Evolutionary Biology: Self/Nonself Evolution, Species and Complex Traits Evolution, Methods and Concepts

✍ Scribed by Pierre Pontarotti

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016. They are grouped under the following major themes:

· Self/Nonself Evolution

· Species Evolution and Evolution of Complex Traits

· Methods and Concepts

The aims of the annual meetings in Marseille – which bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research – are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering a revealing overview of the latest findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book represents an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
A New View of How MHC Class I Molecules Fight Disease: Generalists and Specialists (Jim Kaufman)....Pages 3-25
Evolution and Diversity of Defensins in Vertebrates (Edward J. Hollox, Razan Abujaber)....Pages 27-50
Interdependencies Between the Adaptation and Interference Modules Guide Efficient CRISPR-Cas Immunity (Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov)....Pages 51-62
How the Other Half Lives: CRISPR-Cas’s Influence on Bacteriophages (Melia E. Bonomo, Michael W. Deem)....Pages 63-85
Hidden Silent Codes in Viral Genomes (Eli Goz, Hadas Zur, Tamir Tuller)....Pages 87-110
Self and Nonself from a Genomic Perspective: Transposable Elements (Marie Fablet, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Bianca Fraga Menezes, Marlène Roy, Cristina Vieira)....Pages 111-128
Mammalian-Specific Traits Generated by LTR Retrotransposon-Derived SIRH Genes (Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Masahito Irie, Fumitoshi Ishino)....Pages 129-145
The Life History of Domesticated Genes Illuminates the Evolution of Novel Mammalian Genes (Dušan Kordiš)....Pages 147-162
Front Matter ....Pages 163-163
Evolution of Complex Traits in Human Populations (Carolina Medina-Gomez, Oscar Lao, Fernando Rivadeneira)....Pages 165-186
The Descent of Bison (Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat, Jean-Marc Elalouf)....Pages 187-198
Convergent and Parallel Evolution in Early Glires (Mammalia) (Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik)....Pages 199-216
Reductive Evolution of Apicomplexan Parasites from Phototrophic Ancestors (Zoltán Füssy, Miroslav Oborník)....Pages 217-236
Evolution of Milk Oligosaccharides and Their Function in Monotremes and Marsupials (Tadasu Urashima, Michael Messer)....Pages 237-256
Modelling the Evolution of Dynamic Regulatory Networks: Some Critical Insights (Anton Crombach)....Pages 257-273
Front Matter ....Pages 275-275
Mechanistic Models of Protein Evolution (David D. Pollock, Stephen T. Pollard, Jonathan A. Shortt, Richard A. Goldstein)....Pages 277-296
Genome-Wide Screens for Molecular Convergent Evolution in Mammals (Jun-Hoe Lee, Michael Hiller)....Pages 297-312
Assessing Evolutionary Potential in Tree Species Through Ecology-Informed Genome Screening (Hanne De Kort, Olivier Honnay)....Pages 313-327
Evolutionary Constraints on Coding Sequences at the Nucleotidic Level: A Statistical Physics Approach (Didier Chatenay, Simona Cocco, Benjamin Greenbaum, Rémi Monasson, Pierre Netter)....Pages 329-367
Case Studies of Seven Gene Families with Unusual High Retention Rate Since the Vertebrate and Teleost Whole-Genome Duplications (Frédéric G. Brunet, Thibault Lorin, Laure Bernard, Zofia Haftek-Terreau, Delphine Galiana, Manfred Schartl et al.)....Pages 369-396