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Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods

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  1. Pierre Pontarotti

    1. CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution Biologique et Modélisation, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

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  • Offers an up-to-date overview of recent findings in the field of evolutionary biology
  • An invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Convergent Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Road Map to Study Convergent Evolution: A Proposition for Evolutionary Systems Biology Approaches

      • Pierre Pontarotti, Isabelle Hue
      Pages 3-21

    3. Analysing Convergent Evolution: A Practical Guide to Methods

      • Kevin Arbuckle, Michael P. Speed
      Pages 23-36

    4. Convergent Evolution Within CEA Gene Families in Mammals: Hints for Species-Specific Selection Pressures

      • Robert Kammerer, Florian Herse, Wolfgang Zimmermann
      Pages 37-53

    5. Convergent Evolution of Starch Metabolism in Cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida

      • Christophe Colleoni, Ugo Cenci
      Pages 55-71

    6. The Evolution of Brains and Cognitive Abilities

      • Christopher Mitchell
      Pages 73-87

    7. Convergence as an Evolutionary Trade-off in the Evolution of Acoustic Signals: Echolocation in Horseshoe Bats as a Case Study

      • David S. Jacobs, Gregory L. Mutumi, Tinyiko Maluleke, Paul W. Webala
      Pages 89-103

    8. Convergence and Parallelism in Astyanax Cave-Dwelling Fish

      • Joshua B. Gross
      Pages 105-119

    9. Evolutionary Pathways Maintaining Extreme Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism: Convergent Spider Cases Defy Common Patterns

      • Matjaž Kuntner, Ren-Chung Cheng
      Pages 121-133

  3. Evolution of Complex Traits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Evolution of the BCL-2-Regulated Apoptotic Pathway

      • Abdel Aouacheria, Emilie Le Goff, Nelly Godefroy, Stephen Baghdiguian
      Pages 137-156

    3. The Axial Level of the Heart in Snakes

      • J. W. Faber, M. K. Richardson, E. M. Dondorp, R. E. Poelmann
      Pages 157-169

    4. On the Neo-Sex Chromosomes of Lepidoptera

      • Petr Nguyen, Leonela Carabajal Paladino
      Pages 171-185

    5. Recent Developments on Bacterial Evolution into Eukaryotic Cells

      • Mauro Degli Esposti, Otto Geiger, Esperanza Martinez-Romero
      Pages 187-202

    6. Genomic Analysis of Bacterial Outbreaks

      • Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Iñaki Comas, Beatriz Beamud, Neris García-González, Marta Pla-Díaz, Fernando González-Candelas
      Pages 203-232

    7. Three-dimensional Genomic Organization of Genes’ Function in Eukaryotes

      • Alon Diament, Tamir Tuller
      Pages 233-252

  4. Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. How Likely Are We? Evolution of Organismal Complexity

      • William Bains
      Pages 255-272

    3. Molecular Challenges to Adaptationism

      • Predrag Šustar, Zdenka Brzović
      Pages 273-287
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About this book

This book presents selected contributions to the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille. It consists of 22 chapters, which are grouped in four sections:

·       Convergent Evolution

·       Evolution of Complex Traits

·       Concepts

·       Methods

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g for medical research, to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution Biologique et Modélisation, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

    Pierre Pontarotti

About the editor

Pierre PontarottiEvolution Biologique et Modélisation
Aix Marseille Université / CNRS
Marseille, France

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