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Evolution génomes comportement Ecologie (EGCE)
Research unit
The Evolution, Genome, Behavior and Ecology laboratory (EGCE) studies the biodiversity evolution using a multi-scale approach (from the genome to the species community). It combines experimentation and modeling. The study models are insects (bees, drosophiles, lepidoptera), xenopus, fish, amphibians. This research includes work on reproductive and food behaviors as well as adaptation to environmental change. The problems of global warming and anthropogenic environments raise major socio-economic issues: new food sources, biodiversity protection, bio-control (insect pests and vectors of human diseases). Programs are developed in partnership with the countries of the South by the researchers of the IRD members of the laboratory.
Innovation themes
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Expertises
- evolution and plasticity of cognitive abilities
- mobile genetic elements
- evolution and behavior of the bee
- molecular and functional evolution of multigenic families
- diversity, ecology and evolution of tropical insects
Applications sectors
- Agriculture
- Other business
- Health / wellness
- Agri-food industry
- Biotechnology
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 34
Number of doctoral students : 9
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
Technical platforms:
- séquencing
- genotyopage (bee)
- confocal microscopy and fluorescence
- Insect breeding service
Keywords
- biological evolution
- genomes
- ecology
- behavior
- genes
- developpment
- population
- invasive genes
- reproduction
- adaptation
- bee
- drosophila
- epidoptère
- parasitoids
- biological control
- xenopus
- zebrafish
- mealworms
- food
- pheromones
- chemoreception
- natural selection
- biodiversity
- tropical insects
- plasticity of cognitive abilities
Valuation offer
Projects examples
- evolution and plasticity of cognitive abilities in insects
- dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in genomes
- evolution and biological and behavioral adaptation of the bee
- molecular and functional evolution of multigenic families
- diversity, ecology and evolution of tropical insects
- amphibian genomes and microbiota
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
CNRS, University Paris-Sud, UMR GQE-le moulon University Paris-Sud, UMR ESE http://www.egce.cnrs-gif.fr/?page_id=34
Private collaborations
Beekeeping companies Collaboration with the NGO, Living forest trust (Cameroon) Start up, FasoPro (Burkina Faso)
Establishments of affiliation
