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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tirant, a newly discovered active endogenous retrovirus in Drosophila simulans.

Abdou Akkouche, Rita Rebollo, Nelly Burlet, Caroline Esnault, Sonia Martinez, Barbara Viginier...

Journal of Virology . 86 ( 7 ) : 3675-3681

DOI: 10.1128/JVI.07146-11

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Mod/Resc Parsimony Inference: Theory and application

Igor Nor, Danny Hermelin, Sylvain Charlat, Jan Engelstadter, Max Reuter, Olivier Duron...

Information and Computation . 213 : 23-32

DOI: 10.1016/j.ic.2011.03.008

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International Congress on Transposable Elements (ICTE) 2012 in Saint Malo and the sea of TE stories.

Abdelkader Aïnouche, Mireille Bétermier, Mick Chandler, Richard Cordaux, Gaël Cristofari, Jean-Marc Deragon...

Mobile DNA . 3 ( 1 ) : 17

DOI: 10.1186/1759-8753-3-17

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Transposon proliferation in an asexual parasitoid.

Ken Kraaijeveld, Brechtje Zwanenburg, Benjamin Hubert, Cristina Vieira, Sylvia de Pater, Jacques J.M. van Alphen...

Molecular Ecology . 21 ( 16 ) : 3898-3906

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.5582.x

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High-resolution melting technology: a new tool for studying the Wolbachia endosymbiont diversity in the field.

H. Henri, Laurence Mouton

Molecular Ecology Resources . 12 ( 1 ) : 75-81

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03064.x

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Influence of Wolbachia on host gene expression in an obligatory symbiosis.

Natacha Kremer, Delphine Charif, Hélène Henri, Frédérick F. Gavory, Patrick Wincker, Patrick Mavingui...

BMC Microbiology . 12 ( Suppl 1 ) : 1-16

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-S1-S7

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Survey of Wolbachia and Its Phage WO in the Uzifly Exorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Nm. Guruprasad, Laurence Mouton, P Sumithra, Hp. Puttaraju

Current Microbiology . 63 : 267-272

DOI: 10.1007/s00284-011-9973-6

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Cloning of the unculturable parasite Pasteuria ramosa and its Daphnia host reveals extreme genotype-genotype interactions: Cloning reveals extreme host specificity

Pepijn Luijckx, Frida Ben-Ami, Laurence Mouton, Louis Du Pasquier, Dieter Ebert

Ecology Letters . 14 ( 2 ) : 125-131

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01561.x

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Effect of Wolbachia infection and temperature variations on the fecundity of the Uzifly Exorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae)

N. M. Guruprasad, Laurence Mouton, H. P. Puttaraju

Symbiosis . 54 : 151-158

DOI: 10.1007/s13199-011-0138-y

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Characterisation of a large family of polymorphic collagen-like proteins in the endospore-forming bacterium Pasteuria ramosa

K. Mcelroy, Laurence Mouton, L. Du Pasquier, Q. Weihong, E. Dieter

Research in Microbiology . 162 : 701-714

DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2011.06.009

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Side effects of fungicides on the abundance and the species diversity of the natural populations of Drosophila and their hymenopterous parasitoids in orchards

J-M. Delpuech, Roland Allemand

Phytoparasitica . 39 : 429-435

DOI: 10.1007/s12600-011-0180-6

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Does a parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia induce vestigial cytoplasmic incompatibility?

Ken Kraaijeveld, Barbara M Reumer, Laurence Mouton, Natacha Kremer, Fabrice Vavre, Jacques J.M. van Alphen

The Science of Nature Naturwissenschaften . 98 ( 3 ) : 175-80

DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0756-x

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RNA-seq without a reference genome: a comparison of the mapping and the assembly approaches

M.-C. Carpentier, J. Charif, Vincent Lacroix, Marie-France Sagot, Fabrice Vavre

JOBIM .

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Rickettsia ‘In’ and ‘Out’: Two Different Localization Patterns of a Bacterial Symbiont in the Same Insect Species

Ayelet Caspi-Fluger, Moshe Inbar, Netta Mozes-Daube, Laurence Mouton, Martha Hunter, Einat Zchori-Fein

PLoS ONE . 6 ( 6 )

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021096

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Effect of Wolbachia infection and temperature variations on the fecundity of the Uzifly Exorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae)

N.M. Guruprasad, L. Mouton, H.P. Puttaraju

Symbiosis . 54 : 151-158

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Evolvability, epigenetics and transposable elements

Marie Fablet, C. Vieira

Biomolecular concepts . 2 : 333-341

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Isolation and gene flow: inferring the speciation history of European house mice

Ludovic Duvaux, Khalid Belkhir, Matthieu Boulesteix, Pierre Boursot

Molecular Ecology . 20 ( 24 ) : 5248-5264

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05343.x

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Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities.

Julia Ferrari, Fabrice Vavre

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 366 ( 1569 ) : 1389-400

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0226

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Intraspecific specialization of the generalist parasitoid Cotesia sesamiae revealed by polyDNAvirus polymorphism and associated with different Wolbachia infection.

Antoine Branca, Bruno Pierre Le Ru, Fabrice Vavre, Jean-François Silvain, Stéphane Dupas

Molecular Ecology . 20 ( 5 ) : 959-71

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04977.x

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Endosymbionts of arthropods and nematodes: allies to fight infectious diseases?

Fabrice Vavre, Patrick Mavingui

Médecine/Sciences . 27 ( 11 ) : 953-958

DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20112711010

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Survey of Wolbachia and Its Phage WO in the Uzifly texitExorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Nm. Guruprasad, L. Mouton, / Sumithra, Hp. Puttaraju

Current Microbiology . 63 : 267-272

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Isolation and gene flow: inferring the speciation history of European house mice

Ludovic Duvaux, K. Belkhir, Matthieu Boulesteix, P. Boursot

Molecular ecology . 20 : 5248-5264

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05343.x

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Wolbachia detection: an assessment of standard PCR protocols.

P. M. Simões, G. Mialdea, D. Reiss, Marie-France Sagot, S. Charlat

Molecular Ecology Resources . 11 ( 3 ) : 567-72

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02955.x

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Vertical inheritance and bursts of transposition have shaped the evolution of the BS non-LTR retrotransposon in Drosophila.

Adriana Granzotto, Fabrício R Lopes, Cristina Vieira, Claudia M A Carareto

Molecular Genetics and Genomics . 286 ( 1 ) : 57-66

DOI: 10.1007/s00438-011-0629-9

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Comparative analysis of transposable elements in the melanogaster subgroup sequenced genomes.

Emmanuelle Lerat, Nelly Burlet, Christian Biémont, Cristina Vieira

Gene . 473 ( 2 ) : 100-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.11.009

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Les Ressources

Jean-Paul Bravard, Ioan Negrutiu, Natalia del Fatti, Cristina Vieira

Actes du Colloque de l'Institut Universitaire de France . : 356 p.

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Medicago truncatula contains a second gene encoding a plastid located glutamine synthetase exclusively expressed in developing seeds

Ana Seabra, Cristina Vieira, Julie Vera Cullimore, Helena Carvalho

BMC Plant Biology . 10 ( 183 ) : 16 p.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-183

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Induction by Chlorpyrifos of the Confusion of Males in Discriminating Female Sexual Pheromones Used for Mate Finding by Two Sympatric Trichogramma Species (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Celine Dupont, R. Allemand, Jean-Marie Delpuech

Environmental Entomology . 39 ( 2 ) : 535-544

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Decrease in Fecundity Induced by Interspecific Mating Between Two Trichogramma Parasitoid Species

Jean-Marie Delpuech, Celine Dupont, R. Allemand

Journal of Economic Entomology . 103 ( 2 ) : 308-313

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