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De Meeûs T., Renaud F. & Gabrion C. 1990. A model for studying isolation mechanisms in parasite populations: the genus Lepeophtheirus (Copepoda, Caligidae). The Journal of Experimental Zoology 254, 207-214.

Renaud F. & De Meeûs T. 1991. A simple model of host-parasite evolutionary relationships. Parasitism: compromise or conflict? Journal of Theoretical Biology 152, 319-327.

De Meeûs T., Marin R. & Renaud F. 1992. Genetic heterogeneity within populations of Lepeophtheirus europaensis (Copepoda, Caligidae) parasitic on two host species. International Journal for Parasitology 22, 1179-1181.

De Meeûs T., Michalakis Y., Renaud F. & Olivieri I. 1993. Polymorphism in heterogeneous environments, habitat selection and sympatric speciation: Soft and hard selection models. Evolutionary Ecology 7, 175-198.

De Meeûs T., Raibaut A. & Renaud F. 1993. Comparative life history of two species of sea lice. In, Pathogens of wild and farmed fish: sea lice (Boxshall, G.A. & Defaye D. eds.), Ellis Horwood, Chichester, pp 61-67.

De Meeûs T., Raibaut A. & Renaud F. 1993. Speciation and specificity in parasitic copepods: caligids of the genus Lepeophtheirus parasites of flatfishes in the Mediterranean. In Pathogens of wild and farmed fish: sea lice, (Boxshall, G.A. & Defaye D. eds.), Ellis Horwood, Chichester, pp 143-150.

Ba C.T., Wang X.Q., Renaud F., Euzet L., Marchand B. & De Meeûs T. 1993. Diversity and specificity in cestodes of the genus Moniezia: genetic evidence. International Journal for Parasitology. 23, 853-857.

De Meeûs T., Morand S., Magnan N., Do Chi T. & Renaud F. 1995. The comparative host-parasite relationship of two copepod species ectoparasite on three fish species. Acta Oecologica 16: 361-374.

De Meeûs T., Hochberg M.E. & Renaud F. 1995. Maintenance of two genetic entities by habitat selection. Evolutionary Ecology 9, 131-138.

Thomas F., Renaud F., Rousset F., Cezilly F. & De Meeûs T. 1995. Differential mortality of two closely related host species induced by one parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Serie B 260: 349-352.

Renaud F., Clayton D. & De Meeûs T. 1996. Biodiversity and evolution in host-parasite associations. Biodiversity and Conservation 5: 963-974.

Thomas F., Verneau O., De Meeûs T. & Renaud F. 1996. Parasites as to host evolutionary prints: insight into host evolution from parasitological data. International Journal for Parasitology 26: 677-686.

Rodriguez E., De Meeûs T, Maillé M., Renaud F., Symoëns F., Mondon P., Piens M.A., Lebeau B., Viviani M.A., Grillot R., Nolard N., Chapuis F., Tortorano A.M. & Bastide J.M. 1996. Multicentric epidemiological study of Aspergillus fumigatus isolates by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34: 2559-2568.

Goudet J., Raymond M., De Meeûs T. and Rousset F. 1996. Testing differentiation in diploid populations. Genetics 144: 1933-1940.

Delaye C., Béati L., Aeschlimann A., Renaud F. & De Meeûs T. 1997. Population genetics structure of Ixodes ricinus in Switzerland from allozymic data: No evidence of divergence between nearby sites. International Journal for Parasitology 27: 769-773.

Raymond M., Vääntö R.L., Thomas F., Rousset F., de Meeûs T. and Renaud F. 1997. Heterozygote deficiency in the mussel Mytilus edulis complex revisited. Marine Ecology Progress Series 156: 225-237.

De Meeûs T., Michalakis Y. & Renaud F. 1998. Santa Rosalia revisited or why are there so many kinds of parasites in 'the garden of earthly delights'? Parasitology Today 14: 10-13.

Thomas F., Renaud F., De Meeûs T. & Poulin R. 1998. Manipulation of host behaviour by parasites: ecosystem engineering in the intertidal zone. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Serie B 265:
1091-1096.


Delaye C., Aeschlimann A., Renaud F., Rosenthal B. and De Meeûs T. 1998. Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite markers in the Ixodes ricinus complex (Acari: Ixodidae). Molecular Ecology 7: 360-361.

Solano P., de la Rocque S., Cuisance D., Geoffroy B., de Meeûs T., Cuny G. & Duvallet G. 1999. Intraspecific Variability in Natural Populations of Glossina palpalis gambiensis from West Africa revealed by genetic and morphometric analyses. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 13: 401-407.

Škalamera J.P., Renaud F., Raymond M. and De Meeûs T. 1999. No evidence for genetic differentiation of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis between lagoons and the seaside. Marine Ecology Progress Series 178: 251-258.

Rousset F., Thomas F., De Meeûs T. and Renaud F. 1996. Inference of parasite induced host mortality from distributions of parasite loads. Ecology 77: 2203-2211.

Dawson L.H.J., Renaud F., Guégan J.F. and De Meeûs T. 2000. Experimental evidence of asymmetrical competition between two parasitic copepods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Serie B. 267: 1973-1978.

De Meeûs T. 2000. Adaptive diversity, specialisation, habitat preference and parasites. In Evolutionary Biology of Host Parasite Relashionships: Theory Meets Reality (Poulin R., Morand S. and Skorping A Eds), pp 27-42, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

De Meeûs T. & Goudet J. 2000. Adaptive diversity in heterogeneous environments for populations regulated by a mixture of soft and hard selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 981-995.

Solano P., de La Rocque S., de Meeûs T., Cuny G., Duvallet G. and Cuisance D. 2000. Microsatellite DNA markers reveal genetic differentiation among populations of Glossina palpalis gambiensis collected in the agropastoral zone of Sideradougou, Burkina Faso. Insect Molecular Biology 9: 433-439.

Guégan J.F., Thomas F., Hochberg M.E., de Meeûs T. & Renaud F. 2001. Human fertility and disease diversity. Evolution 55: 1308-1314.

Thomas F., Renaud F., Benefice E., de Meeûs T. and Guégan J.F. 2001. International variability on ages at menarche and menopause: patterns and main determinants. Human Biology 73: 271-290.

De Meeûs T. & Renaud F. 2002. Parasites within the new phylogeny of eukaryotes. Trends in Parasitology 18: 247-251.

Badoc C., De Meeûs T., Bertout S., Odds F.C., Mallié M., and Bastide J-M. 2002. Clonality structure in Candida dubliniensis. FEMS Microbiology Letters 209: 249-254.

De Meeûs T., Renaud F., Mouveroux E., Reynes J., Galeazzi G., Mallié M. & Bastide J.M.. 2002. The genetic structure of Candida glabrata populations in AIDS and non-AIDS patients. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 40: 2199-2206.

Prugnolle F. and de Meeûs T. 2002. Inferring sex-biased dispersal from population genetic tools: a review. Heredity. 88: 161-165.

Prugnolle F., De Meeûs T., Durand P., Sire C. & Théron A. 2002. Sex Specific genetic structure in Schistosoma mansoni: evolutionary and epidemiological implications. Molecular Ecology 11: 1231-1238.

De Meeûs T., Beati L., Delaye C., Aeschlimann A. & Renaud F. 2002. Sex biased genetic structure in the vector of Lyme disease, Ixodes ricinus. Evolution 56: 1802–1807 .

Leclerc M. C., Durand P., De Meeûs T., Robert V. and Renaud F. 2002. Genetic diversity and population structure of Plasmodium falciparum from Senegalense samples investigated by nineteen microsatellites and four genes coding for antigenic determinants. Microbes and Infection 4, 685-692.

Prugnolle F., Durand P., Théron A., Chevillon C. and De Meeûs T. 2003. Sex-specific genetic structure: new trends for dioecious parasites. Trends in Parasitology 19: 171-174.

Balloux F., Lehmann L. and De Meeûs T. 2003. The population genetics of clonal or partially clonal diploids. Genetics 164: 1635-1644.

De Meeûs T., Durand P. and Renaud F. 2003. Species concepts: what for? Trends in Parasitology 19: 425-427.

De Meeûs T. 2004. Molecular epidemiology pitfalls: some important clarifications. Trends in Parasitology 20: 57-58.

Michaud M., De Meeûs T. and Renaud F. 2004. Environmental sex determination in a parasitic copepod species: checking heterogeneity and unpredictability of the environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 269: 163-171.

De Meeûs T., Lorimier Y. and Renaud F. 2004. Lyme borreliosis agents and the genetics and sex of their vector, Ixodes ricinus. Microbes and Infection 6: 299-304.

De Meeûs T., Durand P. and Renaud F. 2004. Response to Vilas and Paniagua: Analyzing the structure of biodiversity. Trends in Parasitology 20: 258-259.

De Meeûs T., Humair P.F., Delaye C., Grunau C. and Renaud F. 2004. Non-Mendelian transmission of alleles at microsatellite loci: an example in Ixodes ricinus, the vector of Lyme disease. International Journal for Parasitology 34: 943-950.

De Meeûs T. and Balloux F. 2004. Clonal reproduction and linkage disequilibrium in diploids: a simulation study. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 4: 345-351.

Prugnolle F., Choisy M., Théron A., Durand P. and De Meeûs T. 2004. Sex-specific correlation between heterozygosity and clone size in the trematode Schistosoma mansoni. Molecular Ecology 13: 2859-2864.

Renaud F., De Meeüs T. and Read A. F. 2005. Parasitism in man-made ecosystems. In Parasitism and Ecosystems. (Thomas F., Renaud F.& Guégan J.F., Eds), Oxford University Press. pp 155-170.

Prugnolle F., Liu H., De Meeûs T. & Balloux F. 2005. Population genetics of complex life cycle parasites: the case of monoecious trematodes. International Journal for Parasitology 35: 255-263.

Prugnolle F., Théron A., Pointier J. P., Jabbour-Zahad R., Jarne P., Durand P. & De Meeûs T. 2005. Dispersal in a parasitic worm and its two hosts and its consequence for local adaptation. Evolution 59: 296-303.

De Meeûs T. and Balloux F. 2005. F-statistics of clonal diploids structured in numerous demes. Molecular Ecology 14: 2695-2702.

Razakandrainibe F.G., Durand P., Koella J.C., De Meeüs T., Rousset F., Ayala F.J. & Renaud F. 2005. ‘‘Clonal’’ population structure of the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum in high-infection regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 17388-17393.

De Meeûs T., Lehmann L. & Balloux F. 2006. Molecular epidemiology of clonal diploids: a quick overview and a short DIY (Do It Yourself) notice. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 6: 163-170.


Nébavi F., Ayala F.J., Renaud F., Bertout S., Eholié S., Koné M., Mallié M. and de Meeûs T. 2006. Clonal population structure and genetic diversity of Candida albicans in AIDS patients from Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 3663-3668.
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Chevillon C., Paul R.E., de Meeûs T. and Renaud F. 2006. Thinking Transgenic Vectors in a Population Context: Some Expectations and Many Open-Questions. In Genetically Modified Mosquitoes for Malaria Control (Boëte C. Ed.), Eurekah/Landes Biosciences, Georgetown TX, pp 117-136.

Koffi B.B., Risterucci  A.M., Joulia D., Durand P., Barré N., de Meeûs T. and Chevillon C. 2006. Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci within a young Boophilus microplus metapopulation. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 502-504.

Thomas F. & De Meeûs T. 2006. Population variability in the beetle Timarcha maritima (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 52: 491-497.

Camara, M., Harling Caro-Riaño H., Ravel S., Dujardin J.-P., Hervouet J.-P., de Meeüs T., Kagbadouno M. S., Bouyer J. and Solano P. 2006. Genetic and morphometric evidence for isolation of a tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) population (Loos islands, Guinea). Journal of Medical Entomology 43: 853-860.

Caillaud D., Prugnolle F., Durand P., Théron A. & De Meeûs T. 2006. Host sex and parasite genetic diversity. Microbes and Infection 8: 2477-2483.

Koffi B.B., de Meeûs T., Barré N., Durand P., Arnathau C., Chevillon C. 2006. Founder effects, inbreeding and effective sizes in the Southern cattle tick: the effect of transmission dynamics and implications for pest management. Molecular Ecology 15: 4603-4611.

Ravel S., de Meeus T., Dujardin J.P., Zézé D.G., Gooding R.H., Dusfour I., Sané B., Cuny G. & Solano P. 2007. The tsetse fly Glossina palpalis palpalis is composed of several genetically differentiated small populations in the sleeping sickness focus of Bonon, Côte d’Ivoire. Infection Genetics and Evolution 7: 116-125.

De Meeûs T., McCoy K.D., Prugnolle F., Chevillon C., Durand P., Hurtrez-Boussès S. and Renaud F. 2007. Population genetics and molecular epidemiology or how to "débusquer la bête". Infection Genetics and Evolution 7: 308-332.

Chevillon C., Koffi B.B., Barré N., Durand P., Arnathau C. & De Meeûs T. 2007. Direct and indirect inferences on parasite mating and gene transmission patterns. Pangamy in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Infection Genetics and Evolution 7: 298-304.

Chevillon C., Ducornez S., de Meeûs T., Koffi B.B., Gaïa H., Delathière J.M. & Barré N. 2007. Accumulation of acaricide resistance genes in Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) populations from New Caledonia Island. Veterinary Parasitology 147: 276-288.

Teriokhin A.T., De Meeûs T. & Guégan J.F. 2007. On the power of some binomial modifications of the Bonferroni multiple test. In press in Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii (Journal of General Biology) 68: 332-340.

 Bouyer J., Ravel S., Vial L., Thévenon S., Dujardin J.-P., de Meeus T., Guerrini L., Sidibé I., Solano P. 2007. Population structuring of Glossina palpalis gambiensis (Diptera: Glossinidae) according to landscape fragmentation in the Mouhoun river, Burkina Faso. Journal of Medical Entomology 44: 788-795.

 De Meeûs T. & Goudet J. 2007. A step by step tutorial to use HierFstat to analyse populations hierarchically structured at multiple levels. Infection Genetics and Evolution 7: 731-735.

Koffi M., Solano P., Barnabé C., de Meeûs T., Bucheton B., N’Dri L., Cuny G. & Jamonneau, V. 2007. Genetic characterisation of Trypanosoma brucei ssp by microsatellite typing: new perspectives for the molecular epidemiology of human African trypanosomosis. Infection Genetics and Evolution 7: 675-684.

Dib L., Bitam I., Tahri M., Bensouilah M., De Meeûs T. 2008. Competitive exclusion between piroplasmosis and anaplasmosis agents within cattle. In press in PLoS Pathogens 4: 2-5.

Dib et al., 2008 PLoS Path. 4: 2-5, Figure S1.

Rougeron V., Waleckx E., Hide M., De Meeûs T., Arevalo J., Llanos-Cuentas A., Bañuls A.L. 2008. A set of 12 microsatellite loci for genetic studies of Leishmania braziliensis. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 351-353.

Prugnolle F., Durand P., Jacob K., Razakandrainibe F., Arnathau C., Villareal D., Rousset F., de Meeûs T., Renaud F. 2008. A comparison of Anopheles gambiae and Plasmodium falciparum genetic structure over space and time. Microbes and Infection 10: 269-275.

Prugnolle F., Choisy M., De Meeûs T. 2008. CLONALITY V 0.4: a randomisation-based program to test for heterozygosity-genet size relationships in clonal organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 954-956.

Link to the downloading page of Clonality

Prugnolle, F. & De Meeûs, T. 2008. The impact of clonality on parasite population genetic structure. Parasite 15: 455-457.

Koffi M.*, De Meeûs T.*, Bucheton B., Solano P., Camara M., Kaba D., Cuny G., Ayala F.J. & Jamonneau V. 2009. Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the agent of sleeping sickness in Western Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 206-214.

Koffi et al 2008 PNAS Appendix

Koffi et al 2008 PNAS Supporting Information

De Meeûs T. & McCoy K. 2009. La génétique des populations comme outil en épidémiologie. In Introduction à l'Epidémiologie Intégrative des Maladies Infectieuses et Parasitaires (Guégan J.F. & Choisy M. Eds.), De Boek Université, Bruxelles, pp 277-310.

Brisse S., Pannier C., Angoulvant A., De Meeûs T., Diancourt L., Faure O., Muller H., Peman J., Viviani A. M., Grillot R., Dujon B., Fairhead C. & Hennequin C. 2009. Uneven distribution of mating types among genotypes of Candida glabrata from clinical samples. Eukaryotic Cell 8: 287-295.

Kempf F., De Meeûs T., Arnathau C., Degeilh B. and McCoy K.D. 2009. Assortative Pairing in Ixodes ricinus L. (Acari:Ixodidae), the European Vector of Lyme Borreliosis. Journal of Medical Entomology 46: 471-474.

Solano P., Ravel S., Bouyer J., Camara M., Kagbadouno M.S. Dyer, N., Gardes L., Herault D., Donnelly M.J. & De Meeûs T. 2009. The population structure of Glossina palpalis gambiensis from island and continental locations in coastal Guinea. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3: e392.

Solano et al 2009 PLoS NTD Guinea Tsetse Appendix

Solano et al 2009 PLoS NTD Tab S1

Solanaoetal2009PLoSNTDTabS2

Bouyer J., Balenghien T., Ravel S., Vial L., Sidibé I., Thévenon S., Solano P. & De Meeûs T. 2009. Population sizes and dispersal pattern of tsetse flies: rolling on the river? Molecular Ecology 18: 2787-2797.

Rougeron V., De Meeûs T., Hide M., Waleckx E., Bermudez H., Arevalo A., Llanos-Cuentas A., Dujardin J. C., De Doncker S., Le Ray D., Ayala F. J., Bañuls A. L. 2009. Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 10224-10229.

Rougeron et al 2009 PNAS Supplementary Information

Kempf F., Boulinier T., De Meeûs T., Arnathau C. and McCoy K.D. 2009. Recent evolution of host-associated divergence in the seabird tick Ixodes uriae. Molecular Ecology 18: 4450-4462.

de Garine-Wichatitsky M.*, De Meeûs T.*, Chevillon C., Berthier D., Barré N., Thévenon S. and Maillard J.C. 2009. Population genetic structure of wild and farmed rusa deer (Cervus timorensis russa) in New-Caledonia inferred from polymorphic microsatellite loci. Genetica 137: 313-323.

De Meeûs T., Guégan J.F., Teriokhin A.T. 2009. MultiTest V.1.2, a program to binomially combine independent tests and performance comparison with other related methods on proportional data. BMC Bioinformatics 10: 443.

Link to downloading page of MultiTest

De Meeûs T., Prugnolle F. & Agnew P. 2009. Asexual reproduction in infectious diseases. In Lost Sex:The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis (Schön I., Martens K. & van Dijk P. Eds.), Springer, NY, pp 517-533.

Simo G., Njiokou F., Tume C., Lueong S., De Meeûs T., Cuny G. & Asonganyi T. 2010. Population genetic structure of Central African Trypanosoma brucei gambiense isolates using microsatellite DNA markers. Infection Genetics and Evolution 10: 68-76.

Holzmuller P., Herder S., Cuny G. & De Meeûs T. 2010. From clonal to sexual: a step in T. congolense evolution? Trends in Parasitology 26: 56-60.

Prugnolle F. & De Meeus T. 2010. Apparent high recombination rates in clonal parasitic organisms due to inappropriate sampling design. Heredity 104: 135-140.

Bouyer J., Ravel S., Guerrini L., Dujardin J.P., Sidibé I., Vreysen M.J.B., Solano P. & De Meeûs T. 2010. Population structure of Glossina palpalis gambiensis (Diptera: Glossinidae) between river basins in Burkina-Faso: consequences for area-wide integrated pest management. Infection Genetics and Evolution 10: 321-328.

Solano P., Ravel S. & De Meeûs T. 2010. How can tsetse population genetics contribute to African trypanosomiasis control? Trends in Parasitology 26: 255-263.

Kone N., De Meeûs T., Bouyer J., Ravel S., Guerrini L., N’Goran E. K. & Vial L. 2010. Population structuring of the tsetse Glossina tachinoides resulting from landscape fragmentation in the Mouhoun River Basin, Burkina Faso. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 24: 162-168.

Solano P., Kaba D., Ravel S., Dyer N.A., Sall B., Vreysen M.J.B., Seck M.T., Darbyshir H., Gardes L., Donnelly M.J., De Meeûs T. & Bouyer J. 2010. Population genetics as a tool to select tsetse control strategies: suppression or eradication of Glossina palpalis gambiensis in the Niayes of Senegal. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 4: e69.

Rougeron V., De Meeûs T., Kako S., Hide M. & Bañuls A.L. 2010. "Everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask)" in Leishmania after two decades of laboratory and field analyses. PLoS Pathogens 6: e1001004.

Rougeron V., De Meeûs T., Hide M., Waleckx E., Dereure J., Arevalo, J., Llanos-Cuentas A. & Bañuls A. L. 2010. A battery of 12 microsatellite markers for genetic analysis of the Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis complex. Parasitology 7: 1-6.

De Meeûs T., Koffi B.B., Barré N., de Garine-Wichatitsky M. & Chevillon C. 2010. Swift sympatric adaptation of a species of cattle tick to a new deer host in New-Caledonia. Infection Genetics and Evolution 10: 976-983.

De Meeûs et al. 2010. IGE 10:976-983, Suppl Mat.

Kempf F., McCoy K.D. & De Meeus T. 2010. Wahlund effects and sex-biased dispersal in Ixodes ricinus, the European vector of Lyme borreliosis: new tools for old data. Infection Genetics and Evolution 10: 989-997.

Kempf et al. 2010. IGE 10: 989-997, Suppl Mat.