(Karine Van Doninck's lab)
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS AND ECOLOGY OF BDELLOID ROTIFERS
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Bdelloid
rotifers are of particular interest to evolutionary biologists. Their
unique clonal mode of reproduction, together with their ready accessibility
to laboratory experimentation, make this group an unusual, attractive
model to study the consequences of long-term asexual evolution. In
addition to their famous ancient asexuality, bdelloid rotifers have
the capacity to desiccate at any stage in their life cycle. This characteristic
enables bdelloid rotifers to colonize unpredictable semi-terrestrial
niches such as mosses and lichens. We are currently studying the genetic consequences of the desiccation phenomenon and the actual level of genetic diversity found in a bdelloid species population inhabiting lichens and mosses. |
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| RESEARCHERS INVOLVED | ||
Dr. JF Flot, Boris Hespeels, Xiang Li and collaborators Dr. Diego Fontaneto (Institute of Ecosystem Study, Italy) and Dr. Romain Koszul (Institut Pasteur, France) |
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Karine
Van Doninck University of Namur (FUNDP) Department of Biology (URBE) Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Ecology (LEGE) 61, Rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur - Belgium Tel : * 32 (0)81 724407 Fax : * 32 (0)81 724362 karine.vandoninck@fundp.ac.be |
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