Nicolas Rodrigue

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Rodrigue is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Rodrigue has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Rodrigue's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Nicolas Rodrigue is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Nicolas Rodrigue collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Nicolas Rodrigue's co-authors include Hervé Philippe, Nicolas Lartillot, Rees Kassen, Alex Wong, Yan Zhou, Susan F. Bailey, Henner Brinkmann, Jeremy R. Dettman, Frédéric Delsuc and Claudia L. Kleinman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Rodrigue

44 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Peers

Nicolas Rodrigue

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ECOLO

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Philippe Lopez France

Paweł Mackiewicz Poland

Ari Löytynoja Finland

Barbara R. Holland Australia

Jeet Sukumaran United States

Minh Anh Nguyen United States

Anthony L. Shiver United States

Vincent Daubin France

A. von Haeseler Germany

J. J. Bull United States

Philippe Lopez France

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242 ×0.8

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Rodrigue

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rodrigue, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Stochastic Character Mapping: An Under-Exploited Approach to the Study of Molecular Evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 93(4). 465–473.

Rodrigue, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). Measuring the relative contribution to predictive power of modern nucleotide substitution modeling approaches. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad091–vbad091. 2 indexed citations

Rodrigue, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Jump-Chain Simulation of Markov Substitution Processes Over Phylogenies. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 90(3-4). 239–243. 1 indexed citations

Ravichandran, Sridhar, Véronique J. Barthet, Nicolas Rodrigue, et al.. (2020). Evolution of Carthamus species revealed through sequence analyses of the fad2 gene family. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. 26(3). 419–432. 3 indexed citations

Aris‐Brosou, Stéphane & Nicolas Rodrigue. (2019). A Not-So-Long Introduction to Computational Molecular Evolution. Methods in molecular biology. 1910. 71–117. 2 indexed citations

Anderson, James B., Johann N. Bruhn, Dahlia Kasimer, et al.. (2018). Clonal evolution and genome stability in a 2500-year-old fungal individual. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1893). 20182233–20182233. 34 indexed citations

Walkowiak, Sean, Owen Rowland, Nicolas Rodrigue, & Rajagopal Subramaniam. (2016). Whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics of closely related Fusarium Head Blight fungi: Fusarium graminearum, F. meridionale and F. asiaticum. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 1014–1014. 48 indexed citations

Rodrigue, Nicolas & Nicolas Lartillot. (2016). Detecting Adaptation in Protein-Coding Genes Using a Bayesian Site-Heterogeneous Mutation-Selection Codon Substitution Model. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(1). 204–214. 26 indexed citations

Bailey, Susan F., Nicolas Rodrigue, & Rees Kassen. (2015). The Effect of Selection Environment on the Probability of Parallel Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(6). 1436–1448. 92 indexed citations

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Dettman, Jeremy R., Nicolas Rodrigue, & Rees Kassen. (2014). Genome-Wide Patterns of Recombination in the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(1). 18–34. 26 indexed citations

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Rodrigue, Nicolas, et al.. (2013). Population divergence in the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina is correlated with wheat evolution. Heredity. 112(4). 443–453. 25 indexed citations

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Wong, Alex, Nicolas Rodrigue, & Rees Kassen. (2012). Genomics of Adaptation during Experimental Evolution of the Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Genetics. 8(9). e1002928–e1002928. 120 indexed citations

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Aris‐Brosou, Stéphane & Nicolas Rodrigue. (2012). The Essentials of Computational Molecular Evolution. Methods in molecular biology. 855. 111–152. 19 indexed citations

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Rodrigue, Nicolas & Hervé Philippe. (2010). Mechanistic revisions of phenomenological modeling strategies in molecular evolution. Trends in Genetics. 26(6). 248–252. 27 indexed citations

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Kleinman, Claudia L., Nicolas Rodrigue, Nicolas Lartillot, & Hervé Philippe. (2010). Statistical Potentials for Improved Structurally Constrained Evolutionary Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(7). 1546–1560. 36 indexed citations

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Kleinman, Claudia L., et al.. (2009). Fast optimization of statistical potentials for structurally constrained phylogenetic models. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 227–227. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yan, Henner Brinkmann, Nicolas Rodrigue, Nicolas Lartillot, & Hervé Philippe. (2009). A Dirichlet Process Covarion Mixture Model and Its Assessments Using Posterior Predictive Discrepancy Tests. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(2). 371–384. 16 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yan, Nicolas Rodrigue, Nicolas Lartillot, & Hervé Philippe. (2007). Evaluation of the models handling heterotachy in phylogenetic inference. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 206–206. 37 indexed citations

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Rodrigue, Nicolas, Hervé Philippe, & Nicolas Lartillot. (2006). Assessing Site-Interdependent Phylogenetic Models of Sequence Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(9). 1762–1775. 56 indexed citations

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Rodrigue, Nicolas, Nicolas Lartillot, David Bryant, & Hervé Philippe. (2005). Site interdependence attributed to tertiary structure in amino acid sequence evolution. Gene. 347(2). 207–217. 78 indexed citations

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