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Rasmann S., Alvarez N., Pellissier L., In Press. The altitudinal niche breadth hypothesis in plant-insect interaction. in Voelckel C., Jander G. (eds.) Plant Insect Interactions. Annual Plant Reviews Series. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Bothwell H., Bisbing S., Crawford L., Overgaard Therkildsen N., Alvarez N., Holderegger R., Manel S., In Press. Identifying genetic signatures of selection in a non-model species, alpine gentian (Gentiana nivalis L.), using a landscape genetic approach.
Conservation Genetics
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Pellissier L., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Pottier J., Dubuis A., Pradervand J.N., Guisan A., In Press. Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversities of butterfly communities correlate with climate in the western Swiss Alps.
Ecography
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Triponez Y., Arrigo N., Pellissier L., Schatz B., Alvarez N., In Press. Morphological, ecological and genetic aspects associated with endemism in the Fly Orchid group.
Molecular Ecology
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Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Benoit L., Espíndola A., I Joly H., Neuenschwander S., Arrigo N., 2013. Evolutionary history of almond tree domestication in the Mediterranean basin.
Molecular Ecology
22(4) pp. 1092-1104. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Alvarez N., Manel S., Schmitt T., 2012. Contrasting diffusion of Quaternary gene pools across Europe: the case of the arctic-alpine Gentiana nivalis L. (Gentianaceae).
Flora
207(6) pp. 408-413. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Arrigo N., Holderegger R., Alvarez N., 2012. Automated scoring of AFLPs using RawGeno v 2.0, a free R CRAN library.
Methods in Molecular Biology
888 pp. 155-175. [DOI]
[Pubmed]
Borer M., Arrigo N., Buerki S., Naisbit R.E., Alvarez N., 2012. Climate oscillations and species interactions: large-scale congruence but regional differences in the phylogeographic structures of an alpine plant and its monophagous insect.
Journal of Biogeography
39(8) pp. 1487-1498. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Boucher F.C., Thuiller W., Roquet C., Douzet R., Aubert S., Alvarez N., Lavergne S., 2012. Reconstructing the origins of high-alpine niches and cushion life form in the genus Androsace S.L. (Primulaceae).
Evolution
66(4) pp. 1255-1268. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Joly H., Benoit L., Brouck E., Arrigo N., 2012. Gene flow among wild and domesticated almond species: insights from chloroplast and nuclear markers.
Evolutionary Applications
5(4) pp. 317-329. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Alvarez N., 2012. Ecological and historical drivers of diversification in the fly genus Chiastocheta Pokorny.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
63(2) pp. 466-474. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Jacquier A., Jezek J., Alvarez N., 2012. Phylogenetic relationships in the subfamily Psychodinae (Diptera, Psychodidae).
Zoologica Scripta
41(5) pp. 489-498. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Espíndola A., Pellissier L., Maiorano L., Hordijk W., Guisan A., Alvarez N., 2012. Predicting present and future intra-specific genetic structure through niche hindcasting across 24 millennia.
Ecology Letters
15(7) pp. 649-657. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Jay F., Manel S., Alvarez N., Durand E.Y., Thuiller W., Holderegger R., Taberlet P., François O., 2012. Forecasting changes in population genetic structure of alpine plants in response to global warming.
Molecular Ecology
21(10) pp. 2354-2368. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Manel S., Gugerli F., Thuiller W., Alvarez N., Legendre P., Holderegger R., Gielly L., Taberlet P., IntraBioDiv Consortium, 2012. Broad-scale adaptive genetic variation in alpine plants is driven by temperature and precipitation.
Molecular Ecology
21(15) pp. 3729-3738. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Pellissier L., Alvarez N., Guisan A., 2012. Pollinators as drivers of plant distribution and assemblage into communities. pp. 392-413 in Patiny S. (eds.) Evolution of plant-pollinator interactions.
Systematics Association Special Volume Series
81. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Pellissier L., Litsios G., Guisan A., Alvarez N., 2012. Molecular substitution rate increases in myrmecophilous lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera).
Zoologica Scripta
41(6) pp. 651-658. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Revel N., Alvarez N., Gibernau M., Espíndola A., 2012. Investigating the relationship between pollination strategies and the size-advantage model in zoophilous plants using the reproductive biology of Arum cylindraceum and other European Arum species as case studies.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions
6(1) pp. 35-44. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Taberlet P., Zimmermann N.E., Englisch T., Tribsch A., Holderegger R., Alvarez N., Niklfeld H., Coldea C., Mirek Z., Moilanen A., Ahlmer W., Ajmone Marsan P., Bona E., Bovio M., Choler P., Cieslak E., Colli L., Cristea V., Dalmas J.-P., Frajman B., Garraud L., Gaudeul M., Gielly L., Gutermann W., Jogan N., Kagalo A.A., Korbecka G., Küpfer P., Lequette B., Roman Letz D., Manel S., Mansion G., Marhold K., Martini F., Negrini R., Niño F., Paun O., Pellecchia M., Perico G., Piekos-Mirkowa H., Prosser F., Puscas M., Ronikier M., Scheuerer M., Schneeweiss G.M., Schönswetter P., Schratt-Ehrendorfer L., Schüpfer F., Selvaggi A., Steinmann K., Thiel-Egenter C., van Loo M., Winkler M., Wohlgemuth T., Wraber T., Gugerli F., IntraBioDiv Consortium, 2012. Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.
Ecology Letters
15 pp. 1439-1448.
Barbu L., Guinand C., Bergmüller R., Alvarez N., Bshary R., 2011. Cleaning wrasse species vary with respect to dependency on the mutualism and behavioural adaptations in interactions.
Animal Behaviour
82(5) pp. 1067-1074. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Bassin L., Alvarez N., Pellissier L., Triponez Y., 2011. Ecological niche overlap in sister species: how do oil-collecting bees Macropis europaea and M. fulvipes (Hymenoptera: Melittidae) avoid competition and hybridization?
Apidologie
42(5) pp. 579-595. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Borer M., van Noort T., Arrigo N., Buerki S., Alvarez N., 2011. Does a shift in host plants trigger speciation in the Alpine leaf beetle Oreina speciosissima (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)?
BMC Evolutionary Biology
11(310) p. 310. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Born C., Alvarez N., McKey D., Ossari S., Wickings E.J., Hossaert-McKey M., Chevallier M.H., 2011. Insights into the biogeographical history of the Lower Guinea Forest Domain: evidence for the role of refugia in the intraspecific differentiation of Aucoumea klaineana.
Molecular Ecology
20(1) pp. 131-142. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Buerki S., Forest F., Alvarez N., Nylander J.A.A., Arrigo N., Sanmartín I., 2011. An evaluation of new parsimony-based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae.
Journal of Biogeography
38(3) pp. 531‐550. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Buerki S., Forest F., Salamin N., Alvarez N., 2011. Comparative performance of supertree algorithms in large data sets using the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) as a case study.
Systematic Biology
60(1) pp. 32-44. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Espíndola A., Alvarez N., 2011. Comparative phylogeography in a specific and obligate pollination antagonism.
PLoS One
6(12) pp. e28662. [DOI]
[Pubmed]
Espíndola A., Pellissier L., Alvarez N., 2011. Variation in the proportion of flower visitors of Arum maculatum along its distributional range in relation with community‐based climatic niche analyses.
Oikos
120(5) pp. 728-734. [Document]
[DOI]
[Web of Science]
Kébé K., Alvarez N., Thiaw C., Sembéné M., 2011. Les Chalcidiens (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) associés au genre Ficus spp. (Moracee) du Sénégal : répartition, abondance et diversité.
Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles
92(3-4) pp. 137-152.
Thiel-Egenter C., Alvarez N., Holderegger R., Tribsch A., Englisch T., Wohlgemuth T., Colli L., Gaudeul M., Gielly L., Jogan N., Linder H.P, Negrini R., Niklfeld H., Pellecchia M., Rioux D., Schönswetter P., Taberlet P., Van Loo M., Winkler M., IntraBioDiv Consortium, Gugerli F., 2011. Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants.
Journal of Biogeography
38(4) pp. 772-782. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Triponez Y., Buerki S., Borer M., Naisbit R.E., Rahier M., Alvarez N., 2011. Discordances between phylogenetic and morphological patterns in alpine leaf beetles attest to an intricate biogeographic history of lineages in postglacial Europe.
Molecular Ecology
20(11) pp. 2442-2463. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Alvarez N., Espíndola A., 2010. Comprendre la dispersion des espèces dans l'espace et dans le temps : un défi pour les biogéographes.
Actes de la Société Jurassienne d'Emulation
113 pp. 27-41.
Alvarez N., Kjellberg F., McKey D., Hossaert-McKey M., 2010. Phylogeography and historical biogeography of obligate specific mutualisms. pp. 31-39 in Morand S., Krasnov B.R. (eds.) The geography of host-parasite interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Arrigo N., Felber F., Parisod C., Buerki S., Alvarez N., David J., Guadagnuolo R., 2010. Origin and expansion of the allotetraploid Aegilops geniculata, a wild relative of wheat.
New Phytologist
187 pp. 1170-1180. [DOI]
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Borer M., Alvarez N., Buerki S., Margraf N., Rahier M., Naisbit R.E., 2010. The phylogeography of an alpine leaf beetle: divergence within Oreina elongata spans several ice ages.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
57(2) pp. 703-709. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Buerki S., Lowry P.P., Alvarez N., Razafimandimbison S.G., Kupfer P., Callmander M.W., 2010. Phylogeny and circumscription of Sapindaceae revisited: molecular sequence data, morphology and biogeography support recognition of a new family, Xanthoceraceae.
Plant Ecology and Evolution
143(2) pp. 148-159. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Bedalov M., Küpfer P., Alvarez N., 2010. New insights into the phylogenetics and biogeography of Arum (Araceae): unravelling its evolutionary history.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
163(1) pp. 14-32. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Favre A., Yuan Y.M., Küpfer P., Alvarez N., 2010. Phylogeny of subtribe Gentianinae (Gentianaceae): biogeographic inferences despite limitations in temporal calibration points.
Taxon
59(6) pp. 1701-1711. [Web of Science]
Jourdie V., Alvarez N., Molina-Ochoa J., Williams T., Bergvinson D., Benrey B., Turlings T.C.J., Franck P., 2010. Population genetic structure of two primary parasitoids of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera), Chelonus insularis and Campoletis sonorensis (Hymenoptera): to what extent is the host plant important?
Molecular Ecology
19(10) pp. 2168-2179. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Jourdie V., Virla E., Murillo H., Bento J. M. S., Turlings T. C., Alvarez N., 2010. Phylogeography of Chelonus insularis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Campoletis sonorensis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), two primary neotropical parasitoids of the fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Annals of the Entomological of America
103(5) pp. 742-749. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Restoux G., Hossaert-McKey M., Benrey B., Alvarez N, 2010. The effect of host plant and isolation on the genetic structure of phytophagous insects: A preliminary study on a bruchid beetle.
European Journal of Entomology
107(3) pp. 299-304. [Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Thiel-Egenter C., Tribsch A., Holderegger R., Manel S., Schoenswetter P., Taberlet P., Brodbeck S., Gaudeul M., Gielly L., Kuepfer P., Mansion G., Negrini R., Paun O., Pellecchia M., Rioux D., Schuepfer F., Van Loo M., Winkler M., Gugerli F., IntraBioDiv Consortium, 2009. History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of patial genetic structure in Alpine plants.
Ecology Letters
12(7) pp. 632-640. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Arrigo N., Tuszynski J.W., Ehrich D., Gerdes T., Alvarez N., 2009. Evaluating the impact of scoring parameters on the structure of intra-specific genetic variation using RawGeno, an R package for automating AFLP scoring.
BMC Bioinformatics
10(33) pp. 1-14. [Document]
[DOI]
[Web of Science]
Buerki S., Callmander M.W., Schuepfer F., Ravokatra M., Kuepfer P., Alvarez N., 2009. Malagasy Dracaena Vand. ex L. (Ruscaceae): an investigation of discrepancies between morphological features and spatial genetic structure at a small evolutionary scale.
Plant Systematics and Evolution
280(1-2) pp. 15-28. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Buerki S., Forest F., Acevedo-Rodriguez P., Callmander M.W., Nylander J.A.A., Harrington M., Sanmartin I., Kuepfer P., Alvarez N., 2009. Plastid and nuclear DNA markers reveal intricate relationships at subfamilial and tribal levels in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
51(2) pp. 238-258. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Burnier J., Buerki S., Arrigo N., Kuepfer P., Alvarez N., 2009. Genetic structure and evolution of Alpine polyploid complexes: Ranunculus kuepferi (Ranunculaceae) as a case study.
Molecular Ecology
18(17) pp. 3730-3744. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Jourdie V., Alvarez N., Turlings T.C.J., Franck P., 2009. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in two primary parasitoids of the noctuid Spodoptera frugiperda: Chelonus insularis and Campoletis sonorensis (Hymenoptera).
Molecular Ecology Resources
9(1) pp. 171-173. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Selosse M.-A., Dubois M.-P., Alvarez N., 2009. Do Sebacinales commonly associate with plant roots as endophytes?
Mycological Research
113(10) pp. 1062-1069. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Thiel-Egenter C., Gugerli F., Alvarez N., Brodbeck S., Cieslak E., Colli L., Englisch T., Gaudeul M., Gielly L., Korbecka G., Negrini R., Paun O., Pellecchia M., Rioux D., Ronikier M., Schoenswetter P., Schuepfer F., Taberlet P., Tribsch A., van Loo M., Winkler M., Holderegger R., IntraBioDiv Consortium, 2009. Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
18(1) pp. 78-87. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Arrigo N., Consortium Intrabiodiv, 2008. SIMIL: an R (CRAN) scripts collection for computing genetic structure similarities based on STRUCTURE 2 outputs.
Molecular Ecology Resources
8(4) pp. 757-762. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Jourdie V., Alvarez N., Turlings T.C.J., 2008. Identification of seven species of hymenopteran parasitoids of Spodoptera frugiperda, using polymerase chain reaction amplification and restriction enzyme digestion.
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
10(2) pp. 129-136. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Kergoat G.J., Alvarez N., 2008. Assessing the phylogenetic usefulness of a previously neglected morphological structure through elliptic Fourier analyses: a case study in Bruchus seed-beetles (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Bruchinae).
Systematic Entomology
33(2) pp. 289-300. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Hossaert-McKey M., Restoux G., Delgado-Salinas A., Benrey B., 2007. Anthropogenic effects on population genetics of phytophagous insects associated with domesticated plants.
Evolution
61(12) pp. 2986-2996. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Jourdie V., Alvarez N., Turlings T., 2007. Identification of parasitoid species using PCR amplification and restriction enzyme digestion. p. 12 in Hopper K.R., Kester K.M., Hoelmer K.A. (eds.) XIV International Entomophagous Insects Workshop: June 11-15, 2006, Newark, Delaware.
Journal of Insect Science
7(16). [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Triponez Y., Naisbit R.E., Jean-Denis J.B., Rahier M., Alvarez N., 2007. Genetic and environmental sources of variation in the autogenous chemical defense of a leaf beetle.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
33(11) pp. 2011-2027. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Benrey B., Hossaert-McKey M., Grill A., McKey D., Galtier N., 2006. Phylogeographic support for horizontal gene transfer involving sympatric bruchid species.
Biology Direct
1(21) p. 21. [Document]
[DOI]
[Web of Science]
[Pubmed]
Alvarez N., Mercier L., Hossaert-McKey M., Contreras-Garduno J., Kunstler G., Aebi A., Benrey B., 2006. Ecological distribution and niche segregation of sibling species: the case of bean beetles, Acanthoscelides obtectus Say and A. obvelatus Bridwell.
Ecological Entomology
31(6) pp. 582-590. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Napoles J.R., Anton K.W., Benrey B., Hossaert-McKey M., 2006. Phylogenetic relationships in the Neotropical bruchid genus Acanthoscelides (Bruchinae, Bruchidae, Coleoptera).
Journal of the Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
44(1) pp. 63-74. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Grill A., Gkiokia E., Alvarez N., 2006. Evolutionary history and patterns of differentiation among European Maniola butterflies (Lepidoptera : Satyrinae).
European Journal of Entomology
103(3) pp. 613-618. [Document]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Garine E., Khasah C., Dounias E., Hossaert-McKey M., McKey D., 2005. Farmers' practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon.
Biological Conservation
121(4) pp. 533-543. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Hossaert-McKey M., Rasplus J.Y., McKey D., Mercier L., Soldati L., Aebi A., Shani T., Benrey B., 2005. Sibling species of bean bruchids: a morphological and phylogenetic study of Acanthoscelides obtectus Say and Acanthoscelides obvelatus Bridwell.
Journal of the Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
43(1) pp. 29-37. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., McKey D., Hossaert-McKey M., Born C., Mercier L., Benrey B., 2005. Ancient and recent evolutionary history of the bruchid beetle, Acanthoscelides obtectus Say, a cosmopolitan pest of beans.
Molecular Ecology
14(4) pp. 1015-1024. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Kergoat G.J., Alvarez N., Hossaert-Mckey M., Faure N., Silvain J.F., 2005. Parallels in the evolution of the two largest New and Old World seed-beetle genera (Coleoptera, Bruchidae).
Molecular Ecology
14(13) pp. 4003-4021. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Aebi A., Alvarez N., Butcher R.D.J., Hansson C., Risterucci A.M., Benrey B., 2004. Microsatellite markers in a complex of Horismenus sp. (Hymenoptera : Eulophidae), parasitoids of bruchid beetles.
Molecular Ecology Notes
4(4) pp. 707-709. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Aebi A., Shani T., Butcher R.D.J., Alvarez N., Risterucci A.M., Benrey B., 2004. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in Zabrotes subfasciatus Boheman (Coleoptera : Bruchidae).
Molecular Ecology Notes
4(4) pp. 752-754. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Born C., Risterucci A.M., Sourrouille P., Benrey B., Hossaert-McKey M., 2004. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in Acanthoscelides obtectus Say (Coleoptera : Bruchidae).
Molecular Ecology Notes
4(4) pp. 683-685. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
Alvarez N., Aebi A., Risterucci A.M., Hossaert-Mckey M., Benrey B., 2003. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in Acanthoscelides obvelatus Bridwell (Coleoptera : Bruchidae).
Molecular Ecology Notes
3(1) pp. 12-14. [DOI]
[Web of Science]
