Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité
UMR 7205 MNHN/CNRS
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Manuela LOPEZ VILLAVICENCIO
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Département Systématique et Évolution
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Paris, 75231
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Research interests
I am an evolutionary biologist interested in using fungi as models to study subjects as the evolution of host-parasite interactions and the evolution of sex recombination. Follow this link for more information on my research and publications.
Publications
S. Billiard, M. López-Villavicencio, B. Devier, M.E. Hood, C. Fairhead & T. Giraud. 2010. Having sex, yes, but with whom ? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types. Biological Reviews (in press).
M. López-Villavicencio, G. Aguileta, T. Giraud, D. M. de Vienne, S. Lacoste, A. Couloux & J. Dupont. 2010. Sex in Penicillium : combined phylogenetic and experimental approaches. 47 : 693–706 Fungal Genetics and Biology.
S. Marthey, G. Aguileta, F. Rodolphe, A. Gendrault, T. Giraud, E. Fournier, M. López-Villavicencio, A. Gautier, M. H. Lebrun & Hélène Chiapello. 2008. FUNYBASE : a FUNgal phYlogenomic dataBASE. BMC Bioinformatics 9 : 456 Link
T. Giraud, R. Yockteng, M. López-Villavicencio, G. Refrégier & M. E. Hood. 2008. The mating system of the anther smut fungus, Microbotryum violaceum : selfing under heterothallism. Eucaryotic Cell 7(5) : 765–775 PDF
T. Giraud, R. Yockteng, S. Marthey, H. Chiapello, O. Jonot, M. López-Villavicencio, D. De Vienne, M. E. Hood, G. Refregier, A. Gendrault-Jacquemard, P. Wincker, C. Dossat. 2008. Isolation of 60 polymorphic microsatellite loci in EST libraries of four sibling species of the phytopathogenic fungal complex Microbotryum. Molecular Ecology Resources 8 : 387–392. PDF
M. López-Villavicencio, A. Coantic, O. Jonot, M. Hood & T. Giraud. 2007. Multiple infections by the anther smut pathogen are frequent and involve related strains. PLoS Pathogens 3(11) : 1710-1715. PDF
M. López-Villavicencio, J. Enjalbert, M. E. Hood, J. A. Shykoff, C. Raquin, & T. Giraud. 2005. The anther smut disease on the plant Gypsophila repens : a case of sub optimal performance from a recent host shift ? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18(5) : 1293–1303. PDF
M. López-Villavicencio, B. J. Genton, E. Porcher & J. A. Shykoff. 2005. The role of pollination level on the reproduction of females and hermaphrodites on a gynodioecious species. American Journal of Botany 92(12):1995-2002. PDF
M. López-Villavicencio, A. Branca. T. Giraud & J. A. Shykoff. 2005. Sex-specific effect of Microbotryum violaceum (Uredinales) spores on healthy plants of the gynodioecious Gypsophila repens (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany 92(5) : 896-900. PDF
M. T. Valverde, S. Quijas, M. López-Villavicencio & S. Castillo. 2004. Population dynamic of Mammillaria magnimamma Haworth. (Cactaceae) in a lava-field in central México. Plant Ecology 170(2) : 167-184. PDF
J. A. Shykoff, S. O.Kolokotronis, C. L. Collin & M. López-Villavicencio. 2003. Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants : a meta-analysis. Oecologia 135(1) : 1-9. PDF
M. López-Villavicencio, C. L. Collin & J. A. Shykoff. 2003. No evidence of sex-differential pollen limitation in a gynodioecious plant infected by the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(6):899–905. PDF
