Search Results - "Jabbour‐Zahab, Roula"
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Higher level molecular phylogeny of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Published in Systematic entomology (01-07-2014)“…Insect diversity represents about 60% of the estimated million‐and‐a‐half described eukaryotic species worldwide, yet comprehensive and well‐resolved…”
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Resurrection ecology in Artemia
Published in Evolutionary applications (01-01-2018)“…Resurrection ecology (RE) is a very powerful approach to address a wide range of question in ecology and evolution. This approach rests on using appropriate…”
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Not so clonal asexuals: Unraveling the secret sex life of Artemia parthenogenetica
Published in Evolution letters (01-04-2021)“…The maintenance of sex is paradoxical as sexual species pay the “twofold cost of males” and should thus quickly be replaced by asexual mutants reproducing…”
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Phenotypic but no genetic adaptation in zooplankton 24 years after an abrupt +10°C climate change
Published in Evolution letters (01-08-2022)“…The climate is currently warming fast, threatening biodiversity all over the globe. Populations often adapt rapidly to environmental change, but for climate…”
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Fisher’s geometrical model and the mutational patterns of antibiotic resistance across dose gradients
Published in Evolution (01-01-2017)“…Fisher’s geometrical model (FGM) has been widely used to depict the fitness effects of mutations. It is a general model with few underlying assumptions that…”
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An Extreme Case of Plant-Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps
Published in Systematic biology (01-12-2012)“…It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are…”
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The evolution of bacterial cell size: the internal diffusion-constraint hypothesis
Published in The ISME Journal (01-07-2017)“…Size is one of the most important biological traits influencing organismal ecology and evolution. However, we know little about the drivers of body size…”
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Ancient and current gene flow between two distantly related Mediterranean oak species, Quercus suber and Q. ilex
Published in Annals of botany (01-09-2009)“…BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Quercus suber and Q. ilex are distantly related and their distributions partially overlap. They hybridize occasionally, but the complete…”
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The ontogeny of tolerance curves: habitat quality vs. acclimation in a stressful environment
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-11-2016)“…1. Stressful environments affect life-history components of fitness through (i) instantaneous detrimental effects, (ii) historical (carry-over) effects and…”
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Laying the foundations for a new classification of Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), a multilocus phylogenetic approach
Published in Cladistics (01-08-2010)“…A phylogeny of the Agaonidae (Chalcidoidea) in their restricted sense, pollinators of Ficus species (Moraceae), is estimated using 4182 nucleotides from six…”
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Testing the emergence of New Caledonia: fig wasp mutualism as a case study and a review of evidence
Published in PloS one (22-02-2012)“…While geologists suggest that New Caledonian main island (Grande Terre) was submerged until ca 37 Ma, biologists are struck by the presence of supposedly…”
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Out of Australia and back again: the world-wide historical biogeography of non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Sycophaginae)
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-02-2011)“…Aim Figs (Ficus, Moraceae) are exploited by rich communities of often host-specific phytophagous wasps. Among them, gall-inducing Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera,…”
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Why join groups? Lessons from parasite‐manipulated Artemia
Published in Ecology letters (01-04-2013)“…Grouping behaviours (e.g. schooling, shoaling and swarming) are commonly explicated through adaptive hypotheses such as protection against predation, access to…”
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DISPERSAL IN A PARASITIC WORM AND ITS TWO HOSTS: CONSEQUENCE FOR LOCAL ADAPTATION
Published in Evolution (01-02-2005)“…Characterizing host and parasite population genetic structure and estimating gene flow among populations is essential for understanding coevolutionary…”
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Phylogeny and evolution of life-history strategies in the Sycophaginae non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (22-06-2011)“…Non-pollinating Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) form small communities within Urostigma and Sycomorus fig trees. The species show differences in…”
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A multilocus phylogeny of the world Sycoecinae fig wasps (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)
Published in PloS one (05-11-2013)“…The Sycoecinae is one of five chalcid subfamilies of fig wasps that are mostly dependent on Ficus inflorescences for reproduction. Here, we analysed two…”
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Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition of the Uloma isoceroides species group (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini), with the description of four new species
Published in ZooKeys (01-01-2014)“…New Caledonia is an important biodiversity hotspot with much undocumented biodiversity, especially in many insect groups. Here we used an integrative approach…”
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Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica
Published in Evolution (23-01-2023)“…In some asexual species, parthenogenetic females occasionally produce males, which may strongly affect the evolution and maintenance of asexuality if they…”
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Long-term prevalence data reveals spillover dynamics in a multi-host (Artemia), multi-parasite (Microsporidia) community
Published in International journal for parasitology (01-05-2019)“…[Display omitted] •We used field data to identify the maintenance hosts of microsporidian parasites.•Anostracospora rigaudi was highly prevalent in both…”
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