Marion VITTECOQ

Theme: EcoHealth

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Joined our team: April 2014

Research interests and expertise

I study the dynamics of pathogenic agents at the interface of wildlife, livestock and poultry farms, and human populations. I earned my PhD in evolutionary biology in 2012 based on a three-year study on emerging diseases in Mediterranean wetlands in times of global change. I am currently developing a research project on the antibiotic resistant bacteria carried by wildlife. I am also currently studying the dynamics of fasciolosis in the Camargue, as well as trends in avian flu viruses in wetland networks. I also participate in many other projects, including a study on bird ticks, another one on different kinds of cancer in natural ecosystems, and one on monitoring toxoplasmosis.

See Marion Vittecoq’s CV

Current and past projects at the Tour du Valat

Video

An animation (in French) by my PhD student Émeline Sabourin, on the Great liver fluke cycle.

Publications

Find below the most recent publications of Marion Vittecoq, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal::

• Les parasites au coeur de la biodiversité modelée par les activités humaines (2023)
  de Marion Vittecoq Montpellier : Université de Montpellier, 2023, 123 Marion Vittecoq a développé ses recherches depuis sa thèse, soutenue en 2012, jusqu’à aujourd’hui sous l’angle de la conservation des zones humides, écosystèmes associant grande biodiversité, forts liens avec les activités humaines et grande vulnérabilité. L'objectif, in fine, de ces recherches est de ... read more
• Mettre en pratique l’approche « Une seule santé »: Au-delà du « comment » se poser la question du « pourquoi »
  de Marion Vittecoq In Environnement, Risques & Santé, 21(3) (May, 2022), 201-204 En ligne : www.jle.com[...] Putting the “One health” approach into action, not just how but why The reason to put the “One health” approach into practice may seem obvious. However, the different sectors and disciplines involved ... read more
• Les aires protégées françaises face aux approches conceptuelles « Une seule santé – Ecohealth »:
  de Thierry Durand, Olivier Fleury, Marie Heuret, Thierry Mougey, Christian Schwoehrer, Marion Vittecoq In Environnement, Risques & Santé, 21(3) (May, 2022), 227-234 En ligne : www.jle.com[...] One health and Ecohealth in protected areas in France Protected areas (PAs) are intended to preserve the health of humans, animals and ... read more
• Patterns of microbial abundance and heterotrophic activity along nitrogen and salinity gradients in coastal wetlands
  de Gema L. Batanero, Andy J. Green, Juan A. Amat, Marion Vittecoq, Curtis A. Suttle, Isabel Reche In Aquatic Sciences, 84(2) (March, 2022), 22 En ligne : doi.org[...] Coastal wetlands are valuable aquatic ecosystems with high biological productivity, which provide services such as a reduction in nitrogen loading ... read more
• On the arrival of fasciolosis in the Americas
  de Antonio A. Vázquez, Annia Alba, Pilar Alda, Marion Vittecoq, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès In Trends in Parasitology, 38(3) (March, 2022), 195-204 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Fasciola hepatica is a worldwide emerging and re-emerging parasite heavily affecting several regions in South America. Some lymnaeid snail species of American origin are ... read more
• Réflexion : Mettre en pratique l’approche “une seule santé”, au delà du “comment” se poser la question du “pourquoi”
  de Marion Vittecoq In H & B, 7 (2021), 50-55 ... read more
• On the need for integrating cancer into the One Health perspective
  de Antoine Dujon, Joel S. Brown, Delphine Destoumieux‐Garzón, Marion Vittecoq, Rodrigo Hamede, Aurelie Tasiemski, Justine Boutry, Sophie Tissot, Catherine Alix‐Panabieres, Pascal Pujol, et al. In Evolutionary Applications, 14(11) (November, 2021), 2571-2575 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Recent pandemics have highlighted the urgency to connect disciplines studying animal, human, and ... read more
• Machine learning is a powerful tool to study the effect of cancer on species and ecosystems
  de Antoine M. Dujon, Marion Vittecoq, Georgina Bramwell, Frederic Thomas, Beata Ujvari In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Online (August, 2021), 2041-210X.13703 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Cancer is an understudied but important process in wildlife. Cancerous cells are proposed to have had significant effect on the evolution of ... read more
• Evidence for the existence of a new genus Chlamydiifrater gen. nov. inside the family Chlamydiaceae with two new species isolated from flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus): Chlamydiifrater phoenicopteri sp. nov. and Chlamydiifrater volucris sp. nov.
  de F. Vorimore, M. Hölzer, E. M. Liebler-Tenorio, L. -M. Barf, S. Delannoy, Marion Vittecoq, R. Wedlarski, A. Lécu, S. Scharf, Y. Blanchard, et al. In Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 44(4) (July, 2021), 15 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] The family Chlamydiaceae currently comprises a single genus Chlamydia, with ... read more
• How effective are strategies to control the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment? A systematic review
  de Anaïs Goulas, Drifa Belhadi, Alexandre Descamps, Antoine Andremont, Pierre Benoit, Sophie Courtois, Christophe Dagot, Nathalie Grall, David Makowski, Sylvie Nazaret, et al. In Environmental Evidence, 9(1) (February, 2020), 4 En ligne : doi.org[...] Antibiotic resistance is a major concern for public and environmental health. The role played ... read more