Evolutionary Biology: Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods

✍ Scribed by Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 412
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents selected contributions to the 19^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille. It consists of 22 chapters, which are grouped in four sections:

· Convergent Evolution

· Evolution of Complex Traits

· Concepts

· Methods

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g for medical research, to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.

Offering an up-to-date overview of recent findings 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-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Road Map to Study Convergent Evolution: A Proposition for Evolutionary Systems Biology Approaches....Pages 3-21
Analysing Convergent Evolution: A Practical Guide to Methods....Pages 23-36
Convergent Evolution Within CEA Gene Families in Mammals: Hints for Species-Specific Selection Pressures....Pages 37-53
Convergent Evolution of Starch Metabolism in Cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida....Pages 55-71
The Evolution of Brains and Cognitive Abilities....Pages 73-87
Convergence as an Evolutionary Trade-off in the Evolution of Acoustic Signals: Echolocation in Horseshoe Bats as a Case Study....Pages 89-103
Convergence and Parallelism in Astyanax Cave-Dwelling Fish....Pages 105-119
Evolutionary Pathways Maintaining Extreme Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism: Convergent Spider Cases Defy Common Patterns....Pages 121-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Evolution of the BCL-2-Regulated Apoptotic Pathway....Pages 137-156
The Axial Level of the Heart in Snakes....Pages 157-169
On the Neo-Sex Chromosomes of Lepidoptera....Pages 171-185
Recent Developments on Bacterial Evolution into Eukaryotic Cells....Pages 187-202
Genomic Analysis of Bacterial Outbreaks....Pages 203-232
Three-dimensional Genomic Organization of Genes’ Function in Eukaryotes....Pages 233-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
How Likely Are We? Evolution of Organismal Complexity....Pages 255-272
Molecular Challenges to Adaptationism....Pages 273-287
Ontogeny, Oncogeny and Phylogeny: Deep Associations....Pages 289-307
Separating Spandrels from Phenotypic Targets of Selection in Adaptive Molecular Evolution....Pages 309-325
From Compositional Chemical Ecologies to Self-replicating Ribosomes and on to Functional Trait Ecological Networks....Pages 327-343
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Inference Methods for Multiple Merger Coalescents....Pages 347-371
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
From Sequence Data Including Orthologs, Paralogs, and Xenologs to Gene and Species Trees....Pages 373-392
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Finding Orthologs in the Twilight and Midnight Zones of Sequence Similarity....Pages 393-419
Back Matter....Pages 421-422

✦ Subjects

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