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News of the EPE team

  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

• Movie projection “Au coeur du réseau” in the framework of the 60 year campus Anniversary and with CNRS Science en Lumière at the BNU, Sept 21 2020 (https://www.bnu.fr/fr/evenements-culturels/agenda-culturel/au-coeur-du-reseau-querelles-de-voisinage-chez-les-ecureuils)
• Movie projection “Au coeur du réseau” in the framework of the 60 year campus Anniversary at the IPHC, Sept 22 2020
  Move teaser on-line https://vimeo.com/458854829
• Interviews at RCF (https://rcf.fr/actualite/actualite-locale/journal-local-1er-octobre-2020-7h at 5’19) and https://rcf.fr/actualite/un-documentaire-pour-comprendre-le-stress-social-chez-les-ecureuils

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

• Newspaper report about the exotic pond turtle in Kehl (C. Schradin) : More than 50 individuals, most from an invasive species, were caught and transferred to an animal shelter.
  https://www.bo.de/lokales/kehl/schildkroeten-studie-in-kehl
• Changing ties that naturally bind. How are information, disease, and social evolution linked ? Eurekaler
  https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/ku-ctt082520.php
• Animals too have social networks ! Nature Research Communities, nature research blog
  https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/animals-too-have-social-networks

  July 2020

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Dobson F.S., Murie J.O., Viblanc V.A. 2000. Fitness evaluation for ecological studies : an evalutation in Columbian ground squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00216.
• Romano V., MacIntosh A., Sueur C. Stemming the flow : information, infection and social evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534720301841

Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports

• Schradin, C. 2020. Mammalogy Techniques Lab Manual by James M. Ryan. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 95, 141-142.

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

• Criscuolo F. « La Covid-19 est un rappel que l’humanité doit évoluer » https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/coronavirus-rappel-humanite-evolution-177306
• True Facts : Macaques (with videos by Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur) https://youtu.be/wZ4cadzCZUI
• Introduction à l’éthique animale par Cédric Sueur : https://youtu.be/WzmcZDMs8lk
• Introduction au Droit animal par Cédric Sueur : https://youtu.be/Qsk3_uh-NpY

Presentations

• Carsten Schradin is a co-host and organiser of the new International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-GA

  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

• Droit des animaux, histoire du véganisme… L’université s’empare de la cause animale.
• Des écureuils sous pression sociale. CNRS - Zeste de Sciences.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTOhpuATfU
• Romano V. Explanatory video : Model for analysing social networks in Prehistory.
  https://twitter.com/Valeria__Romano/status/1247132296584593408?s=20
• Researchers suggest a new model for analyzing the social networks of Prehistory.
  https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/191238?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/191238

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

• Choné A., Iribarren I., Pelé M., Repussard C., Sueur C. 2020. Les études animales sont-elles bonnes à penser ? Éditions l’Harmattan. 198 pages. ISBN : 978-2-343-19276-5
• Choné A., Iribarren I., Pelé M., Repussard C., Sueur C. 2020. Repenser la relation homme-animal. Éditions l’Harmattan. 166 pages. ISBN : 978-2-343-19277-2

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

• C. Sueur Vidéo Table ronde : « SARU, Vie et comportements culturels des macaques japonais »
• Stress et santé chez les animaux : ce que nous apprend le stress des écureuils. Le Journal du CNRS

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

• Criscuolo F. and Sueur C. (2020) An evolutionary point of view of animal ethics. Frontiers in Psychology, section Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. In press.
• Sosa S, Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur C. 2020. Network measures in animal social network analysis : their strengths, limits, interpretations and uses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, in press

Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports

• Quque M., Bles O. (2020) Lasius. In : Starr C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham
  · 10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_169-1

Preprints (unpublished manuscript available on review servers)

• Romano, V., Sueur, C., & MacIntosh, A. J. (2020, February 4). The trade-off between information and pathogen transmission in animal societies. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vqt4g

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

• The Columbian ground squirrel project led by VA Viblanc and FS Dobson received coverage by the CNRS images and Le Monde. Stay tuned for a full length movie coming up next summer !
  https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/video/2020/01/31/ce-que-nous-apprend-le-stress-des-ecureuils_6027950_1650684.html
• MOOC Vivre avec les autres animaux, https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:uved+34010+session01/about
• [S]city : Naviguer dans la foule : comment notre cerveau évite t-il les collisions ? https://www.scity-lab.com/blog/2020/1/13/naviguer-dans-la-foule-
• The PrimateCast #57 : "Saving the golden lion tamarin with D^r. Valéria Romano

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.

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