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MNHNFungal cultures collection. Our main research activities from 2006-2009 are in the field of Fungal Biodiversity and Evolution. Biodiversity studies have been developped 1) to better understand the cheese environment and particularly to discriminate biotechnological inoculums of the cheese industry (P. camemberti, P. roqueforti ...) from closely related contaminants, 2) to define phylogenetic species in the large genus Penicillium, 3) to evaluate culturable and non-culturable fungal communities on grapes, 4) to understand the epidemiology of the fungal contamination in the Lascaux cave and 5) to describe fungi from the extreme environments of the deep sea. Evolutionary studies have shown the maintenance of genes involved in sexual reproduction for Penicillium species considered as asexual until now.Human collections . Our samples have been used for several researches in the broad field of Human Evolutionary Genetics. 1) infering population history 2) detecting natural selection and past adaptation of populations 3) influence of social behaviour on the genetic diversity of our species.- infering past history of Pygmies and non-pygmies populations from Central Africa. Using state of the art methodology we have been able to infer the history of the Pygmies populations and their neighbour in Central Africa. - impact of social behaviour on the genetic diversity of Central Asia.- population history of Central Asian populations
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