Evolutionary biology : convergent evolution, evolution of complex traits, concepts and methods / [edited by] Pierre Pontarotti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Convergent evolution.
1. Road map to study convergent evolution : a proposition for evolutionary systems biology approaches / Pierre Pontarotti and Isabelle Hue ;
2. Analysing convergent evolution : a practical guide to methods / Kevin Arbuckle and Michael P. Speed ;
3. Convergent evolution within CEA gene families in mammals : hints for species-specific selection pressures / Robert Kammerer, Florian Herse and Wolfgang Zimmermann ;
4. Convergent evolution of starch metabolism in cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida / Christophe Colleoni and Ugo Cenci ;
5. The evolution of brains and cognitive abilities / Christopher Mitchell ;
6. Convergence as an evolutionary trade-off in the evolution of acoustic signals : echolocation in horseshoe bats as a case study / David S. Jacobs, Gregory L. Mutumi, Tinyiko Maluleke and Paul W. Webala ;
7. Convergence and parallelism in Astyanax cave-dwelling fish / Joshua B. Gross ;
8. Evolutionary pathways maintaining extreme female-biased sexual size dimorphism : convergent spider cases defy common patterns / Matjaž Kuntner and Ren-Chung Cheng --
Part II. Evolution of complex traits.
9. Evolution of the BCL-2-regulated apoptotic pathway / Abdel Aouacheria, Emilie Le Goff, Nelly Godefroy and Stephen Baghdiguian ;
10. The axial level of the heart in snakes / J.W. Faber, M.K. Richardson, E.M. Dondorp and R.E. Poelmann ;
11. On the neo-sex chromosomes of Lepidoptera / Petr Nguyen and Leonela Carabajal Paladino ;
12. Recent developments on bacterial evolution into eukaryotic cells / Mauro Degli Esposti, Otto Geiger and Esperanza Martinez-Romero ;
13. Genomic analysis of bacterial outbreaks / Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Iñaki Comas, Beatriz Beamud, Neris García-González, Marta Pla-Díaz and Fernando González-Candelas ;
14. Three-dimensional genomic organization of genes' function in eukaryotes / Alon Diament and Tamir Tuller --
Part III. Concepts.
15. How likely are we? : evolution of organismal complexity / William Bains ;
16. Molecular challenges to adaptationism / Predrag Šustar and Zdenka Brzović ;
17. Ontogeny, oncogeny and phylogeny : deep associations / Ramray Bhat and Dharma Pally ;
18. Separating spandrels from phenotypic targets of selection in adaptive molecular evolution / Stevan A. Springer, Michael Manhart and Alexandre V. Morozov ;
19. From compositional chemical ecologies to self-replicating ribosomes and on to functional trait ecological networks / Robert Root-Bernstein and Meredith Root-Bernstein --
Part IV. Methods.
20. Inference methods for multiple merger coalescents / Bjarki Eldon ;
21. From sequence data including orthologs, paralogs, and xenologs to gene and species trees / Marc Hellmuth and Nicolas Wieseke ;
22. Oh brother, where art thou? : finding orthologs in the twilight and midnight zones of sequence similarity / Bianca Hermine Habermann.

This book presents selected contributions to the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille. It consists of 22 chapters, which are grouped in four sections: · Convergent Evolution · Evolution of Complex Traits · Concepts · Methods The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g for medical research, to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering an up-to-date overview of recent findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book is an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.