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Alastair G. B. Simpson

Dalhousie University ORCID

211

Works

17,017

Citations

56

h-index

135

i10-index

Research Topics

Protist diversity and phylogeny Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Affiliations

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research2002–2019

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center2005–2005

University of Sydney1996–2002

Dalhousie University2001–2026

University of Tsukuba2005–2005

Top Works

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

Camilo Mora,Derek P. Tittensor,et al.

20112,950 citations

Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Marine and coastal ecosystems

The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists

Sina M. Adl,Alastair G. B. Simpson,et al.

20051,716 citations

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

Sina M. Adl,Alastair G. B. Simpson,et al.

20121,640 citations

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

Patrick J. Keeling,Fabien Burki,et al.

20141,106 citations

The New Tree of Eukaryotes

Fabien Burki,Andrew J. Roger,et al.

2019891 citations

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

Jan Pawłowski,Stéphane Audic,et al.

2012548 citations

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic “supergroups”

Vladimı́r Hampl,Laura Hug,et al.

2009485 citations

The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates

Alastair G. B. Simpson,Jamie R. Stevens,et al.

2006332 citations

The real ‘kingdoms’ of eukaryotes

Alastair G. B. Simpson,Andrew J. Roger

2004324 citations