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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Cancer Is Not (Only) a Senescence Problem

Frédéric Thomas, Fabrice Vavre, Tazzio Tissot, Marion Vittecoq, Mathieu Giraudeau, Florence Bernex...

Trends in Cancer . 4 ( 3 ) : 169 - 172

DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2018.01.002

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Abundance of Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and its parasitoids on vegetables and cassava plants in Burkina Faso (West Africa)

Rahim Romba, Olivier Gnankine, Samuel Fogné Drabo, Fidèle Tiendrébéogo, Hélène Henri, Laurence Mouton...

Ecology and Evolution . 8 ( 12 ) : 6091-6103

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4078

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Back and forth Wolbachia transfers reveal efficient strains to control spotted wing drosophila populations

Julien Cattel, Katerina Nikolouli, Thibault Andrieux, Julien Martinez, Francis Jiggins, Sylvain Charlat...

Journal of Applied Ecology . 55 ( 5 ) : 2408-2418

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13101

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The somatic piRNA pathway controls germline transposition over generations

Bridlin Barckmann, Marianne El-Barouk, Alain Pélisson, Bruno Mugat, Blaise Maxime Li, Céline Franckhauser...

Nucleic Acids Research . 46 ( 18 ) : 9524 - 9536

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky761

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Comparing 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing and hybridization capture for pea aphid microbiota diversity analysis

Marie Cariou, Céline Ribière, Stéphanie Morliere, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Jean-Christophe Simon, Pierre Peyret...

BMC Research Notes . 11 ( 1 ) : 461

DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3559-3

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Flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of French Polynesia, with the description of two new species

Thibault Ramage, Sylvain Charlat, Ximo Mengual

European Journal of Taxonomy . ( 448 ) : 1-37

DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.448

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Population specific dynamics and selection patterns of transposable element insertions in European natural populations

Emmanuelle Lerat, Clément Goubert, Sara Guirao-Rico, Miriam Merenciano, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Cristina Vieira...

Molecular Ecology . : 1-17

DOI: 10.1111/mec.14963

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Stress affects the epigenetic marks added by natural transposable element insertions in Drosophila melanogaster

Lain Guio, Cristina Vieira, Josefa González

Scientific Reports . 8 ( 1 ) : 1-10

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30491-w

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Involvement of a host Cathepsin L in symbiont-induced cell death

Suzanne Peyer, Natacha Kremer, Margaret Mcfall-Ngai

MicrobiologyOpen . 7 ( 5 )

DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.632

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A behavior-manipulating virus relative as a source of adaptive genes for parasitoid wasps

Deborah Di Giovanni, D. Lepetit, Matthieu Boulesteix, Marc Ravallec, Julien Varaldi

Preprint

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Deciphering the behaviour manipulation imposed by a virus on its parasitoid host: insights from a dual transcriptomic approach

Julien Varaldi, David Lepetit

Parasitology . 145 ( 14 ) : 1979-1989

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182018000835

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Impact of pest management practices on the frequency of insecticide resistance alleles in Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) populations in three countries of West Africa

Olivier Gnankine, Omer Hema, Moussa Namountougou, Laurence Mouton, Fabrice Vavre

Crop Protection . 104 : 86 - 91

DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2017.10.020

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Modeling trophic dependencies and exchanges among insects’ bacterial symbionts in a host-simulated environment

Itai Opatovsky, Diego Santos-Garcia, Zhepu Ruan, Tamar Lahav, Shany Ofaim, Laurence Mouton...

BMC Genomics . 19 : 402

DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4786-7

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Sterile insect technique and Wolbachia symbiosis as potential tools for the control of the invasive species Drosophila suzukii

Katerina Nikolouli, Hervé Colinet, D Renault, Thomas Enriquez, Laurence Mouton, Patricia Gibert...

Journal of Pest Science . 91 ( 2 ) : 489-503

DOI: 10.1007/s10340-017-0944-y

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An attempt to select non-genetic variation in resistance to starvation and reduced chill coma recovery time in Drosophila melanogaster

Bianca Menezes, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Héloise Muller, Nelly Burlet, Sonia Martinez, Marie Fablet...

Journal of Experimental Biology . 221 ( 23 ) : jeb186254

DOI: 10.1242/jeb.186254

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Transposable Element Dynamics in an Invasive Species

V. Mérel, Marie Fablet, M. Boulesteix, Arnaud A Estoup, Patricia Gibert, Cristina Vieira

Congrès National des Éléments Transposables (CNET 2018) .

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Evaluating the essentiality of the primary endosymbiont of the rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae through genome analysis

Carlos Vargas-Chavez, Nicolas Parisot, C. Goubert, Patrice Baa-Puyoulet, Severine Balmand, M. Boulesteix...

VI Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (SESBE) .

Poster

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Les sciences historiques : un impensé épistémologique dans l'enseignement de l'évolution

Fabienne Paulin, Sylvain Charlat, Eric Triquet

Recherches en éducation .

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Sex gap in aging and longevity: can sex chromosomes play a role?

Gabriel A.B. Marais, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Cristina Vieira, Ingrid Plotton, Damien Sanlaville, François Gueyffier...

Biology of Sex Differences . 9 ( 1 ) : 1-14

DOI: 10.1186/s13293-018-0181-y

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Genetic exchange in eukaryotes through horizontal transfer: connected by the mobilome

Gabriel Luz Wallau, Cristina Vieira, Élgion Lúcio Silva Loreto

Mobile DNA . 9 ( 1 ) : 1-16

DOI: 10.1186/s13100-018-0112-9

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Development of a PCR-RFLP assay to identify Drosophila melanogaster among field-collected larvae

Vincent Raquin, Hélène Henri, Marine Vallat, François Leulier, Patricia Gibert, Natacha Kremer

Ecology and Evolution . 8 ( 20 ) : 10067 - 10074

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4453

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Persistent Interactions with Bacterial Symbionts Direct Mature-Host Cell Morphology and Gene Expression in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

Natacha Kremer, Eric Koch, Adil El Filali, Lawrence Zhou, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, Edward Ruby...

mSystems . 3 ( 5 )

DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00165-18

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The Importance of Revisiting Legionellales Diversity

Olivier Duron, Patricia Doublet, Fabrice Vavre, Didier Bouchon

Trends in Parasitology . 34 ( 12 ) : 1027 - 1037

DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2018.09.008

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De Taranis au Jupiter cavalier à l’anguipède : réflexions autour du substrat celtique dans la religion gallo-romaine

Florian Blanchard

Celtic religions in the roman period. Personal, local, and global . Celtics studies publications ( XX ) : 309-324

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Influence of Microbial Symbionts on Plant-Insect Interactions

David Giron, F. Dedeine, G. Dubreuil, E. Huguet, L. Mouton, Yannick Outreman...

Insect-Plant Interactions in a Crop Protection Perspective . 81 : 225-257

DOI: 10.1016/bs.abr.2016.09.007

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Genome sequencing of the behaviour manipulating virus LbFV reveals a possible new virus family

D. Lepetit, B. Gillet, S. Hughes, K. Kraaijeveld, Julien Varaldi

Genome Biology and Evolution . 8 : 3718-3738

DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw277

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Obligate dependence does not preclude changing partners in a Russian dolls symbiotic system

Emmanuelle Jousselin, Fabrice Vavre

Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology . : 1-2

DOI: 10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100002

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Managing cold tolerance and quality of mass-produced Drosophila suzukii flies to facilitate the application of biocontrol through incompatible and sterile insect techniques

Katerina Nikolouli, F. Sassú, Thomas Enriquez, Patricia Gibert, Frédéric Vavre, Laurence Mouton...

Third FAO–IAEA International Conference on Area-wide Management of Insect Pests .

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TEtools facilitates big data expression analysis of transposable elements and reveals an antagonism between their activity and that of piRNA genes

Emmanuelle Lerat, Marie Fablet, Laurent Modolo, Hélène Lopez-Maestre, Cristina Vieira

Nucleic Acids Research . 45 : 13

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw953

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High-Throughput Sequencing of Transposable Element Insertions Suggests Adaptive Evolution of the Invasive Asian Tiger Mosquito Towards Temperate Environments

Clément Goubert, Hélène Henri, Guillaume Minard, Claire Valiente Moro, Patrick Mavingui, Cristina Vieira...

Molecular Ecology . 26 ( 15 ) : 1-14

DOI: 10.1111/mec.14184

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