Genome Evolution

Early events in genome evolution.- 1. Gene duplication and other evolutionary strategies: from the RNA world to the future.- 2. Major transitions in evolution by genome fusions: from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, metazoans, bilaterians and vertebrates.- 3. Detection of gene duplications and block duplications in eukaryotic genomes.- 4. The evolutionary demography of duplicate genes.- Debating the 2R and 3R genome duplication hypotheses.- 5. Functional evolution in the ancestral lineage of vertebrates or when genomic complexity was wagging its morphological tail.- 6. Numerous groups of chromosomal regional paralogies strongly indicate two genome doublings at the root of the vertebrates.- 7. Are all fishes ancient polyploids?.- 8. More genes in vertebrates?.- 9. 2R or not 2R: Testing hypotheses of genome duplication in early vertebrates.- 10. The 2R hypothesis and the human genome sequence.- Plant genome evolution.- 11. Introns in, introns out in plant gene familes: a genomic approach of the dynamics of gene structure.- 12. Investigating ancient duplication events in the Arabidopsis genome.- Case studies.- 13. Crystallin genes: specialization by changes in gene regulation may precede gene duplication.- 14. Evolution of signal transduction by gene and genome duplication in fish.- 15. The role of gene duplication in the evolution and function of the vertebrate Dlx/distal-less bigene clusters.- 16. Dopamine receptors for every species: Gene duplications and functional diversification in Craniates.- 17. Nuclear receptors are markers of animal genome evolution.- 18. The fates of zebrafish Hox gene duplicates.- 19. Phylogenetic analysis of the mammalian Hoxc8 non-coding regon.- Gene networks and evolution.- 20. Maximum likelihood methods for detecting adaptive evolution after geneduplication.- 21. Approach of the functional evolution of duplicated genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a new classification method based on protein-protein interaction data.- 22. Developmental gene networks and evolution.- Index of Authors.- Index of Keywords.