Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends

✍ Scribed by Krishna Dronamraju (auth.), Pierre Pontarotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The annual Evolutionary BiologyMeetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research. The aims of these meetings are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.

This book collects 19 selected contributions presented at the 15^th meeting, which took place in September 2011. It starts with a description of the life and work of J.B.S. Haldane, a remarkable evolutionary biologist of the 20^th century. The remaining chapters are grouped under the following three themes:

· New Concepts in Evolutionary Biology

· Macroevolution: Mechanisms and Trends

· 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-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Cultural Cladistics and the Early Prehistory of North America....Pages 23-42
Effects of Random and Selective Mass Extinction on Community Composition in Communities of Digital Organisms....Pages 43-64
Coevolution of Gene Families: Models, Algorithms, and Systems Biology....Pages 65-78
Molecular Phylogenetic Trees: Topology of Multiparametric Poly-Genic/Phenic Tree Exhibits Higher Taxonomic Fidelity than Uniparametric Trees for Mono-Genic/Phenic Traits....Pages 79-101
Protein Aggregation Acts as Strong Constraint During Evolution....Pages 103-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Evolution of Cellular Pattern Formation during Early Nematode Embryogenesis....Pages 123-138
Environmental Regulation of Floral Color....Pages 139-153
Variable Risk and the Evolution of the Defense Repertoire of the Tupelo Leafminer....Pages 155-168
Reconstruction of the Adaptively Advantages Macroevolutionary Events in the Mutualistic Symbioses....Pages 169-187
Trends of the Herbs Ecological Evolution....Pages 189-212
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Influenza Strain Generation: A Comparative Evolutionary Study....Pages 213-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Polymorphism and Adaptation of Primate Colour Vision....Pages 225-241
The Repetitive Landscape of Sauropsid Genomes....Pages 243-263
Evolution of Viviparity and Genomic Imprinting in Mammals by Retrotransposons....Pages 265-281
Functional Retrogenes in Animal Genomes....Pages 283-300
Evolution of Multipartite Genomes in Prokaryotes....Pages 301-323
Differentiation of CACTA-like Elements in Arabidopsis ....Pages 325-341
Alternative Splicing as a Source of Phenotypic Differences Between Species: Protein-Level Mechanisms....Pages 343-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-364

✦ Subjects

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