| Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes V Da Cunha, M Gaia, D Gadelle, A Nasir, P Forterre PLOS Genetics 13 (6), e1006810, 2017 | 162 | 2017 |
| Diversification of giant and large eukaryotic dsDNA viruses predated the origin of modern eukaryotes J Guglielmini, AC Woo, M Krupovic, P Forterre, M Gaia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (39), 19585-19592, 2019 | 128 | 2019 |
| Zamilon, a novel virophage with Mimiviridae host specificity M Gaia, S Benamar, M Boughalmi, I Pagnier, O Croce, P Colson, D Raoult, ... PLoS One 9 (4), e94923, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
| A decade of improvements in Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae isolation from amoeba I Pagnier, DGI Reteno, H Saadi, M Boughalmi, M Gaia, M Slimani, ... Intervirology 56 (6), 354-363, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| Giant viruses and the origin of modern eukaryotes P Forterre, M Gaļa Current opinion in microbiology 31, 44-49, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology. V Da Cunha, M Gaia, A Nasir, P Forterre PLoS genetics 14 (3), e1007215, 2018 | 94 | 2018 |
| Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean TO Delmont, M Gaia, DD Hinsinger, P Frémont, C Vanni, ... Cell Genomics 2 (5), 2022 | 77 | 2022 |
| Broad spectrum of mimiviridae virophage allows its isolation using a mimivirus reporter M Gaia, I Pagnier, A Campocasso, G Fournous, D Raoult, B La Scola PLoS One 8 (4), e61912, 2013 | 71 | 2013 |
| Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics TO Delmont, M Gaia, DD Hinsinger, P Fremont, AF Guerra, AM Eren, ... bioRxiv, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Eukaryotic virus composition can predict the efficiency of carbon export in the global ocean H Kaneko, R Blanc-Mathieu, H Endo, S Chaffron, TO Delmont, M Gaia, ... Iscience 24 (1), 2021 | 47 | 2021 |
| Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses M Gaļa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni, A Fernandez-Guerra, ... Nature, 2023 | 31 | 2023 |
| Giant viruses encode actin-related proteins V Da Cunha, M Gaia, H Ogata, O Jaillon, TO Delmont, P Forterre Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (2), msac022, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| Phylogeny of the Varidnaviria Morphogenesis Module: Congruence and Incongruence With the Tree of Life and Viral Taxonomy AC Woo, M Gaia, J Guglielmini, V Da Cunha, P Forterre Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 704052, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| Universal tree of life P Forterre, V Da Cunha, M Gaļa eLS, 1-7, 2018 | 21* | 2018 |
| Giant viruses encode novel types of actins possibly related to the origin of eukaryotic actin: the viractins VD Cunha, M Gaia, H Ogata, O Jaillon, TO Delmont, P Forterre BioRxiv, 2020.06. 16.150565, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Discovery of viral myosin genes with complex evolutionary history within plankton S Kijima, TO Delmont, U Miyazaki, M Gaia, H Endo, H Ogata Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 1450, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| The tree of life M Gaia, V Da Cunha, P Forterre Molecular mechanisms of microbial evolution, 55-99, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Viral origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases J Guglielmini, M Gaia, V Da Cunha, A Criscuolo, M Krupovic, P Forterre Virus evolution 8 (2), veac097, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
| Plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses clarify the evolutionary trajectory of giant viruses M Gaļa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni, A Fernandez-Guerra, ... bioRxiv, 2021.12. 27.474232, 2022 | 10* | 2022 |
| Virophage Concept, The M Gaia, P Colson, C Desnues, B La Scola eLS, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
