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Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods

  • Presents peer-reviewed contributions
  • Offers an up-to-date overview of recent findings in the field of evolutionary biology
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Origin of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Formation of Nucleosides and Nucleotides in Chemical Evolution

      • Hideo Hashizume, Benny K. G. Theng, Sjerry van der Gaast, Kazuko Fujii
      Pages 31-42
    3. The First Universal Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA’s (Last UCA) Lineage

      • Francisco Prosdocimi, Marco V. José, Sávio Torres de Farias
      Pages 43-54
  3. Concepts and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. RetroSpect, a New Method of Measuring Gene Regulatory Evolution Rates Using Co-mapping of Genomic Functional Features with Transposable Elements

      • Daniil Nikitin, Maxim Sorokin, Victor Tkachev, Andrew Garazha, Alexander Markov, Anton Buzdin
      Pages 85-111
    3. A Look Back Over 20 Years of Evo-Devo Studies on Sponges: A Challenged View of Urmetazoa

      • Quentin Schenkelaars, Amélie Vernale, Laura Fierro-Constaín, Carole Borchiellini, Emmanuelle Renard
      Pages 135-160
    4. A Geometric Morphometrics-Based Mapping Model of Leaf Shape Evolution

      • Yige Cao, Xuli Zhu, Rongling Wu, Lidan Sun
      Pages 161-177
    5. Allostery and Structural Dynamics in Protein Evolution

      • P. Campitelli, S. B. Ozkan
      Pages 179-194
  4. Genome and Phenotype Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
    2. The Parallel Lives of Human Y Chromosome Lineages Across the Strait of Gibraltar

      • Carla García-Fernández, Francesc Calafell
      Pages 217-231
    3. Vertebrate Genome Size and the Impact of Transposable Elements in Genome Evolution

      • Maria A. Biscotti, Federica Carducci, Ettore Olmo, Adriana Canapa
      Pages 233-251
    4. Genetic Diversity of the Apoptotic Pathway in Insects

      • Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, Nicolas Parisot, Patrick Callaerts, Federica Calevro
      Pages 253-285
    5. Cooperation and Competition in Mammalian Evolution

      • Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Fumitoshi Ishino
      Pages 317-333

About this book

This book presents 15 selected contributions to the 22nd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2018 in Marseille. They are grouped under the following major themes:

·        Origin of Life

·        Concepts and Methods

·        Genome and Phenotype Evolution

The aims of these annual meetings in Marseille are to bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists who employ evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research, and to promote the exchange of ideas and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.

Offering an up-to-date overview of recent advances in the field of evolutionary biology, this book represents an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.


Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS and IHU, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

    Pierre Pontarotti

About the editor

Pierre Pontarotti

Directeur de Recherche  CNRS
Aix Marseille Univ IRD, APHM, MEPHI,
IHU Méditerranée Infection
Marseille France

pierre.pontarotti@univ-amu.fr

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