Research interests
I am an evolutionary biologist interested in using fungi as models to study experimentally subjects as the evolution of host-parasite interactions, adaptation, domestication and the evolution of sex.
Publications avant 2014
- de Vienne, D. M., Refrégier, G., López-Villavicencio, M., Tellier, A., Hood, M. E., & Giraud, T. (2013). Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution. New Phytologist, 198(2), 347‑385. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12150
- López-Villavicencio, M., Debets, A. J. M., Slakhorst, M., Giraud, T., & Schoustra, S. E. (2013). Deleterious effects of recombination and possible nonrecombinatorial advantages of sex in a fungal model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(9), 1968‑1978. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12196
- Billiard, S., López-Villavicencio, M., Hood, M. E., & Giraud, T. (2012). Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond: Sexy fungi. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(6), 1020‑1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02495.x
- Ropars, J., Dupont, J., Fontanillas, E., Rodríguez de la Vega, R. C., Malagnac, F., Coton, M., Giraud, T., & López-Villavicencio, M. (2012). Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e49665.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049665
- Billiard, Sylvain, López-Villavicencio, M., Devier, B., Hood, M. E., Fairhead, C., & Giraud, T. (2011). Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types. Biological Reviews, 86(2), 421‑442. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00153.
- López-Villavicencio, M., Aguileta, G., Giraud, T., de Vienne, D. M., Lacoste, S., Couloux, A., & Dupont, J. (2010). Sex in Penicillium: Combined phylogenetic and experimental approaches. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 47(8), 693‑706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2010.05.002
- Giraud, T., Yockteng, R., Marthey, S., Chiapello, H., Jonot, O., López-Villavicencio, M., De Vienne, D. M., Hood, M. E., Refregier, G., Gendrault-Jacquemard, A., Wincker, P., & Dossat, C. (2008). Permanent Genetic Resources: Isolation of 60 polymorphic microsatellite loci in EST libraries of four sibling species of the phytopathogenic fungal complex Microbotryum: PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8(2), 387‑392. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01967.x
- Giraud, Tatiana, Yockteng, R., López-Villavicencio, M., Refrégier, G., & Hood, M. E. (2008). Mating System of the Anther Smut Fungus Microbotryum violaceum : Selfing under Heterothallism. Eukaryotic Cell, 7(5), 765‑775. https://doi.org/10.1128/EC.00440-07
- Marthey, S., Aguileta, G., Rodolphe, F., Gendrault, A., Giraud, T., Fournier, E., López-Villavicencio, M., Gautier, A., Lebrun, M.-H., & Chiapello, H. (2008). Funybase: a Fungal phylogenomic database. BMC Bioinformatics, 9(1), 456. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-456
- López-Villavicencio, Manuela, Jonot, O., Coantic, A., Hood, M. E., Enjalbert, J., & Giraud, T. (2007). Multiple Infections by the Anther Smut Pathogen Are Frequent and Involve Related Strains. PLoS Pathogens, 3(11), e176. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030176
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- López-Villavicencio, M., Branca, A., Giraud, T., & Shykoff, J. A. (2005). Sex-specific effect of Microbotryum violaceum (Uredinales) spores on healthy plants of the gynodioecious Gypsophila repens (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany, 92(5), 896‑900. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.92.5.896
- López-Villavicencio, M., Enjalbert, J., Hood, M. E., Shykoff, J. A., Raquin, C., & Giraud, T. (2005). The anther smut disease on Gypsophila repens: a case of parasite sub-optimal performance following a recent host shift?: Sub-optimal performance following a recent host shift. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18(5), 1293‑1303. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00924.x
- López-Villavicencio, M., Genton, B. j., Porcher, E., & Shykoff, J. A. (2005). The Role of Pollination Level on the Reproduction of Females and Hermaphrodites in the Gynodioecious Plant Gypsophila repens (Caryophyllaceae). botanical sociéty of América, 92(12), 1995‑2002. Consulté à l’adresse : https://www.jstor.org/stable/4125533
- Valverde, T., Quijas, S., López-Villavicencio, M., & Castillo, S. (2004). Population dynamics of Mammillaria magnimamma Haworth. (Cactaceae) in a lava-field in central Mexico. Plant Ecology (Formerly Vegetatio), 170(2), 167‑184. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:VEGE.0000021662.78634.de
- López‐Villavicencio, M., Collin, C. L., & Shykoff, J. A. (2003). No Evidence of Sex‐Differential Pollen Limitation at the Flower Level in the Gynodioecious Gypsophila repens Infected by Microbotryum violaceum. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164(6), 899‑905. https://doi.org/10.1086/378654
- Shykoff, J. A., Kolokotronis, S.-O., Collin, C. L., & López-Villavicencio, M. (2003). Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants: a meta-analysis. Oecologia, 135(1), 1‑9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-002-1133-z