Fieschi-Méric, L., Van Leeuwen, P., Denoël, M.* , & Lesbarrères, D.*. (June 2023). Encouraging news for in situ conservation: Translocation of salamander larvae has limited impacts on their skin microbiota. Molecular Ecology, 32 (12), 3276-3289. doi:10.1111/mec.16914
The key role of symbiotic skin bacteria communities in amphibian resistance to emerging pathogens is well recognized, but factors leading to their dysbiosis are not fully understood. In particular,...
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Fieschi-Méric, L., Denoël, M., & Lesbarrères, D. (2023). No detection of ranaviruses nor chytrids among salamanders and newts in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Herpetological Review, 54 (2), 204-207.
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Whiteman, H., Wissinger, S. A., Denoël, M., Mecklin, C. J., Gerlanc, N. M., & Gutrich, J. J. (2012). Larval growth in polyphenic salamanders: making the best of a bad lot. Oecologia, 168 (1), 109-118. doi:10.1007/s00442-011-2076-z
Polyphenisms are excellent models for studying phenotypic variation, yet few studies have focused on natural populations. Facultative paedomorphosis is a polyphenism in which salamanders either met...
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Wissinger, S. A., Whiteman, H. H., Denoël, M., Mumford, M. L., & Aubee, C. B. (2010). Consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of cannibalism in fluctuating age-structured populations. Ecology, 91 (2), 549-599. doi:10.1890/08-1366.1
Theory and empirical studies suggest that cannibalism in age-structured populations can regulate recruitment depending on the intensity of intraspecific competition between cannibals and victims an...
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Denoël, M., Whiteman, H. H., & Wissinger, S. A. (2007). Foraging tactics in alternative heterochronic salamander morphs: trophic quality of ponds matters more than water permanency. Freshwater Biology, 52 (9), 1667-1676. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01793.x
1. In lentic freshwater habitats, the composition of animal assemblages shifts along a gradient from temporary to permanent basins. When habitats with different degrees of permanence are at the sca...
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Denoël, M., Whiteman, H. H., & Wissinger, S. A. (2006). Temporal shift of diet in alternative cannibalistic morphs of the tiger salamander. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 89 (2), 373-382. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00681.x
Evolutionary theory predicts that alternative trophic morphologies are adaptive because they allow a broad use of resources in heterogeneous environments. The development of a cannibal morphology i...
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