Magali Lescot

17.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
29 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Magali Lescot is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Magali Lescot has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Magali Lescot's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Magali Lescot is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Magali Lescot collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United States. Magali Lescot's co-authors include Jean‐Michel Claverie, Stéphane Audic, Guillaume Blanc, Alexis Dereeper, Sylvain Buffet, Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel, Valentin Guignon, François Chevenet and Jean-François Dufayard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Magali Lescot

28 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elem... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2008 2013 2014 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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.

  1. PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences
    2002 5.6k citations Magali Lescot Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist
    2008 3.8k citations Alexis Dereeper, Valentin Guignon et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes
    2013 413 citations Nadège Philippe, Matthieu Legendre et al. Science profile →
  4. Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology
    2014 344 citations Matthieu Legendre, Julia Bartoli et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Magali Lescot France 22 7.0k 6.8k 2.0k 758 572 29 12.2k
Guillaume Blanc France 30 5.4k 0.8× 4.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 1.5× 509 0.9× 65 9.9k
Matloob Qureshi United Kingdom 6 7.5k 1.1× 3.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 430 0.8× 6 11.2k
Gustavo A Salazar United Kingdom 11 7.7k 1.1× 3.7k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 434 0.8× 17 11.5k
Simon Potter United Kingdom 13 8.4k 1.2× 3.6k 0.5× 1.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 516 0.9× 19 13.0k
Ruth Y. Eberhardt United Kingdom 17 9.3k 1.3× 3.9k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.7k 2.2× 541 0.9× 28 13.7k
Amaia Sangrador‐Vegas Ireland 13 6.2k 0.9× 3.3k 0.5× 1.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 387 0.7× 15 10.4k
Aron Marchler‐Bauer United States 29 8.6k 1.2× 3.5k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 1.8× 542 0.9× 50 12.9k
Marco Punta United States 29 10.5k 1.5× 4.0k 0.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.8k 2.3× 533 0.9× 59 15.3k
Alex Mitchell United Kingdom 21 8.1k 1.2× 3.5k 0.5× 2.4k 1.2× 1.5k 2.0× 431 0.8× 43 12.6k
Alexandre Lomsadze United States 18 6.5k 0.9× 3.2k 0.5× 2.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 743 1.3× 27 10.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Magali Lescot

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pelletier, Éric, et al.. (2024). Indexing and real-time user-friendly queries in terabyte-sized complex genomic datasets with kmindex and ORA. Nature Computational Science. 4(2). 104–109. 3 indexed citations
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Timsit, Youri, Magali Lescot, Martha Valiadi, & Fabrice Not. (2021). Bioluminescence and Photoreception in Unicellular Organisms: Light-Signalling in a Bio-Communication Perspective. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 11311–11311. 11 indexed citations
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Henry, Nicolas, et al.. (2021). The Ocean barcode atlas: A web service to explore the biodiversity and biogeography of marine organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(4). 1347–1358. 22 indexed citations
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Lescot, Magali, Pascal Hingamp, Kenji K. Kojima, et al.. (2015). Reverse transcriptase genes are highly abundant and transcriptionally active in marine plankton assemblages. The ISME Journal. 10(5). 1134–1146. 18 indexed citations
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Legendre, Matthieu, Audrey Lartigue, Lionel Bertaux, et al.. (2015). In-depth study of Mollivirus sibericum , a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infecting Acanthamoeba. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). E5327–35. 220 indexed citations
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Legendre, Matthieu, Julia Bartoli, Lyubov Shmakova, et al.. (2014). Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). 4274–4279. 344 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dassow, Peter von, Uwe John, Hiroyuki Ogata, et al.. (2014). Life-cycle modification in open oceans accounts for genome variability in a cosmopolitan phytoplankton. The ISME Journal. 9(6). 1365–1377. 67 indexed citations
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Philippe, Nadège, Matthieu Legendre, Yohann Couté, et al.. (2013). Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes. Science. 341(6143). 281–286. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Santini, Sébastien, Sandra Jeudy, Julia Bartoli, et al.. (2013). Genome of Phaeocystis globosa virus PgV-16T highlights the common ancestry of the largest known DNA viruses infecting eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(26). 10800–10805. 150 indexed citations
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Audic, Stéphane, Magali Lescot, Jean‐Michel Claverie, Axel Cloeckaert, & Michel S. Zygmunt. (2011). The genome sequence of Brucella pinnipedialis B2/94 sheds light on the evolutionary history of the genus Brucella. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 200–200. 32 indexed citations
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Legendre, Matthieu, Stéphane Audic, Olivier Poirot, et al.. (2010). mRNA deep sequencing reveals 75 new genes and a complex transcriptional landscape in Mimivirus. Genome Research. 20(5). 664–674. 114 indexed citations
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Audic, Stéphane, Magali Lescot, Jean‐Michel Claverie, & Holger C. Scholz. (2009). Brucella microti: the genome sequence of an emerging pathogen. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 352–352. 65 indexed citations
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Dereeper, Alexis, Valentin Guignon, Guillaume Blanc, et al.. (2008). Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Web Server). W465–W469. 3840 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lescot, Magali, Stéphane Rombauts, Jianguo Zhang, et al.. (2004). Annotation of a 95-kb Populus deltoides genomic sequence reveals a disease resistance gene cluster and novel class I and class II transposable elements. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 109(1). 10–22. 32 indexed citations
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Rombauts, Stéphane, et al.. (2003). Computational Approaches to Identify Promoters and cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Genomes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 132(3). 1162–1176. 133 indexed citations
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Lescot, Magali. (2002). PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 30(1). 325–327. 5602 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thijs, Gert, Yves Moreau, Frank De Smet, et al.. (2002). INCLUSive: INtegrated Clustering, Upstream sequence retrieval and motif Sampling. Bioinformatics. 18(2). 331–332. 64 indexed citations
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Richard, Caroline, Magali Lescot, Dirk Inzé, & Lieven De Veylder. (2002). Effect of auxin, cytokinin, and sucrose on cell cycle gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana cell suspension cultures. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 69(2). 167–176. 56 indexed citations
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Thijs, Gert, Kathleen Marchal, Magali Lescot, et al.. (2001). A Gibbs sampling method to detect over-represented motifs in the upstream regions of co-expressed genes. 305–312. 46 indexed citations
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Thijs, Gert, Stéphane Rombauts, Magali Lescot, et al.. (2000). Detection of cis-acting regulatory elements in plants : a GIBBS sampling approach. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4 indexed citations

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