Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics
Montpellier, France
Joined March 2010
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These two males belong to different species—but share the same mother. How? Why? To celebrate the print release of our last paper in this week’s
@nature.com (issue 8084), here’s a thread summarizing the results. Why? Let’s dive in🧵👇nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
New article about Messor harvester ant phylogeny and evolution funded by
@ERC_Research in
@isemevol
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We redefined the taxonomic groups of the genus thanks to the genomic sequencing of 58 Messor species from museum collections @NHM_London
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Happy to share this publication with @CRouxEvo in @PCIEvolBiol
We showed that termites have reduced efficiency of natural selection compared to non-social relatives. Interestingly, this effect increases with the level of social complexity.
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Thanks to @TrineBilde for the great recommendation (evolbiol.peercommunityin.org…) in @PCIEvolBiol and the two anonymous reviewers, we really appreciated the whole process, from preprint recommendation to publication in the Peer Community Journal.
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An #ERC funded PhD position is open in the University of Montpellier. If you want to work on #ants, weird reproductive systems, #bioinformatics and population #genomics, apply here (deadline in 1 week):
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctor…
Incredible organisation ! I ♥️ Lille.
Merci à tous les intervenants et aux personnes ayant animé les discussions en cette seconde journée du #PPD2022
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Huge colony of Messor barbarus in the @MuseumOrleans. I'll answer to visitor questions this Sunday!
If you search a postdoc and would like to work on crispr-cas9 technologies, genomics and ants, consider to apply to this position for the ERC Starting Grant RoyalMess : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UM…
Interesting and intriguing. elifesciences.org/articles/6…
I feel genuinely lucky to be awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant to study the determinants of royalty in my favourite ants, the fascinating hybridogenetic species of the 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 genus #RoyalMess.
The #RoyalMess project will start soon for the 5 following years in the Univ of Montpellier, with many collaborations expected such as @CRouxEvo and other brillant scientists from my present (@isemevol ) and former institute (@DEE_UNIL ). Stay tuned if interested to join!
The Prevalence and Impact of Model Violations in Phylogenetic Analysis doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz193
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Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction | Nature Ecology & Evolution - nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate | Nature - nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Check our new pipeline if you want to find mitochondrial data from NGS data #MitoFinder : gitlab.com/RemiAllio/mitofin…
@afiston RT: DeviaTE: Assembly‐free analysis and visualization of mobile genetic element composition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #transposon
DeviaTE: Assembly‐free analysis and visualization of mobile genetic element composition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #transposon
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Awesome: Males as somatic investment in a parthenogenetic nematode science.sciencemag.org/cgi/c…
Great work @Chloe_larose !
Asexuals seem more constrained by their biotic environment than sexuals: We showed that in Timema stick insects, with a systematic reduction of their ecological niche breadths after transition from sexuality to asexuality!
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About the @3rdreviewer and @pastramimachine's opinion paper in MBE (academic.oup.com/mbe/advance…): most of the community agrees that selection can shape polymorphism along genomes, but mutation-drift equilibrium explains other important patterns observed in nature: (1/2)
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Polymorphism variation among species is mostly explained by mutation-drift equilibrium only (nature.com/articles/nature13…): neutral theory is still relevant in light of modern, genome-scale data, no? #selfcitation #sorry (2/2)
