Reena Debray

752 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 450 citations indexed

About

Reena Debray is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Reena Debray has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 450 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 5 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Reena Debray's work include Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (3 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (3 papers). Reena Debray is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (3 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (3 papers). Reena Debray collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Reena Debray's co-authors include Britt Koskella, Robin A. Herbert, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Mary E. Power, Alexander L. Jaffe, Vincent A. Formica, Edmund D. Brodie, Timothy M. Bowles, Yvonne Socolar and Xuening Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Reviews Microbiology and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Reena Debray

13 papers receiving 445 citations

Hit Papers

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Priority effects in microbiome assembly

2021 320 citations Reena Debray, Robin A. Herbert et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reena Debray United States	8	164	141	131	59	55	14	450
Phaik Eem Lim Malaysia	11	160 1.0×	92 0.7×	199 1.5×	52 0.9×	19 0.3×	17	578
Eva Boon Canada	9	217 1.3×	163 1.2×	139 1.1×	44 0.7×	141 2.6×	11	566
Vanessa M. Cave New Zealand	18	78 0.5×	108 0.8×	103 0.8×	109 1.8×	111 2.0×	60	732
Andrew P. Martin United States	8	379 2.3×	91 0.6×	339 2.6×	54 0.9×	121 2.2×	14	713
Meaghan Castledine United Kingdom	9	129 0.8×	47 0.3×	180 1.4×	43 0.7×	97 1.8×	16	306
Alex V. Carr United States	5	365 2.2×	62 0.4×	226 1.7×	38 0.6×	75 1.4×	9	633
Saliou Fall France	12	140 0.9×	256 1.8×	96 0.7×	152 2.6×	158 2.9×	31	612
Francis Cheng-Hsuan Weng Taiwan	6	172 1.0×	133 0.9×	103 0.8×	29 0.5×	17 0.3×	8	410
Elze Hesse United Kingdom	14	210 1.3×	145 1.0×	143 1.1×	176 3.0×	134 2.4×	30	530
Cassandra L. Ettinger United States	13	245 1.5×	219 1.6×	328 2.5×	24 0.4×	51 0.9×	29	820

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reena Debray

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2025). Shared environments complicate the use of strain-resolved metagenomics to infer microbiome transmission. Microbiome. 13(1). 59–59. 2 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2025). Phages indirectly maintain tomato plant pathogen defense through regulation of the commensal microbiome. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf065–ycaf065. 2 indexed citations

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Μαρίνος, Γεώργιος, Reena Debray, Nancy Obeng, et al.. (2024). Metabolic model predictions enable targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(2). e0114423–e0114423. 12 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2024). Mentoring practices that predict doctoral student outcomes in a biological sciences cohort. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0305367–e0305367.

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Debray, Reena, Jenny Tung, & Elizabeth A. Archie. (2024). Ecology and Evolution of the Social Microbiome. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 55(1). 89–114. 4 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2023). Within-host adaptation alters priority effects within the tomato phyllosphere microbiome. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(5). 725–731. 18 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2023). Phyllosphere microbial associations improve plant reproductive success. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1273330–1273330. 9 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2022). Historical Contingency Drives Compensatory Evolution and Rare Reversal of Phage Resistance. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(9). 14 indexed citations

9.

Formica, Vincent A., et al.. (2022). Mycophagous beetle females do not behave competitively during intrasexual interactions in presence of a fungal resource. Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). e8977–e8977. 3 indexed citations

10.

Debray, Reena, Yvonne Socolar, Aidee Guzman, et al.. (2021). Water stress and disruption of mycorrhizas induce parallel shifts in phyllosphere microbiome composition. New Phytologist. 234(6). 2018–2031. 33 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, Robin A. Herbert, Alexander L. Jaffe, et al.. (2021). Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(2). 109–121. 320 indexed citations breakdown →

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Debray, Reena, Robin A. Herbert, Alexander L. Jaffe, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(2). 122–122. 10 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2019). Social affiliation predicts mitochondrial DNA copy number in female rhesus macaques. Biology Letters. 15(1). 20180643–20180643. 6 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, et al.. (2019). Contest interactions and outcomes: relative body size and aggression independently predict contest status. Animal Behaviour. 157. 43–49. 17 indexed citations

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