Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application

✍ Scribed by Fabiana Ciciriello, Giovanna Costanzo, Samanta Pino, Ernesto Di Mauro (auth.), Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines sharing a deep interest in concepts and knowledge related to evolutionary biology have held the annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille in order to discuss their research and promote collaboration. Lately scientists especially focusing on applications have also joined the group.

This book starts with the report of the "12^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting", which gives a general idea of the meeting’s epistemological stance. This is followed by 22 chapters, a selection of the most representative contributions, which are grouped under the following four themes: Part I Concepts and Knowledge - Part II Modelization - Part III Applied Evolutionary Biology - Part IV Applications in Other Fields -Part IV transcends the field of biology, presenting applications of evolutionary biology in economics and astronomy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Spontaneous Generation Revisited at the Molecular Level....Pages 3-22
Minimal Cell Model to Understand Origin of Life and Evolution....Pages 23-50
New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms....Pages 51-70
Vertebrate Evolution: The Strange Case of Gymnophionan Amphibians....Pages 71-89
The Evolution of Morphogenetic Signalling in Social Amoebae....Pages 91-107
On the Surprising Weakness of Pancreatic Beta-Cell Antioxidant Defences: An Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 109-125
The Importance of Transpositions and Recombination to Genome Instability According hobo -Element Distribution Pattern in Completely Sequenced Genome of Drosophila melanogaster ....Pages 127-138
Long-Term Evolution of Histone Families: Old Notions and New Insights into Their Mechanisms of Diversification Across Eukaryotes....Pages 139-162
Masculinization Events and Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA: A Model for Understanding the Evolutionary Dynamics of Gender-Associated mtDNA in Mussels....Pages 163-173
Missing the Subcellular Target: A Mechanism of Eukaryotic Gene Evolution....Pages 175-183
The Evolution of Functional Gene Clusters in Eukaryote Genomes....Pages 185-194
Knowledge Standardization in Evolutionary Biology: The Comparative Data Analysis Ontology....Pages 195-214
Front Matter....Pages 216-216
Large-Scale Analyses of Positive Selection Using Codon Models....Pages 217-235
Molecular Coevolution and the Three-Dimensionality of Natural Selection....Pages 237-251
The Evolutionary Constraints in Mutational Replacements....Pages 253-267
Why Phylogenetic Trees are Often Quite Robust Against Lateral Transfers....Pages 269-283
Front Matter....Pages 286-286
The Genome Sequence of Meloidogyne incognita Unveils Mechanisms of Adaptation to Plant-Parasitism in Metazoa....Pages 287-302
Ecological Genomics of Nematode Community Interactions: Model and Non-model Approaches....Pages 303-321
Comparative Evolutionary Histories of Fungal Chitinases....Pages 323-337
Aging: Evolutionary Theory Meets Genomic Approaches....Pages 339-360
Front Matter....Pages 362-362
Galaxies and Cladistics....Pages 363-378
Economics Pursuing the Mold of Evolutionary Biology: “Accident” and “Necessity” in the Quest to make Economics Scientific....Pages 379-392
Back Matter....Pages 393-398

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Developmental Biology; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics