Laetitia Plaisance

Email: lplaisance@ucsd.edu
Office: 3175 Hubbs Hall
Phone: 858-822-5388
Fax:  858-822-1267

Research Interests
My research interests are monogenean systematics, biodiversity, molecular biology, phylogeny, macro- and micro- evolutionary processes, biogeography, phylogeography and population genetics.
 

Selected Publications

PLAISANCE L, Rousset V, Morand S & Littlewood DTJ. Colonization of oceanic islands by parasites of low dispersal abilities: Phylogeography of two monogenean species parasitizing butterflyfishes in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Submitted

PLAISANCE L. , Littlewood D.T.J., Olson P.D. & Morand S. (2005) Molecular phylogeny of gill monogeneans (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) and colonisation of Indo-West Pacific butterflyfish hosts (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae). Zoologica Scripta , 34, 425-436

PLAISANCE L. & Kritsky D.C. (2004) Dactylogyrids (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea) parasitizing butterflyfishes (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) from the coral reefs of Palau , Moorea, Wallis , New Caledonia and Australia : Species of Euryhaliotrematoides gen. n. and Aliatrema gen. n. Journal of Parasitology : 90, 328-341

PLAISANCE L. , Bouamer S. & Morand S. (2004) Description and redescription of Haliotrema species (Monogenoidea: Poloyonchoinea: Dactylogyridae) parazitising butterflyfishes (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Parasitology Research , 93, 598-604

Simkov A., PLAISANCE L. , Matejusov I., Morand S. & Verneau O. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships of the Dactylogyridae Bychowsky, 1933 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridea): the need for the systematic revision of the Ancyrocephalinae Bychowsky, 1937. Systematic Parasitology , 54, 1-11

Granier S.A., PLAISANCE L. , Leflon-Guibout V., Lagier E., Morand S., Goldstein F. W. & Nicolas-Chanoine M.-H. (2003) Recognition of two genetic groups in the Klebsiella oxytoca taxon on the basis of chromosomal b-lactamase and housekeeping gene sequences as well as ERIC-1R PCR typing. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology , 53, 661-668

Morand S., Simkov  A., Matejusov I., PLAISANCE L. , Verneau O. & Desdevises Y. (2002) Investigating patterns may reveal processes: evolutionary ecology of ectoparasitic monogeneans. International Journal for Parasitology , 32, 111-119

Ausseil J., Soyer-Gobillard M.-O., Graud M.-L., Bhaud Y., Perret E., Barbier M., Albert M., PLAISANCE L. & Moreau, H. (2000) Dinoflagellate Centrosome: Associated Proteins Old and New. European Journal of Protistology , 36, 1-19