Projects

Animal cultural evolution

Although retired I still have one ongoing project with Guillaume Isabel and Sabine Nöbel.

Keywords: Non-genetic inheritance, Social information, Mate choice, Animal culture, Conformity
Biological models: Drosophila melanogaster
Funding: ANR (Project’s name: MoleCulture)
Collaboration: Guillaume Isabel (CRCA, Toulouse) and Sabine Nöbel (EDB and IAST, Toulouse)

Field work

In 2019, I also resumed participating in the longterm monitoring of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) breeding population in Cap Sizun (Brittany, (France) .

My goal is to help Emmanuelle Cam now in charge of that project that was initiated in 1979 by Jean-Yves Monnat, and to which I participated from 1982 to 2002, in collecting data in the field.

From 2003 to 2013 I had moved to the Alaskan Island of Middleton to perform specific experiments on the sexual biology of kittiwakes.

I stopped being involved in the Alaskan project in 2014 as one of my former PhD student, Sarah Leclerc decided to take the lead of that Alaskan project.

Meaning of acronyms
ANR: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
CRCA: Centre de Recherche sur la cognition animale (other lab in University Paul Sabatier)
EDB: évolution & Diversité Biologique (My lab)

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Nöbel, Sabine, Étienne Danchin, and Guillaume Isabel. 2023. “Mate Copying Requires the Coincidence Rutabaga in the Mushroom of Drosophila Melanogaster.” IScience 26: 107682. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/. Download

Danchin, É. 2023. “Chapter 18: From the Modern Synthesis to the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis: An Einsteinian Revolution in Evolution.” In Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines, du Crest, A., Valkovic, M., Huneman, P. & Reydon T.A.C. (Eds), 26:401–27. Syntheses Library, Springer. Download

Ben-Ari, Yehezkel, Françoise Clerget-Darpoux, and Étienne Danchin. 2023. “Génomique: La Part de La Variabilité Liée à l’environnement Ne Peut plus Être Niée.” Le Monde Mercredi 10 mai.

Danchin, É. 2023. La Belle Histoire Du Kākāpō. Humensis. Paris.

Nöbel, Sabine, Xiaobo Wang, Marion Christante, Marine Güell, Juliette Tariel, Étienne Danchin, and Myriam Roussigné. 2023. “No Evidence for Mate Copying in Danio Rerio.” Behavioural Processes, 104837. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104837. Download

Nöbel, Sabine, Antoine Jacquet, Guillaume Isabel, Arnaud Pocheville, Paul Seabright, and Étienne Danchin. 2023. “Conformity in Mate Choice, the Overlooked Social Component of Animal and Human Culture.” Biologigcal Reviews 98: 132–49. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12899. Download

Danchin, É., G. Isabel, and S. Nöbel. 2023. “Culture in Insects.” In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, Kendal, R, Tehrani, J. & Kendal, J. (Eds). Oxford University Press.

Danchin, É. 2022. “More than Fifty Shades of Epigenetic for the Study of Early in Life Effects in Medicine, Ecology and Evolution.” In Development Strategies and Biodiversity - Darwinian Fitness and Evolution in the Anthropocene, Costantini, D., Marasco, V. (Eds), 3–35. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Download

Nöbel, S., M. Monier, L. Fargeot, G. Lespagnol, É. Danchin, and G. Isabel. 2022. “Female Fruit Flies Copy the Acceptance, but Not the Rejection, of a Mate.” Behavioral Ecology 33: 1018–24. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac071. Download

Nöbel, Sabine, Magdalena Monier, David Villa, Étienne Danchin, and Guillaume Isabel. 2022. “2-D Sex Images Elicit Mate Copying in Fruit Flies.” Scientific Reports 12: 1–9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26252-5. Download

Pineaux, M., T Merkling, É. Danchin, S. A. Hatch, S. Leclaire, and P. Blanchard. 2022. “MHC-II Distance between Parents Predicts Sex Allocation Decisions in a Genetically Monogamous Bird. , 33: 245-251.” Behavioral Ecology 33: 245–51. Download

Danchin, Etienne. 2022. La Synthèse Inclusive de l’évolution. L’hérédité Au-Delà Du Gène Égoïste. Arles, France: Actes Sud. Download

Nöbel, Sabine, Xiaobo Wang, Laurine Talvard, Juliette Tariel, Maëva Lille, Julien Cucherousset, Myriam Roussigné, and Étienne Danchin. 2022. “The Importance of Population Heterogeneities in Detecting Social Learning as the Foundation of Animal Cultural Transmission.” Proceeding of the Royal Society of London, B 289: 20220431. Download

Danchin, É. 2021. L’hérédité comme on ne vous l’a jamais racontée. HumenSciences. Paris: humenSciences. https://www.humensciences.com/auteur/DANCHIN-Etienne/243716.

Carvalho Augusto, Ronaldo de, Oliver Rey, Céline Cosseau, Cristian Chaparro, Jérémie Vidal-Dupiol, Jean-François Allienne, David Duval, et al. 2021. “A Simple ATAC-Seq Protocol for Population Epigenetics [Version 2; Peer Review: 2 Approved with Reservations].” Wellcome Open Research 5: 121. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15552.2. Download

Singh, M., A. Acerbi, C. Caldwell, É. Danchin, G. Isabel, L. Molleman, T. Scott-Phillips, et al. 2021. “Beyond Social Learning.” Pholosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London B, 376: 20200050. Download

Edelaar, P, R. Bonduriansky, A. Charmantier, É. Danchin, and B. Pujol. 2021. “Response to Kalchhauser et al.: Inherited Gene Regulation Is Not Enough to Understand Non-Genetic Inheritance.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 475–76. Download

Inner, A, Merkling, O. Chastel, S. A. Hatch, É. Danchin, P. Blanchard, and S Leclaire. 2021. “Spying on Your Neighbours? Social Information Affects Timing of Breeding and Stress Hormone Levels in a Colonial Seabird. , 1-19.” Evolutionary Ecology, 1–19.

Herrel, A., D. Joly, and É. Danchin. 2020. “Epigenetics in Ecology and Evolution.” Edited by Charles Fox. Functional Ecology 34 (2): 381–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13494. Download

Sentis, A., R. Bertram, N. Dardenne, J.Ch. Simon, A. Magro, B. Pujol, É. Danchin, and J.-L. Hemptinne. 2020. “Intraspecific Difference among Herbivore Lineages and Their Host-Plant Specialization Drive the Strength of Trophic Cascades.” Ecology Letters 23: 1242–51. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13528. Download

Pineaux, M., T. Merkling, É. Danchin, S.-A. Hatch, D. Duneau, P. Blanchard, and S. Leclaire, S. 2020. “Sex and Hatching Order Modulate the Association between MHC-Diversity and Fitness in Early-Life Stages of a Wild Seabird.” Molecular Ecology 29: 3316–29. Download

Danchin, A., and É. Danchin,. 2020. “Évolution : L’entreprise, Une Espèce Comme Les Autres.” Havard Business Review. https://www.hbrfrance.fr/chroniques-experts/2020/02/29204-evolution-lentreprise-une-espece-comme-une-autre/.

Danchin, É., S. Nöbel, A. Pocheville, and G. Isabel. 2020. “First Evidence for a Significant Effect of the Regression to the Mean Fallacy in Mate Copying: A Comment on Davies et Al.” Behavioral Ecology, araa076. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa076. Download

Pocheville, A., S. Nöbel, G. Isabel, and É. Danchin. 2019. “Response to Comment on ‘Cultural Flies: Conformist Social Learning in Fruitflies Predicts Long-Lasting Mate-Choice Traditions.’” Science 366 (6462): eaaw9549. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw9549. Download

Pineaux, M., P. Blanchard, É. Danchin, S. A. Hatch, F. Helfenstein, H. Mulard, J. White, S. Leclaire, and R. H. Wagner. 2019. “Behavioral Avoidance of Sperm Aging Depends on Genetic Similarity of Mates in a Monogamous Seabird.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128: 170–80. Download

Van Dongen, W. F., J. White, H. B. Brandl, S. Leclaire, S. A. Hatch, É. Danchin, and R. H. Wagner. 2019. “Experimental Evidence of a Sexually Transmitted Infection in a Wild Vertebrate, the Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa Tridactyla).” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127: 292–98. Download

Richard, G., G. Le Trionnaire, É. Danchin, and A. Sentis. 2019. “Epigenetics and Insect Polyphenism: Mechanisms and Climate Change Impacts. In Press.” Current Opinion in Insect Science 35: 138–45. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.06.013.

Merkling, T., S. A. Hatch, S. Leclaire, É. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2019. “Offspring Sex-Ratio and Environmental Conditions in a Seabird with Sex-Specific Rearing Costs: A Long-Term Experimental Approach.” Evolutionary Ecology 33: 417–33. Download

Monier, M., S. nöbel, É. Danchin, and G. Isabel. 2019. “Dopamine and Serotonin Are Both Required for Mate-Copying in Drosophila.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12: 334. Download

Sentis, A., R. Bertram, N. Dardenne, F Ramon-Portugal, I. Louit, G. Le Trionnaire, J.-C. Simon, et al. 2019. “Different Phenotypic Plastic Responses to Predators Observed among Aphid Lineages Specialized on Different Host Plants.” Scientific Reports 9: 9017. Download

Danchin, É. , A. Pocheville, O. Rey, B. Pujol, and S. Blanchet. 2019. “Epigenetically-Facilitated Mutational Assimilation: Epigenetics as a Hub within the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis.” Biological Reviews 94: 259–82. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12453. Download

Danchin, É. , A. Pocheville, and P. Humeman. 2019. “Early in Life Effects and Heredity: Reconciling Neo-Darwinism with Neo-Lamarckism under the Banner of the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 374: 20180113. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0113. Download

Chitka, L. 2019. “F1000Prime Recommendation of [Danchin E et al., Science 2018 362(6418):1025-1030].” In F1000Prime 04 Jan 2019. https://doi.org/10.3410/f.734518350.793554636.

Danchin, É.*, S.* Nöbel, A.* Pocheville, A. C. Dagaeff, L. Demay, A. Alphand, S. Ranty-Roby, et al. 2018. “Cultural Flies: Conformist Social Learning in Fruit Flies Predicts Long-Lasting Mate-Choice Traditions.” Science 362: 1025-1030. [See also in this List of Publications the Commentaries by Whiten, and Vignieri in Science in 2018, as well as Lars Chitkka in F1000 in 2019.]. Download

Sentis, A., R. Bertram, N. Dardenne, F. Ramon-Portugal, G. Espinasse, I. Louit, L. Negri, et al. 2018. “Evolution without Standing Genetic Variation: Change in Transgenerational Plastic Response under Persistent Predation Pressure.” Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0108-8. Download

Nöbel, S., É. Danchin, and G. Isabel. 2018. “Mate-Copying for a Costly Variant in Drosophila Melanogaster Females.” Behavioral Ecology 29: 1150–56.

Vignieri, S. N. 2018. “Trendsetting Flies.” Science 362: 1014. Download

Whiten, A. 2018. “Culture and Conformity Shape Fruitfly Mating. Potent Social Learning Sustains the Inheritance of Mating Preferences over Generations.” Science 362 (30 November): 998–99. Download

Susset, É. C., J. L. Hemptinne, É. Danchin, and A. Magro. 2018. “Diapause Aggregations as Part of Hippodamia Undecimnotata’s (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Mating System.” PLoS One 13: e0197108. Download

Pujol, B., S. Blanchet, A. Charmantier, É. Danchin, B. Facon, P. Marrot, F. Roux, et al. 2018. “The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 337–46. Download

Nöbel, S., M. Allain, G. Isabel, and É. Danchin. 2018. “Mate-Copying in Drosophila Melanogaster Males.” Animal Behaviour 141: 9–15. Download

Monier, M., S. Nöbel, G. Isabel, and E. Danchin. 2018. “Effects of a Sex Ratio Gradient on Female Mate-Copying and Choosiness in Drosophila Melanogaster.” Current Zoology 64: 251–58. Download

Parejo, D., N. Silva, E. Danchin, and J. Aviles. 2017. “Kestrels Rely on Two Different Types of Social Information from Conspecifics When Choosing Breeding Habitats.” Ecosistemas 26: 39–47. Download

Pocheville, A., and É. Danchin. 2017. “Genetic Assimilation and the Paradox of Blind Variation.” In Challenging the Modern Synthesis. Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance (Ed. by Humeman, P. & Walsh, D.), 111–36. Oxford: Oxford University press. Download

Merkling, T., P. Blanchard, O. Chastel, G. Glauser, A. Vallat, S. A. Hatch, É. Danchin, and F. Helfenstein. 2017. “Reproductive Effort and Oxidative Stress: Effects of Offspring Sex and Number on the Physiological State of a Long-Lived Bird.” Functional Ecology 31: 1201–9. Download

Germain, M., S. Blanchet, A Loyau, and É. Danchin. 2016. “Mate-Choice Copying in Drosophila Melanogaster: Impact of Demonstration Conditions and Male-Male Competition.” Behavioural Processes 125: 76–84. Download

Dagaeff, A.-C., A. Pocheville, S. Nöbel, A. Loyau, G. Isabel, and É. Danchin. 2016. “Drosophila Mate Copying Correlates with Atmospheric Pressure in a Speed Learning Situation.” Animal Behaviour 121: 163–73. Download

Merkling, T., C Perrot, F Helfenstein, J.-B. Ferdy, L. Gaillard, E. Lefol, E. Voisin, S. A. Hatch, É. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2016. “Maternal Effects as Drivers of Sibling Competition in a Parent-Offspring Conflict Context? An Experimental Test.” Ecology and Evolution 6: 3699–3710. Download

Rey, O., É. Danchin, M. Mirouze, C. Loot, and S. Blanchet. 2016. “Adaptation to Global Change: A Transposable Element-Epigenetics Perspective.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 514–26. Download

Perrot, C., T. Merkling, F. Helfenstein, J.-B. Ferdy, L. Gaillard, E. Lefol, E. Voisin, S. A. Hatch, É. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2015. “Maternal Effects as Drivers of Sibling Competition in a Parent-Offspring Conflict Context? An Experimental Test.” Ecology and Evolution 6: 3699–3710. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1002/ece3.1777. Download

Etienne Danchin

CNRS Research Director at Laboratoire Evolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB)

Projects

Animal cultural evolution

Field work