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News of the EPE team
December 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Martinet L & Pelé M.2020. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcom0000251. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
- Schradin, C. 2020. Successful reproduction of Trachemys scripta in the Altrhein of Kehl (Germany) and simultaneous increase in population estimate. The Herpetological Bulletin, 154, 1-7.
- Stier A, Bize P, Massemin S & Criscuolo F. (2020). Long-term intake of the illegal diet pill DNP reduces lifespan in a captive bird model. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C, 108944. https://www-sciencedirect-com.in2p3.bib.cnrs.fr/science/article/pii/S1532045620302441
- Sueur C, Forin-Wiart M, Pelé M. 2020. Are They Really Trying to Save Their Buddy ? The Anthropomorphism of Animal Epimeletic Behaviours. Animals, 10(12), 2323 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10122323
Sueur C, Georges JY, Matsuzawa T, Pelé M. 2020. Editorial : Perceptions of Human-Animal Relationships and their Impacts on Animal Ethics, Law and Research. Frontiers in Psychology, doi : 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.631238
Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports
Presentations
- Colloque L’Animal à l’Anthropocène : Les perceptions des relations humains-animaux et leurs impacts sur l’éthique animale et l’éthique environnementale, Cédric SUEUR et Marie PELE (IPHC - CNRS / UniStra, Strasbourg)
Media coverage
- Distanciation sociale chez les animaux | ZdS#38, Zeste de Science / Les séries originales du CNRS, https://youtu.be/VjfCBUit3D8
- Film “Au coeur du Réseau”. Projected by Télégrenoble, 26 Dec 2020
New grants
Congratulation
- VA Viblanc joins the IUCN Penguin Specialist Group
- Warm congratulations to Martin Quque, who successfully defended his thesis “ Coevolution of sociality and aging in animal society” the 17th November both at the University Libre of Brussels and the 17th December at the University of Strasbourg. The jury composed of Serge Aron and Jean-Christophe de Biseau d’Hauteville (Brussels), Audrey Dussutour (Toulouse), Sylvie Massemin (Strasbourg) recognized the exceptional value of his pluridisciplinary work and granted him with the PhD diploma of both universities. I was delighted to be the co-supervisor of Martin and wish him the best to pursue his promising scientific carrier. Video temporarily available online : https://youtu.be/rtbSDIKM7mQ
- We would like to happily congratulate two former PhDs of the EPE teams, Sophie Reichert and Antoine Stier that became parents of a beautiful Maximilien the 2nd of January. Certainly a future great evolutionary biologist as he will inherits great genes and perfect parental care environment !
November 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Letang B, Mulot B, Alert V, Bionda T, Britton L, Meulen T, Szantho J, Guéry JP, Sueur C. 2020. Social proximities of developing gorilla males (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in European zoos : the consequences of castration and social composition. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, in press.
- Naud A, Sueur C, Chaix B, Kestens Y. 2020. Combining social network and activity space data for health research : Tools and methods. Health and Place, 66, 102454
- Criscuolo F, Pillay N, Zahn S & Schradin C. Seasonal variation in telomere dynamics in African striped mice. Oecologia, in press. https://link-springer-com.in2p3.bib.cnrs.fr/article/10.1007/s00442-020-04801-x
- Tschirren B, Zahn S, Romero-Haro AA & Criscuolo F. Sex-specific effects of experimental ectoparasite infestation on telomere length in great tit nestlings. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.13744
- Criscuolo F, Torres R, Zahn S & Williams T. Telomere dynamics from hatching to sexual maturity and the multivariate egg. J. Exp. Biol., in press. https://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2020/11/01/jeb.232496
Presentations
- Valéria Romano is a co-host and organizer of the PALEODEM webinars : "Social networks and Cultural Evolution in Hunter-gatherers". https://paleodem.eu/paleodem-webinars/
- Romano V.*, Lozano S.*, Gomez-Puche M., Cucart-Mora C., Zumalabe R., Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, J. When prehistoric archaeology meets network science : testing demography-dependent models of cultural change. Webinar series : “Social networks and cultural evolution in hunter-gatherers”. November/2020. Oral presentation. *Co-presenters
- Vincent Viblanc Film ”Au coeur du Réseau”. Online projection and debate with school pupils (6-12 years old). Le Vaisseau, Strasbourg, 21 Nov 2020 (some 20 participants)
Media coverage
Other news

- Mathilde Lejeune on Crozet Island
October 2020
Visitors
- The EPE team and the DEPE were happy to host Adrian Moreno Borrallo, a master II student who made his matser at the Museum of National History of Madrid (Dr Alonso-Alvarez ; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Alonso-Alvarez) in 2019-2020. During his one week visit, he worked with F Bertile (DSA) and F Criscuolo on a thesis subject on glycation stress in birds to submit in 2021.
September 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Mosovice Liza, Sueur Cédric, Aureli Filippo. 2020.How socio-ecological factors influence the differentiation of social relationships : an integrated conceptual framework. Biology Letters, 16 : 20200384 : https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0384
- Schradin, C., Drouard, F., Lemonnier, G., Askew, G., Olivier, C.A., Pillay, N. 2020. Geographic intra-specific variation in social organization is driven by population density. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74, 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02896-z
- Agnani, P., Thomson, J., Schradin, C. & Careau, V. 2020. The fast and the curious II : performance, personality, and metabolism in Karoo bush rats. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, 123.
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00265-020-02908-y?sharing_token=1_noMlaV19OKRmI8ny-BN_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6W2bSQNvAaxWy92E4NithXnXnIo2IgfZzbnsOeUANyEGB9bK1-ulMVIho9j3qzrzMQLsBlOnbRLMGJC_rs7xzl9LLG9CtSVGiuMPPqrXdoAVRm4WFjuNsCrvXhlPMc9oA%3D
Presentations
- Schradin, C. 30. September 2020. Populationsanstieg und wiederholte Fortpflanzung invasiver Rotwangen-Schmuckschildkröten beim Altrhein von Kehl. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany.
Media coverage
Visitors
- Florence Levrero and Nicolas Mathevon visited the 10-11. Sept and took some striped mice to Lyon for a study on ultra-sound communication. A master student will start in January in Lyon.
Congratulation
- Welcome to Maïly Kervella, starting a new PhD (2020-2023) on ageing in ants, in collaboration with the DSA (F Bertile) and the Institut Cochin (F Bouillaud). This program is supported by the Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et l’Interdisciplinarité du CNRS. http://www.cnrs.fr/mi/
- Welcome to Anouch Tamian who is just starting her PhD on the effects of microclimate on the phonology, behavior and physiology of Columbian ground squirrels ! Together with VA Viblanc and C Saraux (Adage team) and F Bertile (DSA)
- Welcome to Valentin Heit who is starting a 1-year internship to build a data base and web-application for long-term data sets with a focus on Columbian ground squirrels with VA Viblanc and C Saraux (Adage team) and E Kieffer (DRS) and JM Gallone (DRHIM)
- Welcome to M Lejeune who will be overwintering in Crozet for 2020-21for the Econergy 119 Polar program (VA Viblanc and JP Robin - AMVEC team)
- Welcome to M Fusiller who will be overwintering in Crozet for 2020-21 in part for the Econergy 119 Polar program (VA Viblanc and JP Robin - AMVEC team)
August 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Sosa, S., Puga-Gonzalez, I., Hu, H. F., Peng, Z., Xiaohua, X., & Sueur, C. (2020). A multilevel statistical toolkit to study animal social networks : Animal Network Toolkit (ANT) R package. Scientific Reports.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69265-8 - Rat M, Mathe-Hubert H, McKechnie AE, Sueur C, Cunningham S. 2020. Extreme and variable environmental temperatures are linked to reduction of social network cohesiveness in a highly social passerine. Oikos, in press. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07463
- Rubach, K. K., Dobson, F. S., Zinner, B., Murie, J. O., & Viblanc, V. A. (2020). Comparing fitness measures and the influence of age of first reproduction in Columbian ground squirrels. Journal of Mammalogy. https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa086/5881692?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Preprints (unpublished manuscript available on review servers)
- Schradin, C. 2020. Successful reproduction of Trachemys scripta in the Altrhein of Kehl (Germany) and simultaneous increase of estimated population size. bioRxiv, 2020.2008.2006.240788.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.06.240788v1 - Maggie Wiśniewska, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Phyllis Lee, Cynthia J. Moss, Gareth Russell, Simon Garnier, Cédric Sueur. Simulated poaching affects connectedness and efficiency in social networks of African savanna elephants. bioRxiv 2020.08.24.252536 ; doi : https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.24.252536
- Isaac Debache, Cédric Sueur, Julie Vallée et al. Does built environment influence physical activity and body postures in homework journeys ?, 10 June 2020, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-34120/v1
Presentations
- Romano V, Lozano S, Gomez-Puche M, Cucart-Mora C, Zumalabe R, Fernández‐López de Pablo J. A Network-based Approach to Model the Spread of Late Mesolithic Trapeze-based Industries in Iberia. European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2020 - Virtual Annual Meeting. 27 August 2020.
Media coverage
July 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports
Presentations
- Romano V. Trading-off information and infection : implications for social evolution. Webinar. Université du Québec à Montréal. 29th of July, 2020
Congratulation
- Martin Quque got a temporary position as Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche, University of Strasbourg - from September, 1st 2020 to August, 31 2021.
- Congratulation to Ines Fache who succesfully defended her master II on little owl, a collaboration with the ADAGE team (J Bleu) and the volunteers of the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux. We wish her the best for the next step of her promising scientific career.
June 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Dobson FS, Murie JO, Viblanc VA. 2020. Fitness estimation for ecological studies : an evaluation in Columbian ground squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 216 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00216/abstract
- Constant T, Giroud S, Viblanc VA, Tissier ML, Bergeron P, Dobson FS, Habold C. 2020. Integrating mortality risks and the adaptiveness of hibernation. Frontiers in Physiology 11, 706 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.00706
- Debache I, Jeantet L, Chevallier D, Bergouignan A, Sueur C. 2020. A lean and performant hierarchical model for human activity recognition using body-mounted sensors. Sensors, 20(11), 3090 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113090
- Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur, C, Sosa S. 2020. Null models for animal social network analysis and data collected via focal sampling : pre- or network permutation ? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00 : 1– 11. DOI : 10.1111/2041-210X.13400
- Meyer X, MacIntosh A, Chiaradia A, Kato A, Ramírez Francisco, Sueur C, Ropert-Coudert Y. 2020. Oceanic thermal structure mediates dive sequences in a foraging seabird. Ecology and Evolution, 00:1-13. DOI : 10.1111/1744-7917.12792
- Viblanc VA, Schull Q, Stier A, Durand L, Lefol E, Robin JP, Zahn S, Bize P, Criscuolo F. 2020. Foster rather than biological parental telomere length predicts offspring survival and telomere length in king penguins. Molecular Ecology, in press.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15485
Media coverage
Presentations
April 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Canteloup C, Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur C, van de Waal E. 2020. The effects of data collection and observation methods on uncertainty of social networks in wild primates. American Journal of Primatology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23137
- Criscuolo F., Sueur C., Bergouignan A. 2020. Human adaptation to deep space environment : an evolutionary perspective of the foreseen interplanetary exploration. Frontiers in Public Health, section Environmental Health. doi : 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00119
- Quque M, Bles O, Bénard A, Héraud A, Meunier B, Criscuolo F, Deneubourg JL, Sueur C. 2020. Hierarchical networks of food exchange in the black garden ant Lasius niger. Insect Science, in press. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12792
- Romano V, Lozano S & Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo J (2020) A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter–gatherer societies. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12599
- Sosa S, Dobson FS, Bordier C, Neuhaus P, Saraux C, Bosson C, Palme R, Boonstra R & Viblanc VA. 2020. Social stress in female Columbian ground squirrels : density-independent effects of kin contribute to variation in fecal glucocorticoid metabolites. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 74 : 50. https://rdcu.be/b3ptX
Media coverage
New grants
- PhD student contract for three years from the CNRS to Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur. Development on artificial intelligence to analyse humans and apes drawings.
March 2020
Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports
Presentations
- Dobson FS & Viblanc VA. Social environment, stress and evolutionary success. University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Sciences (USIAS) seminar. March, 12 - 2020.
Media coverage
New grants
- MITI 2020 Processus et techniques d’apprentissages (16k€) to Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur
Others
- A WhatsApp group “EPE works from home” was created at the start of the Corona crisis and soon extended for the entire lab to “DEPE works from home” to support a good work spirit and to increase communication of the lab during the period of confinement.
- The EPE (as part of the DEPE) donated gloves, laboratory equipment etc. for the fight against COVID-19.
- The Succulent Karoo Research Station had to close down due to the Corona crisis. One of the two managers left for her home country. The local authorities rejected access to a newly arrived foreign national who arrived to support the remaining manager who then also left the station.
- Heartfelt thanks and sincerest appreciation from all the EPE team members to all the medical personnel and all of those risking their lives in the fight against COVID-19.
February 2020
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports
Preprints (unpublished manuscript available on review servers)
Presentations
- Sueur, C., 2020, Research Gaps in Animal Social Network Analysis, Asura International Seminars, Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto University : http://www.wildlife-science.org/en/asura-seminar/20200131.html
- Sueur, C.« SARU, SINGES DU JAPON » – EXPOSITION ET CONFÉRENCE, Institut Français du Kansai, Kyoto, Japon
- VA Viblanc participated in the Ose La Recherche event organized by Le Vaisseau and CNRS on Feb 12, 2020. http://www.levaisseau.com/fr/familles/ose-la-recherche/
High school students were introduced to various research fields and invited to think about research problems and potential careers in science !
Media coverage
New grants
- Sueur, C., co-lauréat 80|Prime CNRS, Géopolitique du mouton : une leçon de modernité ? Faire société avec le bétail dans les turbulences du monde actuel
- Criscuolo F., Bertile F. (both IPHC) and Bouillaud F. (INSB, Hospital Cochin) get a PhD grant 80 Prime from the Mission for Interdisciplinarity of the CNRS to work on ants’ mitochondria. Starting date October 2020.
Visitors
Welcome to Valéria Romano, presently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alicante, Spain. Valéria is back to the DEPE and will be mainly working on human cultural evolution. Her research focuses on the interface between socio-spatial structure and cultural transmission using the archaeological record.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Valéria Romano and the Paleodem team (Javier Fernández-López de Pablo and Magda Gómez-Puche, http://paleodem.eu/), which got the Summer Course "Introduction to Modelling in Archaeology" selected by the Rafael Altamira call - University of Alicante, Spain.
January 2020
Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports
- Schradin, C. and R. H. Straub (2020). The role of the immune system from an evolutionary perspective Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education—for maternal and child healthcare students, clinicians, and scientists. J. Schulkin and J. Michael L. Power. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Visitors
- Welcome to Ines Fache, Master II from the University of Strasbourg, who started her Master II degree with J Bleu (ADAGE team, IPHC-DEPE), F Criscuolo and S Zahn on environmental factors driving breeding success and telomere dynamics in the little owl (Athene noctua). This work is based on the long-term database set-up since 2001 by Alsacian volunteers, managed by Bertrand Scaar. This program is conducted in collaboration with the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux.