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Overview

Marianne Elias is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work is situated within several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main research topics covered by Marianne Elias include plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, ecology and vegetation dynamics, and broader animal ecology and behavior studies.

Marianne Elias has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Among recent papers are:

  • Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits, 2024, Nature
  • The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences, 2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Urbanization and agricultural intensification destabilize animal communities differently than diversity loss, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Keith R. Willmott
  • Nicolas Chazot
  • André Victor Lucci Freitas
  • Gerardo Lamas
  • James Mallet

Marianne Elias regularly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Nature Communications, and Oikos.

Best Publications

  • The evolutionary ecology of clonally propagated domesticated plants.

    Doyle McKey;Marianne Elias;Benoît Pujol;Anne Duputié

  • Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies

    Marianne Elias;Ryan I Hill;Keith R Willmott;Kanchon K Dasmahapatra

  • Polydomy in ants: what we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done

    Gabriel Debout;Bertrand Schatz;Marianne Elias;Doyle Mckey

  • Unmanaged sexual reproduction and the dynamics of genetic diversity of a vegetatively propagated crop plant, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), in a traditional farming system

    M. Elias;L. Penet;P. Vindry;D. McKey

  • Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies

    M Elias;M Elias;M Elias;Mathieu Joron;Mathieu Joron;K Willmott;K L Silva-Brandão;K L Silva-Brandão

  • Mutualistic interactions drive ecological niche convergence in a diverse butterfly community.

    Marianne Elias;Zachariah Gompert;Chris Jiggins;Keith Willmott

  • Mitochondrial DNA barcoding detects some species that are real, and some that are not

    Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra;Marianne Elias;Ryan I. Hill;Joseph I. Hoffman

  • Perception and management of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity among Makushi Amerindians of Guyana (South America)

    Marianne Elias;Laura Rival;Doyle Mckey

  • Genetic Diversity of Traditional South American Landraces of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz): An Analysis Using Microsatellites

    Marianne Elias;Gilda Santos Mühlen;Doyle McKey;Ana Carolina Roa

  • Assessment of genetic variability in a traditional cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) farming system, using AFLP markers

    M Elias;O Panaud;T Robert

  • Traditional management of cassava morphological and genetic diversity by the Makushi Amerindians (Guyana, South America): perspectives for on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources

    Marianne Elias;Doyle McKey;Olivier Panaud;Marie Charlotte Anstett

  • Maintaining mimicry diversity: optimal warning colour patterns differ among microhabitats in Amazonian clearwing butterflies.

    Keith R. Willmott;Julia C. Robinson Willmott;Marianne Elias;Chris D. Jiggins

  • Morpho morphometrics: Shared ancestry and selection drive the evolution of wing size and shape in Morpho butterflies.

    Nicolas Chazot;Stephen Panara;Nicolas Zilbermann;Patrick Blandin

  • Germination Ecology of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in Traditional Agroecosystems: Seed and Seedling Biology of a Vegetatively Propagated Domesticated Plant1

    Benoît Pujol;Guillaume Gigot;Gérard Laurent;Marina Pinheiro-Kluppel

  • Urbanization and agricultural intensification destabilize animal communities differently than diversity loss.

    Théophile Olivier;Elisa Thébault;Marianne Elias;Benoit Fontaine

  • Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies

    Nicolas Chazot;Nicolas Chazot;Fabien L. Condamine;Gytis Dudas;Carlos Peña

  • Evolutionary History and Ecological Processes Shape a Local Multilevel Antagonistic Network

    Marianne Elias;Colin Fontaine;F.J. Frank van Veen

  • Ecological Approaches to Crop Domestication

    Doyle Mckey;Marianne Elias;Benoit Pujol;A. Duputie

  • Perception and management of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity among Makushi Amerindians of Guyana

    Marianne Elias;Laura Rival;Doyle McKey

  • The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations: Conservation consequences of soil seed banks in Cassava

    Benoît Pujol;Benoît Pujol;François Renoux;Marianne Elias;Laura Rival

  • Mutualistic Mimicry and Filtering by Altitude Shape the Structure of Andean Butterfly Communities

    Nicolas Chazot;Keith R. Willmott;Paola G. Santacruz Endara;Alexandre Toporov

  • North Andean origin and diversification of the largest ithomiine butterfly genus

    Donna Lisa De-Silva;Luísa L. Mota;Nicolas Chazot;Ricardo Mallarino

  • The unmanaged reproductive ecology of domesticated plants in traditional agroecosystems: An example involving cassavaand a call for data

    Marianne Elias;Doyle McKey

  • Gestions locales et dynamiques régionales de la diversité variétale du manioc en Amazonie

    Doyle McKey;Laure Emperalre;Marianne Élias;Florence Pinton

  • Seasonal polydomy and unicoloniality in a polygynous population of the red wood ant Formica truncorum

    Marianne Elias;Rainer Rosengren;Liselotte Sundström

Frequent Co-Authors

Doyle McKey
Doyle McKey University of Montpellier
James Mallet
James Mallet Harvard University
Chris D. Jiggins
Chris D. Jiggins University of Cambridge
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas
Gerardo Lamas
Gerardo Lamas National University of San Marcos
Mathieu Joron
Mathieu Joron University of Montpellier
Fabien L. Condamine
Fabien L. Condamine University of Montpellier
Johanna Mappes
Johanna Mappes University of Helsinki
Zachariah Gompert
Zachariah Gompert Utah State University
Nipam H. Patel
Nipam H. Patel Marine Biological Laboratory

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