Ebook: Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application

Every biological system is the outcome of its evolution; therefore, the deciphering of its evolutionary history is of tremendous importance to understand the biology of a system.

Since 1997 scientists of different disciplines have held an annual "Evolutionary Biology Meeting" at Marseille (France) in order to discuss their research developments, exchange ideas and start collaborations. Consisting of the most representative talks of the 11thmeeting, this book provides an up-to-date overview of evolutionary concepts and how these concepts can be applied to a better understanding of various biological aspects. It is divided into the following four parts: Modelization of Evolution - Concepts in Evolutionary Biology - Knowledge - Applied Evolutionary Biology.

This book is an invaluable source of information not only for evolutionary biologists, but also for biologists in general.

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Rate of adaptation of large populations / Feng Yu and Alison Etheridge -- A phylogenetic mixture model for heterotachy / Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel -- Accelerated evolution of genes of recent origin / Macarena Toll-Riera, Jose Castresana, and M. Mar Alba -- Life-cycle features of tumor cells / Jekaterina Erenpreisa and Mark S. Cragg -- General evolutionary regularities of organic and social life / Valeria I. Mikhalevich -- Old and new concepts in evo-devo / Margherita Raineri -- Overturning the prejudices about hydra and metazoan evolution / Hiroshi Shimizu -- The search for the origin of cnidarian nematocysts in dinoflagellates / Jung Shan Hwang ... [et al.] -- A possible relationship between the phylogenetic branch lengths and the chaetognath rRNA paralog gene functionalities: ubiquitous, tissue-specific or pseudogenes / Roxane-Marie Barthelemy ... [et al.] -- Mode and tempo of matK: gene evolution and phylogenetic implications / Khidir W. Hilu and Michelle M. Barthet -- Phylogeography and conservation of the rare South African fruit chafer Ichnestoma stobbiai