Stéphanie BEDHOMME

IMG 4503

 

Chargée de Recherche, HDR

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5

Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 32 11

Stephanie.bedhomme[at]cefe.cnrs.fr

 

Bref CV

2018    : HDR, Université de Montpellier

2014-     : CRCN CNRS, CEFE

2012-13 : Postdoc at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL, Barcelone, Spain)

2009-12 : Postdoc at the Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology Institute (IBMCP, Valence, Spain)

2007-09 : Teaching and researche assistant, Münster University (Allemagne)

2005-07 : Postdoc at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)

2000-04 : PhD in the Genetic and Evolution of Infectious Disease laboratory (IRD, Montpellier)

 

Current group members

Michael Finnegan

Jeanne Hamet

Méril Massot

 

Thèmes de recherches (english version below)

  • Transfert horizontal de gène, résistance antibiotique et évolution post-transfert

Nous travaillons actuellement sur les règles de circulation des gènes par transfert horizontal. Le transfert horizontal est un mécanisme qui contribue fortement à l'évolution des génomes procaryotes mais tous les gènes ne sont pas dans tous les génomes. Il existe donc des facteurs qui favorisent ou limitent les transferts et les orientent. Les recherches que nous conduisons actuellement visent à étudier le rôle de ces facteurs à différentes échelles temporelles et spatiales. Nous nous intéressons en priorité, mais pas en exclusivité, aux transferts de gènes de résistance aux antibiotiques : les données et connaissance les concernant sont abondantes, la manipulation des pressions de sélection en laboratoire est aisée et nos résultats ont potentiellement des applications plus ou moins directes pour la gestion du problème de santé publique que représente la propagation des résistances antibiotiques.

Les questions auxquelles nous essayons de répondre actuellement sont :

  • Quels sont les facteurs (écologie, pression de sélection, géographie…) qui déterminent les prévalences de gènes de résistances à l’échelle mondiale ?
  • Quels sont les facteurs (partage de niche écologique, association à des éléments génétiques mobiles, similarité de contexte génomique, distance phylogénétique entre hôte) qui favorisent les transferts horizontaux ?
  • L’usage de codons du gène transféré affecte-il la fonctionnalité de ce gène dans le génome récepteur ?
  • Le transfert horizontal d’un gène peut-il entrainer une évolution compensatoire ?
  • L’évolution post-transfert est-elle détectable à différentes échelles temporelles ?

Les approches utilisées sont la mesure de fitness de collections de mutants et de gènes, l'évolution expérimentale, la génomique bactérienne et la génomique comparative.

  • Propagation des hypermutateurs dans les populations bactériennes

Les hypermutateurs sont des génotypes bactériens dont le taux de mutation ponctuel est plus élevé (10 à 1000 fois) que dans le reste de l’espèce. Des modèles théoriques prédisent qu’ils ont un avantage et se propagent dans les populations qui se trouvent loin de leur optimum adaptatif. En effet, dans cette situation, la proportion de mutations avantageuses parmi toutes les mutations générées est plus importante ; les hypermutateurs ont donc un avantage transitoire en augmentant à l’approvisionnement en mutation avantageuse puis ils augmentent en fréquence en raison de la liaison génétique entre le déterminant génétique de l’hypermutation et la mutation avantageuse générée. Les conditions de propagation des hypermutateurs ont été étudiées par des approches théoriques et par des approches expérimentales qui mettent en compétition un hypermutateur avec son ancêtre mais il existe très peu d’approches expérimentales où l’apparition et la propagation d’hypermutateurs a été suivie dans plusieurs conditions environnementales. Nous avons mis en place un dispositif d’évolution expérimentale qui permet de faire cela pour les conditions environnementales suivantes : doses subinhibitrices de gentamicine et forte salinité.

Dans le cadre de cette approche, nous posons les questions suivantes :

  • La probabilité et la vitesse de propagation des hypermutateurs dépend-elle du type de stress et de la largeur de la base génétique d’adaptation à ce stress ?
  • Comment déterminer la nature et la base génétique de l’adaptation par une approche « évoluer et reséquencer » ?
  • L’évolution en présence de concentrations subinhibitrices de gentamicine conduit-elle à des niveaux élevés de résistance ?
  • Quel est le rôle de l’hétérogénéité de taux de mutation le long du génome dans l’évolution parallèle entre populations indépendante ?
  • Pollution microplastique, bactéries pathogènes et résistance antibiotique.

Les plastiques, en usage ou après usage, se dégradent et libèrent dans leur environnement immédiat des nano- et microparticules. Ces particules sont transportées à longue distance par l’eau ou l’air, peuvent pénétrer dans tous les organismes vivants et représentent un danger direct pour la santé humaine, animale et végétale. Ces particules peuvent également se convertir en support pour la formation de biofilm qui peuvent contenir des espèces bactériennes pathogènes pour certaines espèces animales et/ou pour les humains. Nous nous intéressons au rôle potentiel des micro-plastiques comme vecteur de pathogènes en utilisant Vibrio anguillarum comme modèle bactérien et des microparticules de polystyrène, polypropylène et polyéthylène téréphtalate.

Dans ce contexte scientifique, nous posons les questions suivantes :

  • Quelle est la variabilité intraspécifique d’adhérence de anguillarum aux microparticules de plastique ? Peut-on identifier les déterminants génétiques de cette adhérence ?
  • Quelles sont les espèces bactériennes composant les biofilms sur les microparticules ? Comment cette composition varie-t-elle au cours des saisons et au travers des environnements marins ou côtier ?
  • Les biofilms associés aux microplastiques présentent-ils une surreprésentation de certaines espèces ou de certains gènes (résistance aux antibiotiques par exemple) par rapport au microbiote environnant ?
  • La composition des biofilms associés aux microplastiques affecte-t-elle l’adhésion de la bactérie pathogène anguillarum?
  • Les biofilms associés aux microplastiques sont-ils des points chauds de transfert horizontal ?

Mots clés:

transfert horizontal de gène, résistance aux antibiotiques, effet en fitness de la variation synonyme, usage des codons, évolution expérimentale, génomique bactérienne, biofilms, pollution microplastique.

 

Research topics

  • Horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance and post-transfer evolution

We are currently working on the horizontal transfer traffic rules. Horizontal transfer is a mechanism that strongly contributes to the evolution of prokaryotic genomes but all genes are not found in all genomes. There are therefore factors that promote or limit transfers and direct them. Our current research aims to study the role of these factors at different temporal and spatial scales. We are primarily, but not exclusively, interested in the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes: data and knowledge about them are abundant, the manipulation of selection pressures in the laboratory is easy, and our results have potentially more or less direct applications for the management of the public health problem represented by the spread of antibiotic resistance.

The questions we are currently trying to answer are:

- What are the factors (ecology, selection pressure, geography...) that determine the prevalences of resistance genes on a global scale?

  • - What are the factors (ecological niche sharing, association with mobile genetic elements, genomic context similarity, phylogenetic distance between hosts) that favor horizontal transfers?
  • - Does codon usage of the transferred gene affect the functionality of that gene in the recipient genome?
  • - Can horizontal transfer of a gene lead to compensatory evolution?
  • - Is post-transfer evolution detectable at different time scales?

The approaches used are fitness measurement of mutant and gene collections, experimental evolution, bacterial genomics and comparative genomics.

  • Propagation of hypermutators in bacterial populations

Hypermutators are bacterial genotypes with a higher point mutation rate (10 to 1000 times) than the rest of the species. Theoretical models predict that they have an advantage and spread in populations that are far from their adaptive optimum. This is because in this situation, the proportion of advantageous mutations among all generated mutations is greater; thus, hypermutators have a transient advantage by increasing in supply of advantageous mutation and then increase in frequency due to the genetic linkage between the genetic determinant of the hypermutation and the generated advantageous mutation. The conditions of hypermutator propagation have been studied by theoretical approaches and by experimental approaches that put a hypermutator in competition with its ancestor but there are very few experimental approaches where the appearance and propagation of hypermutators has been followed under several environmental conditions. We have set up an experimental evolutionary setup that does this for the following environmental conditions: subinhibitory doses of gentamicin and high salinity.

In this approach, we ask the following questions:

  • Does the probability and rate of hypermutator spread depend on the type of stress and the width of the genetic basis for adaptation to that stress?
  • How can the nature and genetic basis of adaptation be determined by an "evolve and resequence" approach?
  • Does evolution in the presence of subinhibitory concentrations of gentamicin lead to high levels of resistance?
  • What is the role of mutation rate heterogeneity along the genome in parallel evolution between independent populations?
  • Microplastic pollution, pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance.

Plastics, in use or after use, degrade and release nano- and micro-particles into their immediate environment. These particles are transported over long distances by water or air, can penetrate all living organisms and represent a direct danger for human, animal and plant health. These particles can also become a surface where biofilm forms which may contain bacterial species pathogenic to certain animal species and/or humans. We are interested in the potential role of micro-plastics as pathogen vectors using Vibrio anguillarum as a bacterial model and polystyrene, polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate microparticles.

In this scientific context, we ask the following questions:

  • What is the intraspecific variability of anguillarum adherence to plastic microparticles? Can we identify the genetic determinants of this adhesion?
  • What are the bacterial species composing biofilms on microparticles? How does this composition vary over the seasons and across marine or coastal environments?
  • Do microplastic-associated biofilms show an over-representation of certain species or genes (e.g. antibiotic resistance) relative to the surrounding microbiota?
  • Does the composition of microplastic-associated biofilms affect the adhesion of the pathogenic bacterium anguillarum?
  • Are microplastic-associated biofilms hotspots for horizontal transfer?

Key words:

Horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance, fitness effect of synonymous variation, codon usage, experimental evolution, bacterial genomics, biofilms, microplastic pollution.

Publications

  • Finnegan M., Hamet J., Desmarais E. and Bedhomme S. (2023) Following the Dynamics of Structural Variants in Experimentally Evolved Populations. J. Vis. Exp. (192), e64709, doi:10.3791/64709.
  • Pradier L. and Bedhomme S. (2023) Ecology, more than antibiotics consumption, is the major predictor for the global distribution of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes. eLife 12:e77015. doi:10.7554/eLife.77015.
  • Callens M., Rose C.J., Finnegan M., Gatchitch F., Simon L., Hamet, J., Pradier, L., Dubois, M-P. and Bedhomme, S. (2023) Hypermutator emergence in experimental Escherichia coli populations is stress-type dependent. Evolution Letters, 7: 252–261. doi:10.1093/evlett/qrad019.
  • Callens M., Scornavacca C. and Bedhomme S. (2021) Evolutionary responses to codon usage of horizontally transferred genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial Genomics, 7:000587. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000587.
  • Pradier L., Tissot T., Fiston-Lavier A-S. and Bedhomme S. (2021) PlasForest: a homology-based random forest classifier for plasmid detection in genomic datasets. BMC Bioinformatics, 22: 349. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04270-w.
  • Callens M., Pradier L., Finnegan M., Rose C.J. and Bedhomme S. (2021) Read between the lines: Diversity of non-translational selection pressures on local codon usage. Genome Biology and Evolution, evab097. doi:10.1093/gbe/evab097.
  • Bedhomme S., Amorós-Moya D., Valero L.M., Bonifaci N., Pujana M-A. and Bravo I.G. (2019) Evolutionary changes after translational challenges imposed by horizontal gene transfer. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11:814–831. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz031.
  • Bedhomme S., Perez-Pantoja D. and Bravo I.G. (2017) Plasmid and clonal interference during post-horizontal gene transfer evolution. Molecular Ecology, 26: 1832-1847. doi:10.1111/mec.14056.
  • Mengual-Chuliá B., Bedhomme, S., Lafforgue, G., Elena, S.F., Bravo, I.G. (2016) Assessing parallel gene histories in viral genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:32.
  • Félez-Sánchez M., Trösemeier J-H., Bedhomme S., González-Bravo M-I, Kamp C. and Bravo I.G. (2015) Cancer, warts or asymptomatic infections: clinical presentation matches codon usage preferences in human papillomaviruses. Genome Biology and Evolution, 7:2117–2135.
  • Bedhomme S., Hillung, J. and Elena S.F. (2015). Emerging viruses: why they are not jacks of all trades? Current Opinion in Virology10:1–6.
  • Larcombe S.D., Bedhomme S., Garnier S., Cellier-Holzem E., Faivre B. and Sorci G. (2013) Social interactions modulate the virulence of avian malaria infection. International Journal of Parasitology43: 861-867.
  • Bedhomme S., Lafforgue G. and Elena S.F. (2013) Genotypic but not phenotypic historical contingency revealed by viral experimental evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology13:46.
  • Bedhomme, S.,Lafforgue, G. and Elena S.F. (2012) Multihost experimental evolution of a plant RNA virus reveals local adaptation and host specific mutations. Molecular Biology and Evolution29:1481–1492.
  • Bedhomme, S., Chippindale, A.K., Prasad, N.G, Delcourt, M., Abbott, J.K., Mallet, M.A. and Rundle, H.D. (2011) Male-limited evolution suggests no extant intralocus sexual conflict over the sexually dimorphic cuticular hydrocarbons of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Genetics90: 443-452.
  • Jiang, P.P., Bedhomme, S., Prasad, N.G. and Chippindale, A.K. (2011) Sperm competition and mate harm unresponsive to male-limited selection in Drosophila: An evolving genetic architecture under domestication. Evolution65: 2448-2460.
  • Bedhomme, S. and Elena, S.F. (2011) Virus infection suppresses Nicotiana benthamianaadaptive phenotypic plasticity. PLoS ONE 6: e17275.
  • Elena, S.F.,Bedhomme, S., Carrasco, P., Cuevas, J.M., de la Iglesia, F., Lafforgue,G., Lalić, J., Pròsper, A., Tromas, N. and Zwart, M.P. (2011) The evolutionary genetics of emerging plant RNA viruses. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions24: 287–293.
  • Abbott, J.K., Bedhomme, S. and Chippindale A.K. (2010) Sexual conflict in wing size and shape inDrosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1989-1997.
  • Amoros-Moya, D., Bedhomme, S., Hermann, M. and Bravo, I.G. (2010) Evolution in regulatory regions rapidly compensates the cost of non-optimal codon usage. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 2141–2151.
  • Bedhomme, S., Bernasconi, G., Koene, J.M., Lankinen, A.,Arathi, H.S., Michiels, N.K. and Anthes, N. (2009) How does breeding system variation modulate sexual antagonism? Biology Letters5: 717-720.
  • Michalakis, Y., Bedhomme, S., Biron, D.G., Rivero, A., Sidobre, C. and Agnew, P. (2008) Virulence and resistance in a mosquito – microsporidium interaction. Evolutionary applications1: 49-56.
  • Bedhomme, S., Prasad, N.G., Jiang, P.P., Chippindale, A.K. (2008) Reproductive Behaviour Evolves Rapidly When Intralocus Sexual Conflict Is Removed. PLoS ONE3: e2187.
  • Kwan, L., Bedhomme, S., Prasad, N.G. and Chippindale, A.K. (2008) Sexual conflict and environmental change: tradeoffs within and between the sexes during the evolution of desiccation resistance. Journal of Genetics87: 383–394.
  • Rivero, A., Agnew, P., Bedhomme, S., Sidobre, C. and Michalakis, Y. (2007) Resource depletion in Aedes aegyptimosquitoes infected by the microsporidia Vavraia culicis. Parasitology 134: 1355-1362.
  • Prasad, N.G., Bedhomme, S., Day, T. and Chippindale, A.K. (2007) An evolutionary cost of separate genders revealed by male-limited evolution. American Naturalist169: 29–37.
  • Prasad, N.G. and Bedhomme, S. (2006) Sexual conflict in plants. Journal of Genetics85: 161-165.
  • Bedhomme, S., Agnew, P., Sidobre, C., Vital P.O. Y. and Michalakis, Y. (2005) Prevalence-dependent costs of parasite virulence.PLoS Biology 3: e262.
  • Bedhomme, S., Agnew, P., Sidobre, C. and Michalakis, Y. (2005) Pollution by conspecifics as a component of intraspecific competition among Aedes aegyptiEcological Entomology 30: 1-7.
  • Agnew, P., Berticat, C., Bedhomme, S., Sidobre, C. and Michalakis, Y. (2004) Parasitism increases and decreases the costs of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Evolution58: 579-586.
  • Bedhomme, S., Agnew, P., Sidobre, C. and Michalakis, Y. (2004) Virulence reaction norms across a food gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B271: 739-744.
  • Bedhomme, S., Agnew, P., Sidobre, C. and Michalakis, Y. (2003) Sex-specific reaction norms to intraspecific larval competition in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Journal of Evolutionary Biology16: 721-730.
  • Agnew, P., Bedhomme, S., Haussy, C. and Michalakis, Y. (1999). Age and size at maturity of the mosquito Culex pipiens infected by the microsporidian parasite Vavraia culicisProceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266: 947-952.

Book chapter:

  • Bataillon, T., Bedhomme, S., Dillmann, C., Gaba, S., Gallet, R., Guidot, A., Goldringer, I., Jasmin, J-N., Kaltz, O., Méry, F., Nidelet, T., Reboud, X., Schneider, D., Sicard, D. and Spor, A. 2015. Evolution expérimentale. In F. Thomas, T. Lefèvre et M. Raymond (Eds), Biologie Evolutive, De Boeck, collection LMD, France, 617-646.
  • Bedhomme, S. and Chippindale A.K. (2007) Irreconcilable differences: When sexual dimorphism fails to resolve sexual conflict (pp 185-194). In: Sex, Size and Gender Roles: Evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism. DJ Fairbairnm WU Blanckenhorn et T Székely editors. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Tim JANICKE

Chargé de Recherche CNRS

TimJanicke

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           1919, Route de Mende
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 I am an evolutionary biologist with main interest in sexual selection. Most of my work focuses on the evolutionary causes and consequences of sex-specific selection. To adress my questions, I am primarily using lab experiments, meta-analyses and genomics. Model organisms include birds, flatworms, molluscs, fruit flies, and flour beetles.

(for more information see my profiles on ResearchGate and GoogleScholar)

 

Academic history

since 2018 CNRS Researcher (Chargé de recherche): Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France.

2017 – 2018 PostDoc: Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Group School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK. 'Evolutionary genomics of sexual antagonism' with Dr. Ted Morrow.

2014  2016 PostDoc: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France. 'Evolution of self-fertilization in hermaphrodites: an animal perspective' hosted by Dr. Patrice David & Dr. Philippe Jarne

2011  2014 SNSF PostDoc Fellow: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France. 'Quantitative genetics of male and female reproduction in a simultanoeus hermaphrodite' hosted by Dr. Patrice David

2010  2011 PostDoc: Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland. 'Quantitative test of sex allocation theory in a siumultaneous hermaphrodite' hosted by Dr. Lukas Schärer

2007  2010 PhD: Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland. ’Sex allocation and sexual selection in a simultaneous hermaphrodite’ supervised by Dr. Lukas Schärer

2001  2006 Diploma (equivalent to MSc): Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Germany. ’Communication in Brown Skuas Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi: Functions of multimodal signalling’ supervised by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Peter

1999  2001 Basic studies in Biology: University of Greifswald, Germany.

 

Publications

(for PDF copies please click here)

Fromonteil, S, Marie-Orleach L, Winkler, L & Janicke, T (2023). Sexual selection in females and the evolution of polyandry. PLoS Biology 21:e3001916.

Winkler, L & Janicke, T (2022). Diet quality impairs male and female reproductive performance and affects the opportunity for selection in an insect model. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9533.

Moiron, M, Martin, OY, Winkler L, & Janicke, T (2022). Sexual selection moderates heat stress response in males and females. Functional Ecology 36:3096-3106.

Janicke, T, Chapuis, E, Meconcelli, S, Bonel, N, Delahaie, B & David, P (2022). Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. J. Anim. Ecol., 91, 124-137.

Harper, JA, Janicke, T & Morrow, EH (2021). Systematic review reveals multiple sexually antagonistic polymorphisms affecting human disease and complex traits. Evolution, 75, 3087-3097.

Winkler, L, Moiron, M, Morrow, EH & Janicke, T (2021). Stronger net selection on males across animals. eLife, 10, e68316.

Janicke, T & Fromonteil, S (2021). Sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in animals. Biol. Lett., 17, 20210251.

Tonnabel, J, David, P, Janicke, T, Lehner, A, Mollet, JC, Pannell, JR & Dufay, M (2021). The scope for postmating sexual selection in plants. Trends Ecol. Evol., 36, 556-567.

Janicke, T, Marie-Orleach, L, Aubier, TG, Perrier, C & Morrow, EH (2019). Assortative mating in animals and its role for speciation. Am. Nat., 194, 865-875.

Janicke, T & Morrow, EH (2019). Sexual selection. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 2019, 36.

Bonel N, Noël E, Janicke T, Sartori K, Chapuis E, Ségard A, Meconcelli S, Pélissié B, Sarda V, David, P (2018). Asymmetric evolutionary responses to sex‐specific selection in a hermaphrodite. Evolution 72: 2181-2201.

Janicke T, Ritchie MG, Morrow EH, and Marie-Orleach L (2018) Sexual selection predicts species richness across the animal kingdom. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:20180173.

Janicke T, Morrow, EH (2018) Operational sex ratio predicts the opportunity and direction of sexual selection across animals. Ecology Letters 21: 384-391.

Garefalaki ME, Kalyva S, Janicke T, Staikou A (2017). Intraspecific variation in reproductive characters is associated with the strength of sexual selection in the hermaphroditic land snail Cornu aspersum. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 71: 150.

Anthes N, Häderer IK, Michiels NK, Janicke T (2017) Measuring and interpreting sexual selection metrics - evaluation and guidelines. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 918–931.

Janicke T, Sandner P, Ramm SA, Vizoso DB, Schärer L (2016) Experimentally evolved and phenotypically plastic responses to enforced monogamy in a hermaphroditic flatworm. J Evol Biol 29: 1713-1727.

Janicke T, Häderer IK, Lajeunesse MJ, Anthes N (2016) A plea for understanding diversity in sexual selection. Science Advances (E-Letter, 15.04.).

Noël E, Chemtob Y, Janicke T, Sarda V, Pélissié B, Jarne P, and David P (2016) Reduced mate availability leads to evolution of self-fertilization and purging of inbreeding depression in a hermaphrodite. Evolution 70: 625-640.

Marie-Orleach L, Janicke T, Vizoso DB, David P, Schärer L (2016) Quantifying episodes of sexual selection: Insights from a transparent worm with fluorescent sperm. Evolution 70: 314-328.

Janicke T, Häderer IK, Lajeunesse MJ, Anthes N (2016) Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom. Science Advances 2: e1500983.

Janicke T, Chapuis E (2016) Condition-dependence of male and female reproductive success: insights from a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Ecology and Evolution 6: 830-841.

Graham S, Chapuis E, Meconcelli S, Bonel N, Alda P, Sartori S, Christophe A, David P, Janicke T (2015) Size-assortative mating in simultaneous hermaphrodites: an experimental test and a meta-analysis. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 69: 1867-1878.

Janicke T, David P, Chapuis E, (2015) Environment-dependent sexual selection: Bateman's parameters under varying levels of food availability. Am Nat 185: 756-768.

Schärer L, Janicke T, Ramm, SA (2015). Sexual conflict in hermaphrodites. In Rice WR & Gavrilets S (eds). The Genetics and Biology of Sexual Conflict. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Press.

Marie-Orleach L, Janicke T, Vizoso DB, Eichmann M, Schärer L (2014) Fluorescent sperm in a transparent worm: validation of a GFP marker to study sexual selection. BMC Evol Biol 14: 148.

Janicke T, Vellnow N, Lamy T, Chapuis E, David P (2014) Inbreeding depression of mating behavior and its reproductive consequences in a freshwater snail. Behav Ecol 25: 288-299.

Janicke T, Marie-Orleach L, De Mulder K, Berezikov E, Ladurner P, Vizoso DB, Schärer L (2013) Sex allocation adjustment to mating group size in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Evolution 67: 3233–3242.

Janicke T, Vellnow N, Sarda V, David P (2013) Sex-specific inbreeding depression depends on the strength of male-male competition. Evolution 67: 2861-2875.

Roulin A, Routtu J, Hall MD, Janicke T, Colson I, Haag CR, Ebert, D (2013). Local adaptation of sex-induction in a facultative sexual crustacean: insights from QTL mapping and natural populations of Daphnia magna. Mol Ecol 22: 3567-3579.

Marie-Orleach L, Janicke T, Schärer L (2013) Effects of mating status on copulatory and post-copulatory behaviour in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Anim Behav 85: 453-461.

Janicke T, Kesselring H, Schärer L (2012) Strategic mating effort in a simultaneous hermaphrodite: the role of the partner's feeding status. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 66: 593-601.

Janicke T, Sandner P, Schärer L (2011) Determinants of female fecundity in a simultaneous hermaphrodite: the role of polyandry and food availability. Evol Ecol 25: 203-218.

Janicke T, Schärer L (2010) Sperm competition affects sex allocation but not sperm morphology in a flatworm. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64: 1367-1375.

Janicke T, Schärer L (2009) Sex allocation predicts mating rate in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Proc R Soc B-Biol Sci 276:4247-4253.

Schärer L, Janicke T (2009) Sex allocation and sexual conflict in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals. Biol Lett 5:705-708.

Janicke T, Schärer L (2009) Determinants of mating and sperm-transfer success in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. J Evol Biol 22:405-415.

Janicke T, Hahn S (2008) On the performance of brown skua, Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi, vocalizations: reply. Anim Behav 76: E3-E5.

Janicke T, Hahn S, Ritz MS & Peter H-U (2008) Vocal performance reflects individual quality in a non-passerine. Anim Behav 75: 91-98.

Janicke T, Ritz MS, Hahn S, Peter, H-U (2007) Sex recognition in Brown Skuas: Do acoustic signals matter? J Ornithol 148: 565-569.

Hahn S, Reinhardt K, Ritz MS, Janicke T, Montalti D, Peter H-U (2007) Oceanographic and climatic factors differentially affect reproduction performance of Antarctic skuas. Mar Ecol-Prog Ser 334: 287-297.

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