Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu". © Ville de Fribourg

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨

I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy

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Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬🦌

We investigated inbreeding and demographic history of caribou across western Canada using genome-wide SNP data, covering 45 subpopulations grouped into 6 metapopulations.

Take a look 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reine solo sous les tropiques ou colonies géantes dans le désert, le climat dicte l'organisation des fourmis Une ou plusieurs reines, petites ou grandes colonies, ouvrières identiques ou différentes, comment expliquer l'étonnante diversité des sociétés de fourmis ? Une nouvelle étude montre que le climat jou...

Des tropiques aux déserts en passant par les régions tempérées, les fourmis n’organisent pas leurs sociétés de la même façon. Une nouvelle étude révèle une correspondance entre trois climats et trois modèles sociaux. 🐜

Finally, you can also hear me talk about our work on Swiss radio RTS (in French) 📻

You can also read the popular science article explaining our work here:

Les fourmis: un modèle d'adaptation | RTS Les colonies de fourmis ne sont pas toutes pareilles! Eddie Pérochon, doctorant à l'Université de Lausanne, révèle comment leur structure sociale varie selon l'environnement. Cette étude mondiale inéd...

À écouter également sur RTS, #CQFD avec @eperochon.bsky.social
🔗 www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

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The environment shapes the organization of ant societies A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions: ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the...

The environment shapes the organization of ant societies 🐜

A new research @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social published by @eperochon.bsky.social et al. in @pnas.org

Read the press release ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/en/1770...

Environmental conditions shape the global distribution of ant societies | PNAS Sociality has evolved several times and is a key strategy for overcoming environmental challenges and promoting ecological success. Yet, it remains...

Our new study is out in @pnas.org ! 🐜🌍
We show that the environment shapes how ant societies are distributed across the world. Accessible here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biology. Small populations can go extinct quickly or can develop into large established populations. Th...

Our article is now out in Oikos! If you are interested in exploring extinction probabilities in small populations ⬇️

@thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social

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Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them Aim Uncovering the effects of Müllerian mimetic interactions on the evolution of species niches and geographic distributions at a continental scale. Location Neotropics and part of Nearctic. Tim...

Finally published my master’s work in Global Ecology and Biogeography! 🦋🌎Huge thanks to all coauthors for their patience and support during this project. If you’re interested in butterflies/mimicry/biogeography, or just curious, you can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...