SELOSSE Marc André
Museum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris, France
- Marc Andre Selosse is a microbiologist and professor at the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle, and at the Universities of Kunming (China) and Gdansk (Poland). He is the head of the Plant and Fungal Interactions and Evolution team.
- His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizae, a major symbiosis between soil fungi and the roots of most land plants. He also has a general interest in symbiosis and its evolution.
- Marc Andre Selosse was director of the French Botanical Society from 2010 to 2018 and is now president of the BioGée Federation.
- He is member of the French Academy of Agriculture and editor of four international scientific journals: New Phytologist, Ecology Letters, Symbiosis and Botany Letter.
- He wrote 210 research papers, 52 book chapters, 27 forewords to books, more than 420 videos or content on the Internet, and 250 outreach papers
Recent publications:
- Evans A, et al. Historical biogeography and local adaptation explain population genetic structure in a widespread terrestrial orchid. Ann Bot. 2023 Jan 21:mcad010.
- Diouf, M et al. Succession of the microbiota in the gut of reproductives of Macrotermes subhyalinus (Termitidae) at colony foundation gives insights into symbionts transmission. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2023, Jan 09
- Maurice, K et al. Fertility Islands, Keys to the Establishment of Plant and Microbial Diversity in a Highly Alkaline Hot Desert. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2023, Jan 1.
- Perez-Lamarque, B et al. Structure and specialization of mycorrhizal networks in phylogenetically diverse tropical communities. Environ Microbiome. 2022 Jul 20;17(1):38.
- Mujica, M et al. Mycorrhizal fungi in the waiting room: fungal associations in Orchidaceae shed light on mycorrhizal evolution. 2022, Oct 13