Evolutionary biology : convergent evolution, evolution of complex traits, concepts and methods / Pierre Pontarotti, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pontarotti, Pierre, editor.

Conference Name:

Evolutionary Biology Meeting (19th : 2015 : Marseille, France)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology)--Congresses.

Evolution (Biology).

Convergence (Biology)--Congresses.

Convergence (Biology).

Biocomplexity--Congresses.

Biocomplexity.

Evolutionary genetics--Congresses.

Evolutionary genetics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham?] Switzerland : Springer, [2016]

Contents:

Part I. Convergent evolution. 1. Road map to study convergent evolution : a proposition for evolutionary systems biology approaches / Pierre Pontarotti and Isabelle Hue ; 2. Analysing convergent evolution : a practical guide to methods / Kevin Arbuckle and Michael P. Speed ; 3. Convergent evolution within CEA gene families in mammals : hints for species-specific selection pressures / Robert Kammerer, Florian Herse and Wolfgang Zimmermann ; 4. Convergent evolution of starch metabolism in cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida / Christophe Colleoni and Ugo Cenci ; 5. The evolution of brains and cognitive abilities / Christopher Mitchell ; 6. 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 and Paul W. Webala ; 7. Convergence and parallelism in Astyanax cave-dwelling fish / Joshua B. Gross ; 8. Evolutionary pathways maintaining extreme female-biased sexual size dimorphism : convergent spider cases defy common patterns / Matjaž Kuntner and Ren-Chung Cheng

Part II. Evolution of complex traits. 9. Evolution of the BCL-2-regulated apoptotic pathway / Abdel Aouacheria, Emilie Le Goff, Nelly Godefroy and Stephen Baghdiguian ; 10. The axial level of the heart in snakes / J.W. Faber, M.K. Richardson, E.M. Dondorp and R.E. Poelmann ; 11. On the neo-sex chromosomes of Lepidoptera / Petr Nguyen and Leonela Carabajal Paladino ; 12. Recent developments on bacterial evolution into eukaryotic cells / Mauro Degli Esposti, Otto Geiger and Esperanza Martinez-Romero ; 13. Genomic analysis of bacterial outbreaks / Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Iñaki Comas, Beatriz Beamud, Neris García-González, Marta Pla-Díaz and Fernando González-Candelas ; 14. Three-dimensional genomic organization of genes' function in eukaryotes / Alon Diament and Tamir Tuller

Part III. Concepts. 15. How likely are we? : evolution of organismal complexity / William Bains ; 16. Molecular challenges to adaptationism / Predrag Šustar and Zdenka Brzović ; 17. Ontogeny, oncogeny and phylogeny : deep associations / Ramray Bhat and Dharma Pally ; 18. Separating spandrels from phenotypic targets of selection in adaptive molecular evolution / Stevan A. Springer, Michael Manhart and Alexandre V. Morozov ; 19. From compositional chemical ecologies to self-replicating ribosomes and on to functional trait ecological networks / Robert Root-Bernstein and Meredith Root-Bernstein

Part IV. Methods. 20. Inference methods for multiple merger coalescents / Bjarki Eldon ; 21. From sequence data including orthologs, paralogs, and xenologs to gene and species trees / Marc Hellmuth and Nicolas Wieseke ; 22. Oh brother, where art thou? : finding orthologs in the twilight and midnight zones of sequence similarity / Bianca Hermine Habermann.

Notes:

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page.

Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, France. (Preface and page [4] of cover)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319413235

3319413236

OCLC:

951761229