Publications and communications of Alice Mouton

de Guttry, C., Bortoluzzi, C., Marins, L., Chkhartishvili, T., De Pierri, C., Kamenova, S., Leonard, J., Lucek, K., Lukić Bilela, L., Mazzoni, C., Mc Cartney, A., Mikalsen, S.-O., Miraldo, A., Montoliu-Nerin, M., Mouton, A., Ometto, L., Pohjoismäki, J., Ruiz-López, M., Steeves, T., ... Waterhouse, R. (2025). Engaging European Local Communities in Biodiversity Genomics Research: A Five-Step Framework for Scientists. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/339961. doi:10.32942/x2vh3p

Massa, P., Leitão, H. G., Manousaki, T., Cariani, A., Svardal, H., Tsaparis, D., Cannas, R., Zane, L., De Pooter, T., Spedicato, M. T., Strazisar, M., Ciofi, C., Ferrari, A., Diedericks, G., Diroma, M. A., Formenti, G., Ivanova, P., Mc Cartney, A. M., Mouton, A., ... Tsigenopoulos, C. S. (07 October 2025). Genomic insights into the population structure and adaptive variation of Mullus barbatus in the Mediterranean Sea. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25 (1), 101. doi:10.1186/s12862-025-02443-2

Mouton, A.* , Bird, D. J.* , Li, G.* , Craven, B. A., Levine, J. M., Morselli, M., Pellegrini, M., Van Valkenburgh, B., Wayne, R. K., & Murphy, W. J. (05 March 2025). Genetic and Anatomical Determinants of Olfaction in Dogs and Wild Canids. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42 (3). doi:10.1093/molbev/msaf035

Halpern, B., Vörös, J., Mc Cartney, A. M., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, S. A. L. T., Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, & Tree of Life Core Informatics collective. (15 January 2025). The genome sequence of the Hungarian meadow viper, Vipera ursinii rakosiensis (Méhely, 1893). Wellcome Open Research, 9, 404. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22694.2

Geslain, E., Volckaert, F. A. M., Mc Cartney, A. M., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, S. A. L. T., Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, & Tree of Life Core Informatics collective. (2025). The genome sequence of the common sole, Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Research, 10, 25. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23353.1

Oomen, R. A., Cariani, A., Chavarie, L., Leone, A., Vella, A., Vella, N., Hellström, G., Brodin, T., Sundelöf, A., Blaxter, M., Mc Cartney, A. M., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., Tinti, F., Garibaldi, F., & Lundberg, P. (2025). The genome sequence of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Research, 10, 163. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23971.1

Mc Cartney, A. M.* , Formenti, G.* , Mouton, A.* , De Panis, D., Marins, L. S., Leitão, H. G., Diedericks, G., Kirangwa, J., Morselli, M., Salces-Ortiz, J., Escudero, N., Iannucci, A., Natali, C., Svardal, H., Fernández, R., De Pooter, T., Joris, G., Strazisar, M., Wood, J. M. D., ... Mazzoni, C. J. (December 2024). Author Correction: The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics (npj Biodiversity, (2024), 3, 1, (28), 10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6). npj Biodiversity, 3 (1). doi:10.1038/s44185-024-00065-3

Nash, W. J., Man, A., McTaggart, S., Baker, K., Barker, T., Catchpole, L., Durrant, A., Gharbi, K., Irish, N., Kaithakottil, G., Ku, D., Providence, A., Shaw, F., Swarbreck, D., Watkins, C., McCartney, A. M., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., Vella, N., ... Haerty, W. (December 2024). The genome sequence of the Violet Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa violacea (Linnaeus, 1785): a hymenopteran species undergoing range expansion. Heredity, 133 (6), 381 - 387. doi:10.1038/s41437-024-00720-2

Byerly, P. A., von Thaden, A., Leushkin, E., Hilgers, L., Liu, S., Winter, S., Schell, T., Gerheim, C., Ben Hamadou, A., Greve, C., Betz, C., Bolz, H. J., Büchner, S., Lang, J., Meinig, H., Famira-Parcsetich, E. M., Stubbe, S. P., Mouton, A., Bertolino, S., ... Hiller, M. (20 November 2024). Haplotype-resolved genome and population genomics of the threatened garden dormouse in Europe. Genome Research, 34 (11), 2094 - 2107. doi:10.1101/gr.279066.124

Marques, J. P., Alves, P. C., Amorim, I. R., Lopes, R. J., Moura, M., Myers, E., Sim-Sim, M., Sousa-Santos, C., Alves, M. J., Borges, P. A. V., Brown, T., Carneiro, M., Carrapato, C., Ceríaco, L. M. P., Ciofi, C., da Silva, L. P., Diedericks, G., Diroma, M. A., Farelo, L., ... Sousa, V. C. (17 September 2024). Building a Portuguese coalition for biodiversity genomics. npj Biodiversity, 3 (1), 27. doi:10.1038/s44185-024-00061-7

Mc Cartney, A. M.* , Formenti, G.* , Mouton, A.* , De Panis, D., Marins, L. S., Leitão, H. G., Diedericks, G., Kirangwa, J., Morselli, M., Salces-Ortiz, J., Escudero, N., Iannucci, A., Natali, C., Svardal, H., Fernández, R., De Pooter, T., Joris, G., Strazisar, M., Wood, J., ... Mazzoni, C. J. (2024). The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics. npj Biodiversity. doi:10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

Buzan, E., Guttry, C. D., Bortoluzzi, C., Street, N., Lucek, K., Rosling, A., Ometto, L., Mouton, A., Marins, L., Ruiz-López, M. J., Melo-Ferreira, J., Ottosson, E., Mazzoni, C., & Waterhouse, R. (2024). Harmonising genomics research excellence and stakeholder needs in conservation management. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/331953. doi:10.22541/au.172510123.38206942/v1

Peona, V., Martelossi, J., Almojil, D., Bocharkina, J., Brännström, I., Brown, M., Cang, A., Carrasco-Valenzuela, T., DeVries, J., Doellman, M., Elsner, D., Espíndola-Hernández, P., Montoya, G. F., Gaspar, B., Zagorski, D., Hałakuc, P., Ivanovska, B., Laumer, C., Lehmann, R., ... Suh, A. (06 May 2024). Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective. Mobile DNA, 15 (1), 10. doi:10.1186/s13100-024-00319-8

Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Formenti, G., Bista, I., Berg, P. R., Bleidorn, C., Bombarely, A., Crottini, A., Gallo, G. R., Godoy, J. A., Jentoft, S., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-López, M. J., Secomandi, S., ... European Reference Genome Atlas Consortium. (2023). How genomics can help biodiversity conservation. Trends in Genetics. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005

Mouton, A. (22 September 2022). The pilot project of the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative [Paper presentation]. ZOOLOGY 2022.

Baldin, E., Mouton, A., & Zanatta, F. (2022). Nourrir le regard sur la biodiversité urbaine: une balade à St Léonard [Paper presentation]. Nourrir Liège, festival de la transition alimentaire, Liège, Belgium.

Formenti, G., Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Bista, I., Bombarely, A., Bleidorn, C., Ciofi, C., Crottini, A., Godoy, J. A., Höglund, J., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-López, M. J., Svardal, H., Theofanopoulou, C., ... European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium. (March 2022). The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37 (3), 197 - 202. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008

Mouton, A. (2022). Génomique et Biodiversité [Paper presentation]. Cours Biodiversité et Société (Prof Dorothée Denayer).

Mouton, A., Baldin, E., & Zanatta, F. (2022). Ry-Ponet: (une balade) à travers le paysage. Paper presented at bioblitz au Ry-Ponet, Liège, Belgium [Paper presentation]. Bioblitz and balade au Ry-Ponet, Liege, Belgium.

Mouton, A., Baldin, E., & Zanatta, F. (2022). Nourrir le regard sur la biodiversité urbaine: une balade à St Léonard [Paper presentation]. Nourrir Liège, festival de la transition alimentaire, Liège, Belgium, Liege, Belgium.

Mouton, A. (25 October 2021). Étudier la biodiversité grâce à la génétique [Paper presentation]. Journée Faune, campus Gembloux.

Mouton, A. (12 February 2021). Rat poison and bobcats: Application of gene expression in a natural population [Paper presentation]. Seminar series in the Division of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, KU Leuven.

Guo, F., Seldin, M., Péterfy, M., Charugundla, S., Zhou, Z., Lee, S. D., Mouton, A., Rajbhandari, P., Zhang, W., Pellegrini, M., Tontonoz, P., Lusis, A. J., & Shih, D. M. (2021). NOTUM promotes thermogenic capacity and protects against diet-induced obesity in male mice. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 16409. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95720-1

Mishra, A., Mirzaei, H., Guidi, N., Vinciguerra, M., Mouton, A., Linardic, M., Rappa, F., Barone, R., Navarrete, G., Wei, M., Brandhorst, S., Di Biase, S., Morgan, T. E., Ram Kumar, S., Conti, P. S., Pellegrini, M., Bernier, M., de Cabo, R., & Longo, V. D. (2021). Fasting-mimicking diet prevents high-fat diet effect on cardiometabolic risk and lifespan. Nature Metabolism. doi:10.1038/s42255-021-00469-6

Nadel, B. B., Oliva, M., Shou, B. L., Mitchell, K., Ma, F., Montoya, D. J., Mouton, A., Kim-Hellmuth, S., Stranger, B. E., Pellegrini, M., & Mangul, S. (2021). Systematic evaluation of transcriptomics-based deconvolution methods and references using thousands of clinical samples. Briefings in Bioinformatics. doi:10.1093/bib/bbab265

Perri, A. R.* , Mitchell, K. J.* , Mouton, A.* , Álvarez-Carretero, S.* , Hulme-Beaman, A., Haile, J., Jamieson, A., Meachen, J., Lin, A. T., & Schubert, B. W. (2021). Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature, 1-5. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

Agak, G. W., Mouton, A., Teles, R., Weston, T. A., Morselli, M., Andrade, P. R., Pellegrini, M., & Modlin, R. L. (2020). Extracellular traps released by antimicrobial TH17 cells contribute to host defense. Journal of Clinical Investigation. doi:10.1172/JCI141594

Mouton, A., Li, G., Morselli, M., Murphy, W., & Wayne, R. (2019). Positive Selection and Differential Expression of Olfactory Receptors in the Domestic Dog. Journal of Morphology, 280 (S1), 53.

Sears, K. E., Anthwal, N., Mouton, A., Su, T., Lay, F., Zhao, J., Maier, J., Gallgher-Jones, M., Ahituv, N., & Pellegrini, M. (2019). Developmental Timing of Mammalian Limb Diversification. In JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY.

Andre, A., Mouton, A., Millien, V., & Michaux, J. (2018). Pathobiome of the Lyme disease principal reservoir in southern Quebec (Peromyscus leucopus) [Paper presentation]. Pathobiome 2018, Ajaccio, France.

Fraser, D.* , Mouton, A.* , Serieys, L. E. K., Cole, S., Carver, S., Vandewoude, S., Lappin, M., Riley, S. P. D., & Wayne, R. (2018). Genome-wide expression reveals multiple systemic effects associated with detection of anticoagulant poisons in bobcats (Lynx rufus). Molecular Ecology, 27 (5), 1170-1187. doi:10.1111/mec.14531

Serieys, L. E. K., Lea, A., Epeldegui, M., Foley, J., Moriarty, J. G., Riley, S. P. D., Uittenbogaart, C. H., Fraser, D., Mouton, A., & Wayne, R. K. (2018). Widespread anticoagulant poison exposure is linked with immune dysregulation and severe notoedric mange in urban bobcats. In Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference.

André, A., Mouton, A., millien, V., & Michaux, J. (2017). Liver microbiome of Peromyscus leucopus, a key reservoir host species for emerging infectious diseases in North America. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2017.04.011

Andre, A., Mouton, A., Millien, V., & Michaux, J. (2016). Study of the microbiome from the lyme disease principal reservoir in southern Quebec (Peromyscus leucopus) [Poster presentation]. Pathobiome 2015: Pathogens in microbiotas in hosts, Paris, France.

Mouton, A., Espelta, J. M., Baurain, D., & Michaux, J. (2016). Using Next Generation Sequencing to characterize species diets: a study case with faeces of wild boar in the Spanish Pyrenees [Poster presentation]. Congenomics conference, Porto, Portugal.

Mouton, A., Grill, A., Mortelliti, A., Sara, M., Krystufek, B., Buchner, S., Lang, J., Adamik, P., Randi, E., Amori, G., Elmeros, M., Verbeylen, G., Dorenbosch, M., Schulz, B., Aloise, G., Matur, F., & Michaux, J. (2016). New insight in the evolutionary history of the common dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius: a new cryptic species? Conservation Genetics.

Andre, A., Mouton, A., Millien, V., & Michaux, J. (July 2015). Study of the microbiome from the lyme disease principal reservoir in southern Quebec (Peromyscus leucopus) [Paper presentation]. Pathobiome conference.

André, A., Mouton, A., Millien, V., & Michaux, J. (25 June 2015). The microbiome from the Lyme disease principal reservoir host in southern Quebec (Peromyscus leucopus) [Poster presentation]. Pathobiome.

Mouton, A., Renaud, S., & Michaux, J. (19 September 2014). When morphometrics meets genetics: the case of the hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius [Paper presentation]. 9th INternational dormouse conference 2014, Svendborg, Denmark.

Mouton, A. (2014). Who are you dormouse and where do you come from? Dormouse Monitor, (Winter), p. 14-15.

Smitz, N., Cornelis, D., Chardonnet, P., Caron, A., de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Jori, F., Mouton, A., Latinne, A., Pigneur, L.-M., Melletti, M., Kanapeckas, K., Marescaux, J., Lopes pereira, C., & Michaux, J. (2014). Genetic structure of fragmented southern populations of African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 203. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0203-2

Mouton, A., Grill, A., Sara, M., krystufek, B., Randi, E., Amori, G., Juskaitis, R., Aloise, G., Mortelliti, A., Matur, F., Elmeros, M., Vilhelmesen, H., Verbeylen, G., Panchetti, F., & Michaux, J. (2013). Molecular phylogeographt of the common dormouse. In Abstract book of the 13th Rodens & Spatium conference.

Mouton, A., Verbeylen, G., & Michaux, J. (September 2011). Genetic diversity and population structure of the common dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, in Flanders region (Belgium) [Poster presentation]. International Dormouse Conference, Ostritz, Germany.

Mouton, A., Renaud, S., & Michaux, J. (July 2011). When morphometrics meet genetics: the case of the common dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius [Poster presentation]. VIth European Mammal Conference, Paris, France.