Marion Charrier

Marion Charrier

doctoral student

Marion is preparing her PhD thesis on prenatal maternal influences on offspring development, its epigenetic transmission and adaptive consequences. Cécilia Houdelier and Ludovic Calandreau are her supervisors. The work that she is conducting involves evaluating the influence of different maternal living conditions on behavioural development (emotional reactivity and learning abilities) of several generations of offspring in a precocial bird, the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). She is investigating the physiological (yolk hormonal content and plasma corticosterone) and neurobiological correlations (epigenetic modifications) linked with the behaviours observed. The findings of these studies conducted on Japanese quail, are being applied in the field to a gamebird species, the red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa), in order to improve the adaptive behaviours, survival and reproductive capacities of offspring released into the wild.

Contact:

Marion Charrier

Phone: 33 (0)2 23 23 49 49

Mail: marion.charrier@univ-rennes1.fr

Modification date : 02 August 2023 | Publication date : 09 March 2022 | Redactor : Fabien Cornilleau