Marie-Louise Cariou (IGGIPOP) and an international team published results about the strategy to reproduce of a little orchid of the Island of La Réunion. They showed that the flower lures a specific drosophila to enter the flower and carry the pollen away. To read the article, please click here. A short article about this orchid […]
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The work of Jean-Christophe Sandoz (EVOLBEE) has been published in the Journal of Neurosciences. The authors showed that different pheromones of bees are processed by separate pathways. The article received a commentary in the same journal. To read the article please click here. To read the commentary, please click here.l
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Frédéric Marion-Poll (PACS) presented a conference at a colloquium held at the French Agricultural Academy March the 11th and consecrated to insects and their consumption. To read the abstracts
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Assistant engineer, DEEIT team celina.chantre@universite-paris-saclay.fr Celina Chantre works at the French Institute for Research and Development (IRD) as assistant engineer on Experimental selection of Hymenoptera parasitoid insect strain. She is interested in monitoring of life history traits. She is responsible for the supervision of Sesamia nonagrioides rearing. She works under the supervision
Lionel Garnery (Evolbee) is involved in the european project Biodiversa. He raises the alarm for the black bees. This species, well adapted to our climate, tends to be replaced by other bees population more melliferous. The newspaper La Montagne (03/05/2015) clarifies the situation. To read the article, please click here.
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The work of Myriam Harry’s team (DEEIT) about the transmission of the Wolbachia bacteria in a species of termites was selected for a brief article on the INEE web site. To know more, please click here.
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Frédéric Méry ‘s team (EPCC) studies social transmission in female drosophilas choosing their oviposition sites. Battesti et al recently published a paper where they show that D. melanogaster females combine their personnal preference with social information. To read the article.
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Claude Wicker-Thomas’ team (PACS) just published an article in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology dealing with sex-peptide ACP70A effect on the synthesis of female drosophiles pheromones. Pdf access.
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