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.

Publications

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Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in 13 dried sausage processing plants and their products

D. Thévenot, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, S. Christieans, Christine Vernozy-Rozand

International Journal of Food Microbiology . 102 : 85-94

2005

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Modelling the effect of a temperature shift on the lag phase duration of Listeria monocytogenes

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, F. Baty, M. Cornu, H. Bergis

International Journal of Food Microbiology . 100 : 77-84

2005

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De la prévalence aux valeurs prédictives: L`antibiogramme face à l`évolution de la résistance aux antibiotiques

B. Lamy, G. Carret, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller

Annales de Biologie Clinique . 63 : 493-502

2005

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Online synonymous codon usage analyses with the ade4 and seqinR packages

D. Charif, J. Thioulouse, J.R. Lobry, G. Perrière

Bioinformatics . 21 : 545-547

2005

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Forcing reversibility in the no-strand-bias substitution model allows for the theoretical and practical identifiability of its 5 parameters from pairwise DNA sequence comparisons

O. Zagordi, J.R. Lobry

Gene . 347 : 175-182

2005

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Why roe deers are not red: patterns of maternal investment in ungulates

Mark Hewison, Jean-Michel Gaillard

7th European Roe deer Meeting . : 1 p.

2005

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Big mothers invest more in daughters - reversed sex allocation in a weakly polygynous mammal

Mark Hewison, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Petter Kjellander, Carole Toïgo, Olof Liberg, Daniel Delorme

Ecology Letters . 8 ( 4 ) : 430-437

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00743.x

2005

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Reproductive biology of captive female eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx

Hege Berg Henriksen, Reidar Andersen, Mark Hewison, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Morten Bronndal, Stefan Jonsson...

European Journal of Wildlife Research . 51 ( 3 ) : 151-156

DOI: 10.1007/s10344-005-0104-1

2005

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Extended life cycle in the chestnut weevil: prolonged diapause or repeated diapause?

B. Soula, F. Menu

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata . 115 : 333-340

2005

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Incidence and persistence of classical swine fever in free-ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa)

S Rossi, E Fromont, Dominique Pontier, C Crucière, J Hars, Jacques Barrat...

Epidemiology and Infection . 133 ( 3 ) : 559-568

2005

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Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp) using serological data

S Rossi, M Artois, Dominique Pontier, C Crucière, J Hars, Jacques Barrat...

Veterinary Research . 36 ( 1 ) : 27-42

2005

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Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp.) using serological data.

S. Rossi, Marc Artois, D. Pontier, C. Crucière, J. Hars, J. Barrat...

Veterinary Research . -- : 27-42

2005

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Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp.) using serological data

Sophie Rossi, Marc Artois, Dominique Pontier, Catherine Crucière, Jean Hars, Jacques Barrat...

Veterinary Research . 36 ( 1 ) : 27-42

DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2004050

2005

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Morphological evolution, ecological diversification and climate change in rodents

Sabrina Renaud, Jacques Michaux, Daniela N. Schmidt, Jean-Pierre Aguilar, Pierre Mein, Jean-Christophe Auffray

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 272 : 609-617

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2992

2005

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First upper molar and mandible shape of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from northern Germany: ageing, habitat and insularity

Sabrina Renaud

Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 70 ( 3 ) : 157-170

DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2004.10.004

2005

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Is the originality of a species measurable ?

S. Pavoine, S. Ollier, Anne-Béatrice Dufour

Ecology Letters . 8 : 579-586

2005

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Short-term effects of using verbal instructions and demonstration at the beginning of learning a complex skill in figure skating.

Marianne Haguenauer, P. Fargier, Pierre Legreneur, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, G. Cogerino, M. Begon...

Perceptual and Motor Skills . 100 : 179-191

2005

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Coupling principal component analysis and GIS to map deer habitats

N. Pettorelli, S. Dray, D. Maillard

Wildlife Biology . 11 : 363-370

2005

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La sarcosporidiose bovine

L. Zenner, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, C. Chauve

Bulletin des G.T.V. . 32 : 27-32

2005

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Statut sanitaire des ongulés sauvages de montagne – relation avec le statut sanitaire des ongulés domestiques

Maryline Pioz, Anne Loison, Philippe Gibert, Marc Artois, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

Réunion de présentation des actions de recherche. Parc Naturel Régional du massif des Bauges .

2005

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Isofemale lines in Drosophila: an empirical approach to quantitative trait analysis in natural populations

J.R. David, Patricia Gibert, T. Legou, G. Petavy, P. Capy, B. Moreteau

Heredity . 94 : 3-12

2005

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Functional diversity of soil microbial community, rock phosphate dissolution and growth of Acacia seyal as influenced by grass-litter and soil-feeding termite nest structure amendments

R. Duponnois, M. Paugy, Jean Thioulouse, D. Masse, Michel Le Page

Geoderma . 124 : 349-361

2005

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MADE4: an R package for multivariate analysis of gene expression data

A.C. Culhane, J. Thioulouse, G. Perrière, D.G. Higgins

Bioinformatics . 21 : 2789-2790

2005

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Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): Implications for chromosomal evolution

Frederic Veyrunes, Janice Britton-Davidian, Terence Robinson, Elisabeth Calvet, Christiane Denys, Pascale C Chevret

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 36 ( 2 ) : 358-369

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.011

2005

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Systematics and evolution of the subfamily Gerbillinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae)

Pascale C Chevret, Gauthier Dobigny

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 35 ( 3 ) : 674-688

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.01.001

2005

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Etude de maladies abortives non réglementées chez les ongulés sauvages de montagne et les ruminants domestiques des Bauges (Pré-Alpes du Nord, France). 22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne

Elsa Jourdain, P Gibert, D Gauthier, E Fromont, J.-M Jullien, J Hars

22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne .

2004

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Ecotoxicologie aquatique et modélisation des effets biologiques. Rapport final

A. Pery, Laurent Lagadic, S. Charles, M. Servia, Jeanne Garric

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2004

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Food availability effect on population dynamics of the midge Chironomus riparius: a Leslie modeling approach

S. Charles, M. Ferreol, Arnaud Chaumot, A.R. Pery

Ecological Modelling . 175 ( 3 ) : 217-229

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.10.016

2004

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Les modèles matriciels de type Leslie : Une approche couplée Mathématiques et Statistiques

S. Charles-Bajard

incollection . -- : 377-392

2004

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Antibodies to Aleutian Mink Disease Parvovirus in free-ranging small carnivores from south-western France: implication for the conservation of the European mink (Mustela lutreola)

D. Pontier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Bent Aasted, Améli Perrot, Frank Sauvage, Marc Artois...

Journal of wildlife diseases . 40 : 394-402

DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-40.3.394

2004

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Publications

Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in 13 dried sausage processing plants and their products

Modelling the effect of a temperature shift on the lag phase duration of Listeria monocytogenes

De la prévalence aux valeurs prédictives: L`antibiogramme face à l`évolution de la résistance aux antibiotiques

Online synonymous codon usage analyses with the ade4 and seqinR packages

Forcing reversibility in the no-strand-bias substitution model allows for the theoretical and practical identifiability of its 5 parameters from pairwise DNA sequence comparisons

Why roe deers are not red: patterns of maternal investment in ungulates

Big mothers invest more in daughters - reversed sex allocation in a weakly polygynous mammal

Reproductive biology of captive female eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx

Extended life cycle in the chestnut weevil: prolonged diapause or repeated diapause?

Incidence and persistence of classical swine fever in free-ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa)

Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp) using serological data

Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp.) using serological data.

Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp.) using serological data

Morphological evolution, ecological diversification and climate change in rodents

First upper molar and mandible shape of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from northern Germany: ageing, habitat and insularity

Is the originality of a species measurable ?

Short-term effects of using verbal instructions and demonstration at the beginning of learning a complex skill in figure skating.

Coupling principal component analysis and GIS to map deer habitats

La sarcosporidiose bovine

Statut sanitaire des ongulés sauvages de montagne – relation avec le statut sanitaire des ongulés domestiques

Isofemale lines in Drosophila: an empirical approach to quantitative trait analysis in natural populations

Functional diversity of soil microbial community, rock phosphate dissolution and growth of Acacia seyal as influenced by grass-litter and soil-feeding termite nest structure amendments

MADE4: an R package for multivariate analysis of gene expression data

Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): Implications for chromosomal evolution

Systematics and evolution of the subfamily Gerbillinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae)

Etude de maladies abortives non réglementées chez les ongulés sauvages de montagne et les ruminants domestiques des Bauges (Pré-Alpes du Nord, France). 22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne

Ecotoxicologie aquatique et modélisation des effets biologiques. Rapport final

Food availability effect on population dynamics of the midge Chironomus riparius: a Leslie modeling approach

Les modèles matriciels de type Leslie : Une approche couplée Mathématiques et Statistiques

Antibodies to Aleutian Mink Disease Parvovirus in free-ranging small carnivores from south-western France: implication for the conservation of the European mink (Mustela lutreola)

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