INSECT SYMBIOSIS ECOLOGY and EVOLUTION (ISEE)
INSECT SYMBIOSIS ECOLOGY and EVOLUTION (ISEE)
Host-symbiont interactions of insect communities provide ideal models for investigating diverse evolutionary and ecological processes.
At the ISEE lab, we investigate how microbial communities may influence the resilience, susceptibility and diversification of insect host communities in changing environments, and which ecological routes facilitate the horizontal transfer of maternally inherited endosymbionts.
News from the Lab
Grants and Awards:
2023
HiLIFE Fellowship for 3 years of research to ISEE
Conferences/Seminars:
2023
We will be at the Wolbachia conference in Crete
We will be at he Butterfly conference in Prague
Vacancies:
Postdoc in Microbiome research (DeadLine: 15th March 2023) Apply
Latest publications:
2023
Duplouy A (In Press) Mitochodrial sweep during the rapid spread of a maternally inherited symbiont. In Fallon A (ed) Methods in Molecular Biology - Wolbachia. Springer Nature Methods in Molecular Biology series.
Vahtera V, Rezola U, Duplouy A (In Review) Insights into the bacterial diversity associated with the brown stone centipede, Lithobius forficatus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha).
Malmberg J, Marin SH, Gordon IJ, Sihvonen P, Duplouy A (In Review) Infection with a male-killing Spiroplasma bacterium might drive morphological changes in female reproductive organs in the African Monarch. ResearchSquare Preprint.
2022
Twort VG, Blande D, Duplouy A (2022) One’s trash is someone else’s treasure: sequence read archives from Lepidoptera genomes provide material for genome reconstruction of their endosymbionts. BMC Microbiology 22:209. pdf
Karisto AP, Duplouy A, de Vries C, Kokko H (2022) Positive fitness effects help explain the broad range of Wolbachia prevalence in natural populations. Peer Community Journal 2:e76. pdf
Smolander O-P, Blande D, (...), DiLeo MF, Duplouy A, (...), Saastamoinen M (2022) Improved chromosome-level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) integrating Pacific Biosciences long-reads and a high-density linkage map. GigaScience 11: giab097. pdf