Marie Touchon

13.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Marie Touchon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marie Touchon has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Marie Touchon's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Marie Touchon is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Marie Touchon collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Marie Touchon's co-authors include Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Aude Bernheim, Bertrand Néron, Jean Cury, Louis‐Marie Bobay, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Pedro H. Oliveira, Sophie S. Abby, Claire Toffano‐Nioche and David Couvin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Marie Touchon

72 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

CRISPRCasFinder, an update of CRISRFinder, includes a portable version, enhanced performance and integrates search for Cas proteins

2018 995 citations David Couvin, Aude Bernheim et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Uncovering Listeria monocytogenes hypervirulence by harnessing its biodiversity

2016 501 citations Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha et al. profile →
Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes

2022 371 citations Florian Tesson, Hervé Alexandre et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marie Touchon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marie Touchon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marie Touchon 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 Marie Touchon. Marie Touchon 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Genomic Islands as minimal hitchers of conjugative elements 2026 ·bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ·(unknown), (unknown), Amandine Nucci, Marie Touchon, (unknown)	0
2	Bacteriophages mobilize bacterial defense systems via lateral transduction 2026 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), Marie Touchon, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jakob T. Rostøl, (unknown)	0
3	Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems 2025 ·Science ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Julia Bos, P.A. Kaminski, Florence Depardieu, (unknown), (unknown), Marie Touchon, Aude Bernheim, David Bikard, Frédérique Le Roux, Didier Mazel, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Céline Loot	6
4	The pathway to resolve dimeric forms distinguishes plasmids from megaplasmids in Enterobacteriaceae 2024 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), Manuel Campos, Jean Cury, (unknown), C. Pagès, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Philippe Rousseau, François Cornet	1
5	Chance Favors the Prepared Genomes: Horizontal Transfer Shapes the Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations in Core Genes 2023 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Charles Coluzzi, (unknown), (unknown), Marie Touchon, (unknown), Guillaume Achaz, Philippe Glaser, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	7
6	Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations 2022 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Matthieu Haudiquet, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	79
7	Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Florian Tesson, Hervé Alexandre, Ernest Mordret, Marie Touchon, (unknown), Jean Cury, Aude Bernheim	371
8	Bacteria have numerous distinctive groups of phage–plasmids with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires 2021 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Eugen Pfeifer, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	108
9	Causes and Consequences of Bacteriophage Diversification via Genetic Exchanges across Lifestyles and Bacterial Taxa 2021 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Eugen Pfeifer, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	68
10	Phylogenetic background and habitat drive the genetic diversification of Escherichia coli 2020 ·PLoS Genetics ·Marie Touchon, Amandine Perrin, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Belinda Vangchhia, (unknown), Claire O’Brien, Érick Denamur, David M. Gordon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	126
11	A matter of background: DNA repair pathways as a possible cause for the sparse distribution of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria 2019 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Aude Bernheim, David Bikard, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	26
12	A simple, reproducible and cost-effective procedure to analyse gut phageome: from phage isolation to bioinformatic approach 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Marie Touchon, Sara Dion, Jean Cury, Amine Ghozlane, Marc Garcia‐Garcerà, Christiane Bouchier, Laurence Ma, Érick Denamur, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	31
13	Atypical organizations and epistatic interactions of CRISPRs and cas clusters in genomes and their mobile genetic elements 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Aude Bernheim, (unknown), Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	35
14	CRISPRCasdb a successor of CRISPRdb containing CRISPR arrays and cas genes from complete genome sequences, and tools to download and query lists of repeats and spacers 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Christine Pourcel, Marie Touchon, (unknown), (unknown), David Couvin, Claire Toffano‐Nioche, Gilles Vergnaud	109
15	Parallels between experimental and natural evolution of legume symbionts 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Camille Clérissi, Marie Touchon, Delphine Capela, (unknown), Stéphane Cruveiller, Clémence Genthon, Céline Lopez‐Roques, Matthew A. Parker, Lionel Moulin, Catherine Masson‐Boivin, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	15
16	CRISPRCasFinder, an update of CRISRFinder, includes a portable version, enhanced performance and integrates search for Cas proteins breakdown → 2018 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·David Couvin, Aude Bernheim, Claire Toffano‐Nioche, Marie Touchon, Juraj Michálik, Bertrand Néron, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Gilles Vergnaud, Daniel Gautheret, Christine Pourcel	995
17	Metagenomic assessment of the interplay between the environment and the genetic diversification of Acinetobacter 2017 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Marc Garcia‐Garcerà, Marie Touchon, Sylvain Brisse, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	21
18	Genetic and life-history traits associated with the distribution of prophages in bacteria 2016 ·The ISME Journal ·Marie Touchon, Aude Bernheim, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	271
19	Identification and analysis of integrons and cassette arrays in bacterial genomes 2016 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Jean Cury, (unknown), Marie Touchon, Bertrand Néron, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	215
20	Regulation of genetic flux between bacteria by restriction–modification systems 2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Pedro H. Oliveira, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha	118

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