Aude Caizergues

Aude Caizergues
Université de Montpellier | UM1 · Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution Montpellier (ISEM)

PhD

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Introduction
I am an evolutionary ecologist mainly interested in how urbanization affects species evolution.
Education
September 2015 - June 2017
Université de Montpellier
Field of study
  • Evolutionary biology and Ecology
September 2013 - June 2015
Université de Montpellier
Field of study
  • Ecology and Biology of Organisms

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Publications (17)
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Increasing evidence suggests that urbanization is associated with higher mutation rates, which can affect the health and evolution of organisms that inhabit cities. Elevated pollution levels in urban areas can induce DNA damage, leading to de novo mutations. Studies on mutations induced by urban pollution are most prevalent in humans and microorgan...
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Urbanisation is occurring globally, leading to dramatic environmental changes that are altering the ecology and evolution of species. In particular, the expansion of human infrastructure and the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats in cities is predicted to increase genetic drift and reduce gene flow by reducing the size and connectivity of p...
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Urbanization is occurring globally, leading to dramatic environmental changes that are altering the ecology and evolution of species. In particular, the expansion of human infrastructure and the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats in cities is predicted to increase genetic drift and reduce gene flow by reducing the size and connectivity of p...
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Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon tremendously modifying environmental features. By affecting the reservoirs of pathogens and the body and immune conditions of hosts, it is expected that urbanization alters the epidemiological dynamics and diversity of diseases. Cities could act as a shield against the parasite load or as a parasite burden, de...
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Urbanisation is a world‐wide phenomenon converting natural habitats into new artificial ones. Environmental conditions associated with urbanisation represent great challenges for wildlife. Behaviour and stress tolerance are considered of major importance in the adaptation to novel urban habitats and numerous studies already reported behavioural and...
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Identifying the molecular mechanisms involved in rapid adaptation to novel environments and determining their predictability, are central questions in evolutionary biology and pressing issues due to rapid global changes. Complementary to genetic responses to selection, faster epigenetic variations such as modifications of DNA methylation may play a...
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Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon associated with tremendous modifications of natural habitats. Understanding how city dwelling species are affected by those changes is becoming a pressing issue. We presently lack fine scale spatio-temporal studies investigating the impact of urbanization across different life stages and along urbanization gra...
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L’urbanisation est un phénomène mondial convertissant des milieux naturels en milieux artificialisés. Les zones urbaines constituent un nouvel environnement majoritairement façonné par l’homme avec des conditions environnementales inédites pouvant directement impacter les espèces vivant en milieu urbain ainsi que leurs trajectoires évolutives. A l’...
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Identifying the molecular mechanisms involved in rapid adaptation to novel environments and determining their predictability are central questions in Evolutionary Biology and pressing issues due to rapid global changes. Complementary to genetic responses to selection, faster epigenetic variations such as modifications of DNA methylation may play a...
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Due to their limited ranges and inherent isolation, island species have long been recognized as crucial systems for tackling a range of evolutionary questions, including in the early study of speciation.¹,² Such species have been less studied in the understanding of the evolutionary forces driving DNA sequence evolution. Island species usually have...
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Temperature is one of the best investigated environmental factors in ecological life-history studies and is increasingly considered in the contexts of climate change and urbanization. In avian ecology, few studies have examined the associations between thermal dynamics in the nest environment and its neighbouring air. Here, we placed avian nests an...
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The field of urban ecology has provided many fascinating examples of organisms that display novel biological features in urban environments compared to natural habitats. Quantitative genetics provides a framework that can be used to investigate whether this phenotypic differentiation between urban and natural habitats is adaptive and is the result...
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Due to their limited ranges and inherent isolation, island species provide a unique opportunity to study the impact of non-adaptive forces on molecular evolution, especially how effective population size may influence the accumulation of deleterious mutations. By estimating nucleotide diversity at synonymous and non-synonymous sites for a large set...
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Cities occupy about 3 per cent of the Earth’s habitable land area and are home to one out of two humans worldwide; both estimates are predicted to grow. Urban space is thus becoming an important, novel ecological niche for humans and wildlife alike. Building on knowledge gathered by urban ecologists during the last half century, evidence of evoluti...
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Increasing urbanization offers a unique opportunity to study adaptive responses to rapid environmental change. Numerous studies have demonstrated phenotypic divergence between urban and rural organisms. However, comparing the direction and magnitude of natural selection between these environments has rarely been attempted. Using seven years of moni...

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