Mathilde and Frédéric attended the Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology ( ESEB 2025 ) in Barcelona (Spain). Mathilde presented a talk on species delimitation and phylogenomics of living xenarthrans and a poster on using museomics for delimiting species in the nine-banded armadillo species complex. Frédéric presented a talk on the role of parallel gene losses underlying convergent evolution of the oral apparatus in ant-eating mammals based on results obta

Mathilde and Fred visited Lionel for a week during his sabbatical at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) to sample the impressive xenarthran collection under the auspices of curator Roberto Portela Miguez. The museum skin samples will be used in ongoing genome-wide species delimitation studies in armadillos, anteaters, and sloths. #NHMUK #Morphology #Genomics #Museomics #Collections #Museum #Armadillos #Anteaters #Sloths

After being part of the local organizing committee of the 2nd Joint Congress in Evolutionary Biology organized in Montpellier in 2018,...

Frédéric was invited to present the recent advances made on sequencing xenarthran genomes in the ConvergeAnt project at the 1st Xenarthra...

Frédéric and Rémi visited the Parc Zoologique de Montpellier to collect blood and swabs from a two-toed fingered sloth (Choloepus...

Lionel gave a talk presenting a developmental perspective on the evolution of the dentition of “toothless mammals” at ISDM-IAPO-2017:...

Frédéric and Lionel took occasion of their presence in French Guiana to cross the Maroni river for visiting Monique Pool, the director of...