Moïra B. Dion

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 919 citations indexed

About

Moïra B. Dion is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moïra B. Dion has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 919 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Moïra B. Dion's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). Moïra B. Dion is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). Moïra B. Dion collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Denmark. Moïra B. Dion's co-authors include Sylvain Moineau, Frank Oechslin, Shiraz A. Shah, Jacques Corbeil, Pier-Luc Plante, Simon J. Labrie, Rong Shi, Marie‐Agnès Petit, Elisabeth Moncaut and Denise M. Tremblay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Moïra B. Dion

14 papers receiving 914 citations

Hit Papers

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Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny

2020 602 citations Moïra B. Dion, Frank Oechslin et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers

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Anne Chevallereau France

Padmanabhan Mahadevan United States

Marina Tediashvili Georgia

Nuria Quiles‐Puchalt Spain

Elina Laanto Finland

Zachary J. Storms Canada

Geneviève M. Rousseau Canada

Dann Turner United Kingdom

Hannah G. Hampton New Zealand

Nathan Brown United Kingdom

Anne Chevallereau France

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505 ×1.0

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107 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Moïra B. Dion

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Moïra B. Dion

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moïra B. Dion

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Zhang, Yichang, Josué L. Castro‐Mejía, Ling Deng, et al.. (2025). The influence of early life exposures on the infant gut virome. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2501194–2501194.

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Turner, Dann, et al.. (2025). In silico and in vitro comparative analysis of 79 Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(7). e0284924–e0284924. 1 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., Shiraz A. Shah, Ling Deng, et al.. (2024). Escherichia coli CRISPR arrays from early life fecal samples preferentially target prophages. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 9 indexed citations

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Oechslin, Frank, et al.. (2022). Phage endolysins are adapted to specific hosts and are evolutionarily dynamic. PLoS Biology. 20(8). e3001740–e3001740. 39 indexed citations

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Lamy-Besnier, Quentin, Julien Lossouarn, Elisabeth Moncaut, et al.. (2021). Analysis of viromes and microbiomes from pig fecal samples reveals that phages and prophages rarely carry antibiotic resistance genes. ISME Communications. 1(1). 55–55. 31 indexed citations

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Rousseau, Geneviève M., C. Philippe, Felipe Machado, et al.. (2021). Ectopic Spacer Acquisition in Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR3 Array. Microorganisms. 9(3). 512–512. 9 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., et al.. (2021). Streamlining CRISPR spacer-based bacterial host predictions to decipher the viral dark matter. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(6). 3127–3138. 70 indexed citations

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Jungblut, Anne D., Frédéric Raymond, Moïra B. Dion, et al.. (2021). Genomic diversity and CRISPR‐Cas systems in the cyanobacterium Nostoc in the High Arctic. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 2955–2968. 8 indexed citations

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Mathieu, Aurélie, Moïra B. Dion, Ling Deng, et al.. (2020). Virulent coliphages in 1-year-old children fecal samples are fewer, but more infectious than temperate coliphages. Nature Communications. 11(1). 378–378. 57 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., Frank Oechslin, & Sylvain Moineau. (2020). Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(3). 125–138. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Philippe, C., Sébastien Levesque, Moïra B. Dion, et al.. (2020). Novel Genus of Phages Infecting Streptococcus thermophilus: Genomic and Morphological Characterization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(13). 23 indexed citations

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Wambeke, France Van, et al.. (2018). Microbial community structure in the western tropical South Pacific. Biogeosciences. 15(12). 3909–3925. 14 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., Simon J. Labrie, Shiraz A. Shah, & Sylvain Moineau. (2018). CRISPRStudio: A User-Friendly Software for Rapid CRISPR Array Visualization. Viruses. 10(11). 602–602. 38 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., et al.. (1997). Detection of a homologue of bcl-2 in plant cells. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 75(4). 457–461. 12 indexed citations

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Dion, Moïra B., et al.. (1971). Cartographie génique du Nématode libre Caenorhabditis elegans, Maupas 1900, variété Bergerac. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 112(2). 133–151. 6 indexed citations

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