COEVOL Multi-Scale Coevolution

Evolutionary Genetics of Interactions Group

The Cocoon Group

Living systems are highly integrated, with a multitude of levels of organization, from molecular and intra-cellular scales to ecosystems. Complex organisms are themselves consortia of macro- and micro-organisms, which work together with their host to build the individual. Yet, each of these organisms can function and evolve in the short term according to its own logic, possibly in conflict with other higher or lower levels, or with other time scales. The once common idea among evolutionists that natural selection results in organisms perfectly adapted to their environment is now severely undermined. Not only because, as the Red Queen explains to Alice, one has to run relentlessly to keep its place in a changing environment, or because past evolutionary history and chance constrain the possibilities of present adaptation, but also because different levels of selection have interests that are generally difficult to reconcile.

Multi-scale coevolution resets classical questions in evolutionary biology

One example, of particular interest is the question of the source of heritable variations. The phenotype of organisms in a population is influenced not only by variations in their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, the dynamics of which is the object of population genetics, but also more and more patently by the consortium of microbes and genetic elements that constitute its microbiome and virome. The hologenome designates this complex assembly of genetic materials, which obey different rules of transmission and different evolutionary strategies. The ability of symbionts to manipulate host phenotypes or to interfere with each other influences the evolutionary dynamics of all players in ways that are yet poorly understood. In addition, new questions arise, such as the importance of co-adaptation in these systems and their consequences in maintaining cohesive biological systems.

  •  Symbiosis: a response to and a source of divergent selection

Using a variety of approaches combining experimental evolution, genomic, functional, phenotypic and behavioral data, we aim to test whether symbiosis facilitates diversification and to characterize the underlying microevolutionary processes.

  •  Ecological networks of horizontal gene transfer

We develop original methods to detect gene transfer and we investigate the factors that influence the routes of gene transfers among microbes but also among insects.

  •  The interplay between symbiosis, infection and immunity and its evolutionary consequences

We try to understand the intimate interaction of hosts with pathogens, symbionts and transposable elements and how it affects the extended phenotype of the host.

  • Transgenerational inheritance and environment changes

We try to decipher the molecular mechanisms that underlie rapid adaptation to environment and to test for transgenerational inheritance of fitness traits.

  •  Intragenomic conflicts and demography

We are developing models to test whether changes in the demography of the host affect the dynamics of transposable elements.

  • The determinism of phenotypic convergence

We study the genomic basis of convergent phenotypic evolution in particular in the case of animals and plants adaptation to increasing temperature and decreasing water.

  • Reconciling the tree of life

We develop phylogenetic methods for “reconciling” gene/species or host/symbiont histories and use these methods to explore the bulk of extinct or undescribed species and the history of association of symbiotic microbes with their hosts.

Integrating methods

The methods we use to tackle the questions raised by multi-scale co-evolution extend from theory, modelling and simulation to big data analysis, lab (notably on insects), and to a lesser extent, field activities.

Implication of research, responsibility of researchers and citizen sciences

From our research (some of which have immediate consequences in health, agriculture and ecology) and our concerns about the responsibility of scientists in society, we are committed to promote an “implicative” research. The implicative position means that we try to work on the link between science and society, not only through a one-way communication, applying or explaining our science, but also favoring early discussions on research projects, that may influence our research directions.

Publications

Display of 451 to 480 publications on 749 in total

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities.

Julia Ferrari, Fabrice Vavre

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 366 ( 1569 ) : 1389-400

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0226

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Intraspecific specialization of the generalist parasitoid Cotesia sesamiae revealed by polyDNAvirus polymorphism and associated with different Wolbachia infection.

Antoine Branca, Bruno Pierre Le Ru, Fabrice Vavre, Jean-François Silvain, Stéphane Dupas

Molecular Ecology . 20 ( 5 ) : 959-71

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04977.x

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Endosymbionts of arthropods and nematodes: allies to fight infectious diseases?

Fabrice Vavre, Patrick Mavingui

Médecine/Sciences . 27 ( 11 ) : 953-958

DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20112711010

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Survey of Wolbachia and Its Phage WO in the Uzifly texitExorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Nm. Guruprasad, L. Mouton, / Sumithra, Hp. Puttaraju

Current Microbiology . 63 : 267-272

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Isolation and gene flow: inferring the speciation history of European house mice

Ludovic Duvaux, K. Belkhir, Matthieu Boulesteix, P. Boursot

Molecular ecology . 20 : 5248-5264

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05343.x

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Wolbachia detection: an assessment of standard PCR protocols.

P. M. Simões, G. Mialdea, D. Reiss, Marie-France Sagot, S. Charlat

Molecular Ecology Resources . 11 ( 3 ) : 567-72

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02955.x

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Tpms: a Tree Pattern-matching Utility for Querying Gene Trees Collections

Thomas Bigot, Vincent Daubin, G. Perrière

Journées Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques (JOBIM) . : 111-112

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Mapping ancestral genomes with massive gene loss: a matrix sandwich problem.

Haris Gavranović, Cedric Chauve, Jérôme Salse, Eric Tannier

Bioinformatics . 27 ( 13 ) : i257-65

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr224

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L'époque romantique contre la peine de mort

Eric Tannier

incollection . -- : 54-56

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Preface : Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB-CG 2010)

Eric Tannier

Journal of Computational Biology . 18(9) : 1-3

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Vertical inheritance and bursts of transposition have shaped the evolution of the BS non-LTR retrotransposon in Drosophila.

Adriana Granzotto, Fabrício R Lopes, Cristina Vieira, Claudia M A Carareto

Molecular Genetics and Genomics . 286 ( 1 ) : 57-66

DOI: 10.1007/s00438-011-0629-9

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Comparative analysis of transposable elements in the melanogaster subgroup sequenced genomes.

Emmanuelle Lerat, Nelly Burlet, Christian Biémont, Cristina Vieira

Gene . 473 ( 2 ) : 100-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.11.009

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Les Ressources

Jean-Paul Bravard, Ioan Negrutiu, Natalia del Fatti, Cristina Vieira

Actes du Colloque de l'Institut Universitaire de France . : 356 p.

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Evolution Combinatoire, Algorithmique des Chromosomes

Eric Tannier

HDR

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L'époque romantique contre la peine de mort

Eric Tannier

978-613-1-56487-1 : 176

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Medicago truncatula contains a second gene encoding a plastid located glutamine synthetase exclusively expressed in developing seeds

Ana Seabra, Cristina Vieira, Julie Vera Cullimore, Helena Carvalho

BMC Plant Biology . 10 ( 183 ) : 16 p.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-183

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Induction by Chlorpyrifos of the Confusion of Males in Discriminating Female Sexual Pheromones Used for Mate Finding by Two Sympatric Trichogramma Species (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Celine Dupont, R. Allemand, Jean-Marie Delpuech

Environmental Entomology . 39 ( 2 ) : 535-544

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Decrease in Fecundity Induced by Interspecific Mating Between Two Trichogramma Parasitoid Species

Jean-Marie Delpuech, Celine Dupont, R. Allemand

Journal of Economic Entomology . 103 ( 2 ) : 308-313

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Mod/Resc Parsimony Inference

Igor Nor, Danny Hermelin, Sylvain Charlat, Jan Engelstadter, Max Reuter, Olivier Duron...

Combinatorial Pattern Matching . 6129 : 202--213

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13509-5_19

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Wolbachia Age-Sex-Specific Density in Aedes albopictus: A Host Evolutionary Response to Cytoplasmic Incompatibility?

Pablo Tortosa, Sylvain Charlat, Pierrick Labbe, Jean-Sébastien Dehecq, Hélène Barré, Mylène Weill

PLoS ONE . 5 ( 3 ) : e9700

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009700

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Rapid spread of male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina

A. Duplouy, G. D D Hurst, S L O'Neill, S Charlatà, S. O’neill, S. Charlat

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 23 ( 1 ) : 231-235

DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01891.x

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Réhabilitation de Athous puncticollis Kiesenwetter, 1858, espèce distincte de A. vittatus Fabricius, 1792

Lucien Leseigneur, Sylvain Charlat, Roland Allemand

Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . 115 : 381 - 385

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La notion d'espèce en écologie microbienne

T. Campillo, Malek Shams, Sally Burr, Martha Helena Ramírez-Bahena, Florent Lassalle, Franck Bertolla...

1er Colloque National d'Ecologie Scientifique .

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Toward an ecological concept for bacterial species in Agrobacterium

Tony Campillo, Florent Lassalle, M. Shams, Martha Helena Ramírez-Bahena, Jessica Baude, Celine Lavire...

12th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria .

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Identification de fonctions « spécifiques d'espèce » impliquées dans l'individualisation en écovar de l’espèce G8 du complexe Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Florent Lassalle, Daniel Muller, Denis Costechareyre, David Chapulliot, Celine Lavire, Laurent Guéguen...

Journées des Microbiologistes de l'INRA .

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Evolution Moléculaire

L. Duret, T. Bataillon, N. Bierne, Vincent Daubin, J. Dutheil, Christian Gautier...

Biologie évolutive . 978-2-8041-0161-9 : 114-173

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Detecting lateral gene transfers by statistical reconciliation of phylogenetic forests

Sophie S. Abby, Eric Tannier, Manolo Gouy, Vincent Daubin

BMC Bioinformatics . 11 ( 324 ) : 13

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-324

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Ancestral grass karyotype reconstruction unravels new mechanisms of genome shuffling as a source of plant evolution.

Florent Murat, Jian-Hong Xu, Eric Tannier, Michael Abrouk, Nicolas Guilhot, Caroline Pont...

Genome Research . 20 ( 11 ) : 1545-57

DOI: 10.1101/gr.109744.110

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