Alexandros A. Pittis

Late acquisition of mitochondria by a host with chimaeric prokaryotic ancestry

Alexandros A. Pittis, Toni Gabaldón · Nature · 2016 · 269 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology +10

Systematic evaluation of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and viruses

Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Alexandros A. Pittis, Thomas A. Richards et al. · Nature Microbiology · 2021 · 230 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +14

Citizen science charts two major “stomatotypes” in the oral microbiome of adolescents and reveals links with habits and drinking water composition

Jesse R. Willis, Pedro González‐Torres, Alexandros A. Pittis et al. · Microbiome · 2018 · 161 citations · Full text

Dentistry, Microbiology, Oral Biology +15

The Function and Evolution of Motile DNA Replication Systems in Ciliates

Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Alexandros A. Pittis, Varsha Mathur et al. · Current Biology · 2020 · 94 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology +12

Gene-based predictive models of trophic modes suggest Asgard archaea are not phagocytotic

John A. Burns, Alexandros A. Pittis, Eunsoo Kim · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · 82 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +16