Search Results - "Villoutreix, Romain"
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Natural selection and the predictability of evolution in Timema stick insects
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-02-2018)“…Predicting evolution remains difficult. We studied the evolution of cryptic body coloration and pattern in a stick insect using 25 years of field data,…”
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Inversion breakpoints and the evolution of supergenes
Published in Molecular ecology (01-06-2021)“…The coexistence of discrete morphs that differ in multiple traits is common within natural populations of many taxa. Such morphs are often associated with…”
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Coselected genes determine adaptive variation in herbivore resistance throughout the native range of Arabidopsis thaliana
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-03-2015)“…The "mustard oil bomb" is a major defense mechanism in the Brassicaceae, which includes crops such as canola and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. These…”
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Large-scale mutation in the evolution of a gene complex for cryptic coloration
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (24-07-2020)“…How stick insects got their colors Stick insects of the genus Timema show variations in color that are likely due to selection for camouflage on their plant…”
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Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year
Published in Nature communications (24-10-2019)“…Advances in phenology (the annual timing of species’ life-cycles) in response to climate change are generally viewed as bioindicators of climate change, but…”
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Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (17-02-2017)“…Speciation can involve a transition from a few genetic loci that are resistant to gene flow to genome-wide differentiation. However, only limited data exist…”
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Cytonuclear interactions affect adaptive traits of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana in the field
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-03-2016)“…Although the contribution of cytonuclear interactions to plant fitness variation is relatively well documented at the interspecific level, the prevalence of…”
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Investigation of the geographical scale of adaptive phenological variation and its underlying genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana
Published in Molecular ecology (01-08-2013)“…Despite the increasing number of genomic tools, identifying the genetics underlying adaptive complex traits remains challenging in the model species…”
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Ecology shapes epistasis in a genotype–phenotype–fitness map for stick insect colour
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-12-2020)“…Genetic interactions such as epistasis are widespread in nature and can shape evolutionary dynamics. Epistasis occurs due to nonlinearity in biological…”
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Intermediate degrees of synergistic pleiotropy drive adaptive evolution in ecological time
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-10-2017)“…Rapid phenotypic evolution of quantitative traits can occur within years, but its underlying genetic architecture remains uncharacterized. Here we test the…”
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Author Correction: Intermediate degrees of synergistic pleiotropy drive adaptive evolution in ecological time
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (2018)“…In the version of this Article previously published, there was a typographical error (‘4’ instead of ‘2’) in the equations relating F ST and effective…”
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Long‐term balancing selection on chromosomal variants associated with crypsis in a stick insect
Published in Molecular ecology (01-11-2017)“…How polymorphisms are maintained within populations over long periods of time remains debated, because genetic drift and various forms of selection are…”
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The genetics of intra- and interspecific competitive response and effect in a local population of an annual plant species
Published in Functional ecology (01-10-2015)“…Summary While competition is recognized as a major factor responsible for plant community dynamics, the genetics of intra‐ and interspecific competitive…”
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Testing for fitness epistasis in a transplant experiment identifies a candidate adaptive locus in Timema stick insects
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (18-07-2022)“…Identifying the genetic basis of adaptation is a central goal of evolutionary biology. However, identifying genes and mutations affecting fitness remains…”
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Complex evolutionary processes maintain an ancient chromosomal inversion
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-06-2023)“…Genome re-arrangements such as chromosomal inversions are often involved in adaptation. As such, they experience natural selection, which can erode genetic…”
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DNA methylation differences between stick insect ecotypes
Published in Molecular ecology (01-12-2023)“…Epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, can influence gene regulation and affect phenotypic variation, raising the possibility that they contribute to…”
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Disruptive selection and the evolution of discrete color morphs in Timema stick insects
Published in Science advances (31-03-2023)“…A major unresolved issue in biology is why phenotypic and genetic variation is sometimes continuous, yet other times packaged into discrete units of diversity,…”
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Coselected genes determine adaptive variation in herbivore resistance throughout the native range ofArabidopsis thaliana
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-03-2015)“…The “mustard oil bomb” is a major defense mechanism in the Brassicaceae, which includes crops such as canola and the model plantArabidopsis thaliana. These…”
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Evolution repeats itself in replicate long-term studies in the wild
Published in Science advances (24-05-2024)“…The extent to which evolution is repeatable remains debated. Here, we study changes over time in the frequency of cryptic color-pattern morphs in 10 replicate…”
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Investigation of the geographical scale of adaptive phenological variation and its underlying genetics in A rabidopsis thaliana
Published in Molecular ecology (01-08-2013)“…Abstract Despite the increasing number of genomic tools, identifying the genetics underlying adaptive complex traits remains challenging in the model species A…”
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