Julien Foucaud

Mis à jour 30-Mar-2021     

Thèse le 14 décembre 2007 à Montpellier SUPAGRO : Biologie évolutive d'une fourmi envahissante à la sexualité insolite, Wasmannia auropunctata. Direction Arnaud Estoup. Pdf de la thèse

Actuellement à l'INRAE Paris

Quelques publications sur Wasmannia
- Foucaud, J., H. Jourdan, J. Le Breton, A. Loiseau, D. Konghouleux and A. Estoup (2006). Rare sexual reproduction events in the clonal reproduction system of introduced populations of the little fire ant. Evolution 60: 1646-1657.
- Foucaud, J., D. Fournier, J. Orivel, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Loiseau, J. Le Breton, G. J. Kergoat and A. Estoup (2007). Sex and clonality in the little fire ant. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 2475-2473.
- Foucaud, J., J. Orivel, A. Loiseau, J. H. C. Delabie, H. Jourdan, D. Konghouleux, M. Vonshak, M. Tindo, J.-L. Mercier, D. Fresneau, J.-B. Mikissa, T. McGlynn, A. S. Mikheyev, J. Oettler and A. Estoup (2010). Worldwide invasion by the little fire ant: routes of introduction and eco-evolutionary pathways. Evolutionary Applications 3(4): 363-374.
- Fournier, D., A. Estoup, J. Orivel, J. Foucaud, H. Jourdan, J. Le Breton and L. Keller (2005). Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant. Nature 435: 1230-1234.
- Orivel, J., J. Grangier, J. Foucaud, J. Le Breton, F.-X. Andrès, H. Jourdan, J. H. C. Delabie, D. Fournier, P. Cerdan, B. Facon, A. Estoup and A. Dejean (2009). Ecologically heterogeneous populations of the invasive ant Wasmannia auropunctata within its native and introduced ranges. Ecological Entomology 34(4): 504-512.
- Rey, O., A. Loiseau, B. Facon, J. Foucaud, J. Orivel, J. M. Cornuet, S. Robert, G. Dobigny, J. H. C. Delabie, C. D. F. Mariano and A. Estoup (2011). Meiotic Recombination Dramatically Decreased in Thelytokous Queens of the Little Fire Ant and Their Sexually Produced Workers. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28(9): 2591-2601.
- Tindo, M., P. Mbenoun Masse, M. Kenne, R. Mony, J. Orivel, A. Doumtsop Fotio, A. Fotso Kuaté, C. Djiéto-Lordon, A. Fomena, A. Estoup, A. Dejean and J. Foucaud (2012). Current distribution and population dynamics of the little fire ant supercolony in Cameroon. Insectes Sociaux 59: 175-182. doi: 10.1007/s00040-011-0202-x.
- Vonshak, M., T. Dayan, J. Foucaud, A. Estoup and A. Hefetz (2009). The interplay between genetic and environmental effects on colony insularity in the clonal invasive little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 1667-1677.