Patrick Forterre

Professor Patrick Forterre (French pronunciation: [patʁik fɔʁtɛʁ]), born 21 August 1949 in Paris, is a French writer and researcher in biology. He is Head of the Department of Microbiology at the Pasteur Institute and is known for his work on Archaea, viruses and the evolution of life. Forterre was the first to use the abbreviation of "Last Universal Common Ancestor", or "LUCA", in a 1999 paper.[1][2]

  1. ^ Forterre, Patrick (1999). "Displacement of cellular proteins by functional analogues from plasmids or viruses could explain puzzling phylogenies of many DNA informational proteins". Molecular Microbiology. 33 (3): 457–465. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01497.x. ISSN 0950-382X. PMID 10417637. S2CID 8532861.
  2. ^ Koonin, Eugene V. (2003). Sequence - evolution - function : computational approaches in comparative genomics. Michael Y. Galperin, National Center for Biotechnology Information. Boston, Mass.: Kluwer. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-4757-3783-7. OCLC 55642057.