Publications by authors named "Celine Blanc-Jolivet"

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  • Local adaptation plays a crucial role in how species differentiate and evolve, making it essential to understand genomic patterns for predicting maladaptation and ecosystem stability.
  • Researchers conducted whole-genome resequencing on 874 European beech individuals from 100 populations, revealing that genetic variation aligns with geographic distribution and isolation-by-distance principles.
  • While they identified a high-confidence genomic region linked to winter temperature adaptation, allelic variation at this locus did not correlate with fitness differences, highlighting the complexities of natural genetic variation in forest conservation amid climate change.
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Dipteryx timber has been heavily exploited in South America since 2000s due to the increasing international demand for hardwood. Developing tools for the genetic identification of Dipteryx species and their geographical origin can help to promote legal trading of timber. A collection of 800 individual trees, belonging to 6 different Dipteryx species, was genotyped based on 171 molecular markers.

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The Meliaceae family mainly consists of trees and shrubs with a pantropical distribution. In this study, the complete chloroplast genomes of four Meliaceae species were sequenced and compared with each other and with the previously published plastome. The five plastomes are circular and exhibit a quadripartite structure with high conservation of gene content and order.

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During the past decade, the use of DNA for forensic applications has been extensively implemented for plant and animal species, as well as in humans. Tracing back the geographical origin of an individual usually requires genetic assignment analysis. These approaches are based on reference samples that are grouped into populations or other aggregates and intend to identify the most likely group of origin.

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Background: Species delimitation in closely related plant taxa can be challenging because (i) reproductive barriers are not always congruent with morphological differentiation, (ii) use of plastid sequences might lead to misinterpretation, (iii) rare species might not be sampled. We revisited molecular-based species delimitation in the African genus Milicia, currently divided into M. regia (West Africa) and M.

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