Who are we ?
GeCoLab is a laboratory from the University of Liège created by Dr Johan Michaux, who has been developing researches on biodiversity using genetic tools for more than 25 years. The fundamental objective of his researches was originally to investigate the evolutive history and taxonomy from many vertebrates. Secondary objectives have emerged more recently and aim, among others, to better understand the species resistance to climatic changes, to study the impact of habitat fragmentation on long term survival of endangered species, to investigate the factors underlying unbalanced species (regressing or expanding) or to implement new methods to conduct faunistic inventories using genetic tools.
These researches have been conducted over a large spectrum of species, mainly composed of aquatic or semi-aquatic mammals (polar bear, harbor porpoise, European and American minks, Eurasian and North American beavers, Eurasian otter, Pyrenean desman, Eurasian water shrew, Southwestern water vole, …) but also amphibians or fishes.
These researches have been conducted over a large spectrum of species, mainly composed of aquatic or semi-aquatic mammals (polar bear, harbor porpoise, European and American minks, Eurasian and North American beavers, Eurasian otter, Pyrenean desman, Eurasian water shrew, Southwestern water vole, …) but also amphibians or fishes.
The team is currently composed of 3 PhD in biology:
Lise-Marie Pigneur, Adrien André and Johan Michaux.
Lise-Marie Pigneur, Adrien André and Johan Michaux.
Johan Michaux, PhD in Sciences from the university of Liege, director of research at FNRS, is the director of GeCoLAB and specialist in the use of genetic tools for the study of biodiversity for 25 years. He is the author of more thant 130 scientific papers relating to the study of many vertebrate (mammals, birds, fishes, amphibians) and invertebrate (different groups of arthropods) species. Apart from his scientific research, he devotes part of his time to scientific outreach activities, in particular for the national Belgian television (RTBF).
Lise-Marie Pigneur, PhD in Sciences from the University of Namur is specialist in exotic invasive species. Her thesis consisted in studying the genetics of an invasive asian clam (Corbicula spp.). During her post-doc in the University of Liège, she focused her researches on the genetics of three semi-aquatic mammal species expanding in Europe : the Eurasian beaver, the American mink and the Eurasian otter. Her main fields of expertise in the GeCoLAB are phylogeny and phylogeography (using mt DNA sequences, microsatellites and SNPs), the metabarcoding approaches by NGS and the cartography (GIS tools)
Adrien André, PhD in Sciences from the University of Liege, completed his thesis studying the geographical expansion of Peromyscus leucopus in Canada, in collaboration with McGill University in Montreal. The main objectives of his thesis included the development of a method based on next-generation sequencing to identify several pathogens, including the Borrelia, responsible for the Lyme disease. Dr André is also bio-informatician. He is respondible for the creation and the installation of all the pipelines and bioinformatic scripts, essential tools for the analysis of millions of DNA sequences obtained with NGS technologies.
Recent publications
- Pigneur L-M, Michaux J, Caublot G, Fournier P, Marc D, Simonnet F, Jacob G (2018) Apport de la génétique pour l’étude de la dynamique des populations de Loutre d’Europe Lutra lutra (L., 1758) en France. Naturae, 6, 63-71.
- Mike Heddergott, Sandra Steeb, Natalia Osten-Sacken, Peter Steinbach, Simone Schneider, Jacques P. Pir, Franz Müller, Lise-Marie Pigneur, Alain C. Frantz ; (2018) Serological survey of feline viral pathogens in free-living European wildcats (Felis s. silvestris) from Luxembourg. Archives of Virology, ISSN 1432-8798.
- Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Jordi Torres, Jordi Miquel, Adrien André, Johan Michaux, Karin Lemberger, Gloria Giralda Carrera, Pascal Fournier ; (2018) ; Severe parasitism by Versteria mustelae (Gmelin, 1790) in the critically endangered European mink Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761) in Spain. Parasitology Research ; ISSN :1432-1955
-Biffi M., Lafaille P., Jabiol J., André A., Gillet F., Lamothe S., Michaux J.R., Buisson L. (2017) Comparison of diet and prey selectivity of the Pyrenean desman and the Eurasian water shrew using next-generation sequencing methods. Mammalian Biology, 87, 176–184 .
- Pigneur L-M, Caublot G, Fournier-Chambrillon C, Fournier P, Girralda-Carrera G, Grémillet X, Le Roux B., Marc D, Simonnet F, Smitz N., Sourp E., Steinmetz J., Urra-Maya F. & Michaux JR. Current genetic admixture between relictual populations might enhance the recovery of an elusive carnivore. Soumis.
- Neumann K., Yiğit N., Fritzsche P., Çolak E., Feoktistova N., Surov N. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Genetic Structure of the Turkish hamster (Mesocricetus brandti). Mammalian Biology, 86, 84-91.
- Biffi M., Gillet F., Laffaille P., Aulagnier S., Blanc F., Colas F., Galan M., Némoz M., Tiouchichine M.-L, Buisson L. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Novel insights into the diet of the Pyrenean desman Galemys pyrenaicus using next-generation sequencing molecular analyses. Journal of Mammalogy, 87 176–184 .
- André A., Millien V., Galan M., Ribas A. & Michaux J.R. 2017. MichauxEffects of parasite and historic driven selection on the diversity and structure of a MHC-II gene in a small mammal species (Peromyscus leucopus) undergoing range expansion. Evolutionary Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10682-017-9898-z.
- André A., Mouton A., Millien V. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Livermicrobiome of Peromyscus leucopus, a key reservoir host species for emerging infectious diseases in North America. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 52, 10–18
- Mouton A., Grill A., Mortelliti A., Sara M., Krystufek B., Buchner S., Lang J., Adamik P., Randi E., Amori G., Elmeros M., Verbeylen G., Dorenbosch M., Schulz B., Aloise G., Matur F, Michaux J.R. 2017. Evolutionary history and species delimitations: a case study of the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius Conservation Genetics, 18, 181-197.
- Gillet F., Cabria Garrido M.T., Blanc F., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Némoz M., Sourp E., Vial-Novella C, Zardoya R., Aulagnier S. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Evidence of a fine-scale genetic structure for the endangered Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) in the French Pyrenees. Journal of Mammalogy, 98 (2):523–532.
- Oromi N., Michaux J.R. & Denoël M. 2016. High gene flow between alternative morphs and the persistence of facultative paedomorphosis. Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep32046.
- Alfano N., Michaux J.R., Fabre P.H., Morand S., Alpin K., Tsangaras K, Löber U, Fitriana Y, Semiadi G., Ishida Y, Helgen K., Roca A.L., EidenM.V., Greenwood A.D. 2016. An endogenous gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) identified in a rodent (Melomys sp.) from Indonesia. Journal of Virology, 26;90(18):8169-80.
-Torres, J., Miquel, J., Fournier-Chambrillon, C., André, A., Maya, F. U., Carrera, G. G., & Fournier, P. (2016). First report of Filaria martis Gmelin, 1790 in the European mink, Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761). Parasitology research, 115(6), 2499-2503.
- Ovidio, M., Hanzen, C., Gennotte, V., Michaux, J.R., Benitez, J.-P., & Dierckx, A. (2016). Is adult translocation a credible way to accelerate the recolonization process of Chondrostoma nasus in a rehabilitated river? Cybium, 40(1), 43-49.
- Smitz N., Van Hooft W.F., Heller R., Cornélis D., Chardonnet P., Kraus R. & Michaux J.R. 2016. Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) identification and characterization on a non-model organism, the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), using next generation sequencing. Mammalian Biology, 81, 595–60.
- Pages M., Fabre P.-H., Chaval Y., Mortelliti A., Nicolas V., Wells K., Michaux J.R. & Lazzari V. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of Southeast Asian arboreal murine rodents. Zoologica Scripta, 45, 349–364.
- Goffard A., Demanche C., Arthur L., Pinçon C., Michaux J.R. & Dubuisson J.. 2015. Alphacoronaviruses Detected in French Bats are Phylogeographically Linked to Coronaviruses of European Bats. Viruses 2015, 7, 6279–6290; doi:10.3390/v7122937
- Renaud S., Quéré J.P. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Biogeographic variations in woodmice : testing for the rôle of morphological variation as a line of least résistance to evolution. Cambrigue Studies in Morphology and Molecules : New paradigms in Evolutionary Biology. Evolution of the Rodents : advance in Phylogeny, Paleontology and Fonctional Morphology, 300-322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360150.012.
- Gillet F, Tiouchichine ML, Galan M, Blanc F, Némoz M, Aulagnier S, &Michaux JR. 2015. A new method to identify the endangered Pyrenean desman and to study its diet, using next generation sequencing from faeces, Mammalian Biology 80 (2015) 505–509.
- Colak R. , Karacan GO, Kandemir I, Colak E., Kankilic T., Yigit N, & Michaux JR. 2015. Genetic variations of Turkish bank vole, Myodes glareolus (Mammalia:Rodentia), in northern Anatolia, inferred from mtDNA. Mitochondrial DNA, DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1089537.
- Cabria M.T., Gonzalez E.G., Gomez-Moliner B. J., Michaux J.R. & Zardoya R. 2015. Patterns of genetic variation of the endangered European mink (Mustela lutreola L., 1761). BMC Evol. Biol.. DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0427-9
- Morand S., Bordes F., Hsuan‐Wien C, Claude J., Cosson J.F., Galan M., Czirják G., Greenwood A.D., Latinne A., Michaux J.R., Ribas A. 2015. Global parasite and Rattus rodent invasions: The consequences for rodent‐borne diseases. Integrative zoology. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12143.
- Lalis A, Leblois R., Liefried S., Ouarour A., Beeravolu C., Michaux J.R., Hamani A., Denys C. Nicolas V. 2015. Geographic and demographic history of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in North Africa: a comparison of fossil and genetic data. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12111.
- Demanche C.&Deville M., Barriel V., Pottier M., Viscogliosi E., Dei Cas E., Morand S., Michaux J.R, Guillot J.. 2015. What do Pneumocystisorganisms tell us about the phylogeography of their hosts? The case of the woodmouse Apodemus sylvaticus in continental Europe and western mediterranean islands. Plos One, 10 (4)., e0120839.
- Blasdell, K., Bordes, F., Chaisiri, K., Chaval, Y., Claude, J., Cosson, J.-F., Latinne, A., Michaux, J.R., Morand, S., Pagès, M., & Tran, A. 2015. Progress on research on rodents and rodent-borne zoonoses in Southeast Asia. Wildlife Research, 42 (2) ; 98-107.
- Charbonnel A., Buisson L. Biffi M., D’Amico F., Besnard A., Aulagnier S., Blanc F., Gillet F., Lacaze V., Michaux J.R., Némoz M., Pagé C., Sanchez‐Perez J-M, Sauvage S., Laffaille P. 2015. Integrating hydrological features and 1 genetically validated occurrence data in occupancy modeling of an endemic and endangered semi‐aquatic mammal species, Galemys pyrenaicus. Biological Conservation, 184, 182-192.
- Gillet F., Tiouchichine M.L., Galan M., Blanc F., Némoz M., Aulagnier S., Michaux J.R. 2015 A new method to identify the endangered Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) and to study its diet, using next generation sequencing from faeces. Mammalian Biology 80 505–509.
- Latinne A., Meynard C., Herbreteau V., Waengsothorn S., Morand S. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Influence of past and future climate changes on the distribution of three Southeast Asian murine rodents . Journal of Biogeography,42 (9). DOI:10.1111/jbi.12528
- Pisano J., Condamine F.L., Lebedev V., Bannikova A., Quéré J.P., Shenbrot G., Pagès M. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Out-of-Himalaya: The impact of past Asian environmental changes on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of Dipodoidea (Rodentia). Journal of Biogeography, 42 (5), 856-870.
- Smitz N., Cornélis D., Chardonnet P., Caron A., Melletti M., Marescaux J. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Impact of ancient and recent habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure of southern African populations of buffalo (Syncerus caffer). BMC Evol. Biol, 14 (1), 203.
- Hartmann S., Hasenkamp N., Mayer J., Michaux J.R., Morand S., Mazzoni C.J. , Roca A.L. & Alex D. Greenwood. 2015. Endogenous murine leukemia rétroviral variation across wild European and inbred strains of house mouse. BMC Genomics 16:613
- Gillet F., Cabria M.T., Némoz M., Blanc F., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Sourp E., Vial-Novella C., Aulagnier S. & Michaux J.R. 2014. PCR-RFLP identification of the endangered Pyrenean desman, Galemys pyrenaicus (Soricomorpha, Talpidae), based on faecal DNA. Mammalia, (Online), 1864-1547.
- Sakka H., Henttonen H., Olsson G. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Co-phylogeography between the Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus) and one of its nematode specific parasites Heligmosomum mixtum. Acta Parasitologica 60 (1), 85-98
- Tsangaras K., Wales N., Sicheritz-Pontén T., Ishida Y., Rasmussen S., Raghavan M., Michaux J.R., Morand S., Roca A., M. Gilbert T.P., Greenwood A.D.2014. COCHAP: COnCatenation Hybridization cAPture enriches small genomes using short PCR products. Plos One, 9 (10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109101.
- Tsangaras K., Kolokotronis S.O., Ulrich R.G., Morand S., Michaux J.R. & Greenwood A.D. 2014. Negative purifying selection drives prion and doppel protein evolution in primates, bovids and rodents. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 79, 12-20.
- Frosch C, Kraus R., Angst C., Allgöwer R., Michaux J.R., Teubner J. & Nowak C. 2014. The genetic legacy 1 of multiple beaver reintroductions in Central Europe. Plos One, 9, 10.1371/journal.pone.0097619.
- Fontaine M., Roland K., Calves I., Austerlitz F., Tolley K.A., Birkun A., Ferreira M., Jauniaux T., Llavona A., Oztürk B., Öztürk A., Ridoux V., Rogan E., Sequeira M., Siebert U., Vikingsson G.A., Borrell A., Michaux J.R. & Aguilar A. 2014. Postglacial climate changes and rise of three ecotypes of harbour porpoises in western Palearctic waters. Molecular Ecology, 23, 3306-3321.
-Llirós, M., Inceoğlu, Ö., García-Armisen, T., Anzil, A., Leporcq, B., Pigneur, L. M., ... & Servais, P. (2014). Bacterial community composition in three freshwater reservoirs of different alkalinity and trophic status. PloS one, 9(12), e116145.
-Smitz, N., Cornélis, D., Chardonnet, P., Caron, A., de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Jori, F., Pigneur, L. M,... & Kanapeckas, K. L. (2014). Genetic structure of fragmented southern populations of African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer). BMC evolutionary biology, 14(1), 203.
-Pigneur, L. M., Etoundi, E., Aldridge, D. C., Marescaux, J., Yasuda, N., & Van Doninck, K. (2014). Genetic uniformity and long‐distance clonal dispersal in the invasive androgenetic Corbicula clams. Molecular ecology, 23(20), 5102-5116.
- Pigneur L.-M., Caublot G., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Fournier P., Michaux J. 2014. Sur les traces de la Loutre dans le Limousin... Echo du PNA Loutre. 7, 5-7.
- Pigneur L.-M., Caublot G., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Fournier P., Girralda- Carrera G., Marc D., Simonnet F., Sourp E., Steinmetz J., Urra-Maya F.,Michaux J. 2014. Génétique de la conservation de la Loutre d’Europe en France. Actes des 11èmes rencontres Bourgogne-Nature et 37e colloque francophone de Mammalogie (SFEPM). 35-39.
- Senn H., Ogden R., Frosch C., Munclinger P., Campbell-Palmer R., Durka W., Kraus R., Saveljev A., Nowak C., Stubbe A., Stubbe M., MichauxJ.R., Samjaa M., Ulevivius A. & Rosell F. 2014. Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic structure in the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) – implications for future réintroductions. Evolutionary Applications Journal, 7, 645-662.
- Fabre PH, Pages M., Musser G., Fitriana Y. Fjeldsaa J., Jennings A., Jonsson K.A., Kennedy J., Michaux J.R., Semiadi G., Supriatna N., Helgen K. 2013. A new genus of rodent from Wallacea (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae: Rattini) and its implication for biogeography and Indo- Pacific Rattini systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169, 408-447.
- Latinne A., Waengsothorn S. & Michaux J.R. 2013. Murinae rodent diversity in Thai limestone karsts: a phylogenetic approach. Systematics and Biodiversity, 3, 323-344.
- Navia D. N., Mendoça R.S., Ferragut F., Miranda L. C., Trincado R.C., Michaux J.R., Navajas M. 2013. Integration of DNA-based delimitation of species and morphology reveals cryptic diversity in Brevipalpus mites (Acari: Tenuipalpidae). Zoologica Scripta, 42, 406-426.
- Latinne A., Galan M., Waengsothorn S., Michaux J.R. Diet analysis of three Leopoldamys species using next-generation sequencing from faeces.Cave and Karst Studies, , 76, 139-145.
- Latinne A., Chaval Y., Waengsothorn S., Rojanadilok P., Eiamampa K., Sribuarod K., Herbreteau V., Morand S. & Michaux J.R. 2013. IsLeopoldamys neilli (Rodentia, Muridae) a synonym of Leopoldamys herberti? A reply to Balakirev et al. Zootaxa 3731 (4): 589–598.
- Smitz N., Berthouly C., Cornelis D., Heller R., Van Hooft W.F., Chardonnet P., Prins H.H.T., De Iongh H.H., Caron A. & Michaux J.R. 2013. A Pan-African phylogeographical study of the African buffalo: investigating subspecies divergence. Plos One, 8. 1-17.
- Lebedev, V., Bannikova, A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R, and Shenbrot, G. 2013. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphological hypotheses. Zoologica Scripta : n/a-n/a.
- Pigneur L.-M., Marc D., Fournier P., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Steinmetz J., Rieu L., Giralda-Carrera G., Urra F., Van Doninck K., Michaux J.R.2013. Etude génétique préliminaire de quelques populations de Loutres en France et Navarre. Actes du 36e
- Pinel‐Alloul, B., André, A., Legendre, P., Cardille, J. A., Patalas, K., & Salki, A. (2013). Large‐scale geographic patterns of diversity and community structure of pelagic crustacean zooplankton in Canadian lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22(7), 784-795.
- Pigneur, L. M., Marescaux, J., Roland, K., Etoundi, E., Descy, J. P., & Van Doninck, K. (2011). Phylogeny and androgenesis in the invasive Corbicula clams (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) in Western Europe. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1), 147.
- Mike Heddergott, Sandra Steeb, Natalia Osten-Sacken, Peter Steinbach, Simone Schneider, Jacques P. Pir, Franz Müller, Lise-Marie Pigneur, Alain C. Frantz ; (2018) Serological survey of feline viral pathogens in free-living European wildcats (Felis s. silvestris) from Luxembourg. Archives of Virology, ISSN 1432-8798.
- Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Jordi Torres, Jordi Miquel, Adrien André, Johan Michaux, Karin Lemberger, Gloria Giralda Carrera, Pascal Fournier ; (2018) ; Severe parasitism by Versteria mustelae (Gmelin, 1790) in the critically endangered European mink Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761) in Spain. Parasitology Research ; ISSN :1432-1955
-Biffi M., Lafaille P., Jabiol J., André A., Gillet F., Lamothe S., Michaux J.R., Buisson L. (2017) Comparison of diet and prey selectivity of the Pyrenean desman and the Eurasian water shrew using next-generation sequencing methods. Mammalian Biology, 87, 176–184 .
- Pigneur L-M, Caublot G, Fournier-Chambrillon C, Fournier P, Girralda-Carrera G, Grémillet X, Le Roux B., Marc D, Simonnet F, Smitz N., Sourp E., Steinmetz J., Urra-Maya F. & Michaux JR. Current genetic admixture between relictual populations might enhance the recovery of an elusive carnivore. Soumis.
- Neumann K., Yiğit N., Fritzsche P., Çolak E., Feoktistova N., Surov N. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Genetic Structure of the Turkish hamster (Mesocricetus brandti). Mammalian Biology, 86, 84-91.
- Biffi M., Gillet F., Laffaille P., Aulagnier S., Blanc F., Colas F., Galan M., Némoz M., Tiouchichine M.-L, Buisson L. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Novel insights into the diet of the Pyrenean desman Galemys pyrenaicus using next-generation sequencing molecular analyses. Journal of Mammalogy, 87 176–184 .
- André A., Millien V., Galan M., Ribas A. & Michaux J.R. 2017. MichauxEffects of parasite and historic driven selection on the diversity and structure of a MHC-II gene in a small mammal species (Peromyscus leucopus) undergoing range expansion. Evolutionary Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10682-017-9898-z.
- André A., Mouton A., Millien V. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Livermicrobiome of Peromyscus leucopus, a key reservoir host species for emerging infectious diseases in North America. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 52, 10–18
- Mouton A., Grill A., Mortelliti A., Sara M., Krystufek B., Buchner S., Lang J., Adamik P., Randi E., Amori G., Elmeros M., Verbeylen G., Dorenbosch M., Schulz B., Aloise G., Matur F, Michaux J.R. 2017. Evolutionary history and species delimitations: a case study of the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius Conservation Genetics, 18, 181-197.
- Gillet F., Cabria Garrido M.T., Blanc F., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Némoz M., Sourp E., Vial-Novella C, Zardoya R., Aulagnier S. & Michaux J.R. 2017. Evidence of a fine-scale genetic structure for the endangered Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) in the French Pyrenees. Journal of Mammalogy, 98 (2):523–532.
- Oromi N., Michaux J.R. & Denoël M. 2016. High gene flow between alternative morphs and the persistence of facultative paedomorphosis. Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep32046.
- Alfano N., Michaux J.R., Fabre P.H., Morand S., Alpin K., Tsangaras K, Löber U, Fitriana Y, Semiadi G., Ishida Y, Helgen K., Roca A.L., EidenM.V., Greenwood A.D. 2016. An endogenous gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) identified in a rodent (Melomys sp.) from Indonesia. Journal of Virology, 26;90(18):8169-80.
-Torres, J., Miquel, J., Fournier-Chambrillon, C., André, A., Maya, F. U., Carrera, G. G., & Fournier, P. (2016). First report of Filaria martis Gmelin, 1790 in the European mink, Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761). Parasitology research, 115(6), 2499-2503.
- Ovidio, M., Hanzen, C., Gennotte, V., Michaux, J.R., Benitez, J.-P., & Dierckx, A. (2016). Is adult translocation a credible way to accelerate the recolonization process of Chondrostoma nasus in a rehabilitated river? Cybium, 40(1), 43-49.
- Smitz N., Van Hooft W.F., Heller R., Cornélis D., Chardonnet P., Kraus R. & Michaux J.R. 2016. Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) identification and characterization on a non-model organism, the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), using next generation sequencing. Mammalian Biology, 81, 595–60.
- Pages M., Fabre P.-H., Chaval Y., Mortelliti A., Nicolas V., Wells K., Michaux J.R. & Lazzari V. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of Southeast Asian arboreal murine rodents. Zoologica Scripta, 45, 349–364.
- Goffard A., Demanche C., Arthur L., Pinçon C., Michaux J.R. & Dubuisson J.. 2015. Alphacoronaviruses Detected in French Bats are Phylogeographically Linked to Coronaviruses of European Bats. Viruses 2015, 7, 6279–6290; doi:10.3390/v7122937
- Renaud S., Quéré J.P. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Biogeographic variations in woodmice : testing for the rôle of morphological variation as a line of least résistance to evolution. Cambrigue Studies in Morphology and Molecules : New paradigms in Evolutionary Biology. Evolution of the Rodents : advance in Phylogeny, Paleontology and Fonctional Morphology, 300-322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360150.012.
- Gillet F, Tiouchichine ML, Galan M, Blanc F, Némoz M, Aulagnier S, &Michaux JR. 2015. A new method to identify the endangered Pyrenean desman and to study its diet, using next generation sequencing from faeces, Mammalian Biology 80 (2015) 505–509.
- Colak R. , Karacan GO, Kandemir I, Colak E., Kankilic T., Yigit N, & Michaux JR. 2015. Genetic variations of Turkish bank vole, Myodes glareolus (Mammalia:Rodentia), in northern Anatolia, inferred from mtDNA. Mitochondrial DNA, DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1089537.
- Cabria M.T., Gonzalez E.G., Gomez-Moliner B. J., Michaux J.R. & Zardoya R. 2015. Patterns of genetic variation of the endangered European mink (Mustela lutreola L., 1761). BMC Evol. Biol.. DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0427-9
- Morand S., Bordes F., Hsuan‐Wien C, Claude J., Cosson J.F., Galan M., Czirják G., Greenwood A.D., Latinne A., Michaux J.R., Ribas A. 2015. Global parasite and Rattus rodent invasions: The consequences for rodent‐borne diseases. Integrative zoology. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12143.
- Lalis A, Leblois R., Liefried S., Ouarour A., Beeravolu C., Michaux J.R., Hamani A., Denys C. Nicolas V. 2015. Geographic and demographic history of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in North Africa: a comparison of fossil and genetic data. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12111.
- Demanche C.&Deville M., Barriel V., Pottier M., Viscogliosi E., Dei Cas E., Morand S., Michaux J.R, Guillot J.. 2015. What do Pneumocystisorganisms tell us about the phylogeography of their hosts? The case of the woodmouse Apodemus sylvaticus in continental Europe and western mediterranean islands. Plos One, 10 (4)., e0120839.
- Blasdell, K., Bordes, F., Chaisiri, K., Chaval, Y., Claude, J., Cosson, J.-F., Latinne, A., Michaux, J.R., Morand, S., Pagès, M., & Tran, A. 2015. Progress on research on rodents and rodent-borne zoonoses in Southeast Asia. Wildlife Research, 42 (2) ; 98-107.
- Charbonnel A., Buisson L. Biffi M., D’Amico F., Besnard A., Aulagnier S., Blanc F., Gillet F., Lacaze V., Michaux J.R., Némoz M., Pagé C., Sanchez‐Perez J-M, Sauvage S., Laffaille P. 2015. Integrating hydrological features and 1 genetically validated occurrence data in occupancy modeling of an endemic and endangered semi‐aquatic mammal species, Galemys pyrenaicus. Biological Conservation, 184, 182-192.
- Gillet F., Tiouchichine M.L., Galan M., Blanc F., Némoz M., Aulagnier S., Michaux J.R. 2015 A new method to identify the endangered Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) and to study its diet, using next generation sequencing from faeces. Mammalian Biology 80 505–509.
- Latinne A., Meynard C., Herbreteau V., Waengsothorn S., Morand S. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Influence of past and future climate changes on the distribution of three Southeast Asian murine rodents . Journal of Biogeography,42 (9). DOI:10.1111/jbi.12528
- Pisano J., Condamine F.L., Lebedev V., Bannikova A., Quéré J.P., Shenbrot G., Pagès M. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Out-of-Himalaya: The impact of past Asian environmental changes on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of Dipodoidea (Rodentia). Journal of Biogeography, 42 (5), 856-870.
- Smitz N., Cornélis D., Chardonnet P., Caron A., Melletti M., Marescaux J. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Impact of ancient and recent habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure of southern African populations of buffalo (Syncerus caffer). BMC Evol. Biol, 14 (1), 203.
- Hartmann S., Hasenkamp N., Mayer J., Michaux J.R., Morand S., Mazzoni C.J. , Roca A.L. & Alex D. Greenwood. 2015. Endogenous murine leukemia rétroviral variation across wild European and inbred strains of house mouse. BMC Genomics 16:613
- Gillet F., Cabria M.T., Némoz M., Blanc F., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Sourp E., Vial-Novella C., Aulagnier S. & Michaux J.R. 2014. PCR-RFLP identification of the endangered Pyrenean desman, Galemys pyrenaicus (Soricomorpha, Talpidae), based on faecal DNA. Mammalia, (Online), 1864-1547.
- Sakka H., Henttonen H., Olsson G. & Michaux J.R. 2015. Co-phylogeography between the Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus) and one of its nematode specific parasites Heligmosomum mixtum. Acta Parasitologica 60 (1), 85-98
- Tsangaras K., Wales N., Sicheritz-Pontén T., Ishida Y., Rasmussen S., Raghavan M., Michaux J.R., Morand S., Roca A., M. Gilbert T.P., Greenwood A.D.2014. COCHAP: COnCatenation Hybridization cAPture enriches small genomes using short PCR products. Plos One, 9 (10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109101.
- Tsangaras K., Kolokotronis S.O., Ulrich R.G., Morand S., Michaux J.R. & Greenwood A.D. 2014. Negative purifying selection drives prion and doppel protein evolution in primates, bovids and rodents. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 79, 12-20.
- Frosch C, Kraus R., Angst C., Allgöwer R., Michaux J.R., Teubner J. & Nowak C. 2014. The genetic legacy 1 of multiple beaver reintroductions in Central Europe. Plos One, 9, 10.1371/journal.pone.0097619.
- Fontaine M., Roland K., Calves I., Austerlitz F., Tolley K.A., Birkun A., Ferreira M., Jauniaux T., Llavona A., Oztürk B., Öztürk A., Ridoux V., Rogan E., Sequeira M., Siebert U., Vikingsson G.A., Borrell A., Michaux J.R. & Aguilar A. 2014. Postglacial climate changes and rise of three ecotypes of harbour porpoises in western Palearctic waters. Molecular Ecology, 23, 3306-3321.
-Llirós, M., Inceoğlu, Ö., García-Armisen, T., Anzil, A., Leporcq, B., Pigneur, L. M., ... & Servais, P. (2014). Bacterial community composition in three freshwater reservoirs of different alkalinity and trophic status. PloS one, 9(12), e116145.
-Smitz, N., Cornélis, D., Chardonnet, P., Caron, A., de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Jori, F., Pigneur, L. M,... & Kanapeckas, K. L. (2014). Genetic structure of fragmented southern populations of African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer). BMC evolutionary biology, 14(1), 203.
-Pigneur, L. M., Etoundi, E., Aldridge, D. C., Marescaux, J., Yasuda, N., & Van Doninck, K. (2014). Genetic uniformity and long‐distance clonal dispersal in the invasive androgenetic Corbicula clams. Molecular ecology, 23(20), 5102-5116.
- Pigneur L.-M., Caublot G., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Fournier P., Michaux J. 2014. Sur les traces de la Loutre dans le Limousin... Echo du PNA Loutre. 7, 5-7.
- Pigneur L.-M., Caublot G., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Fournier P., Girralda- Carrera G., Marc D., Simonnet F., Sourp E., Steinmetz J., Urra-Maya F.,Michaux J. 2014. Génétique de la conservation de la Loutre d’Europe en France. Actes des 11èmes rencontres Bourgogne-Nature et 37e colloque francophone de Mammalogie (SFEPM). 35-39.
- Senn H., Ogden R., Frosch C., Munclinger P., Campbell-Palmer R., Durka W., Kraus R., Saveljev A., Nowak C., Stubbe A., Stubbe M., MichauxJ.R., Samjaa M., Ulevivius A. & Rosell F. 2014. Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic structure in the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) – implications for future réintroductions. Evolutionary Applications Journal, 7, 645-662.
- Fabre PH, Pages M., Musser G., Fitriana Y. Fjeldsaa J., Jennings A., Jonsson K.A., Kennedy J., Michaux J.R., Semiadi G., Supriatna N., Helgen K. 2013. A new genus of rodent from Wallacea (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae: Rattini) and its implication for biogeography and Indo- Pacific Rattini systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169, 408-447.
- Latinne A., Waengsothorn S. & Michaux J.R. 2013. Murinae rodent diversity in Thai limestone karsts: a phylogenetic approach. Systematics and Biodiversity, 3, 323-344.
- Navia D. N., Mendoça R.S., Ferragut F., Miranda L. C., Trincado R.C., Michaux J.R., Navajas M. 2013. Integration of DNA-based delimitation of species and morphology reveals cryptic diversity in Brevipalpus mites (Acari: Tenuipalpidae). Zoologica Scripta, 42, 406-426.
- Latinne A., Galan M., Waengsothorn S., Michaux J.R. Diet analysis of three Leopoldamys species using next-generation sequencing from faeces.Cave and Karst Studies, , 76, 139-145.
- Latinne A., Chaval Y., Waengsothorn S., Rojanadilok P., Eiamampa K., Sribuarod K., Herbreteau V., Morand S. & Michaux J.R. 2013. IsLeopoldamys neilli (Rodentia, Muridae) a synonym of Leopoldamys herberti? A reply to Balakirev et al. Zootaxa 3731 (4): 589–598.
- Smitz N., Berthouly C., Cornelis D., Heller R., Van Hooft W.F., Chardonnet P., Prins H.H.T., De Iongh H.H., Caron A. & Michaux J.R. 2013. A Pan-African phylogeographical study of the African buffalo: investigating subspecies divergence. Plos One, 8. 1-17.
- Lebedev, V., Bannikova, A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R, and Shenbrot, G. 2013. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphological hypotheses. Zoologica Scripta : n/a-n/a.
- Pigneur L.-M., Marc D., Fournier P., Fournier-Chambrillon C., Steinmetz J., Rieu L., Giralda-Carrera G., Urra F., Van Doninck K., Michaux J.R.2013. Etude génétique préliminaire de quelques populations de Loutres en France et Navarre. Actes du 36e
- Pinel‐Alloul, B., André, A., Legendre, P., Cardille, J. A., Patalas, K., & Salki, A. (2013). Large‐scale geographic patterns of diversity and community structure of pelagic crustacean zooplankton in Canadian lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22(7), 784-795.
- Pigneur, L. M., Marescaux, J., Roland, K., Etoundi, E., Descy, J. P., & Van Doninck, K. (2011). Phylogeny and androgenesis in the invasive Corbicula clams (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) in Western Europe. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1), 147.