With its nuclear dualism, the ciliate Paramecium constitutes a unique model to study how
host genomes cope with transposable elements (TEs). P. tetraurelia harbors two germline …

The natural restoration of soils polluted by aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene,
ethylbenzene and m- and p-xylene (BTEX) may be accelerated by inoculation of specific …

Gene duplication and diversification drive the emergence of novel functions during evolution.
Because of whole genome duplications, ciliates from the Paramecium aurelia group …

… We would like to thank Cindy Mathon and Pascaline Tirand for excellent technical assistance
and Loïc Escoriza, Nathalie Mathy and Coralie Zangarelli for their help in the handling of …

Ecological transitions between different lifestyles, such as pathogenicity, mutualism and
saprophytism, have been very frequent in the course of microbial evolution, and often driven by …

Background Transposons are mobile genetic elements that colonize genomes and drive their
plasticity in all organisms. DNA transposon-encoded transposases bind to the ends of their …

… We are indebted to Loïc Willm for the map of Figure 1. We thank the French Ministry of
Environment for giving us the permission to capture turtles at the Tour du Valat. Finally, we thank …

The rate of environmental niche evolution describes the capability of species to explore the
available environmental space and is known to vary among species owing to lineage-…

We report preliminary results regarding the natural history and ecological preferences of
Pachytriton brevipes, a highly specialized aquatic and nocturnal newt inhabiting cold areas of …

… Del mismo modo, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec admitía sin dificultad alguna la existencia de mitos
… la vertiente de la arqueología, como afirmaría Escoriza, como nuestros asertos acerca de los …