, Gayle C. Ferguson, Christina Straub, Bernhard Haubold and J.L. Vanneste and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Frederic Bertels

24 papers receiving 979 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Automated Reconstruction of Whole-Genome Phylogenies from Short-Sequence Reads
    2014 343 citations Frederic Bertels, Olin Silander et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frederic Bertels Germany 13 485 440 216 163 138 25 1.0k
Carlos Lloréns Spain 17 498 1.0× 587 1.3× 103 0.5× 150 0.9× 89 0.6× 48 1.1k
Diogo Nuno Silva Portugal 13 369 0.8× 517 1.2× 119 0.6× 92 0.6× 303 2.2× 17 988
Peter M. Merritt United States 13 431 0.9× 684 1.6× 306 1.4× 77 0.5× 51 0.4× 15 1.2k
Myrthe Otsen Netherlands 13 263 0.5× 228 0.5× 262 1.2× 320 2.0× 50 0.4× 19 945
Damien F. Meyer France 18 243 0.5× 467 1.1× 90 0.4× 79 0.5× 50 0.4× 37 993
Sean Meaden United Kingdom 17 585 1.2× 278 0.6× 258 1.2× 822 5.0× 38 0.3× 29 1.2k
Christina Toft Spain 16 498 1.0× 256 0.6× 204 0.9× 152 0.9× 19 0.1× 38 976
Mike Quail United Kingdom 7 301 0.6× 146 0.3× 220 1.0× 280 1.7× 14 0.1× 9 998
Khalid El Karkouri France 18 380 0.8× 163 0.4× 102 0.5× 146 0.9× 84 0.6× 45 917
A. Carolin Frank Sweden 9 640 1.3× 240 0.5× 270 1.3× 185 1.1× 18 0.1× 9 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Frederic Bertels

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frederic Bertels

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederic Bertels

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schwarz, Michael, et al.. (2025). Chloramphenicol and gentamicin reduce the evolution of resistance to phage ΦX174 by suppressing a subset of E. coli LPS mutants. PLoS Biology. 23(1). e3002952–e3002952. 2 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, et al.. (2024). The untapped potential of phage model systems as therapeutic agents. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae007–veae007. 4 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, et al.. (2024). A more significant role for insertion sequences in large-scale rearrangements in bacterial genomes. mBio. 16(1). e0305224–e0305224. 3 indexed citations
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Colombi, Elena, Frederic Bertels, Guilhem Doulcier, et al.. (2024). Rapid dissemination of host metabolism–manipulating genes via integrative and conjugative elements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2309263121–e2309263121. 8 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, et al.. (2023). RAREFAN: A webservice to identify REPINs and RAYTs in bacterial genomes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.
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Gallie, Jenna, et al.. (2023). Stepwise Evolution of E. coli C and ΦX174 Reveals Unexpected Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Diversity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(7). 9 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic & Paul B. Rainey. (2022). Ancient Darwinian replicators nested within eubacterial genomes. BioEssays. 45(2). e2200085–e2200085. 4 indexed citations
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Park, Hye Jin, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, & Frederic Bertels. (2021). How sequence populations persist inside bacterial genomes. Genetics. 217(4). 6 indexed citations
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Dijk, Bram van, et al.. (2021). Transposable elements promote the evolution of genome streamlining. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1842). 20200477–20200477. 16 indexed citations
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Gallie, Jenna, et al.. (2019). Repeated Phenotypic Evolution by Different Genetic Routes in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(5). 1071–1085. 11 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, Christine Leemann, Karin J. Metzner, & Roland R. Regoes. (2019). Parallel Evolution of HIV-1 in a Long-Term Experiment. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(11). 2400–2414. 17 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, & Arne Traulsen. (2017). Discovering Complete Quasispecies in Bacterial Genomes. Genetics. 206(4). 2149–2157. 13 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, Jenna Gallie, & Paul B. Rainey. (2017). Identification and Characterization of Domesticated Bacterial Transposases. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(8). 2110–2121. 9 indexed citations
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Gallie, Jenna, Eric Libby, Frederic Bertels, et al.. (2015). Bistability in a Metabolic Network Underpins the De Novo Evolution of Colony Switching in Pseudomonas fluorescens. PLoS Biology. 13(3). e1002109–e1002109. 41 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, Olin Silander, Mikhail Pachkov, Paul B. Rainey, & Erik van Nimwegen. (2014). Automated Reconstruction of Whole-Genome Phylogenies from Short-Sequence Reads. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(5). 1077–1088. 343 indexed citations breakdown →
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McCann, Honour C., Erik H. A. Rikkerink, Frederic Bertels, et al.. (2013). Genomic Analysis of the Kiwifruit Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae Provides Insight into the Origins of an Emergent Plant Disease. PLoS Pathogens. 9(7). e1003503–e1003503. 204 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Gayle C., Frederic Bertels, & Paul B. Rainey. (2013). Adaptive Divergence in Experimental Populations ofPseudomonas fluorescens. V. Insight into the Niche Specialist Fuzzy Spreader Compels Revision of the ModelPseudomonasRadiation. Genetics. 195(4). 1319–1335. 37 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic & Paul B. Rainey. (2011). Within-Genome Evolution of REPINs: a New Family of Miniature Mobile DNA in Bacteria. PLoS Genetics. 7(6). e1002132–e1002132. 34 indexed citations
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Bertels, Frederic, et al.. (2009). Global identification of yeast chromosome interactions using Genome conformation capture. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 46(11). 879–886. 99 indexed citations
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Rodrigo, Allen G., et al.. (2008). The perils of plenty: what are we going to do with all these genes?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1512). 3893–3902. 79 indexed citations

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