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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Evolvability, epigenetics and transposable elements

Marie Fablet, C. Vieira

Biomolecular concepts . 2 : 333-341

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

Ludovic Duvaux, Khalid Belkhir, Matthieu Boulesteix, Pierre Boursot

Molecular Ecology . 20 ( 24 ) : 5248-5264

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

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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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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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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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Do variable compensatory mechanisms explain the polymorphism of the dependence phenotype in the Asobara tabida-wolbachia association?

Natacha Kremer, Franck Dedeine, Delphine Charif, Cédric Finet, Roland Allemand, Fabrice Vavre

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 64 ( 10 ) : 2969-79

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01034.x

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Genes devoid of full-length transposable element insertions are involved in development and in the regulation of transcription in human and closely related species.

Hussein Mortada, Cristina Vieira, Emmanuelle Lerat

Journal of Molecular Evolution . 71 ( 3 ) : 180-91

DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9376-5

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Prevalence of a virus inducing behavioural manipulation near species range border

Sabine Patot, Julien Martinez, Roland Allemand, Sylvain Gandon, Julien Varaldi, Frédéric Fleury

Molecular Ecology . 19 ( 14 ) : 2995-3007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04686.x

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The transmission efficiency of tomato yellow leaf curl virus by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci is correlated with the presence of a specific symbiotic bacterium species.

Yuval Gottlieb, Einat Zchori-Fein, Netta Mozes-Daube, Svetlana Kontsedalov, Marisa Skaljac, Marina Brumin...

Journal of Virology . 84 ( 18 ) : 9310-7

DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00423-10

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Endosymbiont metacommunities, mtDNA diversity and the evolution of the Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) species complex.

Gwénaelle Gueguen, Fabrice Vavre, Olivier Gnankine, Michel Peterschmitt, Delphine Charif, Elad Chiel...

Molecular Ecology . 19 ( 19 ) : 4365-4378

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04775.x

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Évolution des interactions entre espèces

Thierry Lefèvre, François Renaud, Marc-André Selosse, Frédéric Thomas, C. Bernstein, O. Broennimann...

Biologie évolutive . : 533-616

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Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction.

Richard Stouthamer, James E Russell, Fabrice Vavre, Leonard Nunney

BMC Evolutionary Biology . 10 : 229

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-229

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Evolution and manipulation of parasitoid eggload

Sylvain Gandon, Julien Varaldi, Frédéric Fleury, Ana R Rivero

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 63 ( 11 ) : 2974-2984

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00776.x

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A new case of Wolbachia dependence in the genus Asobara: evidence for parthenogenesis induction in Asobara japonica

N. Kremer, D. Charif, H. Henri, M. Bataille, G. Prévost, K. Kraaijeveld...

Heredity . 103 ( 3 ) : 248-256

DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.63

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Molecular detection and identification of Rickettsia endosymbiont in different biotypes of Bemisia tabaci

G. Gueguen, Jean-Marc Rolain, E. Zchori-Fein, F. Vavre, Frédéric Fleury, Didier Raoult

Clinical Microbiology and Infection . -- : 1-2

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