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Evolutionary Biology

Concept, Modeling, and Application

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Pierre Pontarotti

    1. CNRS UMR 6632, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Marseille CX 03, France

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  • Presents the most representative contributions to the 12th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille
  • Elucidates recent results and discusses future research
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Concept and Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Spontaneous Generation Revisited at the Molecular Level

      • Fabiana Ciciriello, Giovanna Costanzo, Samanta Pino, Ernesto Di Mauro
      Pages 3-22

    3. Minimal Cell Model to Understand Origin of Life and Evolution

      • Tadashi Sugawara
      Pages 23-50

    4. New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms

      • Xin Wang
      Pages 51-70

    5. Vertebrate Evolution: The Strange Case of Gymnophionan Amphibians

      • Jean-Marie Exbrayat, Michel Raquet
      Pages 71-89

    6. The Evolution of Morphogenetic Signalling in Social Amoebae

      • Yoshinori Kawabe, Elisa Alvarez-Curto, Allyson V. Ritchie, Pauline Schaap
      Pages 91-107

    7. On the Surprising Weakness of Pancreatic Beta-Cell Antioxidant Defences: An Evolutionary Perspective

      • Armin Rashidi, Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Daryl P. Shanley
      Pages 109-125

    8. The Importance of Transpositions and Recombination to Genome Instability According hobo-Element Distribution Pattern in Completely Sequenced Genome of Drosophila melanogaster

      • L. P. Zakharenko, M. P. Perepelkina, D. A. Afonnikov
      Pages 127-138

    9. Long-Term Evolution of Histone Families: Old Notions and New Insights into Their Mechanisms of Diversification Across Eukaryotes

      • José M. Eirín-López, Rodrigo González-Romero, Deanna Dryhurst, Josefina Méndez, Juan Ausió
      Pages 139-162

    10. Masculinization Events and Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA: A Model for Understanding the Evolutionary Dynamics of Gender-Associated mtDNA in Mussels

      • Donald T. Stewart, Sophie Breton, Pierre U. Blier, Walter R. Hoeh
      Pages 163-173

    11. Missing the Subcellular Target: A Mechanism of Eukaryotic Gene Evolution

      • S. A. Byun McKay, R. Geeta, R. Duggan, B. Carroll, S. J. McKay
      Pages 175-183

    12. The Evolution of Functional Gene Clusters in Eukaryote Genomes

      • Takashi Makino, Aoife McLysaght
      Pages 185-194

    13. Knowledge Standardization in Evolutionary Biology: The Comparative Data Analysis Ontology

      • Francisco Prosdocimi, Brandon Chisham, Enrico Pontelli, Arlin Stoltzfus, Julie D. Thompson
      Pages 195-214

  3. Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 216-216
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    2. Large-Scale Analyses of Positive Selection Using Codon Models

      • Romain A. Studer, Marc Robinson-Rechavi
      Pages 217-235

    3. Molecular Coevolution and the Three-Dimensionality of Natural Selection

      • Mario A. Fares, Christina Toft
      Pages 237-251

    4. The Evolutionary Constraints in Mutational Replacements

      • Branko Borštnik, Borut Oblak, Danilo Pumpernik
      Pages 253-267

    5. Why Phylogenetic Trees are Often Quite Robust Against Lateral Transfers

      • Marc Thuillard
      Pages 269-283

  4. Applied Evolutionary Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 286-286
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About this book

Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines sharing a deep interest in concepts and knowledge related to evolutionary biology have held the annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille in order to discuss their research and promote collaboration. Lately scientists especially focusing on applications have also joined the group.

This book starts with the report of the "12th Evolutionary Biology Meeting", which gives a general idea of the meeting’s epistemological stance. This is followed by 22 chapters, a selection of the most representative contributions, which are grouped under the following four themes: Part I Concepts and Knowledge - Part II Modelization - Part III Applied Evolutionary Biology - Part IV Applications in Other Fields -Part IV transcends the field of biology, presenting applications of evolutionary biology in economics and astronomy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS UMR 6632, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Marseille CX 03, France

    Pierre Pontarotti

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