A5066017931- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Gut microbiota and health
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Microbial Metabolism and Applications
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Machine Learning and ELM
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Biological and pharmacological studies of plants
Nanyang Technological University
2019-2024
Azienda USL di Pescara
2022
Université Paris Cité
2013-2021
Unit of Functional and Adaptive Biology
2017-2021
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2015-2019
Sorbonne Paris Cité
2013-2019
Film Independent
2017
Université Paris-Sud
2015-2016
Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie
2016
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2016
While many studies focus on how animals use public information, the dynamics of information spread and maintenance within groups, i.e. 'ecology information', have received little attention. Here we fruitflies trained to lay eggs specific substrates implement into groups containing both untrained individuals. We quantify inter-individual interactions then measure oviposition preference with behavioural tests. Untrained individuals increase their interactive approaches in presence individuals,...
In the last decades, strong increase in proportion of older people worldwide, and increased prevalence age associated degenerative diseases, have put a stronger focus on aging biology.In spite important progresses our understanding process, an integrative view is still lacking there need for efficient anti-aging interventions that could improve healthspan, reduce incidence age-related disease and, eventually, lifespan.Interestingly, some compounds from traditional medicine been found to...
The Stenogastrinae wasps have been proposed as a key group for an understanding of social evolution in insects, but the phylogeny is still under discussion. use chemical characters, particular cuticular hydrocarbons, insect taxonomy relatively recent and only few studies conducted on polar substances. In this work, we ascertain, by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time flight mass spectrometry technique, that different species primitively eusocial hover compositions epicuticular...
Abstract Background The large intestine is a colonization site of beneficial microbes complementing the nutrition cattle but also zoonotic and animal pathogens. Here, we present first global gene catalog fecal microbiomes, proxy from 436 metagenomes six countries. Results Phylogenomics suggested that reconstructed genomes their close relatives form distinct branches produced clustering patterns were reminiscent metagenomics sample origin. Bacterial taxa had metabolic profiles, complete...
Automatic video tracking has become a standard tool for investigating the social behaviour of insects. The recent integration computer vision in technologies will probably lead to fully automated behavioural pattern classification within next few years. However, many current systems rely on offline data analysis and use computationally expensive techniques track pre-recorded videos. To address this gap, we developed BACH (Behaviour Analysis maCHine), software that performs insect groups real...
Across animals, sexual harassment induces fitness costs for females and males. However, little is known about the cognitive involved, i.e. whether it constrains learning processes, which could ultimately affect an individual's fitness. Here we evaluate acquisition of environmental information in groups fruit flies challenged with various levels male harassment. We show that, although high a temporary cost females, all fly both sexes exhibit similar learning. This suggests flies, benefits...
Abstract Ants show collective and individual behavioral flexibility in their response to immediate context, choosing for example between different foraging strategies. In Pachycondyla striata, workers can forage solitarily or recruit guide nestmates larger food sources through tandem running. Although considered more ancestral less efficient than pheromone trail-laying, this strategy is common especially species with small colony size. What not known how the decision follow varies according...
While pillaging the brood of other ant colonies, Eciton army ants accumulate prey in piles, or caches, along their foraging trails. Widely documented, these structures have historically been considered as by-products heavy traffic aborted relocations ants' temporary nest, bivouac. However, we recently observed that caches hook-jawed ant, hamatum, appeared independently from bivouac relocations. In addition, flow through varied based on quantity items workers transported. As this suggested a...
We previously reported the existence of a unique policing system in clonal ant Cerapachys biroi, where individuals that fail to synchronize colony reproductive dynamics and reproduce without control are recognized executed by their nestmates. These executions help maintain alternation foraging phases, colony-level adaptive phenotype. In our previous study, we hypothesized specific chemical signature non-synchronized rather than some fertility-related cues serve as proximate factor triggering...
Abstract While pillaging the brood of other ant colonies, Eciton army ants accumulate prey in piles, or caches, along their foraging trails. Widely documented, these structures have historically been considered as byproducts heavy traffic aborted relocations ants’ temporary nest, bivouac. However, we recently observed that caches hook-jawed ant, hamatum , appeared independently from bivouac relocations. In addition, flow through varied based on quantity items workers transported. As this...
Animal husbandry has been key to the sustainability of human societies for millennia. Livestock animals, such as cattle, convert plants protein biomass due a compartmentalized gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and complementary contributions diverse GIT microbiota, thereby providing humans with meat dairy products. Research on cattle gut microbial symbionts mainly focused rumen (which is primary fermentation compartment) there paucity functional insight intestinal (distal end) where most...