Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application

Contents Part I Modelization of Evolution 1 Rate of Adaptation of Large Populations Feng Yu and Alison Etheridge 2 A Phylogenetic Mixture Model for Heterotachy Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel Part II Concepts in Evolutionary Biology 3 Accelerated Evolution of Genes of Recent Origin Macarena Toll-Riera, Jose Castresana, and M. Mar Alba 4 Life-Cycle Features of Tumour Cells Jekaterina Erenpreisa and Mark S Cragg 5 General Evolutionary Regularities of the Organic and Social Life Valeria I. Mikhalevich 6 Old and New Concepts in Evodevo Margherita Raineri Part III Knowledge 7 Overturning the Prejudices About Hydra and Metazoan Evolution Hiroshi Shimizu 8 The Search for the Origin of Cnidarian Nematocysts in Dinoflagellates Jung Shan Hwang, Satoshi Nagai, Shiho Hayakawa, Yasuharu Takaku, and Takashi Gojobori Part IV Applied Evolutionary Biology 9 A Possible Relationship Between the Phylogenetic Branch Lengths and the Chaetognath rRNA Paralog Gene Functionalities: Ubiquitous, Tissue-Specific or Pseudogenes Roxane-Marie Barthelemy, Michel Grino, Pierre Pontarotti, Jean-Paul Casanova, and Eric Faure 10 Mode and Tempo of matK: Gene Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications Khidir W. Hilu and Michelle M. Barthet 11 Phylogeography and Conservation of the Rare South African Fruit Chafer Ichnestoma stobbiai (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Ute Kryger and Clarke H. Scholtz 12 Nothing in Medicine Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution. A Review Bernard Swynghedauw 13 An Overview of Evolutionary Biology Concepts for Functional Annotation: Advances and Challenges Anthony Levasseur and Pierre Pontarotti Subject Index