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.

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.

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.

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.

Arnaud Le Rouzic (IGGIPOP) et al publish their work on polymorphism and natural selection in The American Naturalist.

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