Publications by authors named "Virginie Thuillier"
Background: Functional traits are phenotypic traits that affect an organism's performance and shape ecosystem-level processes. The main challenge when using functional traits to quantify biodiversity is to choose which ones to measure since effort and money are limited. As one way of dealing with this, Hodgson et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic hepatic pathology in Western countries. It encompasses a spectrum of conditions ranging from simple steatosis to more severe and progressive non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) that can lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Obesity and related metabolic syndrome are important risk factors for the development of NAFLD, NASH and HCC.
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- * Daphnia magna, a small freshwater crustacean, exhibits a unique case where a dominant female sex-determining locus exists alongside its typical ESD, mapping to a low-recombining region in its genome.
- * The identified genomic region, which functions similarly to a sex-related supergene and contains key genes for sex differentiation, may offer insights into the evolutionary processes behind the development of sex chromosomes.
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- Many organisms have cryptic breeding systems that influence their ecology and evolution, making them hard to study through traditional observational methods.
- Genomic approaches, such as analyzing genetic transmission from parents to offspring, can help understand these systems, especially in cases like Daphnia magna where self-fertilization and automictic parthenogenesis are compared.
- This study confirms that offspring produced by automixis, primarily through terminal fusion, can be distinguished from those produced by self-fertilization using genome-wide heterozygosity data, highlighting the value of genomic techniques in revealing breeding mechanisms.
The digenetic trematode Schistosoma mansoni is a human parasite that uses the mollusc Biomphalaria glabrata as intermediate host. Specific S. mansoni strains can infect efficiently only certain B.
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