Evolutionary Ecology

The department of Evolutionary Ecology gathers complementary skills in behavioural ecology, population dynamics, population biology, community ecology, and methodology (statistics and modelling). The research done in the department aims at studying how animal species evolve in a changing world by understanding the causes of the evolution of traits, adaptations and interactions. For that, we consider different levels of organization from individuals to populations and communities. Because organisms cannot be considered isolated from other biotic factors, we consider pathogens but also competing species within communities.

We study how individuals adapt to their environments that are largely impacted by anthropic pressures, and how life history traits and behaviour evolve in response to these pressures. Although we mainly focus on phenotype, we more and more consider the mechanistic link between the genotype and the phenotype. We develop the theoretical framework of our discipline through a conceptual and modeling approach. In parallel, we test hypotheses that arise from theoretical predictions through experimental, comparative and observational approaches on different biological models (insects, birds, mammals). Experimental approaches are developed in the laboratory (insect model) and in natura (bird, insect and mammal models). Observational and comparative research is mainly concerned with vertebrates. Our approaches are also, and increasingly, interested in the mechanisms of adaptive responses. In addition to the classical approaches of demographic analysis and trait change, methods of ecophysiology, chemical ecology and molecular biology are used.

Our department hosts several long-term studies of wild populations of different species. These long-term studies offer a valuable way to understand how biotic and abiotic factors affect individuals’ life history traits, and the functioning of populations in natura. Five populations of mammalian species are thus monitored for several years (more than 40 years on roe deer, 30 on Alpine marmots, 25 years on cats, 16 years on zebras, and 20 years on impala). Two of our study sites (La Sassière in Vanoise National Park (Alpine marmots) and Hwange National Park) have been certified as “Site d’Etude en Ecologie Globale” (SEEG), and two (ZA “Hwange” and ZA “Antarctic and sub-Antarctic”) were certified as “Zone Atelier” by the CNRS.

The department of Evolutionary ecology is also largely involved in training activities. Lastly, we also have strong socio-economic relationships. Indeed, because we address questions of major societal interest (global warming, public health) we tightly collaborate with socio-economic partners (Office Français de la Biodiversité, Vanoise National Park, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, Office National des Forêts, etc.) and participate to general public and media events.

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Epitopic Regions for Antibodies against Tumor Necrosis Factor α

Kenji Yone, Sandrine Bajard, Noriyuki Tsunekawa, Jun Suzuki

Journal of Biological Chemistry . 270 ( 33 ) : 19509-19515

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19509

1995

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Convenient Model To Describe the Combined Effects of Temperature and pH on Microbial Growth

L Rosso, J Lobry, S Bajard, J Flandrois

Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 61 ( 2 ) : 610-616

DOI: 10.1128/aem.61.2.610-616.1995

1995

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Epitopic Regions for Antibodies against Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha

K. Yone, S. Bajard, N. Tsunekawa, J. Suzuki

Journal of Biological Chemistry . 270 : 19509-19515

1995

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Morphological and molecular data against the monophyly of the Dendromurinae (Rodentia : Muridae)

Christiane Denys, Jacques Michaux, Francois Catzeflis, Stéphane Ducrocq, Pascale C Chevret

Bonner Zoologische Beiträge . 45 ( 3-4 ) : 173-190

1995

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New discriminating traits between females of two sibling species: textit Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans (Diptera Drosophilidae)

B. Moreteau, G. Pétavy, Patricia Gibert, J.P. Morin, A. Munoz, J.R. David

Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 31 : 249-257

1995

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Convenient Model To Describe the Combined Effects of Temperature and pH on Microbial Growth

L. Rosso, J.R. Lobry, S. Bajard, Jean-Pierre Flandrois

Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 61 : 610-616

1995

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Co-inertia analysis of amino-acid physico-chemical properties and protein composition with the ADE package

J. Thioulouse, J.R. Lobry

Bioinformatics . 11 : 321-329

1995

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Properties of a general model of DNA evolution under no-strand-bias conditions

J.R. Lobry

Journal of Molecular Evolution . 40 : 326-330

1995

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Larval development variation and adult emergence in the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas Gyllenhal (Col. Curculionidae)

F. Menu, D Debouzie

J. Appl. Ent. . 119 : 279-284

1995

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DE software: multivariate analysis and graphical display of environmental data

J. Thioulouse, S. Doledec, D. Chessel, J.M. Olivier

incollection . -- : 57-62

1995

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Multivariate analysis of spatial patterns: a unified approach to local and global structures

J. Thioulouse, D. Chessel, S. Champely

Environmental and Ecological Statistics . 2 : 1-14

1995

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L1 (LINE-1) retrotransposable elements provide a "fossil" record of the phylogenetic history of murid rodents.

K. Usdin, Pascale C Chevret, F. Catzeflis, R. Verona, A. Furano

Molecular Biology and Evolution . 12 ( 1 ) : 73-82

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040192

1995

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Amplification of the ancient murine Lx family of long interspersed repeated DNA occurred during the murine radiation

Anthony V. Furano, Bruce E. Hayward, Pascale C Chevret, François Catzeflis, Karen Usdin

Journal of Molecular Evolution . 38 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1007/bf00175491

1994

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Molecular phylogeny of the Praomys complex (Rodentia: Murinae): a study based on DNA/DNA hybridization experiments.

Pascale C Chevret, Laurent Granjon, Jean-Marc Duplantier, Christiane Denys, François M Catzeflis

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 112 ( 4 ) : 425-442

DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1994.1052

1994

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Hydrophobicity expressivity and aromaticity are the major trends of amino-acid usage in 999 Escherichia coli chromosome-encoded genes

J.R. Lobry, Christian Gautier

Nucleic Acids Research . 22 : 3174-3180

1994

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Modèles de taille et de forme : Que choisir ?

Anne-Béatrice Dufour, M. Pagès

Revue de Statistique Appliquée . 42 : 5-18

1994

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Systematics of the spiny mouse (Acomys : Muroidea) : molecular and biochemical evidences

Pascale C Chevret, Catherine Hänni

Israel Journal of Zoology . 40 ( 2 ) : 247-254

1994

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Chemometrical evaluation of multispecies-multichemical data by means of graphical techniques combined with multivariate analyses

J. Devillers, J. Thioulouse, W. Karcher

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 26 : 333-345

1993

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Evaluation of the Precision of Systematic Sampling : Nugget Effect and Covariogram Modelling

J. Thioulouse, J.P. Royet, H. Ploye, F. Houllier

Journal of Microscopy . 172 : 249-256

1993

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Dénombrer les populations de chevreuils par l'utilisation du Line transect. Etude de faisabilité

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Jean-Marie Boutin, Guy van Laere

Revue d'Écologie . 48 ( 1 ) : 73-85

1993

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Strategies of emergence in the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

F. Menu

Oecologia . 96 : 383-390

1993

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Diapause development in the chesnut weevil Curculio elephas

F. Menu

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata . 69 : 91-96

1993

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Coin-flipping plasticity and prolonged diapause in insects : example of the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

F. Menu, D Debouzie

Oecologia . 93 : 367-373

1993

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Molecular and palaeontological aspects of the tempo and mode of evolution in Otomys (Otomyinae: Muridae: Mammalia)

Pascale C Chevret, Christiane Denys, Jean-Jacques Jaeger, Jacques Michaux, François M. Catzeflis

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology . 21 ( 1 ) : 123-131

DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(93)90017-L

1993

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Relationships of motor performance of adult men to anthropometry : a multivariate analysis

J. Lefevre, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, G. Beunen, A. Claessens

American Journal of Human Biology . 5 : 351-359

1993

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Evaluation of the precision of systematic sampling nugget effect and covariogram modelling

Jean Thioulouse, J.P. Royet, H. Ploye, François Houllier

Journal of Microscopy . 172 ( 3 ) : 249-256

1993

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An unexpected correlation between cardinal temperatures of microbial growth highlighted by a new model

L. Rosso, J.R. Lobry, Jean-Pierre Flandrois

Journal of Theoretical Biology . 162 : 447-463

1993

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Roe deer survival patterns: a comparative analysis of contrasting populations

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Daniel Delorme, Jean-Marie Boutin, Guy van Laere, Bernard Boisaubert, Roger Pradel

Journal of Animal Ecology . 62 ( 4 ) : 778-791

DOI: 10.2307/5396

1993

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Molecular evidence that the spiny mouse (Acomys) is more closely related to gerbils (Gerbillinae) than to true mice (Murinae).

Pascale C Chevret, C. Denys, J. Jaeger, J. Michaux, F. Catzeflis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 90 ( 8 ) : 3433-3436

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.8.3433

1993

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Monod's bacterial growth model revisited

J.R. Lobry, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, G. Carret, A. Pavé

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology . 54(1) : 117-122

1992

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Publications

Epitopic Regions for Antibodies against Tumor Necrosis Factor α

Convenient Model To Describe the Combined Effects of Temperature and pH on Microbial Growth

Epitopic Regions for Antibodies against Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha

Morphological and molecular data against the monophyly of the Dendromurinae (Rodentia : Muridae)

New discriminating traits between females of two sibling species: textit Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans (Diptera Drosophilidae)

Convenient Model To Describe the Combined Effects of Temperature and pH on Microbial Growth

Co-inertia analysis of amino-acid physico-chemical properties and protein composition with the ADE package

Properties of a general model of DNA evolution under no-strand-bias conditions

Larval development variation and adult emergence in the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas Gyllenhal (Col. Curculionidae)

DE software: multivariate analysis and graphical display of environmental data

Multivariate analysis of spatial patterns: a unified approach to local and global structures

L1 (LINE-1) retrotransposable elements provide a "fossil" record of the phylogenetic history of murid rodents.

Amplification of the ancient murine Lx family of long interspersed repeated DNA occurred during the murine radiation

Molecular phylogeny of the Praomys complex (Rodentia: Murinae): a study based on DNA/DNA hybridization experiments.

Hydrophobicity expressivity and aromaticity are the major trends of amino-acid usage in 999 Escherichia coli chromosome-encoded genes

Modèles de taille et de forme : Que choisir ?

Systematics of the spiny mouse (Acomys : Muroidea) : molecular and biochemical evidences

Chemometrical evaluation of multispecies-multichemical data by means of graphical techniques combined with multivariate analyses

Evaluation of the Precision of Systematic Sampling : Nugget Effect and Covariogram Modelling

Dénombrer les populations de chevreuils par l'utilisation du Line transect. Etude de faisabilité

Strategies of emergence in the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Diapause development in the chesnut weevil Curculio elephas

Coin-flipping plasticity and prolonged diapause in insects : example of the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Molecular and palaeontological aspects of the tempo and mode of evolution in Otomys (Otomyinae: Muridae: Mammalia)

Relationships of motor performance of adult men to anthropometry : a multivariate analysis

Evaluation of the precision of systematic sampling nugget effect and covariogram modelling

An unexpected correlation between cardinal temperatures of microbial growth highlighted by a new model

Roe deer survival patterns: a comparative analysis of contrasting populations

Molecular evidence that the spiny mouse (Acomys) is more closely related to gerbils (Gerbillinae) than to true mice (Murinae).

Monod's bacterial growth model revisited

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