Evolutionary Genetics of Interactions Group

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Living systems are made up of a multitude of interlocking levels of organization, involving cooperation and conflict. Cooperation and the selection of systems operating in a coordinated manner has allowed so-called "major" evolutionary transitions, towards new scales of individuality, such as the eukaryotic cell. Nevertheless, natural selection continues to operate at all scales, generating possible evolutionary conflicts between the different components of the individual.

Our research is in line with this perspective, and aims to better understand the nature and evolutionary implications of the interactions between the multiple components of organisms, from genes to symbiotic bacteria, viruses and transposable elements. We also explore the impact of these interactions on the dynamics of genetic information, through horizontal transfer, or on genetic innovation and adaptation, through domestication. Our research, mainly experimental, but also theoretical, is implemented on arthropod models, and is mainly related to genetics and evolutionary genomics.

The team is structured along two main axis:

  •     Intragenomic interactions: transposable elements (resp. Marie Fablet)

        Ex1: The evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements (TEs) in genomes, in relation to their natural variability.      Our models include natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans, as well as species of agronomic or societal interest, such as the invasive species D. suzukii or the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus.
        Ex2: Interactions between ET control and anti-viral immunity. We are studying the molecular mechanisms of RNA interference at the origin of the entanglement of these two processes, as well as the co-evolutionary implications, using experimental infections of different viruses on several Drosophila lines.
        People involved : CV, MB, MF

  •     Symbiosis, the driving force of evolution (resp. Natacha Kremer)

        Ex1 : Certain symbiotic bacteria provide metabolic capacities that the insect lacks. We are analysing these interactions in haematophagous insects (bedbugs, ticks) and phytophagous insects (the whitefly Bemisia tabaci) using approaches combining phenotype analysis, genetics, physiology and metabolomics.
        Ex2: Parasitoid insects have domesticated viral genes enabling them to bypass the immune responses of their hosts. We are studying the frequency and adaptive significance of these events and, more generally, looking into the factors structuring horizontal transfers in host-parasitoid communities.
        People involved: NK, LM, LZ, JMD, JV, FV, SC

 

Publications

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Sterile Insect Technique: Principles, Deployment and Prospects

Clelia Oliva, Laurence Mouton, Hervé Colinet, Allan Debelle, Patricia Gibert, Simon Fellous

Extended Biocontrol . : 55-67

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-2150-7_5

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Des embouchures métalliques de trompettes romaines dans les puits de Troussepoil-Le Bernard (Vendée)

Florian Blanchard, Sophie Corson, Christophe Vendries, Loretta Rossetti, Sébastien Thébaud

Aquitania . 38 : 353-372

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Efficient compartmentalization in insect bacteriomes protects symbiotic bacteria from host immune system

Mariana Galvão Ferrarini, Elisa Dell’aglio, Agnès Vallier, Severine Balmand, Carole Vincent-Monégat, Sandrine Hughes...

Microbiome . 10 ( 1 ) : 156

DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01334-8

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Genomic characterization of viruses associated with the parasitoid Anagyrus vladimiri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Yehuda Izraeli, David Lepetit, Shir Atias, Netta Mozes-Daube, Gal Wodowski, Oded Lachman...

Journal of General Virology . 103 ( 12 )

DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001810

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Influence of bacterial symbionts on host niche and ecological diversification: an integrative approach in a whitefly model

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Hélène Henri, Pedro da Silva, Hubert Charles, Abdelaziz Heddi...

XXVI International Congress of Entomology .

Poster

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Influence of secondary symbionts on host plant utilization and selection in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Hélène Henri, Zainab Belgaidi, Hubert Charles, Pedro da Silva...

10th congress of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS) - 3rd International Conference on Holobionts (joint meeting) .

Poster

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Role of symbionts in insects' ecological diversification: cytotype influences exploitation of an unfavorable host plant in the sap-feeder Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae).

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Zainab Belgaidi, Hélène Henri, Hubert Charles, Pedro da Silva...

Rencontres du Groupe Régional de Recherche en Microbiologie des Interactions (G-RREMI) 2022 .

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Analyses of symbiotic bacterial communities in the plant pest Bemisia tabaci reveal high prevalence of Candidatus Hemipteriphilus asiaticus on the African continent

Laurence Mouton, Hélène Henri, Rahim Romba, Zainab Belgaidi, Olivier Gnankiné, Fabrice Vavre

Peer Community Journal . 2 ( e20 )

DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.103

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Larval density in the invasive Drosophila suzukii : immediate and delayed effects on life-history traits

Alicia Reyes-Ramírez, Zaïnab Belgaidi, Patricia Gibert, Thomas Pommier, Aurélie Siberchicot, Laurence Mouton...

DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.06.511120

Preprint

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High-throughput genomics and transcriptomics to decipher host-symbiont molecular dialogue in the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae and Sodalis pierantonius endosymbiotic association

Nicolas Parisot, Mariana Galvão Ferrarini, Clément Goubert, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Agnès Vallier, Benjamin Gillet...

10th congress of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS) - 3rd International Conference on Holobionts (joint meeting) .

Poster

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From Wolbachia genomics to phenotype: molecular models of cytoplasmic incompatibility must account for the multiplicity of compatibility types

Alice Namias, Mathieu Sicard, Mylène Weill, Sylvain Charlat

Current Opinion in Insect Science . 49 : 78-84

DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.12.005

Journal article

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High Stability of the Epigenome in Drosophila Interspecific Hybrids

Alejandra Bodelón, Marie Fablet, Philippe Veber, Cristina Vieira, Maria Pilar García Guerreiro

Genome Biology and Evolution . 14 ( 2 )

DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac024

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Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians

Hugo Cayuela, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean‐paul Léna, Victor Ronget, Iñigo Martínez‐solano, Erin Muths...

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 76 ( 2 ) : 346-356

DOI: 10.1111/evo.14410

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Comparative transcriptomics between Drosophila mojavensis and D. arizonae reveals transgressive gene expression and underexpression of spermatogenesis-related genes in hybrid testes

Cecilia Banho, Vincent Mérel, Thiago Oliveira, Claudia Carareto, Cristina Vieira

Scientific Reports . 11 ( 1 ) : 9844

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89366-2

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Oxidative and radiation stress induces transposable element transcription in Drosophila melanogaster

Daniel Siqueira de Oliveira, Marcos Trindade Rosa, Cristina Vieira, Elgion Loreto

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 34 ( 4 ) : 628-638

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13762

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Transposable element dynamics in the host-bacteria association of the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae

Mariana G. Ferrarini, Clément Goubert, Nicolas Parisot, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Agnès Vallier, Rosario Gil...

Mobile DNA 2021 .

Poster

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Author Correction: Chromosomal scale assembly of parasitic wasp genome reveals symbiotic virus colonization

Jérémy Gauthier, Hélène Boulain, Joke J F A van Vugt, Lyam Baudry, Emma Persyn, Jean-Marc Aury...

Communications Biology . 4

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02480-9

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The discovery, distribution and diversity of DNA viruses associated with Drosophila melanogaster in Europe

Megan Wallace, Kelsey Coffman, Clément Gilbert, Sanjana Ravindran, Gregory Albery, Jessica Abbott...

Virus Evolution . 7 ( 1 ) : veab031

DOI: 10.1093/ve/veab031

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The Worldwide Invasion of Drosophila suzukii Is Accompanied by a Large Increase of Transposable Element Load and a Small Number of Putatively Adaptive Insertions

Vincent Mérel, Patricia Gibert, Inessa Buch, Valentina Rodriguez Rada, Arnaud Estoup, Mathieu Gautier...

Molecular Biology and Evolution . 38 ( 10 ) : 4252-4267

DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab155

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Infections by Transovarially Transmitted DMelSV in Drosophila Have No Impact on Ovarian Transposable Element Transcripts but Increase Their Amounts in the Soma

Marlène Roy, Barbara Viginier, Camille A Mayeux, Maxime Ratinier, Marie Fablet

Genome Biology and Evolution . 13 ( 9 )

DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab207

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Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Responses to Stress Differ According to Population Geography in an Invasive Species

Pierre Marin, Angelo Jaquet, Justine Picarle, Marie Fablet, Vincent Merel, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller...

Genome Biology and Evolution . 13 ( 9 ) : evab208

DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab208

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Natural Selection beyond Life? A Workshop Report

Sylvain Charlat, André Ariew, Pierrick Bourrat, María Ferreira Ruiz, Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman...

Life . 11 ( 10 ) : 1051

DOI: 10.3390/life11101051

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Transposable Element Expression and Regulation Profile in Gonads of Interspecific Hybrids of Drosophila arizonae and Drosophila mojavensis wrigleyi

Cecília Artico Banho, Daniel Siqueira Oliveira, Annabelle Haudry, Marie Fablet, Cristina Vieira, Claudia Marcia Aparecida Carareto

Cells . 10 ( 12 ) : 3574

DOI: 10.3390/cells10123574

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DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids

Chia-Hua Lue, Matthew L Buffington, Sonja Scheffer, Matthew Lewis, Tyler A Elliott, Amelia R I Lindsey...

Molecular Ecology Resources .

DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13435

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Cytotype Affects the Capability of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci MED Species To Feed and Oviposit on an Unfavorable Host Plant

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Hélène Henri, Hubert Charles, Pedro da Silva, Abdelaziz Heddi...

mBio . 12 ( 6 ) : 1-16

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00730-21

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CPCN - BILAN DE MANDATURE 2016 – 2021

Olivier Coutard, Pierre-Olivier Amblard, Claude Amra, Brigitte Bacroix, Pascal Barone, Yannick Barthe...

Preprint

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Wolbachia load variation in Drosophila is more likely caused by drift than by host genetic factors

Alexis Bénard, Hélène Henri, Camille Noûs, Fabrice Vavre, Natacha Kremer

Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology .

DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.29.402545

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Role of symbionts in insects’ ecological diversification: cytotype influences exploitation of an unfavorable host plant in the sap-feeder Bemisia tabaci

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Hélène Henri, Hubert Charles, Pedro da Silva, Abdelaziz Heddi...

DECRYPthèse E2M2 Edition 20 .

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Role of symbionts in insects’ ecological diversification: cytotype influences exploitation of an unfavorable host plant in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Hélène Henri, Hubert Charles, Pedro da Silva, Abdelaziz Heddi...

Webinaires du Groupe Régional de Recherche en Microbiologie des Interactions (G-RREMI) 2021 .

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