Evolutionary Biology
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Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods

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.

Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9783319413235
eBook ISBN
9783319413242
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgement
  3. Contents
  4. Convergent Evolution
  5. 1 Road Map to Study Convergent Evolution: A Proposition for Evolutionary Systems Biology Approaches
  6. 2 Analysing Convergent Evolution: A Practical Guide to Methods
  7. 3 Convergent Evolution Within CEA Gene Families in Mammals: Hints for Species-Specific Selection Pressures
  8. 4 Convergent Evolution of Starch Metabolism in Cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida
  9. 5 The Evolution of Brains and Cognitive Abilities
  10. 6 Convergence as an Evolutionary Trade-off in the Evolution of Acoustic Signals: Echolocation in Horseshoe Bats as a Case Study
  11. 7 Convergence and Parallelism in Astyanax Cave-Dwelling Fish
  12. 8 Evolutionary Pathways Maintaining Extreme Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism: Convergent Spider Cases Defy Common Patterns
  13. Evolution of Complex Traits
  14. 9 Evolution of the BCL-2-Regulated Apoptotic Pathway
  15. 10 The Axial Level of the Heart in Snakes
  16. 11 On the Neo-Sex Chromosomes of Lepidoptera
  17. 12 Recent Developments on Bacterial Evolution into Eukaryotic Cells
  18. 13 Genomic Analysis of Bacterial Outbreaks
  19. 14 Three-dimensional Genomic Organization of Genes’ Function in Eukaryotes
  20. Concepts
  21. 15 How Likely Are We? Evolution of Organismal Complexity
  22. 16 Molecular Challenges to Adaptationism
  23. 17 Ontogeny, Oncogeny and Phylogeny: Deep Associations
  24. 18 Separating Spandrels from Phenotypic Targets of Selection in Adaptive Molecular Evolution
  25. 19 From Compositional Chemical Ecologies to Self-replicating Ribosomes and on to Functional Trait Ecological Networks
  26. Methods
  27. 20 Inference Methods for Multiple Merger Coalescents
  28. 21 From Sequence Data Including Orthologs, Paralogs, and Xenologs to Gene and Species Trees
  29. 22 Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Finding Orthologs in the Twilight and Midnight Zones of Sequence Similarity
  30. Index

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