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Tatiana Giraud is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Food Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics covering Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Fermentation and Sensory Analysis, Plant Reproductive Biology, Fungal Biology and Applications, and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies.

Recent publications by Tatiana Giraud include:

  • Population genomics of apricots unravels domestication history and adaptive events (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Sheltering of deleterious mutations explains the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes (2022, PLoS Biology)
  • Domestication of the Emblematic White Cheese-Making Fungus Penicillium camemberti and Its Diversification into Two Varieties (2020, Current Biology)
  • Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating-type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Independent domestication events in the blue-cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti (2020, Molecular Ecology)

Tatiana Giraud has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably Ricardo C. Rodrı́guez de la Vega, Alodie Snirc, Jeanne Ropars, Fanny E. Hartmann, and Michael E. Hood, reflecting a collaborative approach within their research community.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in various scientific venues, with the highest number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by Molecular Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nature Communications, and Current Biology.

Besides journal articles, Tatiana Giraud has published books with recognized institutions such as Collège de France eBooks and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Examples include:

  • Dynamique et évolution de la biodiversité et des écosystèmes (2022, Collège de France eBooks)
  • Dynamique et évolution de la biodiversité et des écosystèmes: Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 17 février 2022 (2023, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Best Publications

  • Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

    Joelle Amselem;Christina A. Cuomo;Jan A. L. van Kan;Muriel Viaud

  • Evolution of supercolonies: the Argentine ants of southern Europe.

    Tatiana Giraud;Jes S. Pedersen;Laurent Keller

  • New insight into the history of domesticated apple: secondary contribution of the European wild apple to the genome of cultivated varieties.

    Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Marinus J. M. Smulders;Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

  • High genetic diversity in French invasive populations of common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, as a result of multiple sources of introduction

    B. J. Genton;J. A. Shykoff;T. Giraud

  • Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

    D. M. de Vienne;G. Refrégier;G. Refrégier;M. López‐Villavicencio;A. Tellier

  • The domestication and evolutionary ecology of apples

    Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Tatiana Giraud;Tatiana Giraud;Marinus J.M. Smulders;Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

  • Linking the emergence of fungal plant diseases with ecological speciation

    Tatiana Giraud;Pierre Gladieux;Sergey Gavrilets

  • Speciation in fungi

    Tatiana Giraud;Guislaine Refrégier;Mickaël Le Gac;Damien M. de Vienne

  • Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond

    S. Billiard;M. López‐Villavicencio;M. E. Hood;T. Giraud;T. Giraud

  • RFLP MARKERS SHOW GENETIC RECOMBINATION IN BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA (BOTRYTIS CINEREA) AND TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS REVEAL TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES

    T Giraud;D Fortini;C Levis;P Leroux

  • Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types.

    Sylvain Billiard;Manuela López-Villavicencio;Benjamin Devier;Michael E. Hood

  • Fungal evolutionary genomics provides insight into the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes.

    Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Jeanne Ropars;Jeanne Ropars;Hélène Badouin;Hélène Badouin;Antoine Branca;Antoine Branca

  • High Variability of Mitochondrial Gene Order among Fungi

    Gabriela Aguileta;Damien M. de Vienne;Damien M. de Vienne;Oliver N. Ross;Oliver N. Ross;Michael E. Hood

  • Challenges of microsatellite isolation in fungi

    Cyril Dutech;Jérome Enjalbert;Elisabeth Fournier;François Delmotte

  • Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution.

    G. Bernasconi;J. Antonovics;A. Biere;Deborah Charlesworth

  • PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE OF HOST-SPECIFIC CRYPTIC SPECIES IN THE ANTHER SMUT FUNGUS

    Mickael Le Gac;Michael E. Hood;Elisabeth Fournier;Tatiana Giraud

  • Multiple recent horizontal transfers of a large genomic region in cheese making fungi

    Kevin Cheeseman;Jeanne Ropars;Pierre Renault;Joëlle Dupont

  • Assessing the Performance of Single-Copy Genes for Recovering Robust Phylogenies

    G. Aguileta;G. Aguileta;S. Marthey;H. Chiapello;M.-H. Lebrun

  • A congruence index for testing topological similarity between trees

    Damien M. de Vienne;Tatiana Giraud;Olivier C. Martin

  • The evolution of species concepts and species recognition criteria in plant pathogenic fungi

    Lei Cai;Tatiana Giraud;Ning Zhang;Dominik Begerow

  • Partition of the Botrytis cinerea complex in France using multiple gene genealogies

    Elisabeth Fournier;Tatiana Giraud;Catherine Albertini;Yves Brygoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Hood
Michael E. Hood Amherst College
Pierre Gladieux
Pierre Gladieux University of Montpellier
Jacqui A. Shykoff
Jacqui A. Shykoff University of Paris-Saclay
Elisabeth Fournier
Elisabeth Fournier Montpellier SupAgro
Jérôme Gouzy
Jérôme Gouzy Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michel Solignac
Michel Solignac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
François Delmotte
François Delmotte INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christina A. Cuomo
Christina A. Cuomo Broad Institute
Janis Antonovics
Janis Antonovics University of Virginia

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