Evolution, Behaviour, Adaptation Group

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The Evolution, Adaptation and Behavior group aims at studying the evolution of phenotypic and behavioral traits through a combination of long-term monitoring of natural populations, of field and lab experiments, of molecular analyses, and of mathematical and computational modeling. Our research mainly focuses on animals, in particular mammals (alpine marmot, giraffe), birds (white-throated dipper, collared flycatcher, great tit) and insects (various Drosophila species, the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens).

 
We study the evolution of fitness-related traits in interaction, either selective or plastic, with an individual’s biotic and abiotic environment. Interactions between individuals have a special importance in our reasoning and are thus the object of a first axis of research on group dynamics and social interactions. We also consider the environment as providing resources and informative signals through two other axes, one on phenotypic plasticity and the other on resource allocation and the sensitivity to environmental variables. In both, we consider the impact of stress factors caused by human activities — such as global warming, artificial lighting or invading species — or by the presence of pathogens.
 
 
Group dynamics and social interaction. The environment encountered by numerous animals contains, on top of resources and other elements, other individuals. Social interactions vary immensely between species, from a solitary lifestyle to such an extreme degree of cooperation that a part of the group sacrifices their reproduction at the benefit of others, specialized in this task. In this axis, we try to understand how groups form and how social structures are maintained, at various scales extending from unicellular organisms to cooperative mammals.
Here are a few examples of questions that we address:

  • Evolution of sociality: what are the consequences of climate change on the benefits of group living (in the alpine marmot)? How does that impact group composition and the probability and age of dispersal?
  • Group dynamics: how does the size and composition of familial groups evolve in the context of climate change? In giraffes, how do temporary groups form, and what role do kinship play in the probability and duration of pairing?
  • Which evolutionary trajectories have led to multicellular organisms expressing differentiated cell types, a part of which sacrifice their reproduction?
  • What are the neurogenomic determinants that signal the presence of related individuals in solitary individuals, triggering altruistic behaviors?

 
Phenotypic plasticity. Evolution by natural selection can drive phenotype changes on short timescales, in the order of a few generations. Yet it remains inefficient to track more frequent environmental changes. Phenotypic plasticity is a means to buffer such environmental variations, either through informed decisions or fixed reaction norms, which are the object of study in this axis.
Here are a few examples of questions that we address:

  • How do individual characteristics, in particular personality traits, shape the use of information on the environment for decision-making?
  • Is there a trade-off between the speed of decision making and its accuracy? What conditions favor genotypes that make fast, error-prone decisions, or slower, more accurate genotypes?
  • What types of environmental variations select for plastic genotypes?
  • Do changes in gene expression observed during environmental fluctuations induce behavioral changes?

 
Resource allocation and sensitivity to environmental variables. Organisms make other decisions throughout their lives as they decide how much resources to allocate to various traits, such as survival, growth, reproduction or immunity. This differential allocation of resources relies on complex systems, or instance the endocrine system in animals, that we study. These systems can be disturbed by anthropogenic changes that disrupt the long-term ecological setting in which they have evolves, resulting in major phenotype perturbations.
Here are a few examples of questions that we address:

  • How do endocrine systems — that allow the communication between tissues and control the differential allocation of resources — evolve?
  • How do chemical pollutants affect physiological processes, ageing and thereby life-history strategies in response to environmental variation?
  • What role do climatic fluctuations play in the heterogeneity of parasite infection, especially at stages that go through the external environment?

 

Publications

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Artifical light at night triggers slight transcriptomic effects on melatonin signaling but not synthesis in tadpoles of two anuran species

Morgane Touzot, Adeline Dumet, Jean Secondi, Thierry Lengagne, Hélène Henri, Emmanuel Desouhant...

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology . 280 : 111386

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111386

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Weevil Carbohydrate Intake Triggers Endosymbiont Proliferation: A Trade-Off between Host Benefit and Endosymbiont Burden

Elisa Dell’aglio, Virginie Lacotte, Sergio Peignier, Isabelle Rahioui, Fadéla Benzaoui, Agnès Vallier...

mBio .

DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03333-22

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Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines

Stefan J G Vriend, Vidar Grøtan, Marlène Gamelon, Frank Adriaensen, Markus P Ahola, Elena Álvarez...

Ecology . 104 ( 2 ) : e3908

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3908

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Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation

Liam D Bailey, Martijn van de Pol, Frank Adriaensen, Aneta Arct, Emilio Barba, Paul E Bellamy...

Nature Communications . 13 ( 1 ) : 2112

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29635-4

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Thermal plasticity of insecticide sensitivity in an invasive pest species

Patricia Gibert, Francoz Louis, Benoît Barrès, Christophe Plantamp

SFE2 GfÖ EEF Joint meeting, International Conference on Ecological Sciences “Ecology and Evolution: New perspective and societal challenges .

Conference paper

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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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Natal dispersal does not entail survival costs but is linked to breeding dispersal in a migratory shorebird, the southern dunlin Calidris alpina schinzii

Veli‐matti Pakanen, Kari Koivula, Blandine Doligez, Lars‐åke Flodin, Angela Pauliny, Nelli Rönkä...

Oikos . 2022 ( 8 )

DOI: 10.1111/oik.08951

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Assortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms

Thibault Tamin, Blandine Doligez

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 35 ( 4 ) : 561-574

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13925

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Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern

Blandine Charrat, Isabelle Amat, Dominique Allainé, Emmanuel Desouhant

Ethology . 129 ( 3 ) : 156-168

DOI: 10.1111/eth.13354

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Maternally transferred thyroid hormones and life‐history variation in birds

Bin‐yan Hsu, Veli‐matti Pakanen, Winnie Boner, Blandine Doligez, Tapio Eeva, Ton Groothuis...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 91 ( 7 ) : 1489-1506

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13708

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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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Differentiation of thermal reaction norms between marginal and core populations of a northward expanding parasitoid

Emilie Delava, Frederic Fleury, Patricia Gibert

DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.26.489532

Preprint

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Prevalence of major digestive and respiratory helminths in dogs and cats in France: results of a multicenter study

G. Bourgoin, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, Emilie Bouhsira, Bruno Polack, Patrick Bourdeau, Clarisse Roussel Ariza...

Parasites & Vectors . 15

DOI: 10.1186/s13071-022-05368-7

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Macroecological patterns of fruit infestation rates by the invasive fly Drosophila suzukii in the wild reservoir host plant Sambucus nigra

Romain Ulmer, Aude Couty, Patrice Eslin, Manuella Catterou, Lucas Baliteau, Anne Bonis...

Agricultural and Forest Entomology . 24 ( 4 ) : 548-563

DOI: 10.1111/afe.12520

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Macroecological Patterns of Fruit Infestation Rates by the Invasive Fly Drosophila suzukii in the Reservoir Host Plant Sambucus nigra

Romain Ulmer, Aude Couty, Patrice Eslin, Lucas Baliteau, Anne Bonis, Nicolas Borowiec...

1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution . : 9469

DOI: 10.3390/BDEE2021-09469

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Males can adjust offspring sex ratio in an adaptive fashion through different mechanisms

Mathieu Douhard, Benjamin Geffroy

BioEssays . : 2000264

DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000264

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Reproductive females and young mouflon ( Ovis gmelini musimon × Ovis sp.) in poor body condition are the main spreaders of gastrointestinal parasites

Gilles Bourgoin, Elodie Portanier, Marie-Thérèse Poirel, Christian Itty, Jeanne Duhayer, Slimania Benabed...

Parasitology . 148 ( 7 ) : 809-818

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182021000329

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Reproductive females and young mouflon ( Ovis gmelini musimon × Ovis sp.) in poor body condition are the main spreaders of gastrointestinal parasites

G. Bourgoin, Elodie Portanier, Marie-Thérèse Poirel, Christian Itty, Jeanne Duhayer, Slimania Benabed...

Parasitology . 148 ( 7 ) : 809-818

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182021000329

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Detection and monitoring of Drosophila suzukii in raspberry and cherry orchards with volatile organic compounds in the USA and Europe

Nicholas Larson, Jaime Strickland, Vonnie Shields, Antonio Biondi, Lucia Zappalà, Carmelo Cavallaro...

Scientific Reports . 11 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85884-1

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Dealing with host and food searching in a diurnal parasitoid: consequences of light at night at intra‐ and trans‐generational levels

Elisa Gomes, Benjamin Rey, François Débias, Isabelle Amat, Emmanuel Desouhant

Insect conservation and diversity . 14 ( 2 ) : 235-246

DOI: 10.1111/icad.12477

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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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Assortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms

Thibault Tamin, Blandine Doligez

Journal of Evolutionary Biology .

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13925

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Inter-individual variation in provisioning rate, prey size and number, and links to total prey biomass delivered to nestlings in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

Laure Cauchard, Elise Isabella Macqueen, Rhona Lilley, Pierre Bize, Blandine Doligez

Avian Research . 12 : 15

DOI: 10.1186/s40657-021-00247-8

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Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: the SPI‐Birds data hub

Antica Culina, Frank Adriaensen, Liam Bailey, Malcolm Burgess, Anne Charmantier, Ella Cole...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 90 ( 9 ) : 2147-2160

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13388

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Transcriptome Profiling of Starvation in the Peripheral Chemosensory Organs of the Crop Pest Spodoptera littoralis Caterpillars

Erwan Poivet, Aurore Gallot, Nicolas Montagné, Pavel Senin, Christelle Monsempès, Fabrice Legeai...

Insects . 12 ( 7 ) : 573

DOI: 10.3390/insects12070573

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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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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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How much energetic trade‐offs limit selection? Insights from livestock and related laboratory model species

Frédéric Douhard, Mathieu Douhard, Hélène Gilbert, Philippe Monget, Jean‐michel Gaillard, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître

Evolutionary Applications . 14 ( 12 ) : 2726-2749

DOI: 10.1111/eva.13320

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Lifespan decreases with proportion of sons in males but not females of zoo‐housed tigers and lemurs

Morgane Tidière, Guillaume Douay, Peter Müller, Aurélie Siberchicot, Alexander Sliwa, Mylisa Whipple...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology .

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13793

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