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Overview

Johan Michaux is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research spans primarily Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of research topics, particularly in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic diversity and population structure, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Recent publications by Johan Michaux include the following works:

  • Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts (2021) - mSystems
  • Food for everyone: Differential feeding habits of cryptic bat species inferred from DNA metabarcoding (2021) - Molecular Ecology
  • Genetic structure of wild and farmed Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) populations in Benin based on genome wide SNP technology (2021) - Aquaculture
  • Phylogeography of the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius (Rodentia: Muridae), throughout its distribution range in the Palaearctic region (2020) - Mammalian Biology
  • Genetic support for the current discrete conservation unit of the Central European wolf population (2021) - Wildlife Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Adrien André
  • Tommy Andriollo
  • Manuel Rüedi
  • Lise-Marie Pigneur
  • Nathalie Smitz

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Mammalian Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Conservation Genetics Resources
  • Naturae

Best Publications

  • A northern glacial refugium for bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)

    Petr Kotlík;Valérie Deffontaine;Silvia Mascheretti;Jan Zima

  • Phylogeny of the genus Apodemus with a special emphasis on the subgenus Sylvaemus using the nuclear IRBP gene and two mitochondrial markers: cytochrome b and 12S rRNA.

    J.R Michaux;Pascale Chevret;M.-G Filippucci;M Macholan

  • Revisiting the taxonomy of the Rattini tribe: a phylogeny-based delimitation of species boundaries

    Marie Pagès;Yannick Chaval;Vincent Herbreteau;Surachit Waengsothorn

  • So close and so different: comparative phylogeography of two small mammal species, the yellow-necked fieldmouse (Apodemus flavicollis) and the woodmouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in the Western Palearctic region.

    Johan Michaux;Roland Libois;M -G Filippucci

  • Rise of oceanographic barriers in continuous populations of a cetacean: the genetic structure of harbour porpoises in Old World waters.

    Michaël C. Fontaine;Michaël C. Fontaine;Stuart J.E. Baird;Sylvain Piry;Nicolas Ray

  • A parasite reveals cryptic phylogeographic history of its host.

    Caroline Nieberding;Serge Morand;Roland Libois;Johan René Michaux

  • A Unifying Model for the Analysis of Phenotypic, Genetic and Geographic Data

    Gilles Guillot;Sabrina Renaud;Ronan Ledevin;Johan Michaux

  • Genetic variation and evolution in the genus Apodemus (Muridae: Rodentia)

    Maria Grazia Filippucci;Milos Macholan;Johan R. Michaux

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Cricetinae subfamily based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes and the nuclear vWF gene.

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  • Global parasite and Rattus rodent invasions: The consequences for rodent-borne diseases

    Serge Morand;Serge Morand;Frédéric Bordes;Hsuan-Wien Chen;Julien Claude

  • Phylogeographic history of the yellow-necked fieldmouse (Apodemus flavicollis) in Europe and in the Near and Middle East

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  • Comparative phylogeography of four Apodemus species (Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Asian Far East: evidence of Quaternary climatic changes in their genetic structure

    Héla Sakka;Héla Sakka;Jean Pierre Quéré;Irina Kartavtseva;Marina Pavlenko

  • Genetic and historic evidence for climate-driven population fragmentation in a top cetacean predator: the harbour porpoises in European water

    Michaël C Fontaine;Krystal A Tolley;Johan R Michaux;Johan R Michaux;Alexei Birkun

  • Adaptive latitudinal trends in the mandible shape of Apodemus wood mice

    Sabrina Renaud;Johan R. Michaux

  • Phylogeography of a nematode (Heligmosomoides polygyrus) in the western Palearctic region: persistence of northern cryptic populations during ice ages?

    Caroline M. Nieberding;Roland Libois;Christophe Douady;Serge Morand

  • Postglacial climate changes and rise of three ecotypes of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in western Palearctic waters

    Michaël C Fontaine;Kathleen Roland;Kathleen Roland;Isabelle Calves;Isabelle Calves;Frederic Austerlitz

  • The bushlike radiation of muroid rodents is exemplified by the molecular phylogeny of the LCAT nuclear gene.

    Johan Michaux;François Catzeflis

  • Body size increase in insular rodent populations: a role for predators?

    Johan R. Michaux;Joëlle Goüy De Bellocq;Maurizio Sarà;Serge Morand

  • Cytonuclear discordance among Southeast Asian black rats (Rattus rattus complex)

    Marie Pagès;Marie Pagès;Eric Bazin;Maxime Galan;Yannick Chaval

  • A new genus of rodent from wallacea (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae: Rattini), and its implication for biogeography and Indo-Pacific Rattini systematics

    Pierre Henri Fabre;Marie Pagès;Marie Pagès;Guy G. Musser;Yuli S. Fitriana

  • Bayesian analysis of hybridization and introgression between the endangered european mink (Mustela lutreola) and the polecat (Mustela putorius)

    M. T. Cabria;Johan Michaux;B. J. Gómez-Moliner;D. Skumatov

  • Parasites and the island syndrome: the colonization of the western Mediterranean islands by Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Dujardin, 1845)

    Caroline Nieberding;Serge Morand;Roland Libois;Johan René Michaux

  • Out of Himalaya: The impact of past Asian environmental changes on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of Dipodoidea (Rodentia)

    Julie Pisano;Julie Pisano;Fabien L. Condamine;Vladimir Lebedev;Anna Bannikova

  • Molecular identification of three sympatric species of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus, A. flavicollis, A. alpicola) in western Europe (Muridae: Rodentia)

    Johan Michaux;Séverine Kinet;M. G. Filippucci;Roland Libois

  • Mitochondrial phylogeography of the edible dormouse (Glis glis) in the western Palearctic region

    Helene Hürner;Boris Krystufek;Maurizio Sarà;Alexis Ribas

  • False phylogenies on wood mice due to cryptic cytochrome-b pseudogene.

    Sylvain Dubey;Johan Michaux;Harald Brünner;Rainer Hutterer

  • DNA Hybridization and Rodent Phylogeny

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  • Vietnamese chickens: a gate towards Asian genetic diversity

    C. Berthouly-Salazar;X. Rognon;X. Rognon;T Nhu Van;M. Gely

  • Pan-African Genetic Structure in the African Buffalo ( Syncerus caffer ): Investigating Intraspecific Divergence

    Nathalie Smitz;Cecile Berthouly;Daniel Cornelis;Rasmus Heller

  • Mandibles and molars of the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus (L.): integrated latitudinal pattern and mosaic insular evolution

    Sabrina Renaud;Johan R. Michaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Morand
Serge Morand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sabrina Renaud
Sabrina Renaud Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean-François Cosson
Jean-François Cosson INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Ettore Randi
Ettore Randi Aalborg University
Heikki Henttonen
Heikki Henttonen Natural Resources Institute Finland
Frédéric Blanc
Frédéric Blanc University of Strasbourg
Rafael Zardoya
Rafael Zardoya Spanish National Research Council
Alexis Ribas
Alexis Ribas University of Barcelona
Mathieu Denoël
Mathieu Denoël University of Liège
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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