Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (14 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (14 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez's co-authors include Andrew J. Roger, Ryoma Kamikawa, Jeremy G. Wideman, Claudio H. Slamovits, Joel B. Dacks, Edward Susko, Sebastian Hess, Laura Eme, Kerry Geiler‐Samerotte and Paul E. Schavemaker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez

27 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

The Origin and Diversification of Mitochondria

2017 707 citations Andrew J. Roger, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez et al. Current Biology profile →
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

2025 23 citations Laura Eme, Hector Baños et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez 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 Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez. Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry breakdown → 2025 ·Nature ·(unknown), Laura Eme, Hector Baños, Charley McCarthy, Edward Susko, Ryoma Kamikawa, Russell J. S. Orr, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Bùi Quang Minh, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Andrew J. Roger	23
2	Phylogeny and species delimitation of ciliates in the genus Spirostomum (class Heterotrichea) using single-cell transcriptomes 2025 ·BMC Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, JunMo Lee, Laura A. Katz, Mann Kyoon Shin	0
3	The energetic costs of cellular complexity in evolution 2024 ·Trends in Microbiology ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez	9
4	Energetics and evolution of anaerobic microbial eukaryotes 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez	18
5	Single-Cell Genomics Reveals the Divergent Mitochondrial Genomes of Retaria (Foraminifera and Radiolaria) 2023 ·mBio ·(unknown), (unknown), Yu-Ping Poh, (unknown), (unknown), Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, (unknown), Dagmar Jírsová, Rutger Vos, (unknown), Gillian H. Gile, Willem Renema, Jeremy G. Wideman	8
6	Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60 2023 ·Current Biology ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, (unknown), Alastair T. Gardiner, Michelle M. Leger, (unknown), (unknown), Tomáš Bílý, (unknown), J. Thomas Beatty, Michal Koblížek, Andrew J. Roger, Claudio H. Slamovits, Julius Lukeš, Hassan Hashimi	7
7	Purple photosymbioses 2023 ·Current Biology ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Sebastian Hess	2
8	Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria 2022 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Edward Susko, (unknown), Laura Eme, Claudio H. Slamovits, David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, Andrew J. Roger	60
9	The role of mitochondrial energetics in the origin and diversification of eukaryotes 2022 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Paul E. Schavemaker, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez	26
10	EukProt: A database of genome-scale predicted proteins across the diversity of eukaryotes 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Daniel J. Richter, Cédric Berney, Jürgen F. H. Strassert, Yu-Ping Poh, Emily K. Herman, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Jeremy G. Wideman, Fabien Burki, Colomban de Vargas	99
11	A microbial eukaryote with a unique combination of purple bacteria and green algae as endosymbionts 2021 ·Science Advances ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, (unknown), Sebastian Hess	27
12	Constructive Neutral Evolution 20 Years Later 2021 ·Journal of Molecular Evolution ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, (unknown), Jeremy G. Wideman, Kerry Geiler‐Samerotte	56
13	Genome-enabled phylogenetic and functional reconstruction of an araphid pennate diatom Plagiostriata sp. CCMP470, previously assigned as a radial centric diatom, and its bacterial commensal 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Shinya Sato, Deepak Nanjappa, Richard G. Dorrell, Fabio Rocha Jimenez Vieira, Elena Kazamia, Leı̈la Tirichine, Alaguraj Veluchamy, Roland Heilig, Jean‐Marc Aury, Olivier Jaillon, Patrick Wincker, Zoltán Füssy, Miroslav Obornı́k, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, David G. Mann, Chris Bowler, Adriana Zingone	11
14	An updated phylogeny of the Alphaproteobacteria reveals that the parasitic Rickettsiales and Holosporales have independent origins 2019 ·eLife ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Sebastian Hess, Gertraud Burger, B. Franz Lang, Edward Susko, Claudio H. Slamovits, Andrew J. Roger	78
15	Neutral evolution of cellular phenotypes 2019 ·Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Jeremy G. Wideman, Aaron Novick, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, W. Ford Doolittle	19
16	Microbial eukaryotes have adapted to hypoxia by horizontal acquisitions of a gene involved in rhodoquinone biosynthesis 2018 ·eLife ·Courtney W. Stairs, Laura Eme, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Alejandro Cohen, Graham Dellaire, Jennifer N. Shepherd, J. Paul Fawcett, Andrew J. Roger	47
17	The Origin and Diversification of Mitochondria breakdown → 2017 ·Current Biology ·Andrew J. Roger, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Ryoma Kamikawa	707
18	The origin of mitochondrial cristae from alphaproteobacteria 2016 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Jeremy G. Wideman, Andrew J. Roger, Claudio H. Slamovits	89
19	The evolution of ERMIONE in mitochondrial biogenesis and lipid homeostasis: An evolutionary view from comparative cell biology 2016 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids ·Jeremy G. Wideman, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez	38
20	Ancient Homology of the Mitochondrial Contact Site and Cristae Organizing System Points to an Endosymbiotic Origin of Mitochondrial Cristae 2015 ·Current Biology ·Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Claudio H. Slamovits, Joel B. Dacks, (unknown), (unknown), Jeremy G. Wideman	90

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