Laura Eme

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Laura Eme is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Eme has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Laura Eme's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (31 papers). Laura Eme is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (31 papers). Laura Eme collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Laura Eme's co-authors include Andrew J. Roger, Courtney W. Stairs, Anja Spang, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Jonathan Lombard, Matthew W. Brown, David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, Susan C. Sharpe and John M. Archibald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laura Eme

56 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

2017 331 citations Laura Eme, Anja Spang et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

2025 23 citations Laura Eme, Hector Baños et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Eme Canada	29	2.0k	1.1k	290	259	235	56	2.7k
Yuji Inagaki Japan	31	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	258 0.9×	108 0.4×	276 1.2×	125	2.8k
Kamran Shalchian‐Tabrizi Norway	34	2.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.9×	459 1.6×	346 1.3×	125 0.5×	60	3.7k
Erwan Corre France	35	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	327 1.1×	278 1.1×	131 0.6×	139	3.9k
Javier del Campo Spain	30	1.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.8×	224 0.8×	196 0.8×	140 0.6×	72	2.8k
Giddy Landan Germany	26	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	568 2.0×	251 1.0×	91 0.4×	40	3.3k
Jeffrey D. Silberman United States	32	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	308 1.1×	105 0.4×	521 2.2×	56	2.7k
Fabien Burki Canada	37	3.4k 1.7×	2.2k 2.1×	717 2.5×	190 0.7×	332 1.4×	67	4.5k
Gernot Glöckner Germany	36	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	570 2.0×	343 1.3×	183 0.8×	97	4.1k
Courtney W. Stairs Sweden	20	1.3k 0.6×	625 0.6×	146 0.5×	119 0.5×	166 0.7×	38	1.7k
Alexander P. Mylnikov Russia	24	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	149 0.5×	145 0.6×	216 0.9×	87	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Eme

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Eme

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Eme

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

All Works

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Baños, Hector, Thomas K. F. Wong, Edward Susko, et al.. (2024). GTRpmix: A Linked General Time-Reversible Model for Profile Mixture Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(9). 5 indexed citations

Eme, Laura & Daniel Tamarit. (2024). Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(4). 3 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

Moreira, David, et al.. (2024). A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system. Current Biology. 34(16). 3812–3819.e3. 5 indexed citations

Galindo, Luis Javier, Aaron A. Heiss, Guifré Torruella, et al.. (2023). One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade. Scientific Data. 10(1). 603–603. 9 indexed citations

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

Tamarit, Daniel, Eva Caceres, Mart Krupovìč, et al.. (2022). A closed Candidatus Odinarchaeum chromosome exposes Asgard archaeal viruses. Nature Microbiology. 7(7). 948–952. 30 indexed citations

Kořený, Luděk, Mohammad Zeeshan, Konstantin Barylyuk, et al.. (2021). Molecular characterization of the conoid complex in Toxoplasma reveals its conservation in all apicomplexans, including Plasmodium species. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001081–e3001081. 51 indexed citations

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Stairs, Courtney W., Jennah E. Dharamshi, Daniel Tamarit, et al.. (2020). Chlamydial contribution to anaerobic metabolism during eukaryotic evolution. Science Advances. 6(35). eabb7258–eabb7258. 21 indexed citations

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Schön, Max Emil, Laura Eme, & Thijs J. G. Ettema. (2019). PhyloMagnet: fast and accurate screening of short-read meta-omics data using gene-centric phylogenetics. Bioinformatics. 36(6). 1718–1724. 5 indexed citations

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Karnkowska, Anna, Sebastian Cristian Treitli, Lukáš Novák, et al.. (2019). The Oxymonad Genome Displays Canonical Eukaryotic Complexity in the Absence of a Mitochondrion. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(10). 2292–2312. 34 indexed citations

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Hess, Sebastian, Laura Eme, Andrew J. Roger, & Alastair G. B. Simpson. (2019). A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum. Nature Microbiology. 4(10). 1620–1626. 18 indexed citations

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Cenci, Ugo, Shannon J. Sibbald, Bruce A. Curtis, et al.. (2018). Nuclear genome sequence of the plastid-lacking cryptomonad Goniomonas avonlea provides insights into the evolution of secondary plastids. BMC Biology. 16(1). 137–137. 36 indexed citations

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Eme, Laura, Anja Spang, Jonathan Lombard, Courtney W. Stairs, & Thijs J. G. Ettema. (2017). Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 15(12). 711–723. 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leger, Michelle M., Laura Eme, Laura Hug, & Andrew J. Roger. (2016). Novel Hydrogenosomes in the Microaerophilic JakobidStygiella incarcerata. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(9). 2318–2336. 36 indexed citations

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Cenci, Ugo, Daniel Moog, Bruce A. Curtis, et al.. (2016). Heme pathway evolution in kinetoplastid protists. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 109–109. 19 indexed citations

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Leger, Michelle M., Vojtěch Žárský, Laura Eme, et al.. (2015). An ancestral bacterial division system is widespread in eukaryotic mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(33). 10239–10246. 50 indexed citations

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Eme, Laura & W. Ford Doolittle. (2015). Archaea. Current Biology. 25(19). R851–R855. 45 indexed citations

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Gawryluk, Ryan M.R., Laura Eme, & Andrew J. Roger. (2015). Gene fusion, fission, lateral transfer, and loss: Not-so-rare events in the evolution of eukaryotic ATP citrate lyase. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 91. 12–16. 13 indexed citations

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