Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution (eBook)

Site-specific self-catalyzed DNA depurination, the basis of a spontaneous mutagenic mechanism of wide evolutionary significance.- Stochastic processes driving directional.- Evolution of self-fertile hermaphrodite.- Insights into eukaryotic interacting protein evolution.- Integration of evolutionary biology concepts for functional annotation and automation of complex researches in evolution: the multi-agents software system DAGOBAH.- A new animal model for merging ecology and evolution.- Rapid evolution of simple microbial communities in the laboratory.- Use of paleontological and phylogenetic data in comparative and paleobiological analyses : a few recent developments.- Seasonal flowering and evolution: will plant species be under stress from global warming?- The emergence of cellular complexity at the dawn of the eukaryotes: reconstructing the endomembrane system with in silico and function.- Neurophilogeny-retracing early metazoan brain evolution.- A new early Cambrian lobopod-bearing animal (Murero, Spain) and the problem of the ecdysozoan early diversification.- Genomic perspectives on the long-term absence of sexual reproduction in animals.- Evolutionary constraint on DNA shape in the human genome.- Evolution of fungi and their respiratory metabolism.- Genome structure and gene expression variation in plant mitochondria, particularly in the genus Silene.- Evolutionary dynamics and genomic impact of prokaryote transposable elements.- Transposable elements in a marginal population of Aegilops  speltoides: temporal fluctuations provide new insights into genome evolution of wild diploid wheat.- Analysis of the conservative motifs in promoters of miRNA genes, expressed in different tissues of mammalians.- Analysis of the conservative motifs in promoters of miRNA genes, expressed in different tissues of mammalians.