Matthieu Legendre

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Matthieu Legendre is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthieu Legendre has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Matthieu Legendre's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (25 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (13 papers). Matthieu Legendre is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (25 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (13 papers). Matthieu Legendre collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Belgium. Matthieu Legendre's co-authors include Chantal Abergel, Jean‐Michel Claverie, Kevin J. Verstrepen, Marcelo D. Vinces, Rita Gemayel, Daniel Gautheret, Defne Arslan, Virginie Seltzer, Yohann Couté and Magali Lescot and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matthieu Legendre

40 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

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 →
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

Matthieu Legendre

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Chu‐Fang Lo Taiwan

Karine Labadie France

Clément Gilbert France

Robert Belshaw United Kingdom

Jennifer Daub United Kingdom

Joel B. Dacks Canada

Geert F. Wiegertjes Netherlands

Blake Wiedenheft United States

Ronny Lorenz Austria

Dennis Romero United States

Chu‐Fang Lo Taiwan

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ECOLO

2.5k ×1.4

509 ×0.4

771 ×1.3

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301 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Matthieu Legendre Matthieu Legendre (= 1×) peers Chu‐Fang Lo

Countries citing papers authored by Matthieu Legendre

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthieu Legendre

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthieu Legendre

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

Santini, Sébastien, Audrey Lartigue, Jean-Marie Alempic, et al.. (2025). Pacmanvirus isolated from the Lost City hydrothermal field extends the concept of transpoviron beyond the family Mimiviridae. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Bisio, Hugo, Lucid Belmudes, Yohann Couté, et al.. (2024). Complex transcriptional regulations of a hyperparasitic quadripartite system in giant viruses infecting protists. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8608–8608. 3 indexed citations

Schmitt, Alain, Jean-Marie Alempic, Audrey Lartigue, et al.. (2023). Pithoviruses Are Invaded by Repeats That Contribute to Their Evolution and Divergence from Cedratviruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(11). 2 indexed citations

Alempic, Jean-Marie, Audrey Lartigue, Guido Grosse, et al.. (2023). An Update on Eukaryotic Viruses Revived from Ancient Permafrost. Viruses. 15(2). 564–564. 30 indexed citations

Bisio, Hugo, Matthieu Legendre, Nadège Philippe, et al.. (2023). Evolution of giant pandoravirus revealed by CRISPR/Cas9. Nature Communications. 14(1). 428–428. 18 indexed citations

Santini, Sébastien, et al.. (2022). Past and present giant viruses diversity explored through permafrost metagenomics. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5853–5853. 29 indexed citations

Alempic, Jean-Marie, Audrey Lartigue, Sébastien Santini, et al.. (2020). Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses. Journal of Virology. 94(8). 28 indexed citations

Legendre, Matthieu, Jean-Marie Alempic, Nadège Philippe, et al.. (2019). Pandoravirus Celtis Illustrates the Microevolution Processes at Work in the Giant Pandoraviridae Genomes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 430–430. 28 indexed citations

Legendre, Matthieu, Olivier Poirot, Sandra Jeudy, et al.. (2018). Diversity and evolution of the emerging Pandoraviridae family. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2285–2285. 97 indexed citations

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Jeudy, Sandra, Sébastien Santini, Matthieu Legendre, et al.. (2017). Noumeavirus replication relies on a transient remote control of the host nucleus. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15087–15087. 56 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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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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Arslan, Defne, Matthieu Legendre, Virginie Seltzer, Chantal Abergel, & Jean‐Michel Claverie. (2011). Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(42). 17486–17491. 242 indexed citations

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Martini, Emmanuelle, Valérie Borde, Matthieu Legendre, et al.. (2011). Genome-Wide Analysis of Heteroduplex DNA in Mismatch Repair–Deficient Yeast Cells Reveals Novel Properties of Meiotic Recombination Pathways. PLoS Genetics. 7(9). e1002305–e1002305. 97 indexed citations

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Legendre, Matthieu, Sébastien Santini, Alain Rico, Chantal Abergel, & Jean‐Michel Claverie. (2011). Breaking the 1000-gene barrier for Mimivirus using ultra-deep genome and transcriptome sequencing. Virology Journal. 8(1). 99–99. 71 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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Vinces, Marcelo D., Matthieu Legendre, Marina Caldara, Masaki Hagihara, & Kevin J. Verstrepen. (2009). Unstable Tandem Repeats in Promoters Confer Transcriptional Evolvability. Science. 324(5931). 1213–1216. 280 indexed citations

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Duftner, Nina, Jonah Larkins‐Ford, Matthieu Legendre, & Hans A. Hofmann. (2007). Efficacy of RNA amplification is dependent on sequence characteristics: Implications for gene expression profiling using a cDNA microarray. Genomics. 91(1). 108–117. 15 indexed citations

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Ritchie, William, Matthieu Legendre, & Daniel Gautheret. (2007). RNA stem–loops: To be or not to be cleaved by RNAse III. RNA. 13(4). 457–462. 62 indexed citations

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Chrisp, Clarence E. & Matthieu Legendre. (1994). Similarities and differences between DNA of Cryptosporidium parvum and C. wrairi detected by the polymerase chain reaction.. PubMed. 41(2). 97–100. 15 indexed citations

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