- Ageing as a Two-Phase Process: Development of a new Theoretical Framework - Flaminia Zane (1) , Claire Macmurray (1) , Clémence Guillermain (2) , Céline Cansell (3) , Nicolas Todd (4) , Michael Rera (5) - Frontiers in Aging (2024)  - https://hal.science/hal-04423745/ 
- A scenario for an evolutionary selection of ageing - T. Roget, C. MacMurray, P. Jolivet, S. Méléard, M. Rera - eLife (2024) - https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/92914 
- Smurfness-based two-phase model of ageing helps deconvolve the ageing transcriptional signature - Flaminia Zane, Hayet Bouzid, Sofia Sosa Marmol, Mira Brazane, Savandara Besse, Julia Lisa Molina, Céline Cansell, Fanny Aprahamian, Sylvère Durand, Jessica Ayache, Christophe Antoniewski, Nicolas Todd, Clément Carré, Michael Rera - Aging Cell (2023) -   - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13946 
- Two phases model of ageing in mice: towards a better identification of age-related and late-life metabolic decline [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol] - Céline Cansell (1) , Vivien Goepp (2, 3, 4, 5) , Fanny Bain , Nicolas Todd (6) , Veronique Douard (7) , Magali Monnoye (7) , Clara Sanchez (8) , Nicolas Pietrancosta (9, 10) , Carole Rovere (8) , Raphael Gp Denis (11) , Serge Luquet (11) , Michael Rera (12) - BMC Biology pre-registered protocols (2023) - https://hal.science/hal-04234744/ 
- Ethical and social implications of approaching death prediction in humans - when the biology of ageing meets existential issues - Marie Gaille, Marco Araneda, Clément Dubost, Clémence Guillermain, Sarah Kaakai, Elise Ricadat, Nicolas Todd, Michael Rera  - BMC Medical Ethics (2020) - https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-020-00502-5 
- The Smurf transition: new insights on ageing from end-of-life studies in animal models - Rera, Michael ; Vallot, Céline; Lefrançois, Christel - Current Opinion in Oncology (2018) - https://univ-rochelle.hal.science/hal-01981182/file/Reraopinion2017.pdf 
- Two phases of aging separated by the Smurf transition as a public path to death - E. Dambroise, L. Monnier, L. Ruisheng, H. Aguilaniu, J.-S. Joly, H. Tricoire, M. Rera - Scientific Reports (2016) - https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23523 
- A New, Discontinuous 2 Phases of Aging Model: Lessons from Drosophila melanogaster - Hervé Tricoire, Michael Rera - PLOS ONE (2015) - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141920 
- Intestinal barrier dysfunction links metabolic and inflammatory markers of aging to death in Drosophila - Michael Rera, Rebecca I. Clark, and David W. Walker - PNAS (2012) - https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1215849110