Maxime Galan

The paper examines how pine plantations affect infectious agent communities in wood mice, finding habitat-specific impacts on infection probability and host abundance with implications for zoonotic risk.

This study detects and characterizes coronaviruses in rodents and bats from four European countries, identifying new viral lineages and highlighting potential zoonotic risks.

The paper investigates how biodiversity and habitat changes affect pathogen communities in European forests and urban areas, finding that host diversity increases pathogen richness but urbanization reduces certain pathogens.

The paper assesses small mammal communities in pine plantations and hedgerows, finding hedgerows benefit some species but not restore forest specialists.

The paper examines the dilution effect of host diversity on small mammal-borne pathogens, finding pathogen-specific patterns influenced by host competence and abundance.

This study uses genomic data from a Southern African rodent to show how aridity influences genetic divergence and population connectivity, with genes related to water conservation and neurotransmission identified.

The paper surveys zoonotic pathogens in small mammals across a forest anthropization gradient, finding pathogen richness and community structure vary with host species, site, and urban adaptation traits.

This study examines dietary changes in urban insectivorous bats on a tropical island, finding shifts in prey preferences linked to land use and reproductive strategies.

This study analyzes discordant phylogenomic data from aphids to resolve their evolutionary history, finding monophyly of subfamilies but unresolved relationships between them.

This study examines how urbanization affects small mammal communities and their gut microbiota, finding that urban species show reduced taxonomic diversity but increased functional diversity in their microbiota.

This study evaluates twelve COI and 16S metabarcoding primer sets for insectivorous diet analysis using in silico and empirical methods, finding primer degeneracy and amplicon length are key factors affecting detection and reliability.

The paper evaluates DNA metabarcoding using Ion Torrent and Illumina sequencing to identify diet composition in domestic cats, finding MiSeq more sensitive and reproducible for detecting food items.

The paper develops an HTAS approach to assess genetic diversity of plant viruses within and between hosts, demonstrating methods to estimate bias and implement automated variant calling.

The paper investigates genetic associations between immune-related genes and Puumala hantavirus epidemiology in bank voles across Sweden.

The paper examines microevolutionary changes in bank voles during population cycles and their impact on Puumala hantavirus epidemiology, finding that neutral processes dominate over selection.

This paper describes a data cleaning procedure for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to accurately estimate bacterial positivity, prevalence, and coinfection in wildlife, using rodent samples from Senegal.