Evolutionary Biology - Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

By Pierre Pontarotti

Book Overview

Part I Evolutionary biology concepts 1 Extinct and extant reptiles: a model system for the study of sex chromosome evolution Daniel Janes 2 Universals of genome evolution Eugene Koonin and Yuri I Wolf 3 Starvation-induced reproductive isolation in yeast Eugene Kroll, R. Frank Rosenzweig and Barbara Dunn 4 Populations of RNA molecules as computational model for evolution Michael Stich, Carlos Briones, Ester L azaro, Susanna C. Manrubia 5 Pseudaptations and the emergence of beneficial traits Steven Massey Part II Genome/Molecular evolution 6 Transferomics: understanding the evolutionary forest from phylogenetic trees John W. Whitaker and David R. Westhead 7 Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of lactation Christophe M. Lef?vre, Karensa Menzies, Julie A. Sharp and Kevin R. Nicholas 8 Study of the evolutionary dynamics in the aphid genome: Search of genes under positive selection and detection of the growth of gene families Morgane Ollivier and Claude Rispe 9 Mammalian chromosomal evolution: from ancestral states to evolutionary regions Terence J. Robinson Aurora Ruiz-Herrera 10 Mechanisms and Evolution of Dorsal-ventral patterning Claudia Mieko Mizutani and Rui Sousa-Neves 11 Evolutionary Genomics for Eye Diversification Atsushi Ogura 12 Do long and highly conserved noncoding sequences in vertebrates have biological functions? Yoichi Gondo Part III Morphological evolution/Speciation 13 Male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina. Anne Duplouy and Scott L. O'Neill 14 Brian Federici 15 The Neogastropoda: evolutionary innovations of predatory marine snails with remarkable pharmacological potential Maria Vittoria Modica1 and Mand? Holford 16 Antennal hammers - echos of sensillae past Nina Laurenne and Donald L. J Quicke 17 Evolutionary patterns in behaviour and morphology of Neotropical sheath-tailed bats based on molecular phylogenetic analysis Burton Lim 18 Trends in rhizobial evolution Julio C. Mart?nez-Romero, ErnestoOrme?o-Orrillo, Marco A. Rogel, Aline L?pez-L?pez, Esperanza Mart?nez-Romero 19 Convergent evolution of morphogenetic processes in fungi Sylvain Brun and Philippe Silar 20 Evolution and Historical Biogeography of a Song Sparrow Ring in Western North America Michael Patten 21 Cave bear genomics in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave C?line Bon and Jean-Marc Elalouf

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642433812
• ISBN13: 9783642433818
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"