Publications
Publications of the team
Tandonnet S, Haq M, Turner A, Grana T, Paganopoulou P, Adams S, Dhawan S, Kanzaki N, Nuez I, Félix MA, Pires-daSilva A. (2023). De novo genome assembly of Auanema melissensis, a trioecious free-living nematode. Link
Schild, E.S., Gupta, S., Dubois, C., Fernandes Póvoa, E.E., Félix M.-A., Mugler, A., Korswagen, H.C. (2022). Precise temporal control of neuroblast migration through combined regulation and feedback of a Wnt receptor. bioRxiv. Link
Tran TD, Ali MA, Lee D, Félix MA, Luallen RJ. (2022). Bacterial filamentation as a mechanism for cell-to-cell spread within an animal host. Link
Grover M, Fasseas MK, Essmann C, Liu K, Braendle C, Félix MA, Glockling SL, Barkoulas M. (2021). Infection of C. elegans by Haptoglossa species reveals shared features in the host response to oomycete detection. Link
Morgan E, Longares JF, Félix MA, Luallen RJ. (2021). Selective cleaning of wild Caenorhabditis nematodes to enrich for intestinal microbiome bacteria. Link
Zhang, F.*, Weckhors, J.L.*, Assié, A., Hosea, A.C., Ayoub, C.A., Khodakova, A.S., Loeza Cabrera, M., Vidal Vilchis, D., Félix, M.-A., Samuel, B.S. (2021). Natural genetic variation drives microbiome selection in the Caenorhabditis elegans gut. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2021). Evolution : Drivers in a traffic jam. Link
Dubois, C.*, Gupta, S.*, Mugler, A.# and Félix M.-A.# (2021). Temporally regulated cell migration is sensitive to body size. Link
The people behind the papers – Clément Dubois, Shivam Gupta, Andrew Mugler and Marie-Anne Félix. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2020). "Hérédité" dans L’identité - Dictionnaire Encyclopédique. Sous la direction de Jean Gayon. Editions Gallimard. Collection Folio Essais. ISBN : 978-2-07-283413-4.
Besnard, F.*#, Picao Osorio, J.*, Dubois, C., and Félix, M.-A.# (2020). A broad mutational target explains a fast rate of phenotypic evolution. Link
Launay, C., Félix, M.-A., Dieng, J. and Delattre, M. (2020). Diversification and hybrid incompatibility in auto-pseudogamous species of Mesorhabditis nematodes. Link
Dirksen, P.*, Assié, A.*, Zimmermann, J., Zhang, F., Tietje, A.-M., Arnaud Marsh, A., Félix, M.-A., Shapira, M., Kaleta, C., Schulenburg, H.# and Samuel, B.S.# (2020). CeMbio - The C. elegans microbiome resource. Link
Beets, I., Zhang, G., Fenk, L., Chen, C., Nelson, G.M., Félix, M.-A.# and de Bono, M.# (2020). Natural variation in a dendritic scaffold protein modifies experience-dependent plasticity by altering neuropeptide expression. Link
Richaud, A., Frézal, L., Tahan, S., Zhao, G., Kaur, T., Wang, D.# and Félix, M.-A.# (2019). Vertical transmission in Caenorhabditis nematodes of RNA molecules encoding a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Link
Lee, D., Zdraljevic, S., Cook, D.E., Frézal, L., Hsu, J.-C., Sterken, M.G., Riksen, J.A.G., Wang, J., Kammenga, J.E., Braendle, C., Félix, M.-A., Schroeder, F.C. and Andersen, E.C. (2019). Selection and gene flow shape niche-associated variation in pheromone response. Link
Frézal, L., Jung, H., Tahan, S. Wang, D. and Félix, M.-A. (2019). Noda-like RNA viruses infecting Caenorhabditis nematodes : sympatry, diversity and reassortment. Link
Félix, M.-A.# and Wang, D. Natural viruses of Caenorhabditis. (2019). Link
Grosmaire, M.*, Launay, C.*, Siegwald, M., Brugière, T., Estrada-Virrueta, L., Berger, D., Burny, C., Modolo, L., Blaxter, M., Meister, P., Félix, M.-A., Gouyon, P.-H., Delattre, M. (2019). Males as somatic investment in a parthenogenetic nematode. Link
Stevens, L., Félix, M.-A., Beltran, T., Braendle, C., Caurcel, C., Fausett, C., Fitch, D.H.A., Frézal, L., Kaur, T., Kiontke, K.C., Newton, M.D., Noble, L.M., Richaud, A., Rockman, M.V., Sudhaus, W. Blaxter, M. (2019). Comparative genomics of ten new Caenorhabditis species. Link
Page, A.P., Roberts, M., Félix, M.-A., Pickard, D., Page, A., Weir, W. (2019). The golden death bacillus Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a novel matrix digesting pathogen of nematodes. Link
Vargas-Velazquez, A.M., Besnard, F. and Félix, M.-A. (2019). Necessity and contingency in developmental genetic screens : LIN-3, Wnt and semaphorin pathways in vulval induction of the nematode Oscheius tipulae. Link
Grimbert, S., Vargas Velazquez, A.M., Braendle, C. (2018). Physiological starvation promotes Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction. Link
Félix, M.-A., Ailion, M., Hsu, J.-C., Richaud, A. and Wang, J. (2018). Pristionchus nematodes occur frequently in diverse rotting vegetal substrates and are not exclusively necromenic, while Panagrellus redivivoides is found specifically in rotting fruits. Link
Frézal, L., Demoinet, E., Braendle, C., Miska, E# and Félix, M.-A.# (2018). Natural genetic variation in a multigenerational phenotype in C. elegans. Link
Osman, G.A.*, Fasseas, M.K.*, Koneru, S.L., Essmann, C.L., Kyrou, K., Srinivasan, M.A., Zhang, G., Sarkies, P., Félix, M.-A and Barkoulas, M. (2018). Natural infection of C. elegans by an oomycete reveals a new pathogen-specific immune response. Link
Richaud, A., Zhang, G., Lee, D. Lee, J. and Félix, M-A. (2018). The local co-existence pattern of selfing genotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans natural metapopulations. Link
Besnard, F.*, Koutsovoulos, G.*, Dieudonné, S., Blaxter, M.# and Félix, M.-A.# (2017). Towards universal forward genetics : using a draft genome sequence of the nematode Oscheius tipulae to identify mutations affecting vulva development. Link
Schulenburg, H., and Félix, M.-A. (2017). The natural biotic environment of C. elegans. Link
Zhang, F.*, Berg, M.*, Dierking, K., Félix, M.-A., Shapira, M.#, Samuel, B.# and Schulenburg, H.# (2017). Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for microbiome research. Link
Nigon, V.M. and Félix, M.-A. (2017) History of research on C. elegans and other free-living nematodes as model organisms. Wormbook, The C. elegans research Community, ed. Link
Zhang, G., Sachse, M., Prevost, M.-C., Luallen, R.J., Troemel, E. and Félix, M.-A. (2016). A large collection of novel nematode-infecting microsporidia and their diverse interactions with Caenorhabditis elegans and other related nematodes. Link
Barkoulas, M.*#, Vargas Velazquez, A.M*, Peluffo, A.E. and Félix, M.-A.# (2016). Evolution of new cis-regulatory motifs required for cell-specific gene expression in Caenorhabditis. Link
Cook, D.C., Zdraljevic, S., Tanny, R.E., Seo, B., Riccardi, D.D., Noble, L.M., Rockman, M.V., Alkema, M.J., Braendle, C., Kammenga, J.E., Wang, J., Kruglyak, L., Félix, M-A., Lee, J., Andersen, E.C. (2016). The genetic basis of natural variation in C. elegans telomere length. Link
Grimbert, S., Tietze, K., Barkoulas, M., Sternberg, P.W., Félix, M.-A. and Braendle, C. (2016). Anchor cell signaling anf vulval precursor cell positioning establish a reproducible spatial context during C. elegans vulval induction. Link
Luallen, R.J., Reinke, A.W., Tong, L., Botts, M.R., Félix, M.-A. and Troemel, E.R. (2016). Discovery of a natural microsporidian pathogen with a broad tissue tropism in Caenorhabditis elegans. Link
Samuel, B.S., Rowedder, H., Braendle, C., Félix, M.-A.* and Ruvkun, G.* (2016). Caenorhabditis elegans responses to bacteria from its natural habitats. Link
Dirksen, P., Arnaud Marsh, S., Braker, I., Heitland, N., Wagner, S., Nakad, R., Mader, S., Petersen, C., Kowallik, V., Rosenstiel, P., Félix, M-A. and Schulenburg, H. (2016). The native microbiome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans : Gateway to a new host-microbiome model. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2016). Phenotypic evolution with and beyond genome evolution. Link
Félix, M.-A. and Barkoulas, M. (2015). Pervasive robustness in biological systems. Link
Frézal, L. and Félix, M.-A. (2015). C. elegans outside the Petri dish. Link
McGill, L.M., Shannon, A.J., Pisani, D., Félix, M.-A., Ramløv, H., Dix, I., Wharton, D.A. and Burnell, A.M. (2015). Anhydrobiosis and freezing-tolerance : adaptations that facilitate the establishment of Panagrolaimus nematodes in polar habitats. Link
Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2014). Isolation of C. elegans and related nematodes. Wormbook, The C. elegans Research Community, ed. Link
Félix, M.-A., Braendle, C., Cutter, A.D. (2014). A streamlined system for species diagnosis in Caenorhabditis (Nematoda : Rhabditidae) with name designations for 15 distinct biological species. Link
Franz, C., Renshaw, H., Frézal, L., Jiang, Y., Félix, M.-A., Wang, D. (2014). Orsay, Santeuil and Le Blanc viruses primarily infect intestinal cells in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Link
Hodgkin, J., Félix, M.-A., Clark, L.C., Stroud, D., Gravato-Nobre, M.J. (2013). Two Leucobacter strains exert complementary virulence on Caenorhabditis including death by worm-star formation. Link
Ashe, A.*, Bélicard, T.*, Le Pen, J.*, Sarkies, P.*, Frézal, L., Lehrbach, N.J., Félix, M.-A.# and Miska, E.A.# (2013). A deletion polymorphism in the C. elegans RIG-I homolog disables viral RNA dicing and antiviral immunity. Link
Félix, M.-A.*, Jovelin, R.*, Ferrari, C., Han, S., Cho, Y.R., Andersen, E.C., Cutter, A.D., Braendle, C. (2013). Species richness, distribution and genetic diversity of Caenorhabditis nematodes in a remote tropical rainforest. Link
Barkoulas, M., van Zon, J.S., Milloz, J., van Oudenaarden, A., Félix, M.-A. (2013). Robustness and epistasis in the C. elegans vulval signalling network revealed by pathway dosage modulation. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2012). Evolution in developmental phenotype space. Link
Franz, C., Zhao, G., Félix, M.-A., Wang, D. (2012). Complete genome sequence of Le Blanc virus, a third Caenorhabditis nematode infecting virus. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2012). Caenorhabditis elegans vulval cell fate patterning. Link
Bélicard, T. and Félix, M.-A. (2012). Transmission multigénérationnelle de l’interférence à l’ARN chez le nématode C. elegans. Link
Félix, M.-A. and Duveau, F. (2012). Population dynamics and habitat sharing of natural populations of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae. Link
Félix, M.-A. and Barkoulas, M. (2012). Robustness and flexibility in nematode vulva development. Link
Gerke, J.P.*, Andersen, A.C.*, Shapiro J.A.*, Crissman, J.R., Ghosh, R., Bloom, J.S., Félix, M.-A. and Kruglyak, L. (2012). Chromosome-scale selective sweeps shape Caenorhabditis elegans genomic diversity. Link
Nuez, I. and Félix M.-A. (2012). Evolution of susceptibility to ingested double-stranded RNAs in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Link
Duveau, F. and Félix, M.-A. (2012). Role of pleiotropy in the evolution of a cryptic developmental variation in C. elegans. Link
Kiontke, K.*, Félix, M.-A.*, Ailion, M., Rockman, M.V., Braendle, C., Pénigault, J.-B. and Fitch, D.H.A. (2011). A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruits. Link
Pénigault, J.-B. and Félix, M.-A. (2011). Evolution of a system sensitive to stochastic noise : P3.p cell fate in Caenorhabditis. Link
Pénigault, J.-B. and Félix, M.-A. (2011). High sensitivity of C. elegans vulval precursor cells to the dose of posterior Wnts. Link
Hoyos, E.*, Kim, K.*, Milloz, J., Barkoulas, M., Pénigault, J.-B., Munro, E. and Félix, M.-A. (2011). Quantitative variation in autocrine signaling and pathway crosstalk in the Caenorhabdidtis vulva network. Link
Félix, M.-A.*#, Ashe, A.*, Piffaretti, P.*, Wu, G., Nuez, I., Bélicard, T. , Jiang, Y., Zhao, G., Franz, C.J., Goldstein, L.D., Sanroman, M., Miska, E.A.# and Wang, D.# (2011). Natural and experimental infection of Caenorhabditis nematodes by novel viruses related to nodaviruses. Link
Félix, M.-A. and Braendle, C. (2010). The natural history of Caenorhabditis elegans. Link
Woodruff, G.C., Eke, O., Baird, S.E., Félix, M.-A. and Haag, E.S. (2010). Insights into species divergence and the evolution of hermaphroditism from fertile interspecies hybrids of Caenorhabditis nematodes. Link
Duveau, F. and Félix, M.-A. (2010). Hidden variation mapped. Link
Braendle, C., Baer, C. and Félix, M.-A. (2010). Evolution of the mutationally accessible phenotypic space in a developmental system. Link
Cutter, A.D., Yan, W., Tsvetkov, N., Sunil, S. and Félix, M.-A. (2010). Molecular population genetics and phenotypic sensitivity to ethanol for a globally diverse sample of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae. Link
Raboin, M.J., Timko, A.F., Howe, D.K., Félix, M.-A., and Denver, D.R. (2010). Evolution of Caenorhabditis mitochondrial genome pseudogenes and C. briggsae natural isolates. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2009). Variations génétiques et environnementales dans un réseau de signalisation intercellulaire. Link
Braendle, C. and Félix, M.-A. (2009). New fashion models. Link
Delattre, M. and Félix, M.A. (2009). The evolutionary context of robust and redundant cell biological mechanisms. Link
Braendle, C. and Félix, M.-A. (2009). The other side of phenotypic plasticity : a developmental system that generates an invariant phenotype despite environmental variation. Link
Troemel, E.R., Félix, M.-A., Whiteman, N.K., Barrière, A. and Ausubel, F.M. (2008). Microsporidia are natural intracellular parasites of the nematode C. elegans. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2008). RNA interference in nematodes and the chance that favored Sydney Brenner. Link
Braendle, C. and Félix, M.-A. (2008). Plasticity and errors of a robust developmental system in different environments. Link
Milloz, J., Duveau, F., Nuez, I. and Félix, M.-A. (2008). Intraspecific evolution of the intercellular signaling network underlying a robust developmental system. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2008). Q&A : Marie-Anne Félix. Link
Baïlle, D., Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2008). Oscheius tipulae, a widespread hermaphroditic soil nematode, displays a higher genetic diversity and geographic structure than Caenorhabditis elegans. Link
Dolgin, E.S. Félix, M.-A. and Cutter, A.D. (2008). Hakuna Nematoda : Genetic and phenotypic diversity in African isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae. Link
Braendle, C., Milloz, J. and Félix, M.-A. (2008). Mechanisms and evolution of environmental responses in Caenorhabditis elegans. Link
Félix, M.-A. and Wagner, A. (2008). Robustness and evolution : concepts, insights, and challenges from a developmental model system. Link
Kiontke, K., Barrière, A., Kolotuev, I., Podbilewicz, B., Sommer, R., Fitch, D.H.A. and Félix, M.-A. (2007). Evolution of development in the nematode vulva system : trends, stasis and drift. Link
Winter, A.D., Keskiaho, K., Kukkola, L., McCormack, G., Félix, M.-A., Myllyharju, J. and Page, A.P. (2007). Differences in collagen prolyl 4-hydroxylase assembly between two Caenorhabditis nematode species despite high amino acid sequence identity of the enzyme subunits. Link
Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2007). Temporal dynamics and linkage disequilibrium in natural C. elegans populations. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2007). Cryptic quantitative evolution of the vulva intercellular network in Caenorhabditis. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2006). Oscheius tipulae. Wormbook, The C. elegans research Community, ed. Link
Cutter, A.D., Félix, M.-A., Barrière, A. and Charlesworth, D. (2006). Patterns of nucleotide polymorphism distinguish temperate and tropical wild isolates of Caenorhabditis briggsae. Link
Braendle, C. and Félix, M.-A. (2006). Sex determination : Ways to evolve a hermaphodite. Link
Flatt, T. and Braendle, V. (2006). A role for genetic accommodation in evolution ? Link
Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2006). Isolation of C. elegans and related nematodes. Wormbook, The C. elegans research Community, ed. Link
Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2005). Natural variation and population genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Wormbook, The C. elegans research Community, ed. Link
Barrière, A. and Félix, M.-A. (2005). High local genetic diversity and low outcrossing rate in Caenorhabditis elegans natural populations. Link
Maupas, E. (1900), English translation by Félix, M.-A. (2005). Modes and forms of reproduction of nematodes. Wormbase. Link
( Félix, M.-A. (2005). An inversion in the wiring of an intercellular signal : evolution of Wnt signaling in the nematode vulva.) see Note Link
Félix, M.-A. and Barrière, A. (2005). Evolvability of cell specification mechanisms. Link
Dichtel-Danjoy, M.-L. and Félix, M.-A. (2004). Phenotypic neighborhood and micro-evolvability. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2004). Alternative morphs and plasticity of vulval development in a rhabditid nematode species. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2003). Développement et systématique chez les nématodes (Ordre Rhabditida). Biosystema 21.
Félix, M.-A. (2004). Genomes : a helpful cousin for our favourite worm. Link
Dichtel-Danjoy, M.-L. and Félix, M.-A. (2004). The two steps of vulval induction in Oscheius tipulae CEW1 recruit common regulators including a MEK kinase. Link
Félix, M.-A. (2004). Developmental biology of nematodes - what we learn from Caenorhabditis elegans. In Nematology advances and perspectives : nematode management and utilization. Z.X. Chen, S.Y. Chen, D.W. Dickson, Eds. CABI Publishing, vol. I, pp. 71-174.
Bonnaud, L., Delattre, M. and Félix, M.-A. (2004). Division and fate of vulval precursor cells : is polymorphism an image of interspecific divergence ? Nematology Monographs & Perspectives, vol. 2, 691-694.
Louvet-Vallée, S., Kolotuev, I., Podbilewicz, B. and Félix, M.-A. (2003). Control of vulval competence and centering in the nematode Oscheius sp. 1 CEW1. Link
Félix, M.-A., Labouesse, M. and Ségalat, L. (2002) Caenorhabditis elegans, un organisme modèle pour la biologie. Editions Hermann, Paris. 200 pp.
Delattre, M. and Félix, M.-A. (2001). Microevolutionary studies in nematodes : a beginning. Link
Félix, M.-A., Vierstraete, A. and Vanfleteren, J. (2001). Three biological species related to Rhabditis (Oscheius) pseudodolichura Körner in Osche, 1952. Link
Delattre, M. and Félix, M.-A. (2001). Polymorphism and evolution of vulval precursor cell lineages within two nematode genera, Caenorhabditis and Oscheius. Link
Delattre, M. and Félix, M.-A. (2001). Evolution and development of a variable left-right asymmetry in nematodes : the handedness of P11/P12 migration. Link
Dichtel, M.-L.*, Louvet-Vallée, S.*, Viney, M.E.*, Félix, M.-A., Sternberg, P.W. (2001). Control of vulval cell division number in the nematode Oscheius/Dolichorhabditis sp. CEW1. Link
Félix, M.-A., De Ley, P., Sommer, R.J., Frisse, L., Nadler, S.A., Thomas, W.K., Vanfleteren, J. and Sternberg, P.W. (2000). Evolution of vulva development in the Cephalobina (Nematoda). Link
Félix, M.-A., Delattre, M. and Dichtel, M.-L. (2000). Comparative developmental studies using Oscheius / Dolichorhabditis sp. CEW1 (Rhabditidae). Link
Delattre, M. and Félix, M.-A. (1999). Connection of vulval and uterine epithelia in Caenorhabditis elegans. Link
Louvet-Vallée, S. and Félix, M.-A. (1999). Le lien entre reproduction et longévité... chez C. elegans. Link
De Ley, P., Félix, M.-A., Frisse, L. M., Nadler, S. A., Sternberg, P. W. and Thomas, W. K. (1999). Molecular and morphological characterisation of two reproductively isolated species with mirror-image anatomy (Nematoda : Cephalobidae). Link
Félix, M.-A. (1999). Evolution of developmental mechanisms in nematodes. Link