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Pierre Pontarotti

CNRS
Verified email at univ-amu.fr
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Leukocyte Ig-like receptor complex (LRC) in mice and men

AM Martin, JK Kulski, C Witt, P Pontarotti… - Trends in …, 2002 - cell.com
Here, we compare the architecture of membrane receptors with extracellular Ig-like domains
located within the leukocyte Ig-like receptor complex (LRC) of humans and mice. The …

The human gut microbiome, a taxonomic conundrum

SA Sankar, JC Lagier, P Pontarotti, D Raoult… - Systematic and applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
From culture to metagenomics, within only 130 years, our knowledge of the human microbiome
has considerably improved. With >1000 microbial species identified to date, the gastro-…

Genomic resources and their influence on the detection of the signal of positive selection in genome scans

…, L Abi‐Rached, J Paganini, P Pontarotti… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Genome scans represent powerful approaches to investigate the action of natural selection
on the genetic variation of natural populations and to better understand local adaptation. …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

…, P Pontarotti, J Weissenbach, P Wincker… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Loss of sexual reproduction is considered an evolutionary dead end for metazoans, but
bdelloid rotifers challenge this view as they appear to have persisted asexually for millions of …

[HTML][HTML] Gene evolution and gene expression after whole genome duplication in fish: the PhyloFish database

…, D Severac, I Braasch, L Journot, P Pontarotti… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
With more than 30,000 species, ray-finned fish represent approximately half of vertebrates.
The evolution of ray-finned fish was impacted by several whole genome duplication (WGD) …

[HTML][HTML] Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

…, S Huang, V Laudet, GAB Marais, P Pontarotti… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Vertebrates have greatly elaborated the basic chordate body plan and evolved highly
distinctive genomes that have been sculpted by two whole-genome duplications. Here we …

Myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein is a member of a subset of the immunoglobulin superfamily encoded within the major histocompatibility complex.

…, G Roussel, P Pontarotti… - Proceedings of the …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
Myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is found on the surface of myelinating
oligodendrocytes and external lamellae of myelin sheaths in the central nervous system, and it is a …

Evidence of en bloc duplication in vertebrate genomes

L Abi-Rached, A Gilles, T Shiina, P Pontarotti, H Inoko - Nature genetics, 2002 - nature.com
It has been 30 years since it was first proposed that the vertebrate genome evolved through
several rounds of genome-wide duplications (polyploidizations) 1. Despite rapid advances …

[HTML][HTML] Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

V Merhej, M Royer-Carenzi, P Pontarotti, D Raoult - Biology direct, 2009 - Springer
… Although, the real theoretical probability p 0 is not given yet it can be … of P(X ≥ 100) with
respect to probability p 0. It increases with p 0 and reaches the critical probability 0.05 when p 0 …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery of an active RAG transposon illuminates the origins of V (D) J recombination

…, P Li, HA Beilinson, Y Zhang, W Yu, P Pontarotti… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
… Sequencing of the plasmids revealed small deletions and P-nucleotides in a large fraction
of the HDJ junctions (Figure S5A). The presence of P-nucleotides suggests that bbRAG1L/2L …