Jean-Christophe Sandoz‘s team (Evolbee) is involved in a work published in PNAS showing that mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations in bees. Mushroom bodies are especially prominent structures in the brain of social insects like honey bees. This species also shows unique higher order learning capabilities among insects. This work establishes links between these […]
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Aurélie Hua-Van (IGGIPOP) is involved in a project carried by a team of University of Tours in collaboration with scientists from University of Valence. This work showed that genes from parasitic wasps were found in the genome of numerous butterflies. These genes intregrated the genome thanks to the viruses that parasitic wasps injected in the
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Laure Kaiser’s team published results showing that the population of the tiny parasitoid wasps Cotesia sesamiae that infect the caterpillar of Sesamiae nonagrioides is in fact a new species. This work was published in Evolutionary Applications: read the original paper. The work was used as material for a short communication of the INEE web site.
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Philippe Le Gall (DEEIT) organized a field school in Nord West Cameroun from the 15th of april to the 25th of april 2015. Nicolas Pollet (Polygnome) participated among other europeans and camerounaise teachers. The french embassy published a post about this unique experience.
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The work of the DEEIT researchers and their collaborators is the topic of a post on the web site of INEE. They reconstructed the scenario of the invasion of the yellow-legged hornet using genetics. To read the article, please click here.
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Frédéric Marion-Poll (Pacs) collaborated to the making of a reportage on eatable insects. The CNRS Le Journal web site put it on display. The newspaper Le Monde chose it to go on its web site.
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Nicolas Pollet (POLYGNOME) published a review on the links between mucosal immunity and microbiota in amphibians and in particular in xenopus. To read the article, please click here.
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D. Joly (PACS) and D. Faure (Institut for Integrative Biology of the Cell) are the editors of two special issues of Genetica and Heredity on Environnemental Genomics which are published thanks to the Reseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire -Génomique Environnementale. Find the special issue in Genetica and the special issue in Heredity.
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