Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives

One. Evolutionary Theory.- 1. HLA Polymorphism and Evolution.- 2. Selection, Darwinian Fitness and Evolution in Local Populations.- 3. Selection for Adaptive Traits as a Factor of Recombination Evolution: Evidence from Natural and Experimental Populations.- 4. The Role of Recombination in Plant Genome Evolution.- 5. Variation and Fidelity: The Evolution of Simple Sequence Repeats as Functional Elements in Adjustable Genes.- 6. TIMA a Recent Evolutionary Paradigm.- 7. Stable Gene Associations in Breeding and Evolution of Grasses.- 8. Compositional Correlations and Gene Distribution of the Human Genome.- 9. At the World’s Cross Roads.- Two, Molecular Biology and Phylogeny.- 10. Molecular Clocks and the Origin of Animals.- 11. Using Gene Trees to Infer Species from Testable Null Hypothesis: Cohesion Species in the Spalax ehrenbergi Complex.- 12. Primate Phylogeny and Classification Elucidated at the Molecular Level.- 13. Significant Segment Pair Alignment for Protein Sequences between Animals, Plants, and Fungi.- 14. Molecular Genetic Characterization of Two Insular Asian Cat Species, Borncan Bay Cat and Iriomote Cat.- 15. Microsatellite Loci and the Origin of Modern Humans: Bayesian Analysis..- Three. Biodiversity and Speciation.- 16. Can Biodiversity and Genetic Variability be Conserved in Hostile Environments?.- 17. Species Diversity and Biology of Fungal Life in the Extremely Hypersaline Water of the Dead Sea.- 18. Speciation Patterns in Predominately Self-Pollinated Annuals.- 19. Allelic Variation at the MN Locus Varies with Climatic Variation in Africans and Native Americans.- 20. Genetic Structure of Natural Populations of the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vtiripennis Wlk. (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) and the Role of Haplo-Diploid Sex Determination in Microevolution.- 21.Studies on wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch at the Scottish Crop Research Institute.- Four. Adaptive Evolutionary Strategies.- 22. The Halophilic Archaea-Evolutionary Relationships and Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations.- 23. The Functinal Ecology of Nectar Guides in Relation to Insects Behavior and Vision.- 24. Syndrome of Eusociality in African Subterranean Mole-Rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia), its Diagnosis and Aetiology.- 25. Afterripening, Amounts of Rain for Germination, and Seedling Drought Tolerance, of Local and Edaphic Geno-Ecotypes of Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch from Israel.- 26. Oviposition Site Selection in Response to Risk of Predation: Evidence from Aquatic Habitats and Consequences for Population Dynamics and Community Structure.