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 the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 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.

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: Evolutionary Biology Concepts Genome/Molecular Evolution Morphological Evolution/SpeciationThis book offers an up-to-date overview of evolutionary biology concepts and their use in the biology of the 21st century.

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 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.

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. Lefèvre, 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 Mandë 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. Martínez-Romero, ErnestoOrmeño-Orrillo, Marco A. Rogel, Aline López-López, Esperanza Martínez-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 Céline Bon and Jean-Marc Elalouf