Publications

Romiguier J., Gayral P., Ballenghien M., Bernard A., Cahais V., Chenuil A., Chiari Y., Dernat R., Duret L., Faivre N., Loire E., Lourenco J.M., Nabholz B., Roux C., Tsagkogeorga G., Weber A.A.-T, Weinert L.A., Belkhir K., Bierne N., Glémin S., Galtier N. 2014 Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity. Nature doi10.1038/nature13685 [ related dataset : '' ]

Romiguier J., Lourenço J.M., Gayral P., Faivre N., Weinert L.A., Ravel S., Ballenghien M., Cahais V., Bernard A., Loire E., Keller L., Galtier N. 2014 Population genomics of eusocial insects: the costs of a vertebrate-like effective population size Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press)

Romiguier J., Ranwez V., Delsuc F., Galtier N. & Douzery E.P. 2013 Less is more in mammalian phylogenomics: AT-rich genes minimize tree conflicts and unravel the root of placental mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:2134-2144

Guéguen L., Gaillard S., Boussau B., Gouy M., Groussin M., Rochette N., Bigot T., Pouyet F., Cahais V., Bernard A., Scornavacca C., Nabholz B., Haudry A., Galtier N., Belkhir J. & Dutheil J. 2013 Bio++: efficient, extensible libraries and tools for molecular evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:1745-1750

Romiguier J., Ranwez V., Douzery E.J.P. & Galtier N. 2013 Genomic evidence for large, long-lived ancestors to placental mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:5-13.

Lourenço J., Glémin S., Chiari Y. & Galtier N. 2013 The determinants of the molecular substitution process in turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:38-50. [ related dataset : '' ]

Lourenço J., Glémin S. & Galtier N. 2013 The rate of molecular adaptation in a changing environment. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:1292-1301. [ related dataset : '' ]

Gayral P., Melo-Ferreira J., Glémin S., Bierne N., Carneiro M., Nabholz B., Lourenço J.M., Alves P.C., Ballenghien M., Faivre N., Belkhir K., Cahais V., Loire E., Bernard A. & Galtier N. 2013 Reference-free population genomics from Next-Generation transcriptome data and the vertebrate-invertebrate gap. PLoS Genetics 9:e10003457. [ related dataset : '' ]

Roux C., Tsagkogeorga G., Bierne N. & Galtier N. 2013 Crossing the species barrier: genomic hotspots of introgression between two highly divergent Ciona intestinalis species. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:1574-1587 [ related dataset : '' ]

Loire E., Chiari Y., Bernard A., Cahais V., Romiguier J., Nabholz B., Lourenço J., Galtier N. 2013 Population genomics of the endangered giant Galápagos tortoise. Genome Biology 14:R136 [ related dataset : '' ]

Lourenço J., Glémin S., Chiari Y., Galtier N. 2012 The determinants of the molecular substitution process in turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press)

Romiguier J., Ranwez V., Douzery E.J.P., Galtier N. 2012 Genomic evidence for large, long-lived ancestors to placental mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press) [ related dataset : '' ]

Chiari Y., Cahais V., Galtier N., Delsuc F. 2012 Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria). BMC Biology 10:65

Tsagkogeorga G., Cahais V., Galtier N. 2012 The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. Genome Biology and Evolution (in press)

Cahais V., Gayral P., Tsagkogeorga G., Melo-Ferreira J., Ballenghien M., Weinert L., Chiari Y. Belkhir K., Ranwez V., Galtier N. 2012 Reference-free transcriptome assembly in non-model animals from next generation sequencing data. Molecular Ecology Resources (in press)

Romiguier J., Figuet E., Galtier N., Douzery E.J., Boussau B., Dutheil J.Y., Ranwez V. 2012 Fast and robust characterization of time-heterogeneous sequence evolutionary processes using substitution mapping. PLoS ONE 7:e33852

Dutheil J.Y., Galtier N., Romiguier J., Douzery E.J.P, Ranwez V., Boussau B. 2012 Efficient selection of branch-specific models of sequence evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:1861-1874

Carneiro M., Albert F.W., Melo-Fereira J., Galtier N., Gayral P., Alves P.C., Blanco-Aguiar J., Villafuerte R., Nachman M.W., Ferrand N. 2012 Evidence for widespread positive and purifying selection across the european rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:1837-1849

Lourenço J., Claude J., Galtier N., Chiari Y. 2012 Dating cryptodiran nodes: origin and diversification of the turtle superfamily Testudinoidea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62:496-507

Galtier N. 2011 The intriguing evolutionary dynamics of plant mitochondrial DNA. BMC Biology 9:61

Escobar J.S. , Glémin S., Galtier N. 2011 GC-biased gene conversion impacts ribosomal DNA evolution in vertebrates, angiosperms and other eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28:2561-2575

P. Gayral, L. Weinert, Y. Chiari, G. Tsagkogeorga, M. Ballenghien and N. Galtier. 2011 Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes: a guide to RNA isolation in non-model animals. Molecular Ecology Resources 11:650-661

Lourenco J., Galtier N., Glémin S. 2011 Complexity, pleiotropy and the fitness effect of mutations. Evolution 65:1559-1571

Chiari Y., Galtier N. 2011 RNA extraction from sauropsid blood: evaluation and improvement of methods. Amphibia-Reptilia 32:136-139

Jobson R.W., Dehne-Garcia A., Galtier N. 2010 Apparent longevity-related adaptation of mitochondrial amino acid content is due to nucleotide compositional shifts. Mitochondrion 10:540-547

Romiguier J., Ranwez V., Douzery E., Galtier N. 2010 Contrasting GC-content dynamics across 33 mammalian genomes : relationship with life history traits and chromosome size. Genome Research 20:1001-1009

Tsagkogeorga G., Turon X., Galtier N., Douzery E.J.P., Delsuc F. 2010 Accelerated evolutionary rate of housekeeping genes in tunicates. Journal of Molecular Evolution 71:153-167

Jobson R.W., Nabholz B., Galtier N. 2010 An evolutionary genome scan reveals the targets for longevity-related natural selection in mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:840-847

Galtier N., Nabholz B, Glémin S., Hurst G.D.D. 2009 Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal. Molecular Ecology 18:4541-4550