Evolution, génomes, comportement et écologie (EGCE)

Laboratory presentation

The Evolution, Genome, Behavior and Ecology laboratory (EGCE) studies the biodiversity evolution using a multi-scale approach (from the genome to the species community). It combines experimentation and modeling. The study models are insects (bees, drosophiles, lepidoptera), xenopus, fish, amphibians. This research includes work on reproductive and food behaviors as well as adaptation to environmental change. The problems of global warming and anthropogenic environments raise major socio-economic issues: new food sources, biodiversity protection, bio-control (insect pests and vectors of human diseases). Programs are developed in partnership with the countries of the South by the researchers of the IRD members of the laboratory.

The 20 latest publications

Title Authors Publication date Source
From molecules to ecosystems: Insights into a network of interactions for a Chagas disease outbreak using Triatoma brasiliensis as natural samplers Myriam Harry 03/01/24 Acta Tropica
Advances and knowledge gaps on climate change impacts on honey bees and beekeeping: A systematic review Fabrice Requier 03/01/24 Global Change Biology
Estimating the impact of biological control of maize stemborers on productivity and poverty in Kenya: a continuous treatment approach Bruno LeRu 02/01/24 Environment, Development and Sustainability
Evidence that hematophagous triatomine bugs may eat plants in the wild Jean Luc Da Lage, Alice Fontenelle, Jonathan Filée, Marie Merle, Myriam Harry 02/01/24 Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
LEIBNIZ’ MILITARY CONCEPTION OF SOVEREIGNTY Laurynas Adomaitis 05/01/23 History of Political Thought
Phylogenomic analysis of protein-coding genes resolves complex gall wasp relationships Antoine Branca 01/01/24 Systematic Entomology
Bacterial origins of thymidylate metabolism in Asgard archaea and Eukarya Jonathan Filée 12/01/23 Nature Communications
Differentiation of workers into soldiers is associated with a size reduction of higher-order brain centers in the neotropical termite Procornitermes araujoi Lohan Valadares, Jean Christophe Sandoz 12/01/23 Scientific Reports
Evolution of the neuronal substrate for kin recognition in social Hymenoptera Antoine Couto, Simon Marty, Jean Christophe Sandoz 12/01/23 Biological Reviews
German Ixodes inopinatus samples may not actually represent this tick species Alexia Mouchet 11/01/23 International Journal for Parasitology
Population Genomics of the Mostly Thelytokous Diplolepis rosae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Reveals Population-specific Selection for Sex Ksenia Mozhaitseva, Zoé Tourrain, Antoine Branca 10/01/23 Genome Biology and Evolution
Evolution, systematics and historical biogeography of Palparini and Palparidiini antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae): Old origin and in situ diversification in Southern Africa Bruno Le Ru 10/01/23 Systematic Entomology
Are animal personality, body condition, physiology and structural size integrated? A comparison of species, populations and sexes, and the value of study replication Alexia Mouchet 09/01/23 Journal of Animal Ecology
Domestication in dry-cured meat Penicillium fungi: Convergent specific phenotypes and horizontal gene transfers without strong genetic subdivision Antoine Branca 09/01/23 Evolutionary Applications
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees Lohan Valadares 08/01/23 Current Opinion in Insect Science
The Evolutionary History of Drosophila simulans Y Chromosomes Reveals Molecular Signatures of Resistance to Sex Ratio Meiotic Drive David Ogereau, Clément Gilbert, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau 07/01/23 Molecular Biology and Evolution
Structural and Functional Characterization of Drosophila melanogaster α-Amylase Jean Luc Da Lage 07/01/23 Molecules
Editorial overview: Insect neuroethology: More than behavior and neurons Julie Carcaud, Jean Christophe Sandoz 06/01/23 Current Opinion in Insect Science
Correlated stabilizing selection shapes the topology of gene regulatory networks Apolline J.R. Petit, Arnaud Le Rouzic 06/01/23 Genetics
A population genetics theory for piRNA-regulated transposable elements Siddharth S. Tomar, Aurélie Hua-Van, Arnaud Le Rouzic 04/01/23 Theoretical Population Biology

Number of publications of the laboratory by scientific field (2016-2021)

Every paper can be classified in one or more scientific fields. The figure below shows the lab's number of publications in each scientific field, according to the ASJC classification (Elsevier)