Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique

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Evolutionary quantitative genetics research

Do species have the ability to adapt ? My reseach seeks to understand how the evolutionary history of species, their interaction with variable environmental conditions and their biotic interactions in species networks shape their ability to adapt. I am particularly interrested in identifying factors that limit ot enhance species microevolutionary potential to respond to selection and phenotypic evolution.

Current topics of research

• Local adaptation and plasticity in wild populations
• Genetic architecture of sexual dimorphism
• Non genetic inheritance
• Impact of range expansion on phenotypic evolution
• Phenotypic evolution under domestication

• GDR 3448 GQPN - French research network for the study of Quantitative genetics in natural populations (FUNDED by CNRS INEE)
• BIODIWEB - Evolutionary dynamics of species interactions in the Pyrenees : an experimental approach (FUNDED by Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier)
• G*E A. majus - Gene by abiotic and biotic environment interactions in a wild plant population of Antirrhinum majus (FUNDED by LABEX TULIP central research projects)
• SEX LINK - Sex-linked quantitative genetics in Silene latifolia - in collaboration with John Pannell & Dmitry Filatov (University of Oxford, UK) (FUNDED by the Oxford University Plant Sciences Department)
• NON GENETIC INHERITANCE - Concepts and methods to estimate the non genetic components of heritability (FUNDED by the TULIP LABEX innovative projects)

• 2011-2014 Coline Jaworski (PHD student) - Evolution of species interaction networks in the Pyrenees - BIODIWEB Project
• 2009-2012 Joris Bertrand (PHD student) - Causes underlying the evolutionary diversification of the bird Zosterops borbonicus on the island of La Réunion
• 2012 Ingrid Auria, Arthur Avilez (L3 student in population biology). Population genetics of Antirrhinum majus.
• 2011 Ousama Chamsi, Lucile Dewulf (Master 1 student in Ecology). Population genetics of Antirrhinum majus.
• 2011 Lisa Moreno, Antonin Videau (L3 students in population biology). Natural population phenotypic, geographic and ecologic survey of Antirrhinum majus in Bages for G*E study
• 2011 Pascal Marrot (Master 2 student in Biostatistics). The heritability of aging in the sexually dimorphic plant Silene latifolia
• 2010 Pascal Marrot (Master 1 student in Ecology) The quantitative genetics of sexual dimorphism in Silene latifolia
• 2009 Yasmin Latour (Master 1 student in Ecology). Sexual dimorphism in Silene latifolia

Ongoing collaborations

• Evolutionary quantitative genetics of Antirrhinum majus biotic and abiotic environment interactions - Christine Raynaud, Martin Giurfa, Jérôme Chave, Christophe Thébaud
• Non genetic inheritance - Etienne Danchin (EDB-CNRS, Toulouse), Simon Blanchet (SEEM-CNRS, Moulis), Anne Charmantier (CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier), Frances Champagne(Columbia University, USA), Alex Mesoudi (Queen Mary University of London, UK) & Richard Wagner (Konrad Lorentz Institute for Ethology, Austria)
• Evolutionary history of Antirrhinum majus Pyrenean populations - Aurélie Khimoun (PhD student), Monique Burrus & Christophe Andalo (EDB-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
• Evolution of vegetatively propagated crops - Doyle McKey, Anne Duputié (CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier) & Marianne Elias (MNHN, Paris)
• Evolutionary quantitative genetics of Mercurialis Annua  - John Pannell (University of Lausanne, CH) & Darren Obbard (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Other attributions

• Associate Editor of Peer Reviewed International Scientific Journal : Acta Botanica Gallica - Botany Letters
• Head of the scientific comittee of the French Population Genetics and Biology Group 2011 Meeting in Toulouse

Publications (google scholar citations, ISI citations)

2012. Khimoun A., J. Cornuault, M. Burrus, B. Pujol, C. Thébaud & C. Andalo. Ecology predicts parapatric distributions in two closely related Antirrhinum majus subspecies. Evolutionary Ecology in press.

2012. Debout G.D.G., E. Lhuillier, P-J. G. Malé, B. Pujol & C. Thébaud (all authors participated equally to this work). Development and characterization of 24 polymorphic microsatellite loci in two Antirrhinum majus subspecies (Plantaginaceae) using pyrosequencing technology. Conservation Genetics Resources 4:75-79. Link

2011. Danchin E., A. Charmantier, F.A. Champagne, A. Mesoudi, B. Pujol & S. Blanchet. Beyond DNA : integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics 12:475-486. Link

2011. Khimoun A., M. Burrus, C. Andalo, Z.-L. Liu, C. Vicédo-Cazettes, C. Thébaud & B. Pujol. Locally asymmetric introgressions between subspecies suggest circular range expansion at the Antirrhinum majus global scale. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1433-1441. Link

2010. Pujol B., D.J. Obbard & J.R. Pannell. Symptoms of population range expansion : lessons from phenotypic and genetic differentiation in hexaploid Mercurialis annua. Plants Ecology & Diversity 3:103-108. Link

2010. McKey D., M. Elias, B. Pujol & A. Duputié. The evolutionary ecology of clonally domesticated plants. New Phytologist 186:318-332. Link 

2010. Andalo C., M.B. Cruzan, C. Cazettes, B. Pujol, M. Burrus & C. Thébaud. Post-pollination barriers do not explain the persistence of two distinct Anthirrhinum subspecies with parapatric distributions. Plant Systematics and Evolution 286:223-237. Link

2009. Pujol B., S.-R. Zhou, J. Sanchez Vilas & J.R. Pannell. Reduced inbreeding depression after species range expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 36:15379-15383. Link

2009. Pannell J.R. & B. Pujol. The paradoxical spread of a new Y chromosome - a novel explanation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24:59-63. Link

2008. Pujol B., A.J. Wilson, R.I.C. Ross & J.R. Pannell. Are QST - FST comparisons for natural populations meaningful ? Molecular Ecology 17:4782-4785. Link

2008. Pujol B. & J.R. Pannell. Reduced responses to selection after species range expansion. Science 321:96. Link

2008. Mondolot L., A. Marlas, D. Barbeau, A. Gargadennec, B. Pujol & D. McKey. Domestication and defence : foliar tannins and C/N ratios in cassava and a close wild relative. Acta Oecologica 34:147-154. Link

2008. Pannell J.R., M.E. Dorken, B. Pujol & R. Berjano. Gender variation and transitions between sexual systems in Mercurialis annua (Euphorbiaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 169:129-139. Link

2008. Pujol B., J.L. Salager, M. Beltran, S. Bousquet & D. McKey. Photosynthesis and leaf structure in domesticated cassava (Euphorbiaceae) and a close wild relative : Have leaf photosynthetic parameters evolved under domestication ? Biotropica 40:305-312. Link

2007. David P., B. Pujol, F. Viard, V. Castella & J. Goudet. Reliable selfing rate estimates from imperfect population genetic data. Molecular Ecology 16:2474-2487. Link

2007. Pujol B., F. Renoux, M. Elias, L. Rival & D. McKey. The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations : Conservation consequences of soil seed banks in cassava. Biological Conservation 136:541-551. Link

2006. Pujol B. & D. McKey. Size asymmetry in intraspecific competition and the density-dependence of inbreeding depression in a natural plant population : a case study in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:85-96. Link

2005. Pujol B., G. Mühlen, N. Garwood, Y. Horoszowski, E.J.P. Douzery & D. McKey. Evolution under domestication : contrasting functional morphology of seedlings in domesticated cassava and its closest wild relatives. New Phytologist 166:305-318. Link

2005. Pujol B., P. David & D. McKey. Microevolution in agricultural environments : how a traditional farming practice favors heterozygosity in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae). Ecology Letters 8:138-147. Link

2002. Pujol B., G. Gigot, G. Laurent, M. Pinheiro-Kluppel, M. Elias, M. Hossaert-McKey & D. McKey. Germination ecology of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in traditional agroecosystems : Seed and seedling biology of a vegetatively propagated domesticated plant. Economic Botany 56:366-379. Link

Book

2010. Prévot-Juliard A.C., V. Maris, K. Alain, Y. Ameeruddy-Thomas, V. Devictor, A. Langlais, F. Not, S. Puijalon & B. Pujol. BiodiversitéS. Nouveaux regards sur le vivant. Le cherche midi, Paris, France, pp. 175. Link

Book chapters

2012. McKey D.B., M. Elias, B. Pujol & A. Duputié. Ecological approaches to crop domestication. Pages 377-406 in Gepts P., T.R. Famula, R.L. Bettinger, S.B. Brush, A.B. Damania, P.E. McGuire and C.O. Qualset, eds. Biodiversity in agriculture - Domestication, evolution and sustainability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Link

2005. Pujol B. & D. McKey. Domestication of cassava : understanding the ecological strategy of regeneration and growth opens perspectives for crop improvement. Pages 536-553 in Bureau des Ressources Génétiques, eds. A dialog for the diversity. Les Actes du BRG 5. BRG, Paris, France.

2003. Emperaire L., G. Santos Mülhen, M. Fleury, T. Robert, D. McKey, B. Pujol & M. Elias. Genetic and morphological diversity and local management of cassava in Amazonia (Brazil and the Guianas). Pages 247-267 in Bureau des Ressources Génétiques, eds. Genetic inheritance : the diversity and the resource. Les Actes du BRG 4. BRG, Paris, France.