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Anne-Marie Labouche

For my PhD thesis, I'm studying a nursery pollinator system where the plant species is pollinated by a moth which also lays its eggs inside the flowers. Developing larvae will then eat the seeds in the fruits. This relationship may involve a dynamic balance of costs and benefits, which are exciting to study in order to assess if this interaction could be considered as mutualistic or antagonistic. Moreover, it is also possible that the outcomes may vary depending on the available co-pollinators, as highlighted by Thompson in his geographic mosaic of co-evolution theory.
2008. Sex-specific behavior and pollination efficiency in the nursery pollination system Silene latifolia - Hadena bicruris: male moth as mutualism rescuer? International workshop Silene : from populations to genes, Ascona, Switzerland - May 4-9 (Oral presentation)

2008. Sex-specific behavior and pollination efficiency in the nursery pollination system Silene latifolia - Hadena bicruris: male moth as mutualism rescuer? The evolutionary ecology of plant-animal interactions: from genes to communities - Palma de Mallorca, Spain - April 21 -23 (Oral presentation)

2006-present: PhD thesis in Giorgina Bernasconi's group. I'm studying the outcomes of the interaction between Silene latifolia (Caryophyllacea) and the moth Hadena bicruris (Noctuidae), involved in a nursery pollination system.

2005-2006: Master thesis on the "phenotypic differentiation between related species, study of Indian Ocean Zosterops genus (Passerine birds)". Supervisors: Prof Christophe Thébaud and Philipp Heeb (Laboratory Evolution and Biological Diversity - University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3, France)

Labouche A. M., G. Bernasconi, Male moths provide mutualistic benefits in the Silene latifolia - Hadena bicruris pollination, seed predation system - in press, Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01658.x

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Institut de Botanique
Université de Neuchâtel
Rue Emile-Argand 11
CH-2009 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
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e-mail: Anne-Marie.Labouche[@]unine.ch