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UMR CNRS 5558 - LBBE "Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive" UCB Lyon 1 - Bât. Grégor Mendel 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 VILLEURBANNE cedex
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- +Brief CV -Brief CV
Since 2012 : Senior CNRS scientist (DR2), Univ. Lyon 1
2014 : 1 month invited professor ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2011-2012 : 1 year visiting scientist at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2004-2012 : Assistant and associate CNRS scientist (CR2, CR1), Univ. Lyon 1
2002-2004 : Marie Curie Postdoc, Univ. Edinburgh, UK
2002 : PhD in "Evolutionary Genomics", Univ. Lyon 1
French-relevant CV information : HDR (2009), Moniteur (1999-2002), Agrégé SVT (1998), élève ENS Lyon (1994-1999)
- +Activities in positive psychology -Activities in positive psychology
In addition to my activities in biology, I am trained in positive psychology and involved in projects about positive management and well-being at work in academia, and positive education. Find more details (in French) here
+Publications -Publications
article :
Kafer J, Betancourt A, Villain AS, Fernandez M, Vignal C, Marais GAB, Tenaillon MI (2018)
Progress and Prospects in Gender Visibility at SMBE Annual Meetings, Genome biology and evolution, vol. 10 pp.901-908.
Marais GAB, Gaillard JM, Vieira C, Plotton I, Sanlaville D, Gueyffier F, Lemaitre JF (2018)
Sex gap in aging and longevity: can sex chromosomes play a role?, Biology of sex differences, vol. 9 pp.33-33.
Marais GAB, Skankland R, Haag P, Fiault R, Juniper B (2018)
A Survey and a Positive Psychology Intervention on French PhD Student Well-being, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, vol. 13 pp.109-138.
Muyle A, Zemp N, Fruchard C, Cegan R, Vrana J, Deschamps C, Tavares R, Hobza R, Picard F, Widmer A, Marais GAB (2018)
Genomic imprinting mediates dosage compensation in a young plant XY system, Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology, vol. pp.1-47.
Kafer J, Marais GA, Pannell JR (2017)
On the rarity of dioecy in flowering plants, Molecular ecology, vol. 26 pp.1225-1241.
Muyle A, Shearn R, Marais GA (2017)
The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Dosage Compensation in Plants, Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 9 pp.627-645.
Siberchicot A, Bessy A, Gueguen L, Marais GAB (2017)
MareyMap Online: A User-Friendly Web Application and Database Service for Estimating Recombination Rates Using Physical and Genetic Maps, Genome biology and evolution, vol. 9 pp.2506-2509.
Muyle A, Kafer J, Zemp N, Mousset S, Picard F, Marais GA (2016)
SEX-DETector: a probabilistic approach to study sex chromosomes in non-model organisms, Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 8 pp.2530-2543.
Zemp N, Tavares R, Muyle A, Charlesworth D, Marais G, Widmer A (2016)
Evolution of sex-biased gene expression in a dioecious plant, Nature plants, vol. 2 pp.16168-16168.
Blavet N, Blavet H, Muyle A, Kafer J, Cegan R, Deschamps C, Zemp N, Mousset S, Aubourg S, Bergero R, Charlesworth D, Hobza R, Widmer A, Marais GA (2015)
Identifying new sex-linked genes through BAC sequencing in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia, BMC Genomics, vol. 16 pp.546-546.
Ahmed S, Cock J M, Pessia E, Luthringer R, Cormier A, Robuchon M, Sterck L, Peters A F, Dittami S M, Corre E, Valero M, Aury J M, Roze D, Van de Peer Y, Bothwell J, Marais GA, Coelho S M (2014)
A Haploid System of Sex Determination in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp, Current biology, vol. 24 pp.1945-57.
Batut B, Knibbe C, Marais G, Daubin V (2014)
Reductive genome evolution at both ends of the bacterial population size spectrum, Nature reviews Microbiology, vol. 12 pp.841-50.
Dufay M, Champelovier P, Kafer J, Henry J P, Mousset S, Marais GA (2014)
An angiosperm-wide analysis of the gynodioecy-dioecy pathway, Annals of botany, vol. 114 pp.539-48.
Kafer J, de Boer H J, Mousset S, Kool A, Dufay M, Marais GA (2014)
Dioecy is associated with higher diversification rates in flowering plants, Journal of evolutionary biology, vol. 27 pp.1478-90.
Schwander T, Marais G, Roze D (2014)
Sex uncovered: the evolutionary biology of reproductive systems, Journal of evolutionary biology, vol. 27 pp.1287-91.
Kafer J, Talianova M, Bigot T, Michu E, Guéguen L, Widmer A, Zluvova J, Glemin S, Marais GA (2013)
Patterns of molecular evolution in dioecious and non-dioecious Silene, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 26 pp.335-46.
Pessia E, Engelstadter J, Marais G (2013)
The evolution of X chromosome inactivation in mammals: the demise of Ohno`s hypothesis?, Cellular and molecular life sciences, vol. 71 pp.1383-1394.
Dubruille R, Marais GAB, Loppin B (2012)
Repeated Evolution of Testis-Specific New Genes: TheCase of Telomere-Capping Genes in Drosophila, International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 2012 pp.1-11.
Muyle A, Zemp N, Deschamps C, Mousset S, Wildmer A, Marais G (2012)
Rapid De Novo Evolution of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Silene latifolia a Plant with Young Sex Chromosomes, PLOS Biology, vol. 10 pp.e1001308-e1001308.
Parage C, Tavares R, Rety S, Baltenweck-Guyot R, Poutaraud A, Renault L, Heintz D, Lugan R, Marais GA, Aubourg S, Hugueney P (2012)
Structural functional and evolutionary analysis of the unusually large stilbene synthase gene family in grapevine, Plant physiology, vol. 160 pp.1407-1419.
Pessia E, Makino T, Bailly-Bechet M, McLysaght A, Marais GAB (2012)
Mammalian X chromosome inactivation evolved as a dosage-compensation mechanism for dosage-sensitive genes on the X chromosome, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109 pp.5346-5351.
Pessia E, Popa A, Mousset S, Rezvoy C, Duret L, Marais G (2012)
Evidence for Widespread GC-biased Gene Conversion in Eukaryotes, Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 4 pp.787-794.
Blavet N, Charif D, Oger-Desfeux C, Marais G, Widmer A (2011)
Comparative high-throughput transcriptome sequencing and development of SiESTa the Silene EST annotation database, BMC Genomics, vol. 12 pp.1-11.
Marais G, Forrest A, Kamau E, Kafer J, Daubin V, Charlesworth D (2011)
Multiple Nuclear Gene Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Dioecy and Sex Chromosomes in the Genus Silene, PLoS One, vol. 6 pp.e21915-e21915.
Cegan R, Marais GAB, Kubekova H, Blavet N, Widmer A, Vyskot B, Dolezel J, Safar J, Hobza R (2010)
Structure and evolution of Apetala3 a sex-linked gene in Silene latifolia, BMC Plant Biology, vol. 10(180) pp.1-10.
Dubruille R, Orsi GA, Delabaere L, Cortier E, Couble P, Marais GAB, Loppin B (2010)
Specialization of a Drosophila Capping Protein Essential for the Protection of Sperm Telomeres, Current Biology, vol. 20 pp.1-10.
Hochwagen A, Marais G (2010)
Meiosis: A PRDM9 Guide to the Hotspots of Recombination, Current Biology, vol. 20(6) pp.R271-R274.
Marais GAB, Campos PRA, Gordo I (2010)
Can Intra-Y Gene Conversion Oppose the Degeneration of the Human Y Chromosome? A Simulation Study, Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 2 pp.347-357.
Zhang YE, Vibranovski MD, Landback P, Marais GAB, Long M (2010)
Chromosomal Redistribution of Male-Biased Genes in Mammalian Evolution with Two Bursts of Gene Gain on the X Chromosome, PLoS Biology, vol. 8 pp.1-13.
Bernasconi G, Antonovics J, Biere A, Charlesworth D, Delph LF, Filatov D, Giraud T, Hood ME, Marais GAB, McCauley D, Pannell JR, Shykoff JA, Vyskot B, Wolfe LM, Widmer A (2009)
Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution, Heredity, vol. pp.583-589.
Lemaitre C, Braga Marilia D V , Gautier C, Sagot M-F, Tannier E, Marais GAB (2009)
Footprints of Inversions at Present and Past Pseudoautosomal Boundaries in Human Sex Chromosomes, Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 1(1) pp.56-66.
Marais GAB, Duret L (2009)
L’évolution des chromosomes sexuels humains, Biofutur, vol. 304 pp.40-41.
Moccia MD, Oger-Desfeux C, Marais GAB, Widmer A (2009)
A White Campion textit(Silene latifolia) floral expressed sequence tag (EST) library: annotation EST-SSR characterization transferability and utility for comparative mapping, BMC Genomics, vol. 10 pp.243-243.
Marais GAB, Nicolas M, Bergero R, Chambrier P, Kejnovsky E, Monéger F, Hobza R, Widmer A, Charlesworth D (2008)
Evidence for Degeneration of the Y Chromosome in the Dioecious Plant Silene latifolia, Current biology, vol. 18 pp.545-549.
Kejnovsky E, Hobza R, Kubat Z, Widmer A, Marais GAB, Vyskot B (2007)
High intrachromosomal similarity of retrotransposon long terminal repeats: Evidence for homogenization by gene conversion on plant sex chromosomes?, Gene, vol. 390 pp.92-97.
Marais GAB (2007)
Sex chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in birds: The Hill–Robertson effects extend from nucleus to mitochondria, Heredity, vol. 99 pp.357-358.
Marais GAB, Calteau A, Tenaillon O (2007)
Mutation rate and genome reduction in endosymbiotic and free-living bacteria, Genetica, vol. DOI 10.1007/s10709-007-9226-6 pp.357-358.
Rezvoy C, Charif D, Guéguen L , Marais GAB (2007)
MareyMap: an R-based tool with graphical interface for estimating recombination rates, Bioinformatics, vol. 23 pp.2188-2189.
Clement Y, Tavares R, Marais GAB (2006)
Does lack of recombination enhance asymmetric evolution among duplicate genes? Insights from the Drosophila melanogaster genome, Gene, vol. 385 pp.89-95.
Charlesworth D, Charlesworth B, Marais G (2005)
Steps in the evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes, Heredity, vol. 95 pp.118-128.
Marais GAB, Nouvellet P, Keightley PD, Charlesworth B (2005)
Intron size and exon evolution in Drosophila, Genetics, vol. 170 pp.481-485.
Nicolas M, Marais GAB, Hykelova V, Janousek B, Laporte V, Vyskot B, Mouchiroud D, Negrutiu I, Charlesworth D, Moneger F (2005)
A gradual process of recombination restriction in the evolutionary history of the sex chromosomes in dioecious plants, PLoS Biology, vol. 3 pp.0047-0056.
Marais GAB, Charlesworth B, Wright SI (2004)
Recombination and base composition: the case of the highly self-fertilizing plant Arabidopsis thaliana, Genome Biology, vol. 5 pp.R45.1-R45.9.
Marais GAB, Domazet-Loso T, Tautz D, Charlesworth B (2004)
Correlated evolution of synonymous and nonsynonymous sites in Drosophila, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 59 pp.771-779.
Marais GAB (2003)
Biased gene conversion: implications for genome and sex evolution, Trends in Genetics, vol. 19 pp.330-338.
Marais GAB, Charlesworth B (2003)
Genome evolution: recombination speeds up adaptive evolution, Current Biology, vol. 13 pp.R68-R70.
Marais GAB, Galtier N (2003)
Sex chromosomes: how X-Y recombination stops, Current Biology, vol. 13 pp.R641-R643.
Marais GAB, Mouchiroud D, Duret L (2003)
Neutral effect of recombination on base composition in Drosophila, Genetical Research, vol. 81 pp.79-89.
Rizzon C, Martin E, Marais GAB, Duret L, Segalat L, Biémont C (2003)
Patterns of selection against transposons inferred from the distribution of Tc1 Tc3 and Tc5 insertions in the mut-7 line of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, Genetics, vol. 165 pp.1127-1135.
Marais GAB, Piganeau G (2002)
Hill-Robertson interference is a minor determinant of variations in codon bias across Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans genomes, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 19 pp.1399-1406.
Rizzon C, Marais GAB, Gouy M, Biémont C (2002)
Recombination rate and the distribution of transposable elements in the Drosophila melanogaster genome, Genome Research, vol. 12 pp.400-407.
Marais GAB, Duret L (2001)
Synonymous codon usage accuracy of translation and gene length in Caenorhabditis elegans, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 52 pp.275-280.
Marais GAB, Mouchiroud D, Duret L (2001)
Does recombination improve selection on codon usage? Lessons from nematode and fly complete genomes, Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, vol. 98 pp.5688-5692.
Duret L, Marais GAB, Biémont C (2000)
Transposons but not retrotransposons are located preferentially in regions of high recombination rate in Caenorhabditis elegans, Genetics, vol. 156 pp.1661-1669.
inbook :
Fruchard C, Marais GAB (2017)
The Evolution of Sex Determination in Plants
in: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, , pp.1-14.
Muyle A, Marais G (2016)
Genome Evolution and Mating Systems in Plants
in: The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, , pp.480-492.
Duret L, Bataillon T, Bierne N, Daubin V, Dutheil J, Gautier C, Glémin S, Gouy M, Heyer E, Marais G, Mouchiroud D, Pontarroti P, Quintana-Murci L, Robinson-Rechavi M, Galtier N (2010)
Evolution Moléculaire
in: Biologie Evolutive, de Boeck, pp.114-173.