The water vole Arvicola terrestris (= Arvicola amphibious L.) is endemic in Europe where its outbreak generates severe economic losses for farmers. Our project aimed at deciphering the modalities of chemical communication in this species, to develop new sustainable methods for populations control. T...
Although the major food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni has been isolated from diverse animal, human and environmental sources, our knowledge of genomic diversity in C. jejuni is based exclusively on human or human food-chain-associated isolates. Studies employing multilocus sequence typing have...
Orthohantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses that can cause severe disease in humans but remain asymptomatic in their natural hosts. Increasing outbreaks and ecological changes raise important public health concerns. Understanding how these viruses interact with host cells is essential, particularly i...
The urine of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) contains substantial quantities of a small protein that is expressed at much higher levels in males than females, and at higher levels in males in the breeding season. This protein was purified and completely sequenced at the protein level by mass spectrome...
We also study the changes occurring in the testes of Mediterranean pine mice living in the wastelands during the breeding cycle. The transcriptomic analysis of active and regressed testis show that several molecular pathways that operate in Sertoli cells, involved in the control of spermatogenesis a...
