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Presentation
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Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The central and unifying theme of the unit is evolution and its corollary, biodiversity. The approach is multidisciplinary, involving genomics and genetics, behavior, and ecology, as indicated by the three poles that structure the laboratory. Thus, its approach to evolution is conducted at different levels of integration, from the genome to the species and sometimes to the community. Various aspects of evolution are explored: adaptation, speciation, genome-environment interactions, and interactions between species within an ecosystem. Studies also focus on individual levels, such as behavior or genome plasticity. These keywords are found as cross-cutting themes in the activities of the laboratory’s three poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The \u00ab\u00a0Evolution, Genomes, Behavior, Ecology\u00a0\u00bb laboratory, or EGCE, is the successor to the CNRS \u00ab\u00a0Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Biometry,\u00a0\u00bb founded in the early 1950s. It initially focused on the genetic bases of life history traits in Drosophila. The early 1960s marked the rise of population genetics, expanded to various arthropod species and studies on speciation. Gradually, the development of increasingly powerful DNA sequencing techniques allowed molecular approaches, previously confined to model organisms, to be extended to a wide diversity of organisms. In 2001, research in ecology and the environment, in close association with countries in the Global South (Africa and Latin America), led to the creation of the IRD unit \u00ab\u00a0Biodiversity and Evolution of Tropical Insects\u00a0\u00bb within the laboratory. This unit merged in 2015 with the CNRS laboratory to form the EGCE Joint Research Unit (UMR) with three supervising bodies: CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud, and IRD. EGCE is a founding member of the Institute for the Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution of the Living World (IDEEV), a research federation created in 2010. In 2022, the laboratory moved into the new building created for IDEEV at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, alongside the other two founding laboratories of the federation: Ecology, Systematics, and Evolution (ESE) and Quantitative Genetics and Evolution – GQE Le Moulon. A fourth unit, UE-VS, has since joined IDEEV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EGCE is organized into three poles:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Evolution and Genomes Pole
\u2014 Evolution and Behavior Pole
\u2014 Evolution and Ecology Pole<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EGCE’s lecturers and professors teach at all levels (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and beyond) in various fields related to evolution and the diversity of life. These fields include Scientific Methodology, Animal Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Population Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Ecology. Additionally, several researchers give lectures on topics closely related to their research in various Master’s programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address\/Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Evolution, Genomes, Behavior, Ecology Laboratory (EGCE)
<\/strong>\n12 route 128
\n91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
\nTel: +33 1 69 15 49 81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presentation\u2014 Research The central and unifying theme of the unit is evolution and its corollary, biodiversity. The approach is multidisciplinary, involving genomics and genetics, behavior, and ecology, as indicated by the three poles that structure the laboratory. Thus, its approach to evolution is conducted at different levels of integration, from the genome to the species […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1090,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1066","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21681,"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066\/revisions\/21681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egce.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}