Evolution, genetics and statistics
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
