An Integrative Approach to Understanding Convergent Evolution in Ant-eating Mammals

Project Information

ConvergeAnt

Grant agreement ID: 683257

DOI 10.3030/683257

Project closed

EC signature date 25 May 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 880 570,00

EU contribution € 1 880 570,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Genomic evidence for the parallel regression of melatonin synthesis and signaling pathways in placental mammals

Author(s): Christopher A. Emerling; Mark S. Springer; John Gatesy; Zachary Jones; Deana Hamilton; David Xia-Zhu; Matt Collin; Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 1-75, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: F1000 Research Limited on behalf of the European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13795.2

Growing and maintaining a network for early career researchers through the Animal Microbiome Research Group

Author(s): Mason Stothart; Sophie Teullet; Shasta Webb
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology, Issue 31, 2022, Page(s) 108-11, ISSN 1520-6505
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21941

Flexible conservatism in the skull modularity of convergently evolved myrmecophagous placental mammals

Author(s): Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso; Julien Claude; Anjali Goswami; Frédéric Delsuc; Lionel Hautier
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 22, 2022, Page(s) 87, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02030-9

Comparative masticatory myology in anteaters and its implications for interpreting morphological convergence in myrmecophagous placentals

Author(s): Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Benoit de Thoisy, Frédéric Delsuc, Lionel Hautier
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 8, 2020, Page(s) e9690, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9690

The Effects of Captivity on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome

Author(s): Valerie J. McKenzie, Se Jin Song, Frédéric Delsuc, Tiffany L. Prest, Angela M. Oliverio, Timothy M. Korpita, Alexandra Alexiev, Katherine R. Amato, Jessica L. Metcalf, Martin Kowalewski, Nico L. Avenant, Andres Link, Anthony Di Fiore, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Claudia Feh, Ludovic Orlando, Joseph R. Mendelson, Jon Sanders, Rob Knight
Published in: Integrative and Comparative Biology, Issue 57/4, 2017, Page(s) 690-704, ISSN 1540-7063
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx090

Chitinase genes ( CHIA s) provide genomic footprints of a post-Cretaceous dietary radiation in placental mammals

Author(s): Christopher A. Emerling, Frédéric Delsuc, Michael W. Nachman
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 4/5, 2018, Page(s) eaar6478, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar6478

MACSE v2: Toolkit for the Alignment of Coding Sequences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

Author(s): Vincent Ranwez, Emmanuel J P Douzery, Cédric Cambon, Nathalie Chantret, Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 35/10, 2018, Page(s) 2582-2584, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy159

Les chitinases, témoins de la radiation des mammifères placentaires

Author(s): Frédéric Delsuc, Christopher A. Emerling, Michael W. Nachman
Published in: médecine/sciences, Issue 35/1, 2019, Page(s) 12-15, ISSN 0767-0974
Publisher: Editions E D K
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2018317

Evolutionary Tinkering of the Mandibular Canal Linked to Convergent Regression of Teeth in Placental Mammals

Author(s): Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso, Frédéric Delsuc, Lionel Hautier
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 29/3, 2019, Page(s) 468-475.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.023

OrthoMaM v10: Scaling-Up Orthologous Coding Sequence and Exon Alignments with More than One Hundred Mammalian Genomes

Author(s): Celine Scornavacca, Khalid Belkhir, Jimmy Lopez, Rémy Dernat, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J P Douzery, Vincent Ranwez
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 36/4, 2019, Page(s) 861-862, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz015

Odontogenic ameloblast-associated (ODAM) is inactivated in toothless/enamelless placental mammals and toothed whales

Author(s): Mark S. Springer, Christopher A. Emerling, John Gatesy, Jason Randall, Matthew A. Collin, Nikolai Hecker, Michael Hiller, Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Issue 19/1, 2019, ISSN 1471-2148
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1359-6

Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats

Author(s): Se Jin Song, Jon G. Sanders, Frédéric Delsuc, Jessica Metcalf, Katherine Amato, Michael W. Taylor, Florent Mazel, Holly L. Lutz, Kevin Winker, Gary R. Graves, Gregory Humphrey, Jack A. Gilbert, Shannon J. Hackett, Kevin P. White, Heather R. Skeen, Sarah M. Kurtis, Jack Withrow, Thomas Braile, Matthew Miller, Kevin G. McCracken, James M. Maley, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Allison Williams, Jessica M. Blan
Published in: mBio, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02901-19

Skull shape variation in extant pangolins (Pholidota: Manidae): allometric patterns and systematic implications

Author(s): Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso, Guillaume Billet, Philippe Gaubert, Frédéric Delsuc, Lionel Hautier
Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 188, 2019, Page(s) 255-275, ISSN 0024-4082
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz096

MitoFinder: Efficient automated large‐scale extraction of mitogenomic data in target enrichment phylogenomics

Author(s): Rémi Allio, Alex Schomaker‐Bastos, Jonathan Romiguier, Francisco Prosdocimi, Benoit Nabholz, Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13160

High-quality carnivoran genomes from roadkill samples enable comparative species delineation in aardwolf and bat-eared fox

Author(s): Rémi Allio, Marie-Ka Tilak, Celine Scornavacca, Nico L Avenant, Andrew C Kitchener, Erwan Corre, Benoit Nabholz, Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: eLife, Issue 10, 2021, Page(s) e63167, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.63167

Book chapters (3)

Aligning Protein-Coding Nucleotide Sequences with MACSE.

Author(s): Vincent Ranwez; Nathalie Chantret; Frédéric Delsuc
Published in: Methods in Molecular Biology vol. 2231: Multiple Sequence Alignment., Issue 4, 2020, Page(s) 51-70
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1036-7_4

To what extent current limits of phylogenomics can be overcome?

Author(s): Paul Simion, Frédéric Delsuc, Hervé Philippe
Published in: Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era, Issue 2.1, 2020, Page(s) 1-34
Publisher: No Commercial Publisher, Authors Open Access Book

Accurate alignment of (meta)barcoding datasets using MACSE

Author(s): Frédéric Delsuc, Vincent Ranwez
Published in: Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era, Issue 2.3, 2020, Page(s) 1-31
Publisher: No Commercial Publisher, Authors Open Access Book

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

"3D models related to the publication: ""Comparative masticatory myology in anteaters and its implications for interpreting morphological convergence in myrmecophagous placentals"""

Author(s): Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Benoît de Thoisy, Frédéric Delsuc, Lionel Hautier
Published in: MorphoMuseuM, Issue 6/4, 2020, Page(s) e114, ISSN 2274-0422
Publisher: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution
DOI: 10.18563/journal.m3.114

Monographic books (1)

Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era

Author(s): Celine Scornavacca, Frédéric Delsuc, Nicolas Galtier
Published in: 2020, Page(s) 563 pages
Publisher: No Commercial Publisher, Authors Open Access Book