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University of Fribourg

Department of Biology

Unit of Ecology & Evolution

Chemin du Musée 10

CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

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Degrees

Research experience

Publications

Current projects & jobs:

   * The evolution of recombination rate

   * Evolution of sex-allocation in Daphnia magna

   * Labmanager

Degrees:

* May 2002: PhD (Univ. Lausanne - Switzerland)

* September 1996: Master  (Univ. Montpellier II, France)

Research experience:

* 2005-2006 Estimation of mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster by DHPLC, University of Edinburgh, UK with Prof P Keightley and B Charlesworth.

* 2002-2005 Causes and consequences of inbreeding on the biology of the ant Formica exsecta , University of Helsinki, Finland with Prof. L. Sundström

 * 1997-2002 Social organisation of multiple queen colonies in the ant Formica exsecta Assistant of University of Lausanne, PhD project, Switzerland, with Prof. L. Keller

 * 1996 Identification of selection pressures on meiotic drive in the Danish hybrid zone between two subspecies of house mouse. University of Montpellier, France with B. Dod and P. Boursot

 * 1996 Effect of insularity on aggressiveness within and between tit species. University of Montpellier  France, with M. Lambrechts and J. Blondel

 * 1996 Interactions between physiological conditions and behaviour in Gammarus aequicauda (Amphipoda).  University of Montpellier,  France, with F. Thomas and F. Renaud

 * 1995 Populations genetic structure of an ectoparasite of blue tits, Protocalliphora. University of Montpellier,  France, with F. Renaud and S. Hurtrez-Bousses

Publications:

1. Haag-Liautard, C., Vitikainen, E., Keller L. and Sundström L. 2009. Fitness and the level of homozygosity in a social insect. J. Evol. Biol. 22: 134-142

2. Haag-Liautard, C., Crown, N., Houle, D., Lynch, M.,  Charlesworth B. and Keightley, P. D. , Direct estimation of the mitochondrial DNA mutation rate in D. melanogaster. 2008. Plos Biology 6(8): 1706-1714. Table S1 , Table S2 , Table S3, Protocol .

3. Haag-Liautard, C., Ovaskainen O., Pedersen J. S. and Keller L., Breeding system and reproductive skew in a highly polygynous ant population. 2008. Insectes Sociaux 55: 345-354. supplementary information

4. Haag-Liautard, C., Dorris, M., Maside, X., Macaskill, S., Halligan, D. L., Houle, D., Charleswoth, B. and Keightley, P. D. 2007. Direct estimation of per nucleotide and genomic deleterious mutation rates in Drosophila. Nature 445: 82-85. supplementary information see erratum

5. Liautard, C. and Sundström, L. 2005. Estimation of individual level of inbreeding using relatedness measure in haplodiploids. Insectes Sociaux 52: 323-326.   see erratum

6. Liautard, C. Brown, W. D., Helms, K. R., and Keller, L. 2003. Temporal and spatial variations of gyne production in the ant Formica exsecta., Oecologia 136: 558-564.

7. Brown, W. D., Liautard, C. and Keller, L. 2003. Sex ratio dependent execution of alate queens in the ant Formica exsecta. Oecologia 134: 12-17.

8. Liautard, C. and Keller, L. 2001. Restricted queen dispersal at microgeographic scale in polygynous populations of the ant Formica exsecta. Evolution 55: 2484-2492.

9. Keller, L., Liautard, C., Reuter, M. Brown, W. D. Chapuisat, M.  and Sundström, L. 2001. Sex ratio and Wolbachia infection in the ant Formica exsecta. Heredity 87: 227-233.

10. Thomas, F., Liautard, C., Cézilly, F. and Renaud, F. 1998. A finite time horizon influences sequential mate choice in male Gammarus aequicauda (Amphipoda). Can. J. Zool. 76: 401-405.