Evolutionary biology : self/nonself evolution, species and complex traits evolution, methods and concepts

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016. They are grouped under the following major themes: · Self/Nonself Evolution · Species Evolution and Evolution of Complex Traits · Methods and Concepts The aims of t...

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Corporate Author Evolutionary Biology Meeting Marseille, France
Other Authors Pontarotti, Pierre (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Self/nonself evolution. A new view of how MHC class I molecules fight disease : generalists and specialists / Jim Kaufman ; Evolution and diversity of defensins in vertebrates / Edward J. Hollox and Razan Abujaber ; Interdependencies between the adaptation and interference modules guide efficient CRISPR-Cas immunity / Ekaterina Semenova and Konstantin Severinov ; How the other half lives : CRISPR-Cas's influence on bacteriophages / Melia E. Bonomo and Michael W. Deem ; Hidden silent codes in viral genomes / Eli Goz, Hadas Zur and Tamir Tuller ; Self and nonself from a genomic perspective : transposable elements / Marie Fablet, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Bianca Fraga Menezes, Marlène Roy and Cristina Vieira ; Mammalian-specific traits generated by LTR retrotransposon-derived SIRH genes / Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Masahito Irie and Fumitoshi Ishino ; The life history of domesticated genes illuminates the evolution of novel mammalian genes / Dušan Kordiš
  • Part II. Species evolution and evolution of complex traits. Evolution of complex traits in human populations / Carolina Medina-Gomez, Oscar Lao and Fernando Rivadeneira ; The descent of bison / Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat and Jean-Marc Elalouf ; Convergent and parallel evolution in early glires (Mammalia) / Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik ; Reductive evolution of apicomplexan parasites from phototrophic ancestors / Zoltán Füssy and Miroslav Oborník ; Evolution of milk oligosaccharides and their function in monotremes and marsupials / Tadasu Urashima and Michael Messer ; Modelling the evolution of dynamic regulatory networks : some critical insights / Anton Crombach
  • Part III. Methods and concepts. Mechanistic models of protein evolution / David D. Pollock, Stephen T. Pollard, Jonathan A. Shortt and Richard A. Goldstein ; Genome-wide screens for molecular convergent evolution in mammals / Jun-Hoe Lee and Michael Hiller ; Assessing evolutionary potential in tree species through ecology-informed genome screening / Hanne De Kort and Olivier Honnay ; Evolutionary constraints on coding sequences at the nucleotidic level : a statistical physics approach / Didier Chatenay, Simona Cocco, Benjamin Greenbaum, Rémi Monasson and Pierre Netter ; Case studies of seven gene families with unusual high retention rate since the vertebrate and teleost whole-genome duplications / Frédéric G. Brunet, Thibault Lorin, Laure Bernard, Zofia Haftek-Terreau, Delphine Galiana, Manfred Schartl and Jean-Nicolas Volff.