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Probabilistic approaches for detecting and locating whole genome duplications.
Whole Genome Duplications (WGDs) can be difficult to detect when they are old and when synteny has been disrupted by genome rearrangements. To test the presence of WGDs on a species phylogeny, I will present two methods which do not require synteny information and build strength from the phylogenetic framework. They rely on a probability model for the evolution of gene families on a species tree with WGDs. Both methods use multiple gene families across multiple species. One method relies on aligned molecular sequences and the other simply uses information on gene counts. We assessed their performance with simulations and on a benchmark yeast dataset, where we recover strong evidence for a well-established WGD and a low retention rate of duplicated genes after this WGD.
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Negotiation for resources in sibling barn owls: a model of animal communication dynamics
Animal conflict is usually seen as static, where each competitor has a definite underlying quality (i.e. condition, good genes) that determines its signal level. However, although many morphological signals are fixed during early development, some signals remain flexible through life (e.g. vocalisation, most behavioural traits). The level of signals of an individual can thus often fluctuate to avoid interferences, to adapt to both the presence of an audience or the resource holding potential and motivation of opponents. These fluctuations raise the question of how individuals decide at each moment their level of investment in signalling to claim a resource. Animals are indeed expected to constantly modulate their investment in a contest according to the payoff. Because of the inherent difficulty to study the temporal dynamics of communication between several individuals, how animals decide to enter or leave the contest and to what level invest in signalling has received mainly theoretical developments. Using the barn owl (Tyto alba) as a model species, I will present recent advances in the understanding of the role of cognition (individual recognition, memory) and social interactions in the dynamics of a communication process.
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The evolution of genetic architectures underlying quantitative traits (and its consequences)
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Nouvelle formule de séminaires internes
Deux équipes présentent des résultats ou des questions qui leurs sont propres afin de favoriser de nouvelles discussions au sein du laboratoire.
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Nouvelle formule de séminaires internes
Deux équipes présentent des résultats ou des questions qui leurs sont propres afin de favoriser de nouvelles discussions au sein du laboratoire.
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Evidence de sélection dans le génome humain: adaptation polygénique et fardeau d'expansion
Les populations humaines ont connu une expansion hors d'Afrique dans les 50,000 dernières années qui a certainement nécessité des adaptations au niveau génétiques, mais qui ont aussi pu avoir des conséquences sur leur fitness. Dans cette conférence, je présenterai nos travaux récents sur l'identification de sélection polygénique au niveau de voies métaboliques chez l'homme, ainsi que sur l'accumulation potentielle de mutations délétères lors d'expansions spatiales.
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Reconciliation-based detection of co-evolving gene families
Genes located in the same chromosome region share common evolutionary events more often than other genes (e.g. a segmental duplication of this region). Their evolution may also be related if they are involved in the same protein complex or biological process. Identifying co-evolving genes can thus shed light on ancestral genome structures and functional gene interactions.We devised a simple, fast and accurate probability method based on species tree-gene tree reconciliations to detect when two gene families have co-evolved. Our method observes the number and location of predicted macro-evolutionary events, and estimates the probability of having the observed number of common events by chance. Simulation studies confirm that our method effectively identifies co-evolving families. This opens numerous perspectives on genome-scale analysis where this method could be used to pinpoint co-evolving gene families and thus help to unravel ancestral genome arrangements or undocumented gene interactions.(Work in collaboration with Vincent Ranwez et Yao-ban Chan.)---------------------------------------FRENCH---------------------------------------------Detection de co-é́volution basée sur la réconciliation d'arbres phylogénétiquesEn comparaison avec des gènes situés sur des chromosomes distincts, les gènes situés dans une même région chromosomique prennent part à des évènements évolutifs communs (par exemple dans le cas d'une duplication en tandem de cette région). Leur évolution peut également être liée s'ils sont impliqués dans le même complexe de protéines ou dans le même processus biologique. Identifier des gènes qui ont co-évolué peut donc aider à mieux comprendre les structures génomiques ancestrales et les interactions fonctionnelles des gènes étudiés. Dans cette presentation nous allons decrire une méthode probabiliste basée sur la réconciliation d'arbres phylogénétiques: les macro-évènements évolutifs sont estimés avec une méthode de réconciliation; ensuite nous estimons la probabilité d'avoir le nombre d'évènements communs observés par hasard, faisant l'hypothèse forte que tous les macro-évènements évolutifs sont indépendants les uns des autres. Les simulations réalisées montrent que cette approche est prometteuse. Ce projet est issu de la collaboration avec Vincent Ranwez et Yao-ban Chan.
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Nouvelle formule de séminaires internes
Deux équipes présentent des résultats ou des questions qui leurs sont propres afin de favoriser de nouvelles discussions au sein du laboratoire.«Telling metabolic stories to explore metabolomics data: A case study on the Yeast response to cadmium exposure» Cecilia Coimbra Klein et«Sénescence et sélection sexuelle chez les populations naturelles de vertébrés» Jean-Francois Lemaitre
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Genome wide quantification of RNA transcripts
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A Diversity of Conservation Dilemmas with Demographic Solutions
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Non-random inbreeding with respect to phenotype biases estimates of inbreeding depression
Animals often show substantial variation in dispersal behaviour and resident individuals are more likely to inbreed. At least part of the variation in dispersal behaviour may be phenotype-dependent, potentially leading to non-random inbreeding with respect to a particular phenotype. Here we show that non-random inbreeding in structured populations can have important implications for estimates of the effect of inbreeding (inbreeding depression). We do this using a long-term individual-based data set for a population of Eurasian dippers (Cinclus cinclus), a bird species living exclusively along streams and rivers. Extensive pedigree data show that close inbreeding is relatively common in this species. However, inbreeding birds are not a random subsample of the population but are smaller on average. Given the significant heritability of body size, inbred individuals are smaller due to both additive genetic and inbreeding effects. Importantly, the effects of inbreeding are overestimated if additive genetic effects are not accounted for. We show how estimating the effects of inbreeding within an animal model framework removes this bias, highlighting the importance of integrating quantitative genetics and animal behaviour when measuring the effects of inbreeding in the wild.
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Nouvelle formule de séminaires internes
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Dating phylogenies with incompletely preserved fossils
In recent years, evolutionary biologists have become increasingly interested in dating phylogenies. This is usually accomplished by calibrating interior nodes in the tree against the fossil record, an ad hoc approach with a considerable risk of mirepresenting the fossil information. I discuss an alternative approach, in which fossils are included along with extant taxa in a Bayesian total-evidence analysis. By coding morphological characters for both extant and extinct taxa, it is possible to explicitly integrate over the uncertainty in the placement of individual fossils, while using their ages to date the tree. In such a total-evidence analysis of the early radiation of the Hymenoptera (wasps, ants and bees), we showed that fossils contributed significantly to the estimation of divergence times, despite considerable uncertainty in their placement. The posterior distributions on divergence times were less sensitive to prior assumptions and tended to be more precise than in standard node dating. The total-evidence analysis also showed that four of the seven Hymenoptera calibration points used in node dating were based on erroneous or doubtful assumptions about fossil placement. One of the most important advantages of total-evidence dating over node dating is that it provides a better platform for further modeling of important aspects, such as the fossilization process and the sampling of extinct and extant taxa. We are currently exploring such extensions of the basic model.
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Heteroplasmy in human mitochondrial DNA: characteristics, transmission, and tissue-specificity.
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Choanoflagellates, animal evolution, and the role of microbial eukaryotes in global ocean ecology
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Nouvelle formule de séminaires internes
Deux équipes présentent des résultats ou des questions qui leurs sont propres afin de favoriser de nouvelles discussions au sein du laboratoire.
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Network-based approaches for the spatial spreading of communicable diseases
Mathematical and computational approaches based on network theory and complex system dynamics are increasingly showing their potential to address open problems on the spreading of communicable diseases on a spatially structured and heterogeneous human population. I will review my recent research work in this direction presenting studies on both fundamental problems and specific epidemic events. On the theoretical side, I will show how the mathematical formalism of reaction-diffusion processes and metapopulation networks can shed light on the impact of the complex features characterising individuals' mobility patterns on the propagation of emerging infections. How do traveling flows, journey duration and difference in travel frequency impact local mixing and transmission of influenza-like diseases? How do the mobility of individuals and their distribution in space determine dominance/co-dominance regimes in case of multiple interacting strains of the same pathogen? Besides these fundamental research questions, the same formalism can form the basis of data-driven computational models for the spatial spreading of real infection events. In case of an epidemic emergency, such models represent valuable tools for estimating in real time the transmission potential of the disease, providing assessment of the epidemic situation and projections of possible unfolding scenarios. I will discuss the two paradigmatic examples of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and of the MERS-CoV outbreak.
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The Molecular Transformation of Evolutionary Biology.
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"Microevolution in Island Birds: Insights from white-eye colonisations of southwest Pacific islands »
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Apports de l'écotoxicologie dans la gestion de la qualité des eaux et des milieux aquatiques
Evaluer le bon état des masses d'eau, évaluer les impacts des activités humaines, détecter les polluants émergents à de très faibles doses, et évaluer leurs risques sur le long terme, etc., pour faire face à ces défis, de nouvelles connaissances et des technologies innovantes sont nécessaires. La gestion durable de la ressource en eau et des milieux aquatiques impose de s'appuyer sur des recherches finalisées de haut niveau. La loi sur l'eau et les milieux aquatiques (LEMA) a confié à l'Onema une mission explicite afin de renforcer l'utilisation des connaissances scientifiques et techniques pour éclairer la conception, la mise en œuvre et le suivi des politiques publiques dans le domaine de l'eau par une expertise de haut niveau. L'Onema conduit cette mission avec ses moyens propres et en construisant des partenariats avec les organismes nationaux de recherche. A travers plusieurs exemples de projets de recherche ou d'études menés dans le cadre des conventions partenariales de l'Onema, nous verrons dans quelle mesure les résultats de la recherche appliquée le domaine de l'écotoxicologie peuvent aider à la mise en œuvre de la directive cadre sur l'eau, notamment par le soutien à des travaux permettant de mieux comprendre les phénomènes de transfert des contaminants organiques hydrophobes dans les réseaux trophiques, le soutien à des travaux sur les effets des substances chimiques sur les écosystèmes soumis à des expositions chroniques et multiples pour en tirer des marqueurs d'effets utilisables sur le terrain, etc.