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News of the EPE team

  July & August 2018

Publications

• Nater, C. R., Benthem, K. J., Canale, C. I., Schradin, C. & Ozgul, A. Density feedbacks mediate effects of environmental change on population dynamics of a semidesert rodent. Journal of Animal Ecology
• Romano V., Shen M., Pansanel J., MacIntosh A.J.J., Sueur C. 2018. Social transmission in networks : global efficiency peaks with intermediate levels of modularity. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, in press

Presentations

• Benoît Letang. IMPACT OF MALE CASTRATION AND SOCIAL LIVING CONDITIONS ON THE STRENGTH OF SOCIAL BONDS IN CAPTIVE GORILLA GROUPS : IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPEAN ZOO POPULATION MANAGEMENT. Talk, International Primatological Society, congress at Nairobi Kenya 19-25 August,
• Sueur C. 2018. Evolution of animal social networks. Invited speaker. Teikyo University, Uenohara, Japan, August 3rd.
• Sueur C. 2018. Evolution of animal social networks. Invited speaker. Primate Research institute, Inuyama, Japan, July 30th.

Congratulation

• Congratulations to Jeffrey D Roth, University of Auburn USA, who obtained a 8 month Chateaubriand fellowship to come and work in the EPE with Vincent Viblanc on the physiological and fitness costs of parasites in Columbian ground squirrels.

  June 2018

Publications

• Rimbach, R., S. Blanc, A. Zahariev, M. Gatta, N. Pillay, and C. Schradin. 2018. Seasonal variation in energy expenditure in a rodent inhabiting a winter-rainfall desert. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. https://rdcu.be/UGRL
• S Sosa, I Puga-Gonzalez, HH Feng, P Zhang, X Xiaohua, C Sueur. ANT (Animal Network Toolkit) R package : https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/14/347005
  A multilevel statistical toolkit to study animal social networks : Animal Network Toolkit (ANT) R package. bioRxiv, 347005
• C Sueur. Does elevated parasite richness in the environment affect daily path length of animals or is it the converse ? An answer bringing some new elements of discussion. Peer Community In Ecology
• C Sueur L’éthique et la communication du scientifique en recherche animale. . Lettre du CEERE, Centre Européen d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Ethique

Presentations

• C Sueur Symposium "Social Network Analysis in life science" at the XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference from June 26 to July 1, 2018
• B. Letang "Impact de la castration sur les relations sociales au sein des groupes captifs des gorilles des plaines de l’ouest : implications pour la gestion de la population". 48^e colloque de la Société Française pour l’Etude du Comportement Animal (SFECA), Rennes, 19-21 juin 2018.

New grants

• B. Letang : Bourse nationale SFECA 150€

Visitors

• Guila Ganem from the University of Montpellier gave a talk at the BEEPSS about social variation in Rhabdomys sister species.
• Alecia Carter from the University of Montpellier gave a talk at the BEEPSS about why baboons don’t have culture.

  May 2018

Publications

• Schradin, C., P. Vuarin, and R. Rimbach. The neoteny-helper hypothesis : When to expect and when not to expect endocrine mechanisms to regulate allo-parental care ? Physiology & Behavior.
• Schradin, C., L. D. Hayes, N. Pillay, and C. Bertelsmeier. 2018. The evolution of intraspecific variation in social organization. Ethology 0.

Visitors

• We would like to thank Prof T.D. Williams from Simon Fraser University for hosting F Criscuolo for two weeks, working on Vancouver starlings’ colony and on data collected in 2013 and 2015 where telomere length of adults and chicks have been measured at the IPHC. This is part of a PICS funded collaboration (2014-2017).

Congratulation

• Jeff Roth successfully acquired a Chateaubriand fellowship to join the EPE for a period of 8 months. He will be working on the costs of parasites and the thermal mismatch hypothesis with VA Viblanc

  April 2018

Publications

• Agnani, P., C. Kauffmann, L. D. Hayes, and C. Schradin. Intra‐specific variation in social organization of Strepsirrhines. American Journal of Primatology 0:e22758.
• Mallarino, R., N. Pillay, H. E. Hoekstra, and C. Schradin. 2018. African striped mice. Current Biology 28:R299-R301.
• Puga-Gonzalez I, Ostner J, Schülke O, Sosa S, Thierry B, Sueur C. 2018. Mechanisms of reciprocity and diversity in social networks : a modelling and comparative approach. Behavioral Ecology, in press
• Ramos A, Manizan L, Rodriguez E, Kemp YJM, Sueur C. 2018. How can leadership processes in European bison be used to improve the management of free-roaming herds ? European Journal of Wildlife Research, 64:18
• Wu CF, Liao ZJ, Sueur C, Mun Sha JC, Zhang P. 2018. The influence of kinship and dominance hierarchy on grooming partner choice in free-ranging Macaca mulatta brevicaudus. Primates, in press

Media coverage

• "Le pouvoir nuit-il gravement au cerveau ?", sur Public Sénat
  https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/politique/dans-la-tete-du-pouvoir-84244

Visitors

• Heiko Rödel from the University of Paris 13 gave a talk at the BEEPSS about sibling effects in rabbits.
• Barbara Tschirren from the University of Exeter gave a talk at the BEEPSS about maternal effects in quails.

• We would like to thank our collaborator, D^r Steven Smith from the University of Vienna (https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/konrad-lorenz-institute-of-ethology/about-us/our-team/smith-steven/) for hosting Sandrine Zahn in his laboratory (16 – 28th May) to work on the measure of telomerase activity by Droplet Digital qPCR in mammal and bird’s species.

Congratulation

• Congratulations to Prof. Steve Dobson (http://www.auburn.edu/cosam/faculty/biology/dobson/) who gets an USIAS fellowship from the University of Strasbourg to stay at the IPHC for two years working on social stress and fitness in mammals.

  March 2018

Media coverage

• The starting program on the little owl done in collaboration with the LPO Alsace has been the subject of an article in the journal “Savoir(s)” of the University of Strasbourg.
  http://www.lactu.unistra.fr/index.php?id=27319

Visitors

• We hosted for one day two students from Fabrice Helfenstein’s research group (University of Neuchâtel), Magali Meniri and Ségolène Humann-Guilleminot to discuss collaborations on ageing patterns in bats and house sparrow based on telomere measurements in sperm, and on sociality and ageing co-evolution in ground-squirrels (future postdoc co-application).

  February 2018

Publications

• Rimbach, R., J. Jäger, N. Pillay, and C. Schradin. 2018. Food Availability Is the Main Driver of Seasonal Changes in Resting Metabolic Rate in African Striped Mice (Rhabdomys pumilio). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 91:826-833.
• Viblanc, VA. 2018. Macrophysiology as a powerful tool for evaluating metapopulation stress and the effectiveness of conservation actions. Functional Ecology 32 : 232-233

  January 2018

Publications

• Destoumieux-Garzón D., Mavingui P., Boetch G., Boissier J., Darriet F., Duboz P., Fritsch C., Giraudoux P., Le Roux F., Morand S., Paillard C., Pontier D., Sueur C. and Voituron Y.. 2018. The One Healthconcept : 10 years old and a long road ahead. Front. Vet. Sci. - Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. In press.
• Lardy S, Gasparini J, Corbel H, Frantz A, Perret S, Zahn S, Criscuolo F and Jacquin L. Telomere erosion after an imuune challenge depends on sex and age at injection but not on maternal antibodies in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Zoology, in press. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.2142/abstract
• Schull Q, Viblanc VA, Dobson FS, Robin JP, Zahn S, Cristofari R, Bize P, Criscuolo F. 2018. Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0094

Visitors

• D^r. Céline Rochais from the Université de Rennes 1 visited the DEPE