Contents- Part I Modelization of Evolution- 1 Rate of Adaptation of Large Populations- Feng Yu and Alison Etheridge- 2 A Phylogenetic Mixture Model for Heterotachy- Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel- Part II Concepts in Evolutionary Biology- 3 Accelerated Evolution of Genes of Recent Origin- Macarena Toll-Riera, Jose Castresana, and M. Mar Albà- 4 Life-Cycle Features of Tumour Cells - Jekaterina Erenpreisa and Mark S Cragg- 5 General Evolutionary Regularities of the Organic and Social Life- Valeria I. Mikhalevich- 6 Old and New Concepts in Evodevo- Margherita Raineri- Part III Knowledge- 7 Overturning the Prejudices About Hydra and Metazoan Evolution- Hiroshi Shimizu- 8 The Search for the Origin of Cnidarian Nematocysts in Dinoflagellates- Jung Shan Hwang, Satoshi Nagai, Shiho Hayakawa, Yasuharu Takaku, and Takashi Gojobori- Part IV Applied Evolutionary Biology- 9 A Possible Relationship Between the Phylogenetic Branch Lengths and the Chaetognath rRNA Paralog Gene Functionalities: Ubiquitous, Tissue-Specific or Pseudogenes - Roxane-Marie Barthelemy, Michel Grino, Pierre Pontarotti, Jean-Paul Casanova, and Eric Faure- 10 Mode and Tempo of matK: Gene Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications- Khidir W. Hilu and Michelle M. Barthet- 11 Phylogeography and Conservation of the Rare South African Fruit Chafer Ichnestoma stobbiai (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)- Ute Kryger and Clarke H. Scholtz- 12 Nothing in Medicine Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution. A Review- Bernard Swynghedauw- 13 An Overview of Evolutionary Biology Concepts for Functional Annotation: Advances and Challenges- Anthony Levasseur and Pierre Pontarotti - Subject Index
EAN/ISBN : 9783540789932
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Pontarotti, Pierre