Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype (eBook)

Functional mapping: How to map genes for phenotypic plasticity of development.- The genomics of sexual ornaments, gene identification and pleiotropy.- Life’s dual nature: a way out of the impasse of the gene-centred ‘versus’ complex systems controversy on life.- Retrotransposons: Genomic and Trans-Genomic Agents of Change.- Horizontal Transfers and the New Model of the Driven Genome Evolution in Eurkaryotes.- The impact of transposable elements in the evolution of plant genomes: from selfish elements to key players.- Sympatric Differentiation and Speciation: Insights from Drosophila Studies.- Mutation-Driven Evolution: Microsatellite Instability Drives Speciation in a Mammalian Taxon.- Adaptive diversification in coevolutionary systems.- Structure, interaction and evolution: Reflections on the natural history of proteins.- Pollination syndromes: a global pattern of convergent evolution driven by the most effective pollinator.- Altruism, Religion and Self-Enhancement in a Framework of Ad-Hoc Evolutionary Adaptation.- Investigating Trade-offs in Sexual Populations with Gene-flow.- Promoter Order Strategy and Bacterial PspF Regulon Evolution.- Genomic admixture and species delimitation in forest trees.- Apomixis as a facilitator of range expansion and diversification in plants.- Elopomorpha (Teleostei) as a new model fish group for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics.- Looks can be deceiving: cryptic species and phenotypic plasticity in Rhodnius spp., Chagas disease vectors.- Forest Tree Species Traced with a DNA Based Proof for Illegal Logging case in Poland.- Domestication and genetics: what a comparison between land and aquatic species can bring?.