Thomas Bourguignon

3.7k total citations
108 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Bourguignon is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bourguignon has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Genetics, 93 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bourguignon's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (103 papers), Plant and animal studies (90 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (42 papers). Thomas Bourguignon is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (103 papers), Plant and animal studies (90 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (42 papers). Thomas Bourguignon collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Japan and Belgium. Thomas Bourguignon's co-authors include Yves Roisin, Jan Šobotník, Nathan Lo, Theodore A. Evans, David Sillam‐Dussès, Stephen L. Cameron, Robert Hanus, Toru Miura, Aleš Buček and Maurice Leponce and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bourguignon

102 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Bourguignon Czechia 24 1.9k 1.8k 759 205 190 108 2.4k
Jan Šobotník Czechia 29 2.1k 1.1× 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 249 1.2× 212 1.1× 117 2.7k
Brian T. Forschler United States 24 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 901 1.2× 271 1.3× 125 0.7× 78 1.7k
Grzegorz Buczkowski United States 26 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 965 1.3× 135 0.7× 126 0.7× 59 1.6k
Christine A. Nalepa United States 29 1.7k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 344 1.7× 133 0.7× 94 2.4k
J. Kenneth Grace United States 28 2.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 480 2.3× 122 0.6× 138 2.6k
Sandra M. Rehan United States 33 2.0k 1.1× 2.7k 1.5× 2.1k 2.8× 451 2.2× 116 0.6× 115 3.0k
Barbara Feldmeyer Germany 24 1.0k 0.5× 759 0.4× 538 0.7× 128 0.6× 240 1.3× 77 1.7k
Yves Roisin Belgium 32 3.5k 1.8× 3.4k 1.9× 1.4k 1.8× 299 1.5× 210 1.1× 183 4.1k
Daegan Inward United Kingdom 17 914 0.5× 981 0.5× 536 0.7× 286 1.4× 240 1.3× 29 1.9k
Martin Nyffeler Switzerland 28 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 305 1.5× 256 1.3× 80 2.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Bourguignon

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Audisio, Tracy, Simon Hellemans, Shulin He, et al.. (2025). Unravelling the evolution of wood-feeding in termites with 47 high-resolution genome assemblies. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11154–11154.
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Škerlová, Jana, J. Brynda, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2024). Crystal structure of blue laccase BP76, a unique termite suicidal defense weapon. Structure. 32(10). 1581–1585.e5. 1 indexed citations
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Tang, Qian, Edward L. Vargo, Intan Ahmad, et al.. (2024). Solving the 250-year-old mystery of the origin and global spread of the German cockroach,Blattella germanica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(22). e2401185121–e2401185121. 11 indexed citations
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Buček, Aleš, et al.. (2024). Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) from their common ancestor. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1449–1449. 2 indexed citations
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Roy, Virginie, Chantal Poteaux, Simon Hellemans, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary history of soil-feeding Neotropical termites reveals recent divergences linked to geologic-climatic influences. Insect Systematics and Diversity. 8(6).
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Chakraborty, Amrita, Jan Šobotník, Jaromír Hradecký, et al.. (2023). Impact of Wood Age on Termite Microbial Assemblages. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(5). e0036123–e0036123. 4 indexed citations
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Hellemans, Simon, Esra Kaymak, Thomas Bourguignon, et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae). Systematic Entomology. 49(1). 72–83.
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Mizumoto, Nobuaki, et al.. (2022). Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles. Evolution. 76(5). 1064–1072. 5 indexed citations
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Buček, Aleš, Menglin Wang, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2022). Molecular Phylogeny Reveals the Past Transoceanic Voyages of Drywood Termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(5). 16 indexed citations
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Buček, Aleš, et al.. (2022). The ultrastructure of the intramandibular gland in soldiers of the termite Machadotermes rigidus (Blattodea: Termitidae: Apicotermitinae). Arthropod Structure & Development. 67. 101136–101136. 3 indexed citations
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Šobotník, Jan, Aleš Buček, Yves Roisin, et al.. (2022). The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota. Microbiome. 10(1). 78–78. 69 indexed citations
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Wang, Menglin, Simon Hellemans, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2022). Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of Teletisoptera (Blattaria: Isoptera). Systematic Entomology. 47(4). 581–590. 13 indexed citations
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Chouvenc, Thomas, Jan Šobotník, Michael S. Engel, & Thomas Bourguignon. (2021). Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 78(6). 2749–2769. 70 indexed citations
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Bourguignon, Thomas, Nicholas V. Coleman, Qian Tang, et al.. (2020). Increased Mutation Rate Is Linked to Genome Reduction in Prokaryotes. Current Biology. 30(19). 3848–3855.e4. 39 indexed citations
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Sillam‐Dussès, David, Jan Šobotník, Thomas Bourguignon, et al.. (2020). Trail-Following Pheromones in the Termite Subfamily Syntermitinae (Blattodea, Termitoidae, Termitidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 46(5-6). 475–482. 6 indexed citations
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Arab, Daej A., et al.. (2020). Evolutionary rates are correlated between cockroach symbionts and mitochondrial genomes. Biology Letters. 16(1). 20190702–20190702. 16 indexed citations
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Forni, Giobbe, Guglielmo Puccio, Thomas Bourguignon, et al.. (2019). Complete mitochondrial genomes from transcriptomes: assessing pros and cons of data mining for assembling new mitogenomes. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14806–14806. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Menglin, Aleš Buček, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2018). Historical biogeography of the termite clade Rhinotermitinae (Blattodea: Isoptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 132. 100–104. 14 indexed citations
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Hošková, Kristýna, Rudy Plarre, Cecilia A. L. Dahlsjö, et al.. (2017). The labral gland in termite soldiers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(3). 535–544. 9 indexed citations
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Bourguignon, Thomas & Yves Roisin. (2006). A new genus and three new species of termitophilous staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staplylinidae) associated with Schedorhinotermes (Isoptera : Rhinotermitidae) in New Guinea. Sociobiology. 48(2). 395–407. 4 indexed citations

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