This year’s field work: run lizard, run!
This year’s field work season was a bit more intense than normally, as we started a new project: measuring the locomotive performance of the lizards. As part of the TIPEX project (led by Jean-François...
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ERC Starting Grant founding!
How it happened… In 2022, I submitted an ERC Starting Grant “EvoGenArch” on the study of the distribution of the effects sizes of variants influencing phenotypes in the genomes (more details below). In the...
Label and funding for the fieldwork!
This year, I finally managed to obtain long-term funding for the fieldwork, which finally puts it in a safe place for at least 5 years, and even more! Money, money, money One of the...
Field work: under new management!
This year marks a completely new organisation and management of the annual monitoring of common lizard populations in the Cévennes. As a reminder, last year I took over the responsibility of this monitoring, initiated...
There is more evolution than we previously thought in wild populations
This fact is not very well-known to a wide audience, but the theory behind evolutionary biology is very much mathematised. For example, a theorem known as “The Price equation” describes very generally how biological...
Detecting adaptation in very structured populations: how hard can it be?
I’m very happy to let you know that a new paper from the PhD thesis of Priscila Salloum is now out (in early view) in Journal of Animal Ecology! The idea of Priscila’s thesis...
New version of the tutorial on heritability and MCMCglmm
Doing quantitative genetics, is hard. Well, not nightmarish-hard, but still: you need to understand what you are doing, what are the limits of what you are doing, and remember what kind of factors you...
Fieldwork this year was cold… and delayed!
This summer was the occasion to perform my first full field season, doing a survey of common lizard populations in the Cévennes. The lizards are captured during June. The individuals are then released immediately...
Fluctuating selection study in PNAS!
The result of two years of hard work with Luis-Miguel Chevin during my last post-doc in CEFE (Montpellier, France) has just been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...
Population structure in common gardens! (and a Ph.D. project?)
Common garden experiments are useful to study the genetics of local adaptation, because they allow to compare individuals from different populations of origin within the same environmental conditions, thus overcoming the confounding effect of...
