Thomas Bataillon

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas Bataillon is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bataillon has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Genetics, 36 papers in Plant Science and 29 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bataillon's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (17 papers). Thomas Bataillon is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (17 papers). Thomas Bataillon collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, France and Morocco. Thomas Bataillon's co-authors include Sylvain Glémin, Daniel J. Schoen, Rees Kassen, Joëlle Ronfort, Martin Morgan, Jacques David, Susan F. Bailey, Mark Kirkpatrick, Bodil Ehlers and Mikkel Heide Schierup and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bataillon

90 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change
    2020 198 citations Thomas Bataillon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Bataillon Denmark 40 2.7k 2.1k 1.6k 1.2k 576 90 4.9k
John K. Kelly United States 37 2.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.8× 411 0.7× 123 4.7k
Pierre‐Henri Gouyon France 36 1.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.5× 504 0.9× 81 3.9k
Virginie Ravigné France 26 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 478 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 873 1.5× 59 3.6k
Isabelle Olivieri France 47 3.1k 1.2× 1.9k 0.9× 944 0.6× 3.0k 2.4× 1.4k 2.5× 113 6.4k
Thomas Guillemaud France 40 2.2k 0.8× 2.2k 1.1× 2.4k 1.5× 1.4k 1.1× 1.5k 2.6× 92 6.7k
Rowan D. H. Barrett Canada 29 3.0k 1.1× 543 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 1.6k 2.7× 79 5.2k
Robert Kofler Austria 28 2.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 641 0.5× 770 1.3× 63 4.4k
Jacques Brodeur Canada 46 910 0.3× 2.5k 1.2× 746 0.5× 2.9k 2.3× 1.5k 2.5× 192 6.8k
Jean‐Christophe Simon France 42 1.4k 0.5× 2.0k 1.0× 908 0.6× 2.5k 2.1× 510 0.9× 154 6.0k
Abraham B. Korol Israel 43 2.8k 1.0× 3.8k 1.9× 1.2k 0.8× 627 0.5× 406 0.7× 118 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Bataillon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Bataillon

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All Works

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Besenbacher, Søren, Sofia Boeg Winge, Kristian Almstrup, et al.. (2025). Estimating Gene Conversion Tract Length and Rate From PacBio HiFi Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(2). 2 indexed citations
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Bataillon, Thomas, et al.. (2024). fastDFE: Fast and Flexible Inference of the Distribution of Fitness Effects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(5). 7 indexed citations
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Chabas, Hélène, Antoine Nicot, Lotte Hindhede, et al.. (2022). Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(10). 1480–1488. 16 indexed citations
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Andersen, Stig Uggerhøj, et al.. (2021). Recombination Facilitates Adaptive Evolution in Rhizobial Soil Bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(12). 5480–5490. 8 indexed citations
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Hartfield, Matthew & Thomas Bataillon. (2020). Selective Sweeps Under Dominance and Inbreeding. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(3). 1063–1075. 23 indexed citations
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Tataru, Paula & Thomas Bataillon. (2019). polyDFEv2.0: testing for invariance of the distribution of fitness effects within and across species. Bioinformatics. 35(16). 2868–2869. 28 indexed citations
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Fragata, Inês, et al.. (2018). The fitness landscape of the codon space across environments. Heredity. 121(5). 422–437. 14 indexed citations
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Tataru, Paula, et al.. (2017). Inference of Distribution of Fitness Effects and Proportion of Adaptive Substitutions from Polymorphism Data. Genetics. 207(3). 1103–1119. 95 indexed citations
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Hartfield, Matthew, Thomas Bataillon, & Sylvain Glémin. (2017). The Evolutionary Interplay between Adaptation and Self-Fertilization. Trends in Genetics. 33(6). 420–431. 57 indexed citations
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Ehlers, Bodil, Emeric Figuet, Sylvain Santoni, et al.. (2017). Patterns of Genome-Wide Nucleotide Diversity in the Gynodioecious Plant Thymus vulgaris Are Compatible with Recent Sweeps of Cytoplasmic Genes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(1). 239–248. 9 indexed citations
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Bailey, Susan F., François Blanquart, Thomas Bataillon, & Rees Kassen. (2016). What drives parallel evolution?. BioEssays. 39(1). 1–9. 88 indexed citations
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Tataru, Paula, Thomas Bataillon, & Asger Hobolth. (2015). Inference Under a Wright-Fisher Model Using an Accurate Beta Approximation. Genetics. 201(3). 1133–1141. 19 indexed citations
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Stukenbrock, Eva H. & Thomas Bataillon. (2012). A Population Genomics Perspective on the Emergence and Adaptation of New Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems. PLoS Pathogens. 8(9). e1002893–e1002893. 55 indexed citations
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Stukenbrock, Eva H., Thomas Bataillon, Julien Y. Dutheil, et al.. (2011). The making of a new pathogen: Insights from comparative population genomics of the domesticated wheat pathogenMycosphaerella graminicolaand its wild sister species. Genome Research. 21(12). 2157–2166. 148 indexed citations
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Glémin, Sylvain & Thomas Bataillon. (2009). A comparative view of the evolution of grasses under domestication. New Phytologist. 183(2). 273–290. 162 indexed citations
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Schoustra, Sijmen E., Thomas Bataillon, Danna R. Gifford, & Rees Kassen. (2009). The Properties of Adaptive Walks in Evolving Populations of Fungus. PLoS Biology. 7(11). e1000250–e1000250. 96 indexed citations
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Haudry, Annabelle, Alberto Cenci, Catherine Ravel, et al.. (2007). Grinding up Wheat: A Massive Loss of Nucleotide Diversity Since Domestication. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(7). 1506–1517. 288 indexed citations
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David, Jacques, Sylvain Santoni, Heather I. McKhann, et al.. (2006). Evidence for a large‐scale population structure among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana: possible causes and consequences for the distribution of linkage disequilibrium. Molecular Ecology. 15(6). 1507–1517. 158 indexed citations
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Schoen, Daniel J., Martin Morgan, & Thomas Bataillon. (1996). How does self-pollination evolve? Inferences from floral ecology and molecular genetic variation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1345). 1281–1290. 196 indexed citations

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