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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.

Goudet J., De Meeûs T., Day A.J. and Gliddon C.J. 1994. The different levels of population structuring of dogwhelks, Nucella lapillus, along the south Devon coast. In Genetics and evolution of aquatic organisms, (A. Beaumont ed.), Chapman and Hall, London, pp 81-95.

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.

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.

De Meeûs T. and Renaud F. 1996. Evolution of adaptive polymorphism in spatially heterogeneous environments. In The Genesis and Maintenance of Biological Diversity (M.E. Hochberg, J. Clobert and R. Barbault eds.), pp 88-98, Oxford University Press.

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.

Thomas F, Cezilly F., De Meeûs, T, Crivelli, A. and Renaud F. 1997. Parasites and ecology of wetlands: a review. Estuaries 20: 646-654.

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.

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.

Prugnolle F., Roze D., Théron A. and De Meeûs T. 2005. f-statistics under alternation of sexual and asexual reproduction: a model and data from schistosomes. Molecular Ecology 14: 1355-1365.

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.

De Meeûs T., Agnew P. & Prugnolle F. 2007. Asexual Reproduction: Genetics and Evolutionary Aspects. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 64, 1355-13752.

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.

De Meeûs T. & Prugnolle F. 2011. Clonal evolution. In Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (Tibayrenc M. Ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 133-146.

Kaboré J., MacLeod A., Jamonneau V., Ilboudo H., Duffy C., Camara M., Camara O., Belem A. M. G., Bucheton B. & De Meeûs T. 2011. Population genetic structure of Guinea Trypanosoma brucei gambiense isolates according to host factors. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11: 1129-1135.

Salim B., De Meeûs T., Bakheit M. A., Kamau J., Nakamura I., Sugimoto C. 2011. Population genetics of Trypanosoma evansi from Camel in Sudan. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5: e1196.

Koné N., Bouyer J., Ravel S., Vreysen M.J.B., Domagni K.T., Causse S., Solano P., De Meeûs T. 2011. Contrasting population structures of two vectors of African trypanosomoses in Burkina Faso: consequences for control. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5 (6): e1217.

Kaboré J., Koffi M., Bucheton B., MacLeod A., Duffy C., Ilboudo H., Camara M., De Meeûs T., Belem A. M. G. & Jamonneau V. 2011. First evidence that parasite infecting apparent aparasitemic serological suspects in human African trypanosomiasis are Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and are similar to those found in patients. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11: 1250-1255.

Rougeron V., Catzeflis F., Hide M., De Meeûs T., Bañuls A. L. 2011. First clinical case of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in a domestic cat from French Guiana. Veterinary Parasitology 181: 325-328.

Rougeron V., Bañuls A.-L., Carme B., Simon S., Couppié P., Nacher M., Hide M., De Meeûs T. 2011. Reproductive strategies and population structure in Leishmania: substantial amount of sex in Leishmania Viannia guyanensis. Molecular Ecology 20: 3116–3127.

Tanekou T.T.M., Simo G., Ravel S., De Meeûs T., Causse S., Solano P., Lutumba P., Asonganyi T., Njiokou F. 2011. Population genetics of Glossina palpalis palpalis from central African sleeping sickness foci. Parasites and Vectors 4: 140.

Barnabé C., De Meeûs T., Noireau F., Bosseno M.F., Monje E.M., Renaud F. and Brenière S. F. 2011. Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs): microsatellite loci and population genetics of DTUs TcV and TcI in Bolivia and Peru. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11: 1752–1760.

Kempf F.*, De Meeûs T*, Vaumourin E., Noel V., Taragel’ová V., Plantard O., Heylen D.J.A., Eyraud C., Chevillon C. and McCoy K.D. 2011. Host races in Ixodes ricinus, the European vector of Lyme borreliosis. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11: 2043-2048.

Rougeron V.*, De Meeûs T.*, Hide M., Le Falher G., Bucheton B., Dereure J., El-Safi S.H., Dessein A., Bañuls A.L. 2011. Multifaceted population structure and reproductive strategy in Leishmania donovani complex in one Sudanese village. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5: e1448.

Djuikwo-Teukeng F.F., Njiokou F., Nkengazong L., De Meeûs T., Same Ekobo A. & Dreyfuss G. 2011. Strong genetic structure in Cameroonian populations of Bulinus truncatus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae), intermediate host of Schistosoma haematobium. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11: 17-22.

De Meeûs T., Ravel S., Rayaisse J.-B., Courtin F. and Solano P. 2012. Understanding local population genetics of tsetse: the case of an isolated population of Glossina palpalis gambiensis in Burkina-Faso. Infection Genetics and Evolution 12: 1229-1234.

Kagbadouno M.S. Camara M., Rouamba J., Rayaisse J.B., Traoré I.S., Camara O., Onikoyamou M.F., Courtin F., Ravel S., De Meeûs T., Bucheton B., Jamonneau V. and Solano P. 2012. Epidemiology of sleeping sickness in boffa (Guinea): where are the trypanosomes? PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6: e1949.

De Meeûs T. 2012. Génétique des populations et système de reproduction des Plasmodiums humains : conséquences sur les capacités d’adaptation. http://www.mpl.ird.fr/suds-en-ligne/paludisme/systemes/gen_plasmodium01.html, In dossiers thématiques "Suds en ligne" "Vaincre le paludisme" 2012; Conseillers scientifiques: Didier Fontenille et Philippe Deloron; Coordination générale: Catherine Fontaine.

Chevillon C., McCoy K.D. and De Meeûs T. 2012. Population genetics and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. In New frontiers of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Morand S., Beaudeau F. and Cabaret J. Eds.), Springer, Dordrecht, pp 45-76.

De Meeûs T. and Guégan J.F. 2012. Birth of ideas and on the remarkable person and research scientist Anatoly Terekhin: mathematics, reality and the confrontation of rigor and complexity for combining probabilities. In Mathematics and Reality: the Confrontation of Rigor and Complexity: The Articles, Memories of A.T. Teriokhin, Budilova E.V. Ed., Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Editions Soliton, Moscow, pp 505-511.

Chevillon C., de Garine-Wichatitsky M., Barré N., Ducornez S. and de Meeûs T. 2013. Understanding the genetic, demographical and/or ecological processes at play in invasions: lessons from the southern cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae). Experimental and Applied Acarology 59: 203–218.

Pooda S.H., Mouline K., De Meeûs T., Bengaly Z. and Solano, P. 2013. Decrease in survival and fecundity of Glossina palpalis gambiensis Vanderplank 1949 (Diptera: Glossinidae) fed on cattle treated with single doses of ivermectin. Parasites and Vectors 6: 165.

Ravel S., Rayaisse J.B., Courtin F., Solano P. and De Meeûs T. 2013. Genetic signature of a recent southern range shift in Glossina tachinoides in East Burkina Faso. Infection Genetics and Evolution 18: 309-314.

Kaboré J., De Meeûs T., MacLeod A., Ilboudo H., Capewell P., Camarad M., Beleme A. M. G., Bucheton B. and Jamonneau V. 2013. A protocol to improve genotyping of problematic microsatellite loci of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense from body fluids. Infection Genetics and Evolution 20: 171-176.

Kaboré et al. 2013. Infection Genetics and Evolution 20: 171-176. Supplementary Table 1.

De Meeûs T. 2014. Statistical decision from k test series with particular focus on population genetics tools: a DIY notice. Infection Genetics and Evolution 22: 91-93.

De Meeûs T., Ravel S., Rayaisse J.B., Kaba D., Courtin F., Bouyer J., Dayo G.K., Camara M., Solano P. 2014. Genetic correlations within and between isolated tsetse populations: what can we learn? Acta Tropica 138S: S6-S11.

Adam Y., Bouyer J., Dayo G.K., Mahama C.I., Vreysen M.J.B., Cecchi G., Abd-Alla A. M. M., Solano P., Ravel S., de Meeûs T. 2014. Genetic comparison of Glossina tachinoides populations in three river basins of the upper west region of Ghana and implications for tsetse control. Infection Genetics and Evolution 28: 588-595.

Séré M., Kaboré, J., Jamonneau V., Belem A.M.G., Ayala F.J., De Meeûs T. 2014. Null allele, allelic dropouts or rare sex detection in clonal organisms: simulations and application to real data sets of pathogenic microbes. Parasites & Vectors 7: 331.

Séré M., Kaboré, J., Jamonneau V., Belem A.M.G., Ayala F.J., De Meeûs T. 2014. Figure S1.

Pyana P.P., Sere M., Kaboré J., De Meeûs T., MacLeod A., Bucheton B., Van Reet N., Büscher P., Belem A.M.G., Jamonneau V. 2015. Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in sleeping sickness patients with treatment failures in the focus of Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Infection Genetics and Evolution 30: 128-133.

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Rougeron V.*, De Meeûs T.*, Bañuls A-L. 2015. A primer for Leishmania population genetic studies. Trends in Parasitology 31: 52-59.

De Meeûs T., Bouyer J., Ravel, S., Solano, P. 2015. Ecotype evolution in Glossina palpalis subspecies, major vectors of sleeping sickness. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9: e0003497.

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Mélachio Tanekou Tito Trésor, Njiokou Flobert, Ravel Sophie, Simo Gustave, Solano Philippe, De Meeûs Thierry. 2015. Effect of sampling methods, effective population size and migration rate estimation in Glossina palpalis palpalis from Cameroon. Infection Genetics and Evolution 35: 150-157.

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De Meeûs Thierry. 2015. Genetic identities and local inbreeding in pure diploid clones with homoplasic markers: SNPs may be misleading. Infection Genetics and Evolution 33: 227-232.

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De Meeûs 2015 Erratum

Rougeron Virginie*, De Meeûs Thierry*, Bañuls Anne-Laure. 2015. Response to Tibayrenc et al.: can recombination in Leishmania parasites be so rare? Trends in Parasitology 31: 280-281.

Koffi Mathurin*, De Meeûs Thierry*, Séré Modou, Bucheton Bruno, Simo Gustave, Njiokou Flobert, Salim Bashir, Kaboré Jacques, MacLeod Annette, Camara Mamadou, Solano Philippe, Belem Adrien Marie Gaston and Jamonneau Vincent. 2015. Population genetics and reproductive strategies of African trypanosomes: revisiting available published data. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9: e0003985.

Bouyer Jérémy, Dicko Ahmadou H., Cecchi Giuliano, Ravel Sophie, Guerrini Laure, Solano Philippe, Vreysen Marc J.B., De Meeûs Thierry and Lancelot Renaud. 2015. Mapping landscape friction to locate isolated tsetse populations candidate for elimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: 14575–14580.

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Weir William, Capewell Paul, Foth Bernardo, Clucas Caroline, Pountain Andrew, Steketee Pieter, Veitch Nicola, Koffi Mathurin, De Meeûs Thierry, Kaboré Jacques, Camara Mamadou, Cooper Anneli, Tait Andy, Jamonneau Vincent, Bucheton Bruno, Berriman Matthew and MacLeod Annette. 2016. Population genomics reveals the origin and asexual evolution of human infective trypanosomes. eLife 5: e11473.

Sandeu Maurice M., Abate Luc, Tchioffo Majoline T., Bayibéki Albert N., Awono-Ambéné Parfait H., Nsango Sandrine E., Chesnais Cédric B., Dinglasane Rhoel R., De Meeûs Thierry and Morlais Isabelle. 2016. Impact of exposure to mosquito transmission-blocking antibodies on Plasmodium falciparum population genetic structure. Infection Genetics and Evolution 45: 138-144.

Rougeron V., De Meeûs T., Bañuls A.L. 2017. Reproduction in Leishmania: a focus on genetic exchange. Infection Genetics and Evolution 50: 128-132.

Séré M., Thévenon S., Belem A.M.G. and De Meeûs T. 2017. Comparison of different genetic distances to test isolation by distance between populations. Heredity 119: 55-63.

Séré M., Thévenon S., Belem A.M.G. and De Meeûs T. 2017. Heredity 119: 55-63. Supplementary files

Correa, Ana C.*, De Meeûs Thierry*, Dreyfuss Gilles, Rondelaud Daniel and Hurtrez-Boussès Sylvie. 2017. Galba truncatula and Fasciola hepatica: genetic costructures and interactions with intermediate host dispersal. Infection Genetics and Evolution 55: 186-194. (Article + supplementary files, zipped)

N'Djetchi Martial Kassi, Ilboudo Hamidou, Koffi, Kaboré Jacques, Kaboré Justin Windingoudi, Kaba Dramane, Courtin Fabrice, Coulibaly Bamoro, Fauret Pierre, Kouakou Lingué, Ravel Sophie, Deborggraeve Stijn, Solano Philippe, De Meeûs Thierry, Bucheton Bruno, Jamonneau Vincent. 2017. The study of trypanosome species circulating in domestic animals in two human African trypanosomiasis foci of Côte d'Ivoire identifies pigs and cattle as potential reservoirs of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(10): e0005993. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005993.

De Meeûs T. 2018. Revisiting FIS, FST, Wahlund effects and null alleles. Journal of Heredity 109: 446-456. (Article + Supplementary files, zipped)

Tibayrenc M., de Meeûs T. and Morand S. 2018. Modern research tools to combat the infectious peril: just at the beginning. Infection Genetics and Evolution 63: 291.

Kaboré Jacques, Camara Oumou, Koffi Mathurin, Sanou Djénéba, Ilboudo Hamidou, Sakandé Hassane, Camara Mamadou, De Meeûs Thierry, Ravel Sophie, Belem Adrien Marie Gaston, MacLeod Annette, Bucheton Bruno, Jamonneau Vincent , Thévenon Sophie. 2018. Differences in pathogenicity and virulence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense field isolates in experimentally infected Balb/C mice. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 63: 269-276.

Manangwa Oliver*, De Meeûs Thierry*, Grébaut Pascal, Ségard Adeline, Byamungu Mechtilda and Ravel Sophie. 2019. Detecting Wahlund effects together with amplification problems: Cryptic species, null alleles and short allele dominance in Glossina pallidipes populations from Tanzania. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19: 757–772.

De Meeûs T., Ravel, S., Solano P. and Bouyer J. 2019. Negative density dependent dispersal in tsetse flies: a risk for control campaigns? Trends in Parasitology 35 (8): 615-621.

 Berté Djakaridja*, De Meeus Thierry*, Kaba Dramane, Séré Modou, Djohan Vincent, Courtin Fabrice, N'Djetchi Kassi Martial, Koffi Mathurin, Jamonneau Vincent, Bi Tra Dieudonné Ta, Solano Philippe, N’Goran Eliezer Kouakou, Ravel Sophie. 2019. Population genetics of Glossina palpalis palpalis in sleeping sickness foci of Côte d'Ivoire before and after vector control. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 75: 103963.

Jamonneau, V., Truc, P., Grébaut, P., Herder, S., Ravel, S., Solano, P., De Meeus, T. 2019. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense group 2: the unusual suspect. Trends in Parasitology. 35 (12): 983-995.

De Meeûs, T., Chan, C.T., Ludwig, J.M., Tsao, J.I., Patel, J., Bhagatwala, J., Beati, L. 2019. Deceptive combined effects of short allele dominance and stuttering: an example with Ixodes scapularis, the main vector of Lyme disease in the U.S.A. bioRxiv 622373, ver. 4 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/622373.

Prudhomme, J., De Meeûs, T., Toty, C., Cassan, C., Rahola, N., Vergnes, B., Charrel, R., Alten, B., Sereno, D., Bañuls, A. L. 2020. Altitude and hillside orientation shapes the population structure of the Leishmania infantum vector Phlebotomus ariasi. Scientific Reports 10: 1443.

Elnour M.A.B, Moustafa, M.A.M., Khogali, R., Azrag, R.S., Alanazi, A.D., Kheir, A., Nakao, R., de Meeûs, T., Salim, B. 2020. Distinct haplotypes and free movement of Aedes aegypti in Port Sudan, Sudan. Journal of Applied Entomology. 144: 817–823.

Ravel, S., Sere, M., Manangwa, O., Kagbadouno, M., Mahamat, M. H., Shereni, W., Okeyo, W. A., Argiles-Herrero, R., De Meeûs, T. 2020. Developing and quality testing of microsatellite loci for four species of Glossina. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 85: 104515.

Ravel, S., et al. 2020 Infection Genetics and Evolution. 85: 104515. Supplementary files

Thierry De Meeûs, CynthiaT.Chan, John M. Ludwig, Jean I. Tsao, Jaymin Patel, Jigar Bhagatwala, Lorenza Beati. 2021. Deceptive combined effects of short allele dominance and stuttering: an example with Ixodes scapularis, the main vector of Lyme disease in the U.S.A., Peer Community Journal 1: e40.

Barkissa Mélika Traoré, Mathurin Koffi, Martial Kassi N’Djetchi, Dramane Kaba, Jacques Kaboré, Hamidou Ilboudo, Bernadin Ahouty Ahouty, Minayé gninrin Koné, Bamoro Coulibaly, Thomas Konan, Adeline Ségard, Lingué Kouakou, Thierry De Meeûs, Sophie Ravel, Philippe Solano, Jean-Mathieu Bart, Vincent Jamonneau. 2021. Free-ranging pigs identified as a multi-reservoir of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in the Vavoua area, a historical sleeping sickness focus of Côte d’Ivoire. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15(12): e0010036.

Thierry De Meeûs, Camille Noûs. 2022. A simple procedure to detect, test for the presence of stuttering, and cure stuttered data with spreadsheet programs. Peer Community Journal 2: e52.

Adeline Ségard, Audrey Romero, Sophie Ravel, Philippe Truc, Gauthier Dobigny, Philippe Gauthier, Jonas Etougbetche, Henri-Joel Dossou, Sylvestre Badou, Gualbert Houéménou, Serge Morand, Kittipong Chaisiri, Camille Noûs and Thierry de Meeûs. 2022. Development of nine microsatellite, loci for Trypanosoma lewisi, a potential, human pathogen in Western Africa, and South-East Asia, and preliminary, population genetics analyses. Peer Community Journal 2: e69.

Ravel, S., Mahamat, M.H., Ségard, A., Argiles-Herrero, R., Bouyer, J., Rayaisse, J.-B., Solano, P., Mollo, B.G., Pèka, M., Darnas, J., Belem, A.M.G., Yoni, W., Noûs, C., De Meeûs, T. 2023. Population genetics of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes from southern Chad. Peer Community Journal, 3: e31. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.257.

Velez, R., De Meeûs, T., Beati, L., Younsi, H., Zhioua, E., Antunes, S., Domingos, A., Ataíde Sampaio, D., Carpinteiro, D., Moerbeck, L., Estrada-Peña, A., Santos-Silva, M.M., Santos, A.S. 2023. Development and testing of microsatellite loci for the study of population genetics of Ixodes ricinus Linnaeus, 1758 and Ixodes inopinatus Estrada-Peña, Nava & Petney, 2014 (Acari: Ixodidae) in the western Mediterranean region. Acarologia, 63: 356-372. 10.24349/bvem-4h49

De Meeûs, T., Noûs, C., 2023. A new and almost perfectly accurate approximation of the eigenvalue effective population size of a dioecious population: comparisons with other estimates and detailed proofs. Peer Community Journal, 3: e51.

Gstöttenmayer, F., Moyaba, P., Rodriguez, M., Mulandane, F.C., Mucache, H.N., Neves, L., De Beer, C., Ravel, S., De Meeûs, T., Mach, R.L., Vreysen, M.J.B., Abd-Alla, A.M.M. 2023. Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for the tsetse species Glossina brevipalpis and preliminary population genetics analyses.  Parasite 30: 34.

 Konan, Y.J.R., Berté, D., Ta, B.T.D., Demoncheaux, J.P., Sauzet, S., Watier-Grillot, S., Kouadio, K.A.M., N'Dri, L., Coulibaly, B., Solano, P., Ravel, S., Ségard, A., Kaba, D., De Meeûs, T., Djohan, V., Jamonneau, V. (2023) Tsetse fly ecology and risk of transmission of African trypanosomes related to a protected forest area at a military base in the city of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Parasite: 30: 36. 10.1051/parasite/2023037

Kagbadouno M.S., Séré M., Ségard A., Camara A.D., Camara M., Bucheton B., Bart J.M., Courtin F., De Meeûs T.*, Ravel S.* (2024) Population genetics of Glossina palpalis gambiensis in the sleeping sickness focus of Boffa (Guinea) before and after eight years of vector control: no effect of control despite a significant decrease of human exposure to the disease. Peer Community Journal, 4, e21. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.383.

Ravel S, Ségard A, Guihini M-B, Argiles-Herrero R, Bouyer J, Rayaisse J-B, Solano P, Pèka M, Darnas J, Belem A-M-G, Yoni W, Noûs C, De Meeûs T (2024) Limited impact of vector control on the population genetic structure of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes from the sleeping sickness focus of Maro, Chad. Parasite, 31, 13. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2024013

Purificacion M, Shah RBM, De Meeûs T, Bakar SB, Savantil AB, Yusof MM, Amalin D, Nguyen H, Sulistyowati E, Budiman A, Ekayanti A, Niogret J, Ravel S, Vreysen MJB, Abd-Alla AMM (2024) Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for population genetics of the cocoa pod borer Conopomorpha cramerella (Snellen) (Lepidoptera: Gracillaridae) (J Zhou, Ed,). PLOS ONE, 19, e0297662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297662




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