Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
Here we show that trying to rob prey (cleptobiosis) from a highly specialized predatory ant species is risky. To capture prey, Allomerus decemarticulatus workers build gallery-shaped traps on the stems of their associated myrmecophyte, Hirtella physophora. We wondered whether the frequent presence of immobilized prey on the trap attracted flying cleptoparasites. Nine social wasp species nest in the H. physophora foliage; of the six species studied, only Angiopolybia pallens rob prey from Allomerus colonies. For those H. physophora not sheltering wasps, we noted cleptobiosis by stingless bees (Trigona), social wasps (A. pallens and five Agelaia species), assassin bugs (Reduviidae), and flies. A relationship between the size of the robbers and their rate of capture by ambushing Allomerus workers was established for social wasps; small wasps were easily captured, while the largest never were. Reduviids, which are slow to extract their rostrum from prey, were always captured, while Trigona and flies often escaped. The balance sheet for the ants was positive vis-à-vis the reduviids and four out of the six social wasp species. For the latter, wasps began by cutting up parts of the prey's abdomen and were captured (or abandoned the prey) before the entire abdomen was retrieved so that the total weight of the captured wasps exceeded that of the prey abdomens. For A. pallens, we show that the number of individuals captured during attempts at cleptobiosis increases with the size of the Allomerus' prey.
ISSN: 0028-1042

hal-00825725
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00825725
DOI : 10.1007/s00114-012-0895-3
PUBMED : 22361902

Éditeur(s) : Geological Soc Amer, Inc
Résumé : Pockmarks are seafloor depressions commonly associated with fluid escape from the seabed and are believed to contribute noticeably to the transfer of methane into the ocean and ultimately into the atmosphere. They occur in many different areas and geological contexts, and vary greatly in size and shape. Nevertheless, the mechanisms of pockmark growth are still largely unclear. Still, seabed methane emissions contribute to the global carbon budget, and understanding such processes is critical to constrain future quantifications of seabed methane release at local and global scales. The giant Regab pockmark (9 degrees 42.6' E, 5 degrees 47.8' S), located at 3160 m water depth near the Congo deep-sea channel (offshore southwestern Africa), was investigated with state-of-the-art mapping devices mounted on IFREMER's (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Victor 6000. ROV-borne micro-bathymetry and backscatter data of the entire structure, a high-resolution photo-mosaic covering 105,000 m(2) of the most active area, sidescan mapping of gas emissions, and maps of faunal distribution as well as of carbonate crust occurrence are combined to provide an unprecedented detailed view of a giant pockmark. All data sets suggest that the pockmark is composed of two very distinctive zones in terms of seepage intensity. We postulate that these zones are the surface expression of two fluid flow regimes in the subsurface: focused flow through a fractured medium and diffuse flow through a porous medium. We conclude that the growth of giant pockmarks is controlled by self-sealing processes and lateral spreading of rising fluids. In particular, partial redirection of fluids through fractures in the sediments can drive the pockmark growth in preferential directions.
Geology (0091-7613) (Geological Soc Amer, Inc), 2014-01 , Vol. 42 , N. 1 , P. 63-66

Droits : 2013 Geological Society of America
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00186/29731/28293.pdf
DOI:10.1130/G34801.1
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00186/29731/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Résumé : International audience
Leishmania parasites can escape the immune response by invading cell types lacking leishmanicidal mechanisms. Silent persistence of Leishmania parasites in the host organism is responsible for asymptomatic carriage and relapses after cured leishmaniasis. Here, we studied the interaction between Hepatic Stellate Cells (HSC) and Leishmania. An original model of human HSC in primary culture infected with L. donovani was developed. The presence of intracellular parasites was studied and quantified using optical and confocal microscopy. HSC characteristics were studied using microscopy, methylene blue assay, long-term cultures and qPCR. We showed for the first time that human HSC are permissive to L. donovani infection, with no modification of HSC survival, growth rate and proinflammatory and fibrogenic characteristics. Intracellular parasites did not replicate but HSC had no effect on their survival. Indeed, after a 40-day culture, infected HSC cultures transferred on NNN medium yielded new promastigotes that were able to proliferate and efficiently infect new cells. HSC are permissive to L. donovani, with neither parasite killing nor apparent cell damage. Thus, HSC could act as potent sanctuary cells for Leishmania in the liver, which could partially explain parasite reactivation after an asymptomatic carriage or a cured visceral leishmaniasis.
ISSN: 0031-1820

inserm-00825803
http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00825803
DOI : 10.1017/S0031182012001965
PUBMED : 23253952

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Les nouvelles logiques spatiales du port de Barcelone. Tourisme de croisière, aménagement et paysage.Dans le cadre de la gestion urbanistique des quais de Barcelone pour augmenter les navettes de croisières, la capitale catalane profite de ses aménités intrinsèques pour devenir le premier port touristique méditerranéen et le quatrième du monde. Grâce à des aménagements conséquents dont les infrastructures sont les pièces maitresses, la cité devient un modèle de par sa capacité à créer une mise en scène et en récit de son front de mer pour produire un imaginaire empreint de modernité et de tradition. Une enquête de terrain permet de revenir sur la scénographie portuaire par l’intermédiaire d’espace public de qualité et l’importance du rôle des quais pour la rêverie et l’échappatoire à la vie quotidienne. Actuellement, transports aériens et parc hôtelier collaborent avec les opérateurs de croisières, la gouvernance urbaine et portuaire profite d’une collaboration publique/privée pour permettre une meilleure intégration des opérations d’aménagements tout en allégeant les coûts. L’enjeu du développement durable en lien avec le transport de touristes devient crucial du fait de l’importance des flux à contrôler.
The new spatial logical of Barcelona‘s port. Cruiser tourism, planning and landscape.As part of the management of urban banks to increase the Barcelona cruise shuttle, the catalan capital advantage of its amenities inherent to become the first Mediterranean tourist port and the fourth in the world. With facilities including substantial infrastructure are the centerpiece, the city became a model for its ability to create a setting and story of its waterfront to produce a sleek, modern fantasy and tradition. A field survey to return to the staging port through public space quality and the importance of platforms for reverie and escape from everyday life. Currently, air transport and hotel facilities are working with cruise operators, urban governance and port enjoys a public / private collaboration to enable better integration of operations of facilities while reducing costs. The challenge of sustainable development in connection with the transportation of tourists is crucial because of the importance of flow control.
Las nuevas lógicas territoriales del puerto de Barcelona. Turismo de crucero, planificación y paisaje.Como parte de la gestión de los bancos urbanos para aumentar el transporte de cruceros de Barcelona, la ventaja de capital catalán de sus servicios inherentes a convertirse en el primer puerto turístico del Mediterráneo y la cuarta en el mundo. Con instalaciones que incluyen una infraestructura sustancial son la pieza central, la ciudad se convirtió en un modelo por su capacidad para crear un entorno y la historia de su línea de costa de producir una fantasía elegante, moderna y tradicional. Un estudio de campo para volver a la puesta en escena a través de puerto de la calidad del espacio público y la importancia de las plataformas de ensueño y escapar de la vida cotidiana. En la actualidad, facilidades de transporte aéreo y el hotel están trabajando con los operadores de cruceros, la gobernanza urbana y el puerto goza de una colaboración pública / privada para permitir una mejor integración de las operaciones de las instalaciones y reducir los costos. El reto del desarrollo sostenible en relación con el transporte de turistas es crucial debido a la importancia del control de flujo.
Barcelone

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.5154
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5154

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : La notion du tourisme moteur de développement n’a pas survécu à la chute du communisme. Cette chute a rendu caduc, le rôle idéologique de ce secteur, symbole et acteur du libéralisme au temps de la guerre froide. De fait, le tourisme retrouve sa place « normale » parmi les vocations nationales des pays en développement : aide au développement et/ou lutte contre la pauvreté !Le Maroc, l’un des pionniers du libéralisme en Afrique, n’a pas échappé aux conséquences du suivisme économique propre aux pays d’Afrique, socialistes et libéraux confondus. Du tourisme moteur de développement (1964), il a récemment procédé au réajustement de sa stratégie en matière du développement touristique, en en faisant un secteur d’appoint pour l’économie nationale. « Le miracle économique du tourisme n’a donc pas eu lieu ! » (Hillali, 2007). Constat d’échec ou réajustement stratégique normal, la question est posée. À ce propos, deux initiatives méritent d’être citées :- Le tourisme représente un secteur d’activité qui procure emplois et revenus aux citadins démunis (artisanat, emplois peu qualifiés...) et aux populations rurales (gites, auberges, accompagnement...) dans le cadre de la nouvelle stratégie des Pays d’accueil touristiques (2003), du tourisme de niches et de l’aide aux jeunes entrepreneurs. - L’initiative nationale du développement humain (INDH), lancée en 2004, est censée épauler les nécessiteux dans cette politique sociale et économique de grande envergure.Or, en dépit des programmes bien planifiés, les résultats sont mitigés. Peut-être, est-il que la mise en pratique de ces nouvelles approches de développement local et ciblé (actions opérationnelles) et les méthodes d’évaluation qui en assurent le suivi (mesure des impacts) ne sont pas encore assez rôdées.
The concept of tourism as a driving force for development has not survived the fall of communism. The end of the Cold War rendered the ideological role of the tourism sector, as a main tool of liberalism, obsolete. Today, the most common setting for the tourism sector is in developing countries, as a tool for development and/or poverty reduction.Morocco, one of the pioneers of liberalism in Africa, has not escaped the consequences of the economic band wagonning among African states, socialists and liberals alike. A driving force for tourism development in the last century (1964), Morocco has recently readjusted its strategy to create an extra sector to contribute to the national economy. "The economic miracle of tourism has not taken place!"(Hillali, 2007). The question is posed: What is more appropriate, identifying failures or engaging in strategic readjustment? In this regard, two initiatives are worth mentioning: - Tourism is an industry that provides jobs and income for the urban (crafts, low-skilled jobs) and rural (cottages, inns, coaching) poor as part of the new strategy of the country’s tourist reception (2003), tourism niches and helping young entrepreneurs. - The National Initiative for Human Development (NIHD), launched in 2004, aims to support those in need in major social and economic policies.However, despite well-planned programs, the results have been mixed. Perhaps it is that the implementation of these new approaches to local development and targeted (operational activities) and evaluation methods that ensure monitoring (measurement of impacts) do not overlap enough.
Afrique
Maroc

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.6563
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/6563

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : The aim of this paper is to study Moroccan music festivals against the existing theories on globalization, while coming up with new concepts aimed at overcoming the problems often facing experts in popular culture and media studies who feel that globalization thesis lapses into fatal gestures of leveling, reductionism, and totalitarianism, especially when it tries to account for current discussions related to the circulation of artifacts and cultural texts. The general consensus has it that modern technologies have hugely altered the meaning and revolutionized the traditional functions attached to art and cultural industries. The grotesque circulation of western cultural artifacts is justifiably judged to be many times agonizing for theorists in cultural studies, linguistics and political science, etc who want to be sure that the unequal transmissions of products across the world will not harm local cultural, linguistic and economic capital of the less dominant other. Moroccan music festivals for instance are seen to be increasingly governed by a complex whirlpool of the far-too-melodramatic implications of today’s world global connections. In view of this, this paper, which borrows from data collected during between 2010 and 2011, will examine cultural industries, music festivals in general and the Essaouira festival in particular, in relation to world flows, while holding the argument that the appropriation of western artifacts locally has always been part of a not-so-novel process of mobility of what we call world cultural nomadictates (nomadic dictates). The paper gives a detailed definition of this concept and develops other new concepts (e.g. recurents, exclusives) related to the «glocal» face of culture and art in Morocco in an attempt to find an escape route outside the impasses of the globalization/cultural imperialism theses surrounding the study of cultural industries. To drive this idea home, we will open up the discussion at hand onto existing controversies around notions of place, authenticity, urbanism, tourism and consumption.
L'objectif de cette recherche est d’étudier les festivals de musique marocains en portant un regard critique sur les théories existantes de la mondialisation et en proposant de nouveaux concepts afin de surmonter les problèmes auxquels les théoriciens de la culture populaire et des médias se sont souvent confrontés. Selon eux, le concept de mondialisation sombre dans le réductionnisme et le totalitarisme, surtout lorsqu’il s’agit de la circulation des objets et des textes culturels. Un consensus général semble s’être développé autour de l’idée selon laquelle les technologies modernes ont considérablement altéré et révolutionné le sens et les fonctions traditionnelles de l'art et des industries culturelles. L'insolite diffusion des objets culturels occidentaux est à juste titre source d’angoisse pour les théoriciens des études culturelles, de la linguistique, et des sciences politiques qui veulent s'assurer que la transmission inégale des produits dans le monde ne nuira pas au capital local, culturel, linguistique et économique de l'autre (le moins dominant). Les festivals de musique marocains, par exemple, sont perçus comme étant de plus en plus tributaires des vicissitudes de la mondialisation actuelle. Dans cette perspective, cette recherche, s'inspire de données recueillies au cours de deux années de travail de terrain (2010/2011), et se penche sur les flux mondiaux de produits culturels qui mettent en interface les industries culturelles, les festivals de musique en général et celui d'Essaouira en particulier. Elle maintient l'idée selon laquelle l'appropriation des objets occidentaux par les communautés locales a toujours fait partie d'un processus de mobilité, qui n'est pas si récent, de ce que nous appelons les ‘nomadictâtes’ culturels du monde (dictâtes nomades). En explicitant la définition de ce concept, cette recherche développe d'autres concepts liés à la notion de glocalité de la culture et de l'art au Maroc. Enfin, elle suggère aussi une issue à l’impasse des théories de la mondialisation traditionnelles et celle de l’impérialisme culturel en particulier dans lesquelles l’étude des industries culturelles semble s’être emprisonnée. Pour ce faire, nous exposons le débat actuel sur les controverses autour des notions de lieu, d'authenticité, d'urbanisme, de tourisme, et de consommation.
Maroc

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.5993
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5993

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Una introducción a la seguridad turística requiere que nos ocupemos de una revisión bibliográfica. Ciertamente, los planes y los manuales parecen no traducirse en protocolos en momentos de emergencia. Ello sucede pues siempre un estado de emergencia se escapa de toda planificación pero también suele suceder por la falta de definiciones claras respecto a que es la seguridad. En este ensayo, discutiremos los paradigmas y tesis centrales de tres exponentes que han dedicado su vida a dicha tarea. Sevil Somnez, Abraham Pizam y Peter Tarlow han explorado las raíces del terrorismo y la seguridad por más de 20 años, y por eso, a pesar de la crítica, merecen su reconocimiento. La mejor forma de homenajearlos es discutir críticamente sus postulados. Con sus puntos de divergencia, los especialistas se encuentran preocupados por la dependencia occidental del terrorismo con los medios masivos de comunicación, aspecto a discutir en el presente trabajo de revisión.
Une introduction à la sécurité touristique nécessite un examen bibliographique. Certainement, les plans et les manuels semblent ne pas être traduits dans des protocoles de moments de secours. Il s’agit donc toujours d’état d'urgence confronté à l’évènement, sans planification et sans définitions claires de ce qu’est la sécurité. Dans cet essai, nous discuterons les paradigmes et les thèses centrales de trois auteurs qui ont consacré leur vie à la tâche mentionnée ci-dessus. Sevil Somnez, Abraham Pizam et Peter Tarlow ont exploré les racines du terrorisme et la sécurité pendant plus de 20 ans et pour cela, en dépit de la critique, ils méritent notre reconnaissance. La meilleure façon de leur rendre hommage est de discuter de manière critique de leurs postulats. Au-delà de leurs divergences, les spécialistes s’inquiètent de la dépendance occidentale au terrorisme sous le poids des mass-médias, aspect qu’il convient de discuter dans le présent travail de révision.
The specialized literature review is of paramount importance at time of exploring the current problems of tourism security. Certainly, plans and policies provided by guide-books are not being followed in disaster-contests simply chaos and disorder are the nature of emergencies. Beyond any protocol, crises and security are not properly defined by scholars. In this essay-review, we will not pay attention to define what tourism security means, lest by the lens of three senior scholars, Sevil Somnez, Abraham Pizam and Peter Tarlow, who have accomplished this task. They have explored not only the roots of terrorism but security over 20 years. Despite the criticism, they deserve recognition for this legacy. Based on substantial point of divergence, these specialists are concerned by the financial dependency of societies respecting to mass-media and its coverage of terrorist attacks.

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.7543
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/7543

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
In chemoautotrophic associations, sequence comparison of 16S rRNA has been the method of choice to study bacterial diversity in the context of host/symbiont coevolution. However, the relative low rate of evolution of 16S rRNA has been shown to result in a diminished capacity to discriminate between closely related bacterial strains or species. Within chemoautotrophic associations, as described in several studies, the use of other genetic markers may reveal previously unobserved strain diversity among gill endosymbionts. Herein, we conducted a survey of symbionts harbored by six species within the Lucinidae family using five genetic markers (dnaE, gyrB, aprA, cbbL genes and the 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer). Thus, within the already described SoLuc₁ bacterial species shared by six host species we observed an obvious bacterial strain diversity. This diversity is structured in function of the geographic location of the hosts and not in function of ecological parameters or host phylogeny. Interestingly at the local level (same seagrass bed environment), we observed an unexpected specificity in host species/bacterial strain association (i.e., all individuals of the same host species harbor the same symbiotic sequence type). This specificity of association implied that there was a control of symbiont strain acquisition by the host, which was confirmed by a cross-infection experiment of starved adults performed in our study. Based upon our results and other evidence from the literature, we hypothesize that this pattern may be due to a ``capture/escape'' type antagonist evolution of the two partners.
ISSN: 0025-3162

hal-01544753
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01544753
DOI : 10.1007/s00227-016-2949-0

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : The seismic characteristics of focused fluid-related features such as pockmarks and carbonate build-ups on the Nigerian continental slope have been investigated using complementary seismic data sets (reprocessed 3D exploration data and 2D Very High Resolution hull-mounted and near-bottom seismic data) coupled with the results of previous studies (sedimentological, geotechnical and geochemical analyses).The results show different types of fluid-related features within the hemipelagic phase of long duration (∼1 Myr) Turbidite/Hemipelagic cycles. They are the product of the disturbance of the hosting sediments following two main distinct processes: (1) no or low sediment deposition caused by fluid escape associated with seafloor settlement (benthic fauna, carbonate precipitation, gas hydrate formation) and (2) post-depositional erosion, caused either by fluid release (dewatering from underlying features such as channels and upward migration from a deep source) or by collapse (destabilisation of gas hydrates). The temporal evolution reveals a decrease in fluid flow during the hemipelagic deposition as witnessed by the decrease in methanogenic activity and by gas hydrate destabilisation. The spatial distribution of fluid-related features seems to be controlled by the type of fault (small fault or structural lineament).
ISSN: 0264-8172

hal-01685513
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01685513
DOI : 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.10.004

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Royal Society, The
Résumé : International audience
Individuals can play different roles in maintaining connectivity and socialcohesion in animal populations and thereby influence population robustnessto perturbations.We performed a social network analysis in a reef shark populationto assess the vulnerability of the global network to node removal underdifferent scenarios. We found that the network was generally robust to theremoval of nodes with high centrality. The network appeared also highlyrobust to experimental fishing. Individual shark catchability decreased as afunction of experience, as revealed by comparing capture frequency and sitepresence. Altogether, these features suggest that individuals learnt to avoidcapture, which ultimately increased network robustness to experimentalcatch-and-release. Our results also suggest that some caution must be takenwhen using capture–recapture models often used to assess population sizeas assumptions (such as equal probabilities of capture and recapture) maybe violated by individual learning to escape recapture.
EISSN: 1471-2954

hal-01561754
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01561754
DOI : 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0824

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Public Library of Science
Résumé : International audience
The common endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria influence arthropod hosts in multiple ways. They are mostly recognized for their manipulations of host reproduction, yet, more recent studies demonstrate that Wolbachia also impact host behavior, metabolic pathways and immunity. Besides their biological and evolutionary roles Wolbachia are new potential biological control agents for pest and vector management. Importantly, Wolbachia-based control strategies require controlled symbiont transfer between host species and predictable outcomes of novel Wolbachia-host associations. Theoretically, this artificial horizontal transfer could inflict genetic changes within transferred Wolbachia populations. This could be facilitated through de novo mutations in the novel recipient host or changes of haplotype frequencies of polymorphic Wolbachia populations when transferred from donor to recipient hosts. Here we show that Wolbachia resident in the European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi, exhibit ancestral and cryptic sequence polymorphism in three symbiont genes, which are exposed upon microinjection into the new hosts Drosophila simulans and Ceratitis capitata. Our analyses of Wolbachia in microinjected D. simulans over 150 generations after microinjection uncovered infections with multiple Wolbachia strains in trans-infected lines that had previously been typed as single infections. This confirms the persistence of low-titer Wolbachia strains in microinjection experiments that had previously escaped standard detection techniques. Our study demonstrates that infections by multiple Wolbachia strains can shift in prevalence after artificial host transfer driven by either stochastic or selective processes. Trans-infection of Wolbachia can claim fitness costs in new hosts and we speculate that these costs may have driven the shifts of Wolbachia strains that we saw in our model system.
ISSN: 1932-6203

hal-01544765
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01544765
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0082402

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
Aegean extension is a process driven by slab rollback that since 45 Ma shows a two-stage evolution. From 45 to13 Ma it is accommodated by localized deformation leading to i) the exhumation of high-pressure metamorphicrocks from mantle to crustal depths, ii) the exhumation of high-temperature rocks in core complexes and iii) thedeposition of Paleogene sedimentary basins. Since 13 Ma, extension is distributed over the whole Aegean domaingiving a widespread development of onshore and offshore Neogene sedimentary basins. The 3D reconstruction atAegean scale of this two-stage evolution shows that the rate of trench retreat was around 0.6 cm/y during the first30 My and then accelerated up to 3.2 cm/y during the last 13 My. Using available tomographic evidence, timingof metamorphic and sedimentary processes, paleomagnetic data and geometry and kinematics of deformation, wepropose that the sharp transition in trench retreat and deformation mode, localized vs distributed, at 13 Ma wascontrolled to slab tearing. Moreover, the development of dextral NE-SW strike-slip faults and related pull-apartbasins in the North Aegean domain, from the Cyclades to the Rhodope, strongly suggests that this sharp transitionalso corresponds to the onset of Anatolia westward escape.
Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vienne, Austria

insu-01137631
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01137631

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Ecological Society of America
Résumé : Herbivores are often implicated in the generation of the extraordinarily diverse tropical flora. One hypothesis linking enemies to plant diversification posits that the evolution of novel defenses allows plants to escape their enemies and expand their ranges. When range expansion involves entering a new habitat type, this could accelerate defense evolution if habitats contain different assemblages of herbivores and/or divergent resource availabilities that affect plant defense allocation. We evaluated this hypothesis by investigating two sister habitat specialist ecotypes of Protium subserratum (Burseraceae), a common Amazonian tree that occurs in white-sand and terra firme forests. We collected insect herbivores feeding on the plants, assessed whether growth differences between habitats were genetically based using a reciprocal transplant experiment, and sampled multiple populations of both lineages for defense chemistry. Protium subserratum plants were attacked mainly by chrysomelid beetles and cicadellid hemipterans. Assemblages of insect herbivores were dissimilar between populations of ecotypes from different habitats, as well as from the same habitat 100 km distant. Populations from terra firme habitats grew significantly faster than white-sand populations; they were taller, produced more leaf area, and had more chlorophyll. White-sand populations expressed more dry mass of secondary compounds and accumulated more flavone glycosides and oxidized terpenes, whereas terra firme populations produced a coumaroylquinic acid that was absent from white-sand populations. We interpret these results as strong evidence that herbivores and resource availability select for divergent types and amounts of defense investment in white-sand and terra firme lineages of Protium subserratum, which may contribute to habitat-mediated speciation in these trees.
ISSN: 0012-9658

hal-01032403
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01032403
DOI : 10.1890/12-1920.1

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
Highly restitic rocks from the Antananarivo Block in northern Madagascar are investigated in this study in order to unravel processes of H2O-rich biotite formation in HT rocks. Polyphase metamorphism and melt migration occurred at 0.6 GPa and 850 °C. Biotite remains stable together with orthopyroxene and makes up to 45 vol% of the rock. In addition, three well-characterised and delimited microdomains having different textural, chemical and petrological characteristics are preserved. Thermodynamic models using the specific bulk compositions of the domains are in agreement with petrological observations. These rocks provide evidence that the lower crust may be strongly heterogeneous, locally associated to the formation of hydrous restites controlled by episodes of melt production and melt escape. This has significant consequences for understanding of the lower crust.
ISSN: 1437-3254

hal-01356313
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01356313
DOI : 10.1007/s00531-015-1265-0

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Society for the Study of Reproduction
Résumé : International audience
Mammalian spermatogenesis is a complex and highly orchestrated combination of processes in which male germline proliferation and differentiation result in the production of mature spermatozoa. If recent genome-wide studies have contributed to the in-depth analysis of the male germline protein-encoding transcriptome, little effort has yet been devoted to the systematic identification of novel unannotated transcribed regions expressed during mammalian spermatogenesis. We report high-resolution expression profiling of male germ cells in rat, using next-generation sequencing technology and highly enriched testicular cell populations. Among 20 424 high-confidence transcripts reconstructed, we defined a stringent set of 1419 long multi-exonic unannotated transcripts expressed in the testis (testis-expressed unannotated transcripts [TUTs]). TUTs were divided into 7 groups with different expression patterns. Most TUTs share many of the characteristics of vertebrate long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). We also markedly reinforced the finding that TUTs and known lncRNAs accumulate during the meiotic and postmeiotic stages of spermatogenesis in mammals and that X-linked meiotic TUTs do not escape the silencing effects of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation. Importantly, we discovered that TUTs and known lncRNAs with a peak expression during meiosis define a distinct class of noncoding transcripts that exhibit exons twice as long as those of other transcripts. Our study provides new insights in transcriptional profiling of the male germline and represents a high-quality resource for novel loci expressed during spermatogenesis that significantly contributes to rat genome annotation.
ISSN: 0006-3363

hal-01063924
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01063924
DOI : 10.1095/biolreprod.114.118166
PUBMED : 24740603

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The Giant Gjallar Vent (GGV), located in the Vøring Basin off mid-Norway, is one of the largest (~ 5 × 3 km) vent systems in the North Atlantic. The vent represents a reactivated former hydrothermal system that formed at about 56 Ma. It is fed by two pipes of 440 m and 480 m diameter that extend from the Lower Eocene section up to the Base Pleistocene Unconformity (BPU). Previous studies based on 3D seismic data differ in their interpretations of the present activity of the GGV, describing the system as buried and as reactivated in the Upper Pliocene. We present a new interpretation of the GGV's reactivation, using high-resolution 2D seismic and Parasound data. Despite the absence of geochemical and hydroacoustic indications for fluid escape into the water column, the GGV appears to be active because of various seismic anomalies which we interpret to indicate the presence of free gas in the subsurface. The anomalies are confined to the Kai Formation beneath the BPU and the overlying Naust Formation, which are interpreted to act as a seal to upward fluid migration. The seal is breached by focused fluid migration at one location where an up to 100 m wide chimney-like anomaly extends from the BPU up to the seafloor. We propose that further overpressure build-up in response to sediment loading and continued gas ascent beneath the BPU will eventually lead to large-scale seal bypass, starting a new phase of venting at the GGV.
ISSN: 0025-3227

hal-01054142
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01054142
DOI : 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.006

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD EDP sciences
Résumé : International audience
Off road wheelchair riding, a “ hiking boots” : body experience and identity reconfigurations. Feel sensations during the practice of nature sport is not new. However, a disabled person feels similar sensations to an abled person, through access to the mountain with an Off Road Wheelchair Riding (ORWC), is part of a normalization process. This activity appeared in France in the early 1990’s. It allows people who have lost all or part of their mobility, to be able to access to high mountains. The interviewees are quadriplegic and paraplegic after an accident. Their speeches reveal the body uses in ORWC for reliving the sensations in mountain environment. The reconquest of natural areas is the social limitations to overcome, to escape a negative social assignment of the disabled person, but also to regain a self-identity.
La question de l’expérience corporelle lors d’une pratique sportive de pleine nature est récurrente. Cependant, qu’une personne handicapée expérimente sensations similaires à un individu « valide », en accédant à la montagne en Fauteuil Tout Terrain (FFT), participe d’un processus de normalisation. Cette activité, apparue en France au début des années 1990, permet aux personnes qui ont perdu la totalité ou une partie de leur mobilité, d’accéder à la haute montagne. Les enquêtés, accidentés tétraplégiques ou paraplégiques, révèlent des usages du corps en FTT pour revivre des sensations en milieu montagnard. La reconquête des espaces naturels représente les limites sociales à surmonter permettant d’échapper à une assignation sociale négative de la personne handicapée, mais également de reconstituer une identité à soi.
ISSN: 2118-5735

hal-01681326
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01681326
DOI : 10.1051/sm/2017013

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The easternmost part of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí belt comprises an anatectic domain that involves anatexites (the Carlos Chagas unit), leucogranites and migmatitic granulites that display a well-developed fabric. Microstructural observations support that the deformation occurred in the magmatic to submagmatic state. Structural mapping integrating field and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) revealed a complex, 3D structure. The northern domain displays gently dipping foliations bearing a NW-trending lineation, southward, the lineation trend progressively rotates to EW then SW and the foliation is gently folded. The eastern domain displays E-W and NE-SW trending foliations with moderate to steeply dips bearing a dominantly NS trending lineation. Magnetic mineralogy investigation suggests biotite as the main carrier of the magnetic susceptibility in the anatexites and ferromagnetic minerals in the granulites. Crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) measurements using the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique suggest that the magnetic fabric comes from the crystalline anisotropy of biotite and feldspar grains, especially. The delineation of several structural domains with contrasted flow fabric suggests a 3D flow field involving westward thrusting orthogonal to the belt, northwestward orogen-oblique escape tectonics and NS orogen-parallel flow. This complex deformation pattern may be due to interplay of collision-driven and gravity-driven deformations.
ISSN: 0191-8141

hal-00903878
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00903878
DOI : 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.08.001

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Résumé : International audience
HLA-G is a nonclassical major histocompatibility complex molecule first described at the maternal-fetal interface, on extravillous cytotrophoblasts. Its expression is restricted to some tissues in normal conditions but increases strongly in pathological conditions. The expression of this molecule has been studied in detail in cancers and is now also beginning to be described in infectious diseases. The relevance of studies on HLA-G expression lies in the well known inhibitory effect of this molecule on all cell types involved in innate and adaptive immunity, favoring escape from immune control. In this review, we summarize the features of HLA-G expression by type of infections (i.e, bacterial, viral, or parasitic) detailing the state of knowledge for each pathogenic agent. The polymorphism, the interference of viral proteins with HLA-G intracellular trafficking, and various cytokines have been described to modulate HLA-G expression during infections. We also discuss the cellular source of HLA-G, according to the type of infection and the potential role of HLA-G. New therapeutic approaches based on synthetic HLA-G-derived proteins or antibodies are emerging in mouse models of cancer or transplantation, and these new therapeutic tools may eventually prove useful for the treatment of infectious diseases.
ISSN: 2314-8861

hal-01063925
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01063925
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01063925/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01063925/file/Immunomodulatory%20Properties%20of%20HLA-G.pdf
DOI : 10.1155/2014/298569

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Seventy percent of breast tumors express the estrogen receptor (ER), which is generally considered to predict a better outcome relative to ER-negative tumors, as they often respond to antiestrogen therapies. During cancer progression, mammary tumors can escape from estrogen control, resulting in the acquisition of invasive properties and resistance to treatment. ER expression is a dynamic phenomenon and is finely regulated at numerous levels, including the gene, mRNA, and protein levels. As a consequence, many molecular mechanisms have been implicated in modulating ER activity and estrogen signaling in mammary cancer. In fact, one-third of ER-positive breast cancer cells do not respond to first-line endocrine therapies, and a large subset of relapsing tumors retain ER expression. Increased knowledge of these mechanisms has led to the development of better prognostic methods and targeted therapies for patients; however, additional research is still needed to improve patient survival. In this chapter, we focus on the signaling pathways leading to changes in or loss of ER activity in breast cancer progression.
ISSN: 0083-6729

hal-00874313
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00874313
DOI : 10.1016/B978-0-12-416673-8.00004-6
PUBMED : 23810005