Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution

✍ Scribed by Jacques R. Fresco, Olga Amosova, Peter Wei, Juan R. Alvarez-Dominguez, Damian Glumcher (auth.), Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations.

This book contains the most essential contributions presented at the 14^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2010. It comprises 19 chapters organized according to the following categories:

· Evolutionary Biology Concepts

· Biodiversity and Evolution

· Macroevolution

· Genome Evolution

Offering an up-to-date overview of recent results in the field of evolutionary biology, this book is an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Site-Specific Self-Catalyzed DNA Depurination, the Basis of a Spontaneous Mutagenic Mechanism of Wide Evolutionary Significance....Pages 3-19
Stochastic Processes Driving Directional Evolution....Pages 21-33
Evolution of Self-Fertile Hermaphrodites....Pages 35-50
Insights into Eukaryotic Interacting Protein Evolution....Pages 51-70
Integration of Evolutionary Biology Concepts for Functional Annotation and Automation of Complex Research in Evolution: The Multi-Agent Software System DAGOBAH....Pages 71-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
A New Animal Model for Merging Ecology and Evolution....Pages 91-106
Rapid Evolution of Simple Microbial Communities in the Laboratory....Pages 107-120
Use of Paleontological and Phylogenetic Data in Comparative and Paleobiological Analyses: A Few Recent Developments....Pages 121-138
Seasonal Flowering and Evolution: Will Plant Species Be Under Stress from Global Warming?....Pages 139-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Emergence of Cellular Complexity at the Dawn of the Eukaryotes: Reconstructing the Endomembrane System with In Silico and Functional Analyses....Pages 153-167
Neurophylogeny: Retracing Early Metazoan Brain Evolution....Pages 169-191
A New Early Cambrian Lobopod-Bearing Animal (Murero, Spain) and the Problem of the Ecdysozoan Early Diversification....Pages 193-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Genomic Perspectives on the Long-Term Absence of Sexual Reproduction in Animals....Pages 223-242
Evolutionary Constraint on DNA Shape in the Human Genome....Pages 243-256
Evolution of Fungi and Their Respiratory Metabolism....Pages 257-272
Genome Structure and Gene Expression Variation in Plant Mitochondria, Particularly in the Genus Silene ....Pages 273-289
Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Impact of Prokaryote Transposable Elements....Pages 291-312
Transposable Elements in a Marginal Population of Aegilops speltoides : Temporal Fluctuations Provide New Insights into Genome Evolution of Wild Diploid Wheat....Pages 313-324
Analysis of the Conservative Motifs in Promoters of miRNA Genes, Expressed in Different Tissues of Mammalians....Pages 325-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-345

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biodiversity; Developmental Biology