Review articles

Smadja C. Speciation-with-gene-flow. Submitted.

Smadja C and Butlin RK. 2009. On the scent of speciation : the chemosensory system and its role in premating isolation. Special issue «Genetics of speciation ». Heredity 102(1):77-97. PDF.

Recent news

Moving office

Currently at Silwood park, Imperial College of London, working with Vincent Savolainen on speciation in palm tree species.

From june 2010: based at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, University University of Montpellier, France.

Conferences coming up

International Society of Chemical Ecology meeting in Tours, France. 31st of July- 4th of August 2010. I will be co-organising with Thomas Schmitt a symposium on 'Evolutionary aspects of chemical communication'. If you want to submit abstracts for this symposium, please follow instructions on the conference website.

Publication news:

"The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (incl. Smadja C). 2010. Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biology 8(2):e1000313.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000313".PDF

Zhou JJ, Vieira FG, He XL, Smadja C, Liu R, Rozas J, Field L. 2010. Genome annotation and comparative analyses of the odorant-binding proteins and chemosensory proteins in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Molecular Biology: 19 (s2):113-122.PDF [-- and check the whole special issue on the aphid genome here]

Smadja C, Shi P, Butlin RK and Robertson HM. 2009. Large gene expansions and adaptive evolution of odorant and gustatory receptor genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26(9):2073-2086.PDF