!!Patrick Forterre - Selected Publications
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BERGERAT, A. DE MASSY, B., GADELLE, D., VAROUTAS, P.C., NICOLAS, A. and FORTERRE, P. \\
An atypical type II DNA topoisomerase from Archaea with implication for meiotic recombination. Nature, 386, 414-417 (1997) \\
 (540 citations ISI Web, 729 in Google Scholar) \\
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News and views in Nature by JC Wang: DNA topoisomerases. New break for archaeal enzyme. Nature. 1997 Mar 27;386(6623):329, 331\\
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MYLLYKALLIO, H., LOPEZ , P., LOPEZ-GARCIA, P., HEILIG, R., SAURIN, W., ZIVANOVIC, Y., PHILIPPE, H., FORTERRE, P. \\
Bacterial Mode of Replication with an Eukaryotic-Like Machinery in a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon. Science, 288, 2212-2215  (2000) (169 citations ISI Web, 230 Google Scholar)\\
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FORTERRE, P. \\
A hot story from comparative genomics: reverse gyrase is the only hyperthermophile-specific protein. Trends in Genetics, 18, 236-238 (2002) (121 citations ISI Web, 172 Google Scholar)\\
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FORTERRE, P. \\
Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: a hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103, 3669-3374 (2006) (126 citations ISI Web, 189 in Google scholar)\\
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This hypothesis was discussed in Nature and Science editorals. Zimmer C. Did DNA come from viruses? Science. 2006 May 12;312(5775):870-2. Whitfield J. Origins of DNA: base invaders. Nature. 2006 Jan 12;439(7073):130-1 and illustrated in Brock's Microbiology Texbook.\\
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FORTERRE, P. \\
The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions. Virus Research, 117, 5 (2006)\\
(162 citations in ISI Web, 266 in Google scholar)\\
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BROCHIER-ARMANET, C, BOUSSAU, B. GRIBALDO, S. and FORTERRE, P.\\
Mesophilic crenarchaea: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota\\
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 6:245-52. (2008) (568 citations ISI Web, 837 Google scholar)\\
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RAOULT, D. FORTERRE, P. \\
Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus\\
Nature Reviews Microbiology.   6 : 315-319  (2008) (157 citations ISI Web, 242 Google scholar)\\
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FORTERRE, P. \\
The virocell concept and environmental microbiology\\
ISME Journal,   7 , 233 (2015)\\
(15 citations ISI Web 2013, 29 in Google Scholar)\\
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SOLER, N. KRUPOVIC, M. MARGUET, E. FORTERRE, P.  \\
Membrane vesicles in natural environments: a major challenge in viral ecology\\
ISME Journal, 9: 793  (2015 ) (13 citations ISI Web)\\
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FORTERRE, P. \\
Microbes from Hell\\
Chicago University Press. Review in Natue by Sonja-Verena Albers\\
[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7626/full/538457a.html?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews]