Search results for " Genetics"
showing 10 items of 4169 documents
Introduction. Ecological immunology.
2009
12 pages; International audience; An organism's fitness is critically reliant on its immune system to provide protection against parasites and pathogens. The structure of even simple immune systems is surprisingly complex and clearly will have been moulded by the organism's ecology. The aim of this review and the theme issue is to examine the role of different ecological factors on the evolution of immunity. Here, we will provide a general framework of the field by contextualizing the main ecological factors, including interactions with parasites, other types of biotic as well as abiotic interactions, intraspecific selective constraints (life-history trade-offs, sexual selection) and popula…
Carotenoid-based colour of acanthocephalan cystacanths plays no role in host manipulation.
2009
Manipulation by parasites is a catchy concept that has been applied to a large range of phenotypic alterations brought about by parasites in their hosts. It has, for instance, been suggested that the carotenoid-based colour of acanthocephalan cystacanths is adaptive through increasing the conspicuousness of infected intermediate hosts and, hence, their vulnerability to appropriate final hosts such as fish predators. We revisited the evidence in favour of adaptive coloration of acanthocephalan parasites in relation to increased trophic transmission using the crustacean amphipodGammarus pulexand two species of acanthocephalans,Pomphorhynchus laevisandPolymorphus minutus. Both species show car…
Multidimensionality in host manipulation mimicked by serotonin injection.
2014
Manipulative parasites often alter the phenotype of their hosts along multiple dimensions. ‘Multidimensionality’ in host manipulation could consist in the simultaneous alteration of several physiological pathways independently of one another, or proceed from the disruption of some key physiological parameter, followed by a cascade of effects. We compared multidimensionality in ‘host manipulation’ between two closely related amphipods, Gammarus fossarum and Gammarus pulex, naturally and experimentally infected with Pomphorhynchus laevis (Acanthocephala), respectively. To that end, we calculated in each host–parasite association the effect size of the difference between infected and uninfect…
Inverse Tone Mapping Based upon Retina Response
2014
International audience; The development of high dynamic range (HDR) display arouses the research of inverse tone mapping methods, which expand dynamic range of the low dynamic range (LDR) image to match that of HDR monitor. This paper proposed a novel physiological approach, which could avoid artifacts occurred in most existing algorithms. Inspired by the property of the human visual system (HVS), this dynamic range expansion scheme performs with a low computational complexity and a limited number of parameters and obtains high-quality HDR results. Comparisons with three recent algorithms in the literature also show that the proposed method reveals more important image details and produces …
Hybrid multiple diffraction in semipolar wurtzite materials: (\bf 01\overline{1}2)-oriented ZnMgO/ZnO heterostructures as an illustration
2017
X-ray diffraction has been widely used to characterize the structural properties (strain and structural quality) of semiconductor heterostructures. This work employs hybrid multiple diffraction to analyzer-oriented Zn1−xMgxO layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on ZnO substrates. In such a low-symmetry material system, additional features appear in symmetric reflection scans, which are described as arising from hybrid multiple diffraction. First, the Bragg conditions necessary for these high-order processes to occur are introduced and applied to explain all the observed satellite reflections, identify the planes that contribute and computea priorithe angles at which they are observed. Fur…
Expanding genetic graphs' potential to analyse ecological connectivity: assessment of graphs construction methods
2019
International audience; Dispersal movements are often constrained in human-shaped landscapes, thereby threatening species survival. Landscape genetics approaches are commonly used to analyse ecological connectivity because genetic data well reflect dispersal capacities. When species occupy discrete habitat patches, graph-theoretic methods are a particularly relevant approach to study dispersal-driven gene flow. The links of a genetic graph can be weighted using different genetic distances between populations (nodes). Similarly, graph pruning (link set selection) can rely on different criteria. However, despite growing interest in genetic graphs, the influence of these parameters remains mos…
Quand et comment utiliser les graphes génétiques pour analyser la connectivité écologique dans des paysages hétérogènes ?
2019
National audience; Lorsque les espèces occupent des taches d’habitat au sein de paysages hétérogènes, la connectivité écologique est influencée par la topologie du réseau de populations qu’elles forment. Dans ce contexte, les méthodes basées sur les graphes génétiques permettent i) de révéler cette topologie en identifiant les chemins de dispersion directs et ii) de quantifier la résistance des éléments paysagers à la dispersion. Compte-tenu de l’intérêt croissant pour ces méthodes en génétique du paysage, il est nécessaire de mieux comprendre quand et comment il faut utiliser les graphes génétiques. Pour cela, nous avons simulé le flux génétique entre 50 populations dans différents paysage…
Quand et comment utiliser des graphes génétiques pour analyser le flux génétique dans des paysages hétérogènes ?
2019
La connectivité écologique des habitats dépend de la topologie du réseau formé par les populations qui les occupent. Les graphes génétiques permettent i) d’identifier les chemins de dispersion directs en révélant cette topologie et ii) de quantifier la résistance des éléments paysagers à la dispersion. Nous avons étudié comment l’équilibre migration-dérive affecte les choix de construction de ces graphes et les inférences qui en découlent. Nous avons simulé le flux génétique entre 50 populations dans différents paysages et construit des graphes pondérés avec plusieurs distances génétiques et élagués selon différents critères. Nous avons ensuite comparé la capacité de ces graphes à i) représ…
Inférence de la résistance du paysage au flux de gènes à l'aide de modèles gravitaires intégrant des variables intra-populationnelles
2021
International audience; Modéliser les mouvements de dispersion nécessite d'associer aux éléments paysagers des valeurs de coût caractérisant leur résistance aux déplacements. En landscape genetics, l'inférence de ces valeurs se fait à partir de mesures de différenciation génétique entre populations. Bien que l'hétérogénéité spatiale des tailles de populations puisse aussi influencer de façon significative la différenciation génétique, les variables intra-populationnelles sont rarement prises en compte dans ce type d'inférence. Nous avons étudié à quel point la prise en compte de ces variables pouvait améliorer l'inférence des coûts. Pour cela, nous avons simulé des flux de gènes entre 60 po…
Towards human exploration of space: the THESEUS review series on cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal research priorities
2016
International audience; The THESEUS project (Towards Human Exploration of Space: aEUropean Strategy) was initiated within the seventh FrameworkProgramme by the European Commission. This project aimed toprovide a cross-cutting, life science-based roadmap for Europe’sstrategy towards human exploration of space, especially for deepspace missions and its relevance to applications on Earth. Toaddress these challenges, relevance of space research on thecardiovascular system, the lungs and kidneys, was discussed in anexpert group and its principal conclusions will be presented in thisarticle.