Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution: 13th Meeting 2009

✍ Scribed by Daniel E. Janes (auth.), Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: • Evolutionary Biology Concepts • Genome/Molecular Evolution • Morphological Evolution/Speciation This book offers an up-to-date overview of evolutionary biology concepts and their use in the biology of the 21st century.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Extinct and Extant Reptiles: A Model System for the Study of Sex Chromosome Evolution....Pages 3-17
Constraints, Plasticity, and Universal Patterns in Genome and Phenome Evolution....Pages 19-47
Starvation-Induced Reproductive Isolation in Yeast....Pages 49-65
Populations of RNA Molecules as Computational Model for Evolution....Pages 67-79
Pseudaptations and the Emergence of Beneficial Traits....Pages 81-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Transferomics: Seeing the Evolutionary Forest Using Phylogenetic Trees....Pages 101-114
Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics of Lactation....Pages 115-132
Evolutionary Dynamics in the Aphid Genome: Search for Genes Under Positive Selection and Detection of Gene Family Expansions....Pages 133-142
Mammalian Chromosomal Evolution: From Ancestral States to Evolutionary Regions....Pages 143-158
Mechanisms and Evolution of Dorsal–Ventral Patterning....Pages 159-177
Evolutionary Genomics for Eye Diversification....Pages 179-186
Do Long and Highly Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Vertebrates Have Biological Functions?....Pages 187-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Male-Killing Wolbachia in the Butterfly Hypolimnas bolina ....Pages 209-227
Evolution of Immunosuppressive Organelles from DNA Viruses in Insects....Pages 229-248
The Neogastropoda: Evolutionary Innovations of Predatory Marine Snails with Remarkable Pharmacological Potential....Pages 249-270
Antennal Hammers: Echos of Sensillae Past....Pages 271-282
Adaptive Radiation of Neotropical Emballonurid Bats: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Patterns in Behavior and Morphology....Pages 283-299
Trends in Rhizobial Evolution and Some Taxonomic Remarks....Pages 301-315
Convergent Evolution of Morphogenetic Processes in Fungi....Pages 317-328
Evolution and Historical Biogeography of a Song Sparrow Ring in Western North America....Pages 329-342
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Cave Bear Genomics in the Paleolithic Painted Cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc....Pages 343-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-363

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Developmental Biology; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences