PhD theses (oral defense)

- Fabien Halket (2004) - Dynamics and population genetics of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi during its sexual reproduction: consequences on the maintenance of diversity of reproductive modes (powerpoint, in French, 807 ko)

- François Delmotte (2001) - Evolution of reproductive modes in the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi : insights from population genetics and phylogeny (pdf, in French, 934 ko)

General Biology

- Brief overlook on the peculiar biology of aphids (in French). Charles-Antoine Dedryver

- Brief overlook on Apoid Hymenoptera and pollination (in French). Jacqueline Pierre

Ecology, Population Dynamics

- A statistical tool to analyse correlograms (relations between a climatic period and a biological variable) : CRITICOR (pdf, 72 ko, in French, short presentation). Jean-Pierre Gauthier. See also a more complete presentation of the statistical tool...

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Evolutionary biology

Molecular evolution

- class on Synonymous codon biases: what evolutionary significance? (pdf, 909 ko, in French). Claude Rispe

- class on Selection at the molecular level (pdf, 1400 ko). Claude Rispe & Olivier Plantard

- conference at Penn. State, USA 2004 (SMBE Annual meeting, site of the conference http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/genomes/): Evolution of codon usage in endosymbiotic bacteria (hosted by insects) and their free-living relatives (pdf, 82 ko). Claude Rispe

- conference at Rennes, 2002 : The near-neutralist theory of molecular evolution- insights from bacterial endosymbionts genomics (pdf, 547 ko). Claude Rispe

Evolution of sex, evolution of reproductive modes

- class on evolution of sex in animals (pdf, 844 ko, in French). Claude Rispe

Functional genomics

- A brief general presentation of functional genomics . Denis Tagu

- Poster- Congress "PPD" 2005- Bordeaux. Analysis of 12,000 transcripts in an aphid species : study of codon biases and evaluation of evolutionary pressures for different functional categories. (pdf, 86 ko, in French). Claude Rispe, J. Lane et Denis Tagu