Evolutionary biology: concepts, molecular and morphological evolution

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and theformation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. Itcomprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: Evolutionary Biology Concepts Genome/Molecular Evolution Morphological Evolution/Speciation This book offers an up-to-date overview of evolutionary biology concepts and their use in the biology of the 21st century. Presents the most representative contributions to the 13th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille Written by experts in the field Presents recent results and discusses future research INDICE: Extinct and extant reptiles: a model system for the study of sex chromosome evolution.- Constraints, plasticity and universal patterns in genomeand phenome evolution.- Starvation-induced reproductive isolation in yeast.- Populations of RNA molecules as computational model for evolution.- Pseudaptations and the emergence of beneficial traits.- Transferomics: seeing the evolutionary forest using phylogenetic trees.- Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of lactation.- Evolutionary dynamics in the aphid genome: Search for genesunder positive selection and detection of gene family expansions.- Mammalian chromosomal evolution: from ancestral states to evolutionary regions.- Mechanisms and evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning.- Evolutionary genomics for eyediversification.- Do long and highly conserved noncoding sequences in vertebrates have biological functions? Male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina.- Evolution of immunosuppressive organelles from DNA viruses in insects.- The Neogastropoda: evolutionary innovations of predatory marine snailswith remarkable pharmacological potential.- Antennal hammers - echos of sensillae past.- Adaptive radiation of neotropical emballonurid bats: molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary patterns in behaviour and morphology.- Trends in rhizobial evolution and some taxonomic remarks.- Convergent evolution of morphogenetic processes in fungi.- Evolution and Historical Biogeography of a Song Sparrow Ring in Western North America.- Cave bear genomics in the Paleolithic painted Cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-12339-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés