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

Display of 91 to 120 publications on 445 in total

A transposon story : from TE content to TE dynamic invasion of Drosophila genomes using the single-molecule sequencing technology from Oxford Nanopore

Mohamed Mourdas, Nguyet Thi-Minh Dang, Yuki Ogyama, Nelly Burlet, Bruno Mugat, Matthieu Boulesteix...

Cells . 9 ( 8 ) : 1776

DOI: 10.3390/cells9081776

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Viral infection impacts transposable element transcript amounts in Drosophila

Marlène Roy, Barbara Viginier, Edouard Saint-Michel, Frederick Arnaud, Maxime Ratinier, Marie Fablet

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 117 ( 22 ) : 12249-12257

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006106117

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Syndrome de Klinefelter, rôle du chromosome Y dans l’espérance de vie humaine ?

Jordan Teoli, Claire Bardel, Marie Fablet, Gabriel Marais, François Gueyffier, Jean-François Lemaître...

36ème Congrès de la Société Française d'Endocrinologie (SFE Marseille 2020) . 81 ( 4 ) : 194

DOI: 10.1016/j.ando.2020.07.150

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Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences

Ehsan Sanaei, Sylvain Charlat, Jan Engelstädter

Biological Reviews .

DOI: 10.1111/brv.12663

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L’épistémologie des sciences biologiques et géologiques : une occasion d’enseigner l’incertitude ?

Fabienne Paulin, Sylvain Charlat

Raisons éducatives . N°24

DOI: 10.3917/raised.024.0101

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Drosophila suzukii oxidative stress response involves Jheh gene cluster but not transposable elements

Pierre Marin, Angelo Jacquet, Hélène Henri, Patricia Gibert, Cristina Vieira

Preprint

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Biological Invasion: The Influence of the Hidden Side of the (Epi)Genome

Pierre Marin, Julien Genitoni, Dominique D. Barloy, Stéphane Maury, Patricia Gibert, Cameron K Ghalambor...

Functional Ecology . 34 ( 2 ) : 385-400

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13317

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Chromosomal resolution reveals symbiotic virus colonization of parasitic wasp genomes

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

DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.19.994459

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Some evolutionary insights into an accidental homing endonuclease passage from mitochondria to the nucleus

Sylvain Charlat

Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology . : 100101

DOI: 10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100101

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Transposable element dynamics and regulation in a major crop pest: Sitophilus oryzae.

Caroline Blanc, Théo Chancy, Agnès Vallier, Severine Balmand, Clément Goubert, Mariana G. Ferrarini...

Congrès national sur les éléments transposables .

Poster

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Discovering the link between insect symbiosis and transposable elements.

Théo Chancy, Caroline Blanc, Agnès Vallier, Mariana G. Ferrarini, Elisa Dell’aglio, Sitophilus Genome Consortium...

Crossroads between transposons and gene regulation .

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

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Abdelaziz Heddi, Emmanuel Desouhant, Fabrice Vavre, Federica Calevro...

Journées Microbiome .

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

Sylvain Benhamou, Isabelle Rahioui, Emmanuel Desouhant, Abdelaziz Heddi, Fabrice Vavre, Federica Calevro...

Colloque Réseau Ecologie des Interactions Durables (REID) et le réseau Immunologie des Invertébrés (IMMUNINV) .

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Influence of symbionts on their host niche and partner's choice

Sylvain Benhamou, Emmanuel Desouhant, Fabrice Vavre, Federica Calevro, Laurence Mouton

PISI-net, 2 nd annual meeting of Japan-France Plant-Insect-Symbiont interaction network .

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Study of insect-bacteria symbiotic interactions by dual RNAseq

Natacha Kremer, Mariana G. Ferrarini, Hélène Henri, Sandrine Hughes, Benjamin Gillet, Diego Santos-Garcia...

Journée Transcriptomique Complexe des GDR GE et BIM .

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Transposable element dynamics in Sitophilus oryzae

Clément Goubert, Mariana G. Ferrarini, Agnès Vallier, Nicolas Parisot, Matthieu Boulesteix, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos...

Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Regional Workshop on Microbiome .

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Sublethal effects from endosulfan on parasitization by the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi and specificity of nervous pathways involved

Jean-Marie Delpuech

Pest Management Science . 75 ( 5 ) : 1411-1415

DOI: 10.1002/ps.5261

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Global survey of mobile DNA horizontal transfer in arthropods reveals Lepidoptera as a prime hotspot

Daphné Reiss, Gladys Mialdea, Vincent Miele, Damien M. de Vienne, Jean Peccoud, Clément Gilbert...

PLoS Genetics . 15 ( 2 ) : e1007965

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007965

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L'enseignement de l'évolution : redonner une place à l'épistémologie des sciences historiques

Fabienne Paulin, Sylvain Charlat, Eric Triquet

RDST - Recherches en didactique des sciences et des technologies .

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On the Importance to Acknowledge Transposable Elements in Epigenomic Analyses

Emmanuelle Lerat, Josep Casacuberta, Cristian Chaparro, Cristina Vieira

Genes . 10 ( 4 ) : 258

DOI: 10.3390/genes10040258

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Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods

Mahdi Belcaid, Giorgio Casaburi, Sarah J Mcanulty, Hannah Schmidbaur, Andrea M Suria, Silvia Moriano-Gutierrez...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America .

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817322116

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Insects and incest: Sib‐mating tolerance in natural populations of a parasitoid wasp

Marie Collet, Isabelle Amat, Sandrine Sauzet, Alexandra Auguste, Xavier Fauvergue, Laurence Mouton...

Molecular Ecology . 29 ( 3 ) : 596-609

DOI: 10.1111/mec.15340

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Dynamic Interactions Between the Genome and an Endogenous Retrovirus: Tirant in Drosophila simulans Wild-Type Strains

Marie Fablet, Angelo Jacquet, Rita Rebollo, Annabelle A. Haudry, Carine Rey, Judit Salces-Ortiz...

G3 . 9 ( 3 ) : 855-865

DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200789

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(In)exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance

Etienne Rajon, Sylvain Charlat

The American Naturalist . 194 ( 4 ) : 470-481

DOI: 10.1086/704772

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Caution Does Not Preclude Predictive and Testable Models of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: A Reply to Shropshire et al.

John F. Beckmann, Manon Bonneau, Hongli Chen, Mark Hochstrasser, Denis Poinsot, Hervé Merçot...

Trends in Genetics . 35 ( 6 ) : 399-400

DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.03.002

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Categorization of species as native or nonnative using DNA sequence signatures without a complete reference library

Jeremy C Andersen, Peter Oboyski, Neil Davies, Sylvain Charlat, Curtis Ewing, Christopher Meyer...

Ecological Applications . 29

DOI: 10.1002/eap.1914

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The Toxin–Antidote Model of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: Genetics and Evolutionary Implications

John Beckmann, Manon Bonneau, Hongli Chen, Mark Hochstrasser, Denis Poinsot, Mylene Weill...

Trends in Genetics . 35 ( 3 ) : 175-185

DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2018.12.004

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Widespread Wolbachia infection in an insular radiation of damselflies (odonata, coenagrionidae)

M O Lorenzo-Carballa, Y Torres-Cambas, K Heaton, G D D Hurst, S. Charlat, H Van Gossum...

Scientific Reports .

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47954-3

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Tick-Bacteria Mutualism Depends on B Vitamin Synthesis Pathways

Olivier Duron, Olivier Morel, Valérie Noël, Marie Buysse, Florian Binetruy, Renaud Lancelot...

Current Biology - CB . 28 ( 12 ) : 1896 - 1902.e5

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.038

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