Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application

✍ Scribed by Feng Yu, Alison Etheridge (auth.), Dr. Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every biological system is the outcome of its evolution; therefore, the deciphering of its evolutionary history is of tremendous importance to understand the biology of a system.

Since 1997 scientists of different disciplines have held an annual "Evolutionary Biology Meeting" at Marseille (France) in order to discuss their research developments, exchange ideas and start collaborations. Consisting of the most representative talks of the 11thmeeting, this book provides an up-to-date overview of evolutionary concepts and how these concepts can be applied to a better understanding of various biological aspects. It is divided into the following four parts: Modelization of Evolution - Concepts in Evolutionary Biology - Knowledge - Applied Evolutionary Biology.

This book is an invaluable source of information not only for evolutionary biologists, but also for biologists in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Rate of Adaptation of Large Populations....Pages 3-27
A Phylogenetic Mixture Model for Heterotachy....Pages 29-41
Accelerated Evolution of Genes of Recent Origin....Pages 45-59
Life-Cycle Features of Tumour Cells....Pages 61-71
General Evolutionary Regularities of Organic and Social Life....Pages 73-94
Old and New Concepts in EvoDevo....Pages 95-114
Overturning the Prejudices about Hydra and Metazoan Evolution....Pages 117-134
The Search for the Origin of Cnidarian Nematocysts in Dinoflagellates....Pages 135-152
A Possible Relationship Between the Phylogenetic Branch Lengths and the Chaetognath rRNA Paralog Gene Functionalities: Ubiquitous, Tissue-Specific or Pseudogenes....Pages 155-164
Mode and Tempo of matK : Gene Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications....Pages 165-179
Phylogeography and Conservation of the Rare South African Fruit Chafer Ichnestoma stobbiai (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)....Pages 181-196
Nothing in Medicine Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution: A Review....Pages 197-207
An Overview of Evolutionary Biology Concepts for Functional Annotation: Advances and Challenges....Pages 209-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-220

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Developmental Biology; Bioinformatics; Animal Genetics and Genomics