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Background
I completed my PhD in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of
Lausanne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Professor Nicolas Perrin. My thesis
work has been in the area of evolutionary theory and population genetics. I focused
on estimation of sex-specific dispersal rates and on quantification of effective
population size. I developed an analytical framework for measuring these parameters
in natural populations, using genetic markers. The method, based on pre-dispersal and
post-dispersal samples, requires few demographical assumptions and limited sampling
efforts. This framework can be extended easily to include metapopulation dynamic and
I derived estimates of extinction rate. I applied these methods to a metapopulation of
white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula). In this species, in populations sampled
along an altitudinal gradient, I also investigate the effect of mitochondrial polymorphism
on the capacity of thermogenesis.
Research interests
My research here focuses on the evolution of sex-specific gene expression in
Drosophila melanogaster.
Publications
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Fontanillas, P., D. L. Hartl, and M. Reuter. 2007. Genome organization and
gene expression shape the transposable element distribution in the Drosophila melanogaster
euchromatin. PLoS Genet. 3:e210.
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Fontanillas, P., A. Depraz, M. S. Giorgi, N. Perrin. 2005.
Nonshivering thermogenesis capacity associated to mitochondrial DNA haplotypes
and gender in the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula.
Mol. Ecol. 14(2): 661-670.
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Fontanillas, P., E. Petit, and N. Perrin. 2004. Estimating
sex-specific dispersal rates with autosomal markers in hierarchically structured
populations. Evolution 58(4): 886-894.
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Koch, A. M., G. Kuhn, P. Fontanillas, L. Fumagalli, I.
Goudet, and I. R. Sanders. 2004. High genetic variability and low local diversity
in a population of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
101(8): 2369-2374.
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Duarte, L. C., C. Bouteiller, P. Fontanillas, E. Petit, and
N. Perrin. 2003. Inbreeding in the greater white-toothed shrew,
Crocidura russula. Evolution 57(3): 638-645.
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Ehinger, M., P. Fontanillas, E. Petit, and N. Perrin.
2002. Mitochondrial DNA variation along an altitudinal gradient
in the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula. Mol. Ecol.
11(5): 939-945.
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Auffray, J. C., P. Fontanillas, J. Catalan, and
J. Britton-Davidian. 2001. Developmental stability in house mice heterozygous
for single Robertsonian fusions. J. Hered. 92(1): 23-29.
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