Evolutionary Biology - Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

Part I Evolutionary biology concepts 1 Extinct and extant reptiles: a model system for the study of sex chromosome evolution Daniel Janes 2 Universals of genome evolution Eugene Koonin and Yuri I Wolf 3 Starvation-induced reproductive isolation in yeast Eugene Kroll, R. Frank Rosenzweig and Barbara Dunn 4 Populations of RNA molecules as computational model for evolution Michael Stich, Carlos Briones, Ester L´azaro, Susanna C. Manrubia 5 Pseudaptations and the emergence of beneficial traits Steven Massey Part II Genome/Molecular evolution 6 Transferomics: understanding the evolutionary forest from phylogenetic trees John W. Whitaker and David R. Westhead 7 Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of lactation Christophe M. Lefèvre, Karensa Menzies, Julie A. Sharp and Kevin R. Nicholas 8 Study of the evolutionary dynamics in the aphid genome : Search of genes under positive selection and detection of the growth of gene families Morgane Ollivier and Claude Rispe 9 Mammalian chromosomal evolution: from ancestral states to evolutionary regions Terence J. Robinson Aurora Ruiz-Herrera 10 Mechanisms and Evolution of Dorsal-ventral patterning Claudia Mieko Mizutani and Rui Sousa-Neves 11 Evolutionary Genomics for Eye Diversification Atsushi Ogura 12 Do long and highly conserved noncoding sequences in vertebrates have biological functions? Yoichi Gondo Part III Morphological evolution/Speciation 13 Male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina. Anne Duplouy and Scott L. O'Neill 14 Brian Federici 15 The Neogastropoda: evolutionary innovations of predatory marine snails with remarkable pharmacological potential Maria Vittoria Modica1 and Mandë Holford 16 Antennal hammers - echos of sensillae past Nina Laurenne and Donald L. J Quicke 17 Evolutionary patterns in behaviour and morphology of Neotropical sheath-tailed bats based on molecular phylogenetic analysis Burton Lim 18 Trends in rhizobial evolution Julio C. Martínez-Romero, ErnestoOrmeño-Orrillo, Marco A. Rogel,