List of works by François Balloux

A de novo Assembly of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Transcriptome and Comparison of Transcription Following Exposure to Ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

A female melanin ornament signals offspring fluctuating asymmetry in the barn owl.

scientific article published in January 2003

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

scientific article

A novel approach to characterise pathogen candidate genetic polymorphisms involved in clinical outcome

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

A quantitative-PCR based method to estimate ranavirus viral load following normalisation by reference to an ultraconserved vertebrate target

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2011)

Ancient out-of-Africa migration of Plasmodium falciparum along with modern humans.

scientific article

Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: The Odd One Out.

scientific article

Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article

Association between bacterial homoplastic variants and radiological pathology in tuberculosis

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Author Correction: Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts

scientific article published on 21 June 2023

BREEDING SYSTEM AND GENETIC VARIANCE IN THE MONOGAMOUS, SEMI-SOCIAL SHREW, CROCIDURA RUSSULA

Breeding System and Genetic Variance in the Monogamous, Semi-Social Shrew, Crocidura russula

scientific article (publication date: August 1998)

Characterization of microsatellite loci in the greater white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Children With Cystic Fibrosis Are Infected With Multiple Subpopulations of Mycobacterium abscessus With Different Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Children with cystic fibrosis are infected with multiple subpopulations of Mycobacterium abscessus with different antimicrobial resistance profiles

scholarly article published 5 October 2018

Chromosomal copy number variation, selection and uneven rates of recombination reveal cryptic genome diversity linked to pathogenicity.

scientific article

Clonal reproduction and linkage disequilibrium in diploids: a simulation study

scientific article

Collapse of amphibian communities due to an introduced Ranavirus.

scientific article

Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts

scientific article published on 25 May 2023

Deep sequencing of viral genomes provides insight into the evolution and pathogenesis of varicella zoster virus and its vaccine in humans.

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Demographic Influences on Bacterial Population Structure

Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations ⬇️

scientific article published on October 15, 2010

Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans.

scientific article published in March 2009

Distinguishing the Signals of Gingivitis and Periodontitis in Supragingival Plaque: a Cross-Sectional Cohort Study in Malawi.

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Distribution of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and their HLA-C ligands in two Iranian populations

scientific article

Diverse approaches to analysing the history of human and pathogen evolution: how to tell the story of the past 70 000 years

scientific article (publication date: 19 March 2012)

Do riverine barriers, history or introgression shape the genetic structuring of a common shrew (Sorex araneus) population?

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Does heterozygosity estimate inbreeding in real populations?

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EASYPOP (version 1.7): a computer program for population genetics simulations.

scientific article published in May 2001

Effects of historic and projected climate change on the range and impacts of an emerging wildlife disease

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Evidence for recombination in scorpion mitochondrial DNA (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Evolution of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a susceptible ancestor in a single patient

scientific article

Extreme genetic differentiation among the remnant populations of marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) in Slovenia.

scientific article

F-statistics of clonal diploids structured in numerous demes

scientific article published in August 2005

Female-biased dispersal in the monogamous mammal Crocidura russula: evidence from field data and microsatellite patterns.

scientific article published in January 1997

Four decades of transmission of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak strain

scientific article

From Theory to Practice: Translating Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) into the Clinic

scholarly article by Francois Balloux et al published 1 December 2018 in Trends in Microbiology

Genetic affinities of an eradicated European Plasmodium falciparum strain

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Genome-wide characterisation of hepatitis B mutations involved in clinical outcome

article published in 2006

Genome-wide survey of protein kinases required for cell cycle progression.

scientific article published in December 2004

Genomic screening of 16 UK native bat species through conservationist networks uncovers coronaviruses with zoonotic potential

scientific article published in 2023

Global expansion of lineage 4 shaped by colonial migration and local adaptation

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Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world.

scientific article

Heterozygote excess in small populations and the heterozygote-excess effective population size

scientific article published in September 2004

Historical variations in mutation rate in an epidemic pathogen, Yersinia pestis

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Horizontal versus familial transmission of Helicobacter pylori

scientific article

How accurate is the current picture of human genetic variation?

Impact of HIV co-infection on the evolution and transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 09 August 2016

Improved calibration of the human mitochondrial clock using ancient genomes

scientific article

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Inferences from tip-calibrated phylogenies: a review and a practical guide

scientific article

Introduction to epidemiology

scholarly article by Francois Balloux published August 2012 in Lancet Infectious Diseases

Is urbanization scrambling the genetic structure of human populations? A case study

scientific article

Islands of linkage in an ocean of pervasive recombination reveals two-speed evolution of human cytomegalovirus genomes

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Isolation and characterization of 23 microsatellite loci in the hen flea Ceratophyllus gallinae

scientific article published in 2003

Kin structure and queen execution in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile

article

Large-scale network analysis captures biological features of bacterial plasmids

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans

scientific article

Life history correlates of inbreeding depression in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).

scientific article

MICROSATELLITES CAN BE MISLEADING: AN EMPIRICAL AND SIMULATION STUDY

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Microsatellite conservation, polymorphism, and GC content in shrews of the genus Sorex (Insectivora, Mammalia)

scientific article published in 1998

Modelling microbiome recovery after antibiotics using a stability landscape framework

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Molecular epidemiology of clonal diploids: a quick overview and a short DIY (do it yourself) notice

scientific article

Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage.

scientific article

Natural selection on fecundity variance in subdivided populations: kin selection meets bet hedging

scientific article published on 4 March 2007

No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Oral microbiomes from hunter-gatherers and traditional farmers reveal shifts in commensal balance and pathogen load linked to diet

scientific article

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

scientific article

Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings

scientific article

Pathogen-Driven Selection and Worldwide HLA Class I Diversity

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Plasmodium falciparum accompanied the human expansion out of Africa.

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Population genetics of complex life-cycle parasites: an illustration with trematodes

scientific article

Q&A: What are pathogens, and what have they done to and for us?

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Random mating with a finite number of matings.

scientific article

Rapid phenotypic evolution in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae hospital outbreak strains

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Rates of vaccine evolution show strong effects of latency: implications for varicella zoster virus epidemiology

scientific article

Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines.

scientific article

Reconstructing disease outbreaks from genetic data: a graph approach

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Regular treatments of praziquantel do not impact on the genetic make-up of Schistosoma mansoni in Northern Senegal

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

SAK/PLK4 is required for centriole duplication and flagella development

scientific article

SEX-BIASED DISPERSAL IN A MIGRATORY BAT: A CHARACTERIZATION USING SEX-SPECIFIC DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS

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Signatures of historical demography and pathogen richness on MHC class I genes

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Spatiotemporal dynamics in the early stages of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic

scientific article

Statistical properties of population differentiation estimators under stepwise mutation in a finite island model.

scientific article published in April 2002

Substitution rates at neutral genes depend on population size under fluctuating demography and overlapping generations

scientific article published on 3 October 2011

Systematic review of avian hatching failure and implications for conservation

scientific article published in 2023

TESTING FOR EPISTASIS BETWEEN DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS IN A PARASITOID WASP

Tackling the population genetics of clonal and partially clonal organisms

scientific article

Testing demographic models of effective population size.

scientific article published in February 2001

Testing for epistasis between deleterious mutations in a parasitoid wasp

scientific article

The Human Salivary Microbiome Is Shaped by Shared Environment Rather than Genetics: Evidence from a Large Family of Closely Related Individuals.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

scientific article

The estimation of population differentiation with microsatellite markers.

scientific article

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

scientific article

The genomic and phenotypic diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

scientific article published on 9 February 2015

The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1.

scientific article

The human oral microbiome is shaped by shared environment rather than genetics: evidence from a large family of closely-related individuals

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The population genetics of clonal and partially clonal diploids.

scientific article

The population genomics of hepatitis B virus

scientific article published in November 2007

The relative role of drift and selection in shaping the human skull

scientific article published in January 2010

The worm in the fruit of the mitochondrial DNA tree

Time-calibrated genomic evolution of a monomorphic bacterium during its establishment as an endemic crop pathogen

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Transcriptional Heterogeneity of VGII Compared with Non-VGII Lineages Underpins Key Pathogenicity Pathways

scientific article published in 2018

Transcriptional heterogeneity of Cryptococcus gattii VGII compared with non-VGII lineages underpins key pathogenicity pathways

Transient structural variations alter gene expression and quantitative traits in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

scientific article

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation

scientific article published on 27 May 2022

Whole genome sequencing Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum identifies more genetic diversity than sequencing from culture

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

scientific article published in December 2010

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