Patricia Siguier

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Patricia Siguier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Patricia Siguier has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Patricia Siguier's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). Patricia Siguier is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). Patricia Siguier collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Brazil. Patricia Siguier's co-authors include Michaël Chandler, Edith Gourbeyre, Alessandro M. Varani, Jonathan Filée, Susu He, Fred Dyda, Bao Ton‐Hoang, Alison B. Hickman, John P. Dekker and Valérie Barbe and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Patricia Siguier

32 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ISfinder: the reference centre for bacterial insertion sequences

2005 2.0k citations Patricia Siguier Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Bacterial insertion sequences: their genomic impact and diversity

2014 458 citations Patricia Siguier, Edith Gourbeyre et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patricia Siguier France	23	2.5k	1.5k	1.4k	877	862	34	4.5k
M. Pilar Garcillán‐Barcia Spain	28	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	824 0.9×	467 0.5×	49	3.9k
Hong‐Yu Ou China	36	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	406 0.5×	96	4.2k
Vincent Burrus Canada	35	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	999 1.1×	372 0.4×	67	3.4k
Jonathan J. Dennis Canada	32	2.3k 0.9×	541 0.4×	2.1k 1.5×	881 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	71	4.8k
Veronika Vonstein United States	16	4.2k 1.7×	743 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	761 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	22	6.7k
Alice R. Wattam United States	20	3.9k 1.6×	817 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	885 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	45	6.8k
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan United Kingdom	17	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	461 0.5×	25	4.8k
María Fookes United Kingdom	23	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	600 0.7×	38	5.4k
Mitchell J. Sullivan United States	12	1.3k 0.5×	993 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	662 0.8×	557 0.6×	28	3.3k
Juan M. Tomás Spain	46	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	2.4k 2.7×	637 0.7×	231	7.0k

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Campos, Manuel, Patricia Siguier, Maria-Halima Laaberki, et al.. (2025). Interplay between the Xer recombination system and the dissemination of antibioresistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1).

Siguier, Patricia, Jérôme Rech, Bao Ton‐Hoang, et al.. (2022). Characterization of the DNA Binding Domain of StbA, A Key Protein of A New Type of DNA Segregation System. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(19). 167752–167752. 3 indexed citations

Varani, Alessandro M., Susu He, Patricia Siguier, Karen Ross, & Michaël Chandler. (2021). The IS6 family, a clinically important group of insertion sequences including IS26. Mobile DNA. 12(1). 11–11. 87 indexed citations

Pons�, M., Patricia Siguier, Catherine Guynet, et al.. (2020). Intracellular Positioning Systems Limit the Entropic Eviction of Secondary Replicons Toward the Nucleoid Edges in Bacterial Cells. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(3). 745–761. 17 indexed citations

Siguier, Patricia, Edith Gourbeyre, & Michaël Chandler. (2017). Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns in prokaryotic transposition. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 38. 171–180. 25 indexed citations

Siguier, Patricia, Edith Gourbeyre, Alessandro M. Varani, Bao Ton‐Hoang, & Michaël Chandler. (2015). Everyman's Guide to Bacterial Insertion Sequences. Microbiology Spectrum. 3(2). MDNA3–30. 175 indexed citations

Moreira, Leandro Márcio, José Belasque, Edith Gourbeyre, et al.. (2015). A TALE of Transposition: Tn 3 -Like Transposons Play a Major Role in the Spread of Pathogenicity Determinants of Xanthomonas citri and Other Xanthomonads. mBio. 6(1). e02505–14. 44 indexed citations

Siguier, Patricia, Edith Gourbeyre, & Michaël Chandler. (2014). Bacterial insertion sequences: their genomic impact and diversity. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 38(5). 865–891. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

Guérillot, Romain, Patricia Siguier, Edith Gourbeyre, Michaël Chandler, & Philippe Glaser. (2014). The Diversity of Prokaryotic DDE Transposases of the Mutator Superfamily, Insertion Specificity, and Association with Conjugation Machineries. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(2). 260–272. 39 indexed citations

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He, Susu, Catherine Guynet, Patricia Siguier, et al.. (2013). IS 200 /IS 605 family single-strand transposition: mechanism of IS 608 strand transfer. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(5). 3302–3313. 19 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia, et al.. (2012). Exploring Bacterial Insertion Sequences with ISfinder: Objectives, Uses, and Future Developments. Methods in molecular biology. 859. 91–103. 61 indexed citations

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Pasternak, Cécile, Patricia Siguier, Catherine Guynet, et al.. (2010). Single-Stranded DNA Transposition Is Coupled to Host Replication. Cell. 142(3). 398–408. 54 indexed citations

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Falentin, Hélène, Stéphanie‐Marie Deutsch, Gwénaël Jan, et al.. (2010). The Complete Genome of Propionibacterium freudenreichii CIRM-BIA1T, a Hardy Actinobacterium with Food and Probiotic Applications. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11748–e11748. 166 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia, et al.. (2009). ISbrowser: an extension of ISfinder for visualizing insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D62–D68. 45 indexed citations

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Groot, Arjan de, Rémi Dulermo, Philippe Ortet, et al.. (2009). Alliance of Proteomics and Genomics to Unravel the Specificities of Sahara Bacterium Deinococcus deserti. PLoS Genetics. 5(3). e1000434–e1000434. 129 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia, Lionel Gagnevin, & Michaël Chandler. (2009). The new IS1595 family, its relation to IS1 and the frontier between insertion sequences and transposons. Research in Microbiology. 160(3). 232–241. 38 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia, et al.. (2008). IS4 family goes genomic. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 18–18. 57 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia, Jonathan Filée, & Michaël Chandler. (2006). Insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 9(5). 526–531. 181 indexed citations

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Filée, Jonathan, Patricia Siguier, & Michaël Chandler. (2006). I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses. Trends in Genetics. 23(1). 10–15. 104 indexed citations

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Siguier, Patricia. (2005). ISfinder: the reference centre for bacterial insertion sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(90001). D32–D36. 2031 indexed citations breakdown →

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