Montpellier Scientific Community



Centre for Biology and Management of Populations (CBGP)

Director: Flavie Vanlerberghe
Research area
The JRU Centre for Biology and Management of Populations (CBGP) performs research in systematics, genetics and ecology aimed at the management of populations and communities of organisms that have a stake in agronomy, public health and biodiversity. This research is aimed at developing the conceptual and theoretical elements and the tools (molecular, modelling and simulation tools) required for identifying these organisms, understanding their adaptation and evolution in the frame of global change and setting up control or conservation sustainable strategies. The biological models under study belong to arthropods, nematodes or rodents along with their associated communities and they correspond to bio-agressors, bio-invaders or pathogens reservoirs.

Staff profile

Research Org.

Researchers

ProfessorsResearch Eng. Techn. & Admin. Staff PhD
Mtp SupAgro, Cirad, INRA, IRD 33

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Research teams
No research teams as such, but six "thinktanks" have been set up in the unit, i.e.
  • Systemics, Taxonomy and Phylogeny
  • Population genetics and Phylogeography
  • Biology of adaptation : genetics, genomics and life history traits
  • Ecology of populations and communities
Platforms and other tools
  • Animal housing
  • Arthropods rearing and phenotyping platform
  • Quarantine in Nematology
  • Molecular biology platform
  • Scanning electron microscope
  • Computer cluster
  • Collections platform
Most important international partnerships
Algeria: University of Blidah - Australia: University of Queensland, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology / CSIRO, Canberra - Austria: Institute of Biochemistry, Wien - Belgium: University of Antwerp, Evolutionary Biology Group /Agricultural Research Center, Merelbeke / University of Brussels - Brazil: University of Sao Paolo - Cambodia: Pasteur Institute - China: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Czech Republic: Academy of Science, Brno, Department of Population Biology - Finland: University of Helsinki, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Centre, Vantaa - Germany: Museum, Bonn /University of Ulm / University of Halle / University of Rostock / University of Potsdam, University of Münster, Population genetics lab - Great-Britain: Imperial College, London / Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth / University of Aberdeen / University of Cambridge / University of Liverpool, Department of Veterinary Pathology and Wildlife Disease Research Group / University of Nottingham / University of Reading, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences / University of York / Rothamsted Experimental Station / Sanger Institute - Greece: Agricultural University of Athens, Heraklion Museum of natural history, Crete - Italy: University Tor Vergata, and University La Sapienza, Animal and Human biology Dept, Rome, University of Padova, University of Palermo - Japan: University of Sapporo - Madagascar: Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, Antananarivo, Division de la Lutte contre les maladies transmissibles (DLMT), Ministère de la Santé /University of Antananarivo, Animal Biology Dept. - Mali: Institut d'Economie rurale IPR / Katibougou University Bamako / Direction Nationale de la Conservation de la Nature - Morocco: Agronomical and Veterinarian Institute, Rabat - Netherlands: Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-CTO, Heteren, Université de Wageningen - Niger: CERMES and Agrhymet Centre Niamey / Abdou Moumouni University - Panama: Smithsonian Institution - Portugal: University of Coimbra IMAR / Museum of Natural History, Lisbon - Russia: National Institute of Zoology, Moscow / Institute of Genetics, Novossibirsk - Senegal: Univ Cheick Anta Diop, Dakar, Animal biology dept, CT Ba / Pasteur Institute of Dakar, virology lab / Université Polytechnique de Thiès - South Africa: South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI), Plant Pathology, Nematology and Soil Science Dep. / University of Stellenbosch - Spain: IRTA Centre of Cabrils, Crop Protection department / Universitat de Lleida, Universitat de Valencia, F. Ferragut Université de Barcelone, Faculté de pharmacie - Sweden: European Center for Disease Control - Switzerland: University of Bern - Thailand: University of Kasetsart - Tunisia: Institut des Régions Arides, Ecole Supérieure d'Horticulture Chott Mariem / Institut de Biotechnologie, Université de Monastir - United States: Cornell University / Field Museum Chicago, Berkeley University / USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, California/University of California, Riverside / University of Arizona, Tucson, / Univ. of New York.
Facts and figures
Publications in international ranking journals
2009: 76
2008: 79
2007: 80
2006: 94
2005: 72
Representative publications
1. Calcagno V., Bonhomme V., Thomas Y., Singer M.C. & Bourguet D. 2010. Divergence in behaviour between the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, and its sibling species Ostrinia scapulalis: adaptation to human harvesting? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 2703-2709
2. Carletto J., E. Lombaert, T. Brévault, P. Chavigny, L. Lapchin & F. Vanlerberghe-Masutti. 2009. Ecological specialization of the aphid Aphis gossypii Glover on cultivated host plants. Molecular Ecology 18: 2198-2212.
3. Chapuis M.P., M. Lecoq, Y. Michalakis, A. Loiseau, G. Sword, S. Piry & A. Estoup. 2008. Do outbreaks affect genetic population structure? A worldwide survey in Locusta migratoria, a pest of plagued by microsatellite null alleles. Molecular Ecology 17: 3640-3653.
4. Cornuet J.M., F. Santos, P.C. Robert, J.M. Marin, D.J. Balding, T. Guillemaud & A. Estoup. 2008. Infering population history with DIYABC: a user-friendly approach to Approximate Bayesian Computation. Bioinformatics 24: 2713-2719.
5. Cornuet J.M., Ravigne V. & Estoup A. 2010. Inference on population history and model checking using DNA sequence and microsatellite data with the software DIYABC (v1.0). BMC Bioinformatics 11: 401.
6. Cruaud A., Jabbour-Zahab R., Genson G., Cruaud C., Couloux A., Kjellberg F., van Noort S. & Rasplus J.Y. 2010. Laying the foundations for a new classification of Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), a multilocus phylogenetic approach. Cladistics 26: 359-387.
7. Dalecky A., S. Ponsard, R.I. Bailey, C. Pélissier & D. Bourguet. 2006. Resistance evolution to Bt crops: predispersal mating of European corn borers. PLoS Biology 4: 1048-1057.
8. Estoup A. & Guillemaud T. 2010. Reconstructing routes of invasion using genetic data: why, how and so what? Molecular Ecology 19: 4113-4130.
9. Facon B., J.P. Pointier, P. Jarne, V. Sarda & P. David. 2008. Multiple introductions and the evolutionary potential of invasive populations. Current Biology 18: 363-367.
10. Facon B., B. Genton, J. Shykoff, P. Jarne, A. Estoup & P. David. 2006. A general eco-evolutionary framework for understanding bioinvasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:130-135. [IF: 11,90].
11. Gauffre B., A. Estoup, V. Bretagnolle & J.F. Cosson. 2008. Spatial genetic structure of a small rodent in a heterogeneous landscape. Molecular Ecology 17: 4619-4629.
12. Guivier E., Galan M., Ribas S.A., Xuéreb A., Chaval Y., Olsson G., Essbauer S., Henttonen H., Voutilainen L., Cosson J.F. & Charbonnel N. 2010. Tnf-α expression and promoter sequences reflect the balance of tolerance/resistance to Puumala virus infection in European bank vole populations. Infection, genetics and evolution 10: 1208-1217.
13. Henry M., Cosson J.F. & Pons J.M. 2010. Modelling multi-scale spatial variation in species richness from abundance data in a complex neotropical bat assemblage Ecological Modelling 221: 2018-2027.
14. Jousselin E., Genson G. & Coeur d'acier A. 2010. Evolutionary lability of a complex life cycle in the aphid genus Brachycaudus. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 295.
15. Lombaert E., Guillemaud T., Cornuet J.M., Malausa T., Facon B. & Estoup A. 2010. Bridgehead Effect in the Worldwide Invasion of the Biocontrol Harlequin Ladybird. PLoS ONE 5: e9743. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009743).
16. Mateille T., Dabiré K.R., Fould S. & Diop M.T. 2010. Host-parasite soil communities and environmental constraints: Modelling of soil functions involved in interactions between plant-parasitic nematodes and Pasteuria penetrans. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42: 1193-1199.
17. Pagès M., Chaval Y., Herbreteau V., Wengsothorn S., Cosson J.F., Hugot J.P., Morand S. & Michaux J.R. 2010. Revisiting the taxonomy of the Rattini tribe: a phylogeny-based delimitation of species boundaries. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:184.
18. Pélissié B., Ponsard S., Tokarev Y.S., Audiot P., Pélissier C., Sabatier R., Meusnier S., Chaufaux J., Delos M., Campan E., Malysh J., Frolov A.N. & Bourguet D. 2010. Did the introduction of maize into Europe provide enemy-free space to O. nubilalis? Parasitism differences between two sibling species of the genus Ostrinia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology23: 350-361.
19. Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.Y. & Roy D.B. 2010. Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. Sofia: Pensoft Edition, pp. BioRisk sp. issue 4(1) vol. 1, 570 p., vol. 2, 500 p
20. Tollenaere C., Brouat C., Duplantier J.M., Rahalison L., Rahelinirina S., Pascal M., Moné H., Mouahid G., Leirs H. & Cosson J.F. 2010. Phylogeography of the introduced species Rattus rattus in the western Indian Ocean, with special emphasis on the colonization history of Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography 37: 398-410.
Total annual budget
In euros
 2006 2007 2008
Total annual budget
 905 000 784 000 to be completed
External contracts:
ANR
 394 000 526 000 490 228
EU
 57 000 36 000 121 322