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Laure Desutter-Grandcolas is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology. Their work covers various interdisciplinary subfields including Plant Science, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research on Orthoptera, with a specialization in taxonomy and systematics. Their publications emphasize insect biodiversity, fossil record analysis, and evolutionary biology, with notable interests in cricket taxonomy and fossil insects. Main topics within their research include Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography, and Fossil Insects in Amber. Additional areas of study encompass Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, as well as Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy.

Frequent collaborators in their research include André Nel, Lucas Denadai de Campos, Hugo Josse, Thomas Schubnel, and Léo Faberon. These collaborations have resulted in publications across multiple scientific journals and venues.

Preferred publication venues feature prominently in their body of work and include Zoosystema, Zootaxa, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Fossil Record, and the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Their recent notable papers are:

  • "The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times" (2022, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • "Colonization of different biomes drove the diversification of the Neotropical Eidmanacris crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae)" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Sound vs. light: wing-based communication in Carboniferous insects" (2021, Communications Biology)
  • "Updated diagnoses for the cricket family Trigonidiidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea) and its subfamilies (Trigonidiinae, Nemobiinae), with a review of the fossil record" (2021, Zoologischer Anzeiger)
  • "The Paroecanthini crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae) from French Guiana" (2020, Zoosystema)

Best Publications

  • New Caledonia: a very old Darwinian island?

    Philippe Grandcolas;Jérôme Murienne;Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • 300 million years of diversification: Elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling

    Hojun Song;Hojun Song;Christiane Amédégnato;María Marta Cigliano;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • Phylogeny and the evolution of acoustic communication in extant Ensifera (Insecta, Orthoptera)

    Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • The earliest known holometabolous insects

    André Nel;Patrick Roques;Patricia Nel;Patricia Nel;Alexander A Prokin

  • Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis

    Ioana C. Chintauan-Marquier;Frédéric Legendre;Sylvain Hugel;Tony Robillard

  • Phylogenetics and Ecology: As Many Characters as Possible Should Be Included in the Cladistic Analysis

    Philippe Grandcolas;Pierre Deleporte;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Christophe Daugeron

  • Phylogeny and the modalities of acoustic diversification in extant Eneopterinae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopteridae)

    Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • High-frequency calling in Eneopterinae crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopteridae): adaptive radiation revealed by phylogenetic analysis

    Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • Older than New Caledonia emergence? A molecular phylogenetic study of the eneopterine crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea)

    Romain Nattier;Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Arnaud Couloux

  • Phylogeny and the evolution of calling songs in Gryllus (Insecta, Orthoptera, Gryllidae)

    Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Tony Robillard

  • Phylogeny of the cricket subfamily Eneopterinae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopteridae) based on four molecular loci and morphology

    Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • To be or not to be: postcubital vein in insects revealed by microtomography

    Thomas Schubnel;Laure Desutter‐Grandcolas;Frederic Legendre;Jakub Prokop

  • One hundred years of instability in ensiferan relationships

    Frédéric Legendre;Tony Robillard;Hojun Song;Michael F. Whiting

  • A shift toward harmonics for high-frequency calling shown with phylogenetic study of frequency spectra in Eneopterinae crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopteridae)

    Tony RobillardT. Robillard;Philippe GrandcolasP. Grandcolas;Laure Desutter-GrandcolasL. Desutter-Grandcolas

  • The Paroecanthini crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae) from French Guiana

    Lucas Denadai De Campos;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • A new genus and five new species of Anostostomatidae from the Lesser Antilles (Orthoptera: Ensifera).

    Sylvain Hugel;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • Insect mimicry of plants dates back to the Permian

    Romain Garrouste;Sylvain Hugel;Lauriane Jacquelin;Pierre Rostan

  • Mechanisms of high frequency song generation in brachypterous crickets and the role of ghost frequencies

    Tony Robillard;Fernando Montealegre-Z;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Philippe Grandcolas

  • Phylogenetic analysis and alignment of behavioral sequences by direct optimization

    Tony Robillard;Tony Robillard;Frédéric Legendre;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Philippe Grandcolas

  • Regular ArticlePhylogenetics and Ecology: As Many Characters as Possible Should Be Included in the Cladistic Analysis☆

    Philippe Grandcolas;Pierre Deleporte;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Christophe Daugeron

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Robillard
Tony Robillard French National Museum of Natural History
Philippe Grandcolas
Philippe Grandcolas French National Museum of Natural History
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
André Nel
André Nel French National Museum of Natural History
Jérôme Murienne
Jérôme Murienne Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michael F. Whiting
Michael F. Whiting Brigham Young University
Marianne Elias
Marianne Elias Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Corinne Cruaud
Corinne Cruaud Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission
Olivier Dangles
Olivier Dangles Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

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