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Samuel Pichon
Researcher at University of Basel
Publications - 14
Citations - 740
Samuel Pichon is an academic researcher from University of Basel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wolbachia & Cytoplasmic incompatibility. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 14 publications receiving 652 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel Pichon include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & University of Poitiers.
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Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants
TL;DR: How the close relationship between pollen quality and bumblebee attraction may have important benefits for plant reproductive success is discussed, and how the disruption of this mutualism can have detrimental consequences for plant and pollinator alike is shown.
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Maternal care provides antifungal protection to eggs in the European earwig
TL;DR: This study shows that maternal egg attendance in the European earwig has a social defense function protecting offspring against mold infection, probably through both the mechanical removal of spores and the continued application of chemical substances on the egg surface.
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Widespread Wolbachia infection in terrestrial isopods and other crustaceans.
Richard Cordaux,Samuel Pichon,Houda Ben Afia Hatira,Vincent Doublet,Pierre Grève,Isabelle Marcadé,Christine Braquart-Varnier,Catherine Souty-Grosset,Faouzia Charfi-Cheikhrouha,Didier Bouchon +9 more
TL;DR: Wolbachia infection may be much more widespread in crustaceans than previously thought and manipulation of crustacean-borne Wolbachia bacteria might represent potential tools for controlling crustACEan species of commercial interest and crustacea or insect disease vectors are speculated.
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Estimating bacterial diversity for ecological studies: methods, metrics, and assumptions.
TL;DR: It is concluded that the selection of 16S rRNA region significantly influences the estimation of bacterial diversity and species distributions and that caution is warranted when comparing data from different variable regions as well as when using different sequencing techniques.
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Microbial ecosystems are dominated by specialist taxa.
TL;DR: It is found that habitats are consistently dominated by specialist taxa, resulting in a strong, positive correlation between abundance and specificity, which explains why shallow sequencing captures similar β-diversity as deep sequencing, and can be sufficient to capture the habitat-specific functions of microbial communities.