Madame Samia BENAMAR / PhD

Publications

• Zamilon, a Novel Virophage with Mimiviridae Host Specificity
  Plosone, 2014
  Morgan Gaia, Samia Benamar, Mondher Boughalmi, Isabelle Pagnier, Olivier Croce, Philippe Colson, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola
  http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0094923&representation=PDF
  
• sequence and description of Bacteroides neonati sp. nov., a new species of anaerobic bacterium
  2014
  Nadim Cassir1, Olivier Croce1, Isabelle Pagnier1, Samia Benamar1, Carine Couderc1, Catherine Robert1, Didier Raoult1, Bernard La Scola1*
  http://sigen.org/index.php/sigen/article/view/515/1121
  
• Cautionary tale of using 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values in identification of human-associated bacterial species
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2015
  Morgane Rossi-Tamisier, Samiar Benamar, Didier Raoult, and Pierre Edouard Fournier
  http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/03/ijs.0.000161.abstract
  
• Genome Sequence of Afipia felis Strain 76713, Isolated in Hospital Water Using an Amoeba Co-Culture Procedure
  Genome Announc, 2014
  Samia Benamar, Bernard La Scola, Olivier Croce
  http://genomea.asm.org/content/2/6/e01367-14.full
  
• Babela massiliensis, a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae
  Biology Direct, 2015
  Isabelle Pagnier, Natalya Yutin, Olivier Croce, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Samia Benamar, Didier Raoult, Eugene V. Koonin, Bernard La Scola
  https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01217089/document
  
• Clostridium Species Identification by 16S rRNA Pyrosequencing Metagenomics
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2016
  Nadim Cassir, Samia Benamar, Olivier Croce, Bernard La Scola
  
  
• Structure of faustovirus, a large dsDNA virus
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016
  Thomas Klose, Dorine G. Reteno, Samia Benamar, Adam Hollerbach, Philippe Colson, Bernard La Scola, Michael G. Rossmann
  
  
• Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae
  Viruses, 2016
  Leena H. Bajrai, Samia Benamar, Esam I. Azhar, Catherine Robert, Anthony Levasseur, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola
  https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01453280/document
  
• Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of ``Rubidus massiliensis,'' a New Vermamoeba vermiformis Pathogen
  Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2016
  Jacques Y. Bou Khalil, Samia Benamar, Jean-Pierre Baudoin, Olivier Croce, Caroline Blanc-Tailleur, Isabelle Pagnier, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola
  
  
• Faustoviruses: Comparative Genomics of New Megavirales Family Members
  Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
  Samia Benamar, Dorine G. I. Reteno, Victor Bandaly, Noemie Labas, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola