Laurence Després
University of Grenoble
89 Papers
1.1K Citations
Laurence Després is an academic researcher from University of Grenoble. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biology. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 87 publications. Previous affiliations of Laurence Després include University of Montpellier & University of Perpignan.
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Papers
The evolutionary ecology of insect resistance to plant chemicals
TL;DR: Recent advances in understanding of insect resistance to plant chemicals are reviewed, with a special emphasis on their underlying molecular basis, evaluate costs associated with each resistance trait, and discuss the ecological and evolutionary significance of these findings.
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A spatial analysis method (SAM) to detect candidate loci for selection: towards a landscape genomics approach to adaptation
Stéphane Joost,Aurélie Bonin,Michael William Bruford,Laurence Després,Cyrille Conord,G. Erhardt,Pierre Taberlet +6 more
TL;DR: A new method to detect signatures of natural selection based on the application of spatial analysis, with the contribution of geographical information systems (GIS), environmental variables and molecular data is introduced.
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Geographic pattern of genetic variation in the European globeflower Trollius europaeus L. (Ranunculaceae) inferred from amplified fragment length polymorphism markers
TL;DR: The distribution of genetic variation and the phylogenetic relationships between 18 populations of the arctic-alpine plant Trollius europaeus were analyzed in three main regions (Alps, Pyrenees and Fennoscandia) by using dominant AFLP markers.
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Molecular evidence linking hominid evolution to recent radiation of schistosomes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda).
TL;DR: A calibration of the phylogenetic tree of schistosomes is proposed that dates "human capture" of these parasites from other animal hosts in Africa to 1-10 million years ago, when the first hominids invaded savanna areas, which are the favorable environment for parasite transmission.
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Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family
Cyrille Conord,Laurence Després,Agnès Vallier,Séverine Balmand,Christian Miquel,Stéphanie Zundel,Guy Lempérière,Abdelaziz Heddi +7 more
TL;DR: Analysis of intracellular symbiotic bacteria in 2 Hylobius species belonging to the Molytinae subfamily (Curculionoidea superfamily) that exhibit different features from the Dryophthoridae insects in terms of their ecology and geographical spanning shows that endosymbionts from the H-group and the R-clade evolved more quickly compared with free-living enteric bacteria and endosYmbiontes from the S- and D-
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