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

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  

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

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.

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.