Marie-Louise Cariou

TL;DR: There has been increasing interest in the eight members of the melanogaster species subgroup of Drosophila, but no comprehensive survey exists of the biogeography and ecology of these species in the Afrotropical region.

TL;DR: Drosophila santomea is reported on, which is the first melanogaster sibling found off West–equatorial Africa, on São Tomé, one of the Gulf of Guinea islands, and has a pure yellow body coloration of both sexes without the normal black abdominal banding.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic relationships of 164 species of the family Drosophilidae are discussed, using the Amyrel gene, a member of the a-amylase multigene family, to raise the species subgroups ananassae and montium to the rank of species group and restrict the melanogaster species group to the melanogsaster subgroup plus the Oriental subgroups.

TL;DR: Populations of Corbicula from France and the Netherlands were analysed morphologically and genetically to quantify the degree of species and/or population differentiation, and indicate that there are two distinct species, identified as C. fluminalis and C.Fluminea, in the two countries.

TL;DR: The relationship between the geographical origin of the various strains and the patterns of mating and phylogeny is described, focusing on the evolution of D. santomea and its relationship to other species and their niches.