Marion Vittecoq

Départment: Species

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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::

• Changes in Bacterial Diversity, Composition and Interactions During the Development of the Seabird Tick Ornithodoros maritimus (Argasidae)
  de Yann Gomard, Olivier Flores, Marion Vittecoq, Thomas Blanchon, Céline Toty, Olivier Duron, Patrick Mavingui, Pablo Tortosa, Karen D. McCoy In Microbial Ecology, Online (October, 2020) En ligne : doi.org[...] Characterising within-host microbial interactions is essential to understand the drivers that shape these interactions and their consequences for ... 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
• Activity level and aggregation behavior in the crustacean gammarid Gammarus insensibilis parasitized by the manipulative trematode Microphallus papillorobustus
  de Audrey Arnal, Anaïs Droit, Eric Elguero, Hugo Ducasse, Marta I. Sanchez, Thierry Lefevre, Dorothee Misse, Malia Bédèrina, Marion Vittecoq, Simon Daoust, et al. In Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3 (2015), 1-7 En ligne : www.frontiersin.org[...] Hosts manipulated by parasites are profoundly altered organisms exhibiting a broad ... read more
• Evolutionary perspective of cancer: myth, metaphors, and reality
  de Audrey Arnal, Beata Ujvari, Bernard Crespi, Robert A. Gatenby, Tazzio Tissot, Marion Vittecoq, Paul W. Ewald, Andreu Casali, Hugo Ducasse, Camille Jacqueline, et al. In Evolutionary Applications, 8(6) (April 2015), 541-544 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] The evolutionary perspective of cancer (which origins and dynamics result from evolutionary ... read more
• Cancer: an emergent property of disturbed resource-rich environments? Ecology meets personalized medicine
  de Hugo Ducasse, Audrey Arnal, Marion Vittecoq, Simon P. Daoust, Beata Ujvari, Camille Jacqueline, Tazzio Tissot, Paul Ewald, Robert A. Gatenby, Kayla C. King, et al. In Evolutionary Applications, 8(6) (April 2015), 527-540 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] For an increasing number of biologists, cancer is viewed as a ... read more
• Reviewing Fasciola hepatica transmission in the West Indies and novel perceptions from experimental infections of sympatric vs. allopatric snail/fluke combinations
  de Antonio A. Vázquez, Mercedes de Vargas, Annia Alba, Jorge Sánchez, Pilar Alda, Emeline Sabourin, Marion Vittecoq, Pedro M. Alarcón-Elbal, Jean-Pierre Pointier, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès In Veterinary Parasitology, 275 (November, 2019), 108955 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Fasciolosis is an important food-borne parasitic disease affecting over two million people worldwide ... read more
• Evaluating functional dispersal and its eco-epidemiological implications in a nest ectoparasite
  de Amalia Rataud, Marlene Dupraz, Céline Toty, Thomas Blanchon, Marion Vittecoq, Remi Choquet, Karen D. McCoy In Zenodon, reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Ecology, 10.5281/zenodo.2573075 (March, 2019), 18 En ligne : zenodo.org[...] Functional dispersal (between-site movement, with or without subsequent reproduction) is a key trait acting ... read more
• Détectives à plumes. Ce que les oiseaux nous apprennent sur leur environnement
  de David Grémillet, Marion Vittecoq, Thierry Boulinier In Les dossiers d'Agropolis International, 24 (Février 2019), p. 37 En ligne : www.agropolis.fr[...] Visibles de tous, les oiseaux nous renseignent sur l’état de leurs milieux de vie. Ils y sont exposés aux pollutions plastiques et chimiques, aux agents pathogènes, aux ... read more
• Fasciola hepatica-Pseudosuccinea columella interaction: effect of increasing parasite doses, successive exposures and geographical origin on the infection outcome of susceptible and naturally-resistant snails from Cuba
  de Annia Alba, Antonio A. Vázquez, Jorge Sánchez, David Duval, Hilda M. Hernández, Emeline Sabourin, Marion Vittecoq, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès, Benjamin Gourbal In Parasites & Vectors, 11:1 (October 2018) En ligne : parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com[...] Pseudosuccinea columella is one of the most widespread vectors of Fasciola hepatica, a globally distributed trematode ... read more
• Impact of Human Activities on Fasciolosis Transmission
  de Emeline Sabourin, Pilar Alda, Antonio Vázquez, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès, Marion Vittecoq In Trends in Parasitology, 34:10 (October 2018), 891-903 En ligne : linkinghub.elsevier.com[...] Fasciolosis is a neglected water- and food-borne disease. There are approximately 17 million human cases annually in the world. In some areas, these numbers may ... read more