Lionel Garnery (Evolbee) has been promoted to the head of the Fédération des Conservatoires de l’abeille noire (FEDCAN). This structure will set up a network with the various conservatories and will participate in making them more visible for the general audience. The objectives of the bee conservatories is to prevent the hybridizations of black bees […]
Two scientists, Samir Mezdour and Philippe Le Gall (DEEIT), will discuss with the audience about what our diet will be tomorrow: insects, plants and algae in our plates? This is going to take place at the F Mitterand médiathèque in Les Ulis saturday, the 27th of February at 11h.
The work of Jean David (IGGIPOP), Amir Yassin and colleagues on the variability of females of Drosophila erecta was published in Nature Communications. The authors showed that one gene, the tan gene, was responsible for the existence of two types of females, one ressembling the males with a black abdomen and the other harboring a
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A group of 3 laboratories (Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie (EGCE – CNRS/IRD/Univ Paris Sud), Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (IEES – INRA/CNRS/UPMC/IRD/UPEC/Paris-Diderot) et Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte (IRBI – CNRS/Univ. François Rabelais) is involved in the international work that led to the publication of the sequence of the
Sequencing of the Rhodnius prolixus genome published Read More »
Dominique Joly (PACS) and Sylvie Salamitou (Communication) with Denis Faure (I2BC) were in charge of the coordination of the writing of a collective book on environnemental genomics. This book title is “Empreinte du vivant l’ADN de l’Environnement” and it is published by CNRS and cherche midi. The book offers a broad view of the current
Empreinte du vivant l’ADN de l’environnement just published! Read More »
A 30h R software course started the 19th of October in the Ecology Institute of UMSA (La Paz, Bolivia). It is organized by IRD in collaboration with the “Centro de Análisis Espacial”. François Rebaudo, with the help of Quentin Struelens (UMR EGCE), proposes a full training on the basis of this software. R is a
A scientist from EGCE implements a R software course in Bolivia Read More »
Laure Kaiser‘s team (DEEIT) published a work in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology showing that Sesamia nonagrioides expresses different transcriptomes in chemosensory organs depending on its diet. Scientists took either larvae feeding on maize in France or on Typha domingensis in Africa and found numerous candidates to an adaptation to the host plant. They especially determined
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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
How can bees perform higher order learning? Read More »
