Evolutionary Biology: Genome Evolution, Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of Life (Hardcover, 2014)

Contents Part I: Molecular and Genome Evolution 1 Comparative biochemistry and evolution of milk oligosaccharides of monotremes, marsupials and eutherians Tadasu Urashima, Michael Messer, Olav T. Oftedal 2 Genomics-based Insights into the Evolution of Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Actinomycete Bacteria Sergey B. Zotchev 3 A preliminary transcriptomic study of galaxiid fishes reveals a larval glycoprotein gene under strong positive selection. Graham P. Wallis, Lise J. Wallis 4 Land bridge calibration of rates of molecular evolution in a widespread rodent JS Herman, J Pauperio, PC Alves, JB Searle 5 Polyploid speciation and genome evolution: Lessons from recent allopolyploids. Malika L. Ainouche and Jonathan F. Wendel 6 Evolutionary divergence in human versus mouse innate immune gene regulation and function Ronan Kapetanovic, Juliana K. Ariffin, Matthew J. Sweet 7 Evolutionary Genomics of Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) in Plants Jiongjiong Chen, Qun Hu, Chen Lu, Hanhui Kuang 8 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the role of Restriction-Modification Systems in bacterial population dynamics George Vernikos, Duccio Medini 9 Quartet partitioning reveals hybrid origins of the Vertebrate Michael Syvanen, Bryan Ericksen, Simone Linz, Jonathan Ducore 10 Evidence for ancient horizontal gene acquisitions in bdelloid rotifers of the genus Adineta Boris Hespeels, Jean-Francois Flot, Alessandro Derzelle and Karine Van Doninck Part II: Phylogeography, Speciation and Coevolution 11 Evolutionary history of maternal plant-manipulation and larval feeding behaviours in Attelabidae (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea) and evolution of plant-basal weevil interaction. Chisato Kobayashi, Yudai Okuyama, Kazuhide Kawazoe, Masakado Kawata, and Makoto Kato 12 Microevolution of Insect-Bacterial Mutualists: A Population Genomics Perspective Amanda M. V. Brown 13 Why did terrestrial insect diversity not increase during the angiosperm radiation? Conrad Labandeira 14 The Evolution and Pollination of Oceanic Bellflowers (Campanulaceae) Marisa Alarcon, Juan Jose Aldasoro, Cristina Roquet, Jens M. Olesen 15 In search of phylogeographic patterns in the northeastern Atlantic and adjacent seas Sara M. Francisco, Joana I. Robalo, Andre Levy and Vitor C. Almada 16 The Evolutionary Space model to be used for the metagenomic analysis of molecular and adaptive evolution in the bacterial communities Pershina EV, Dolnik AS, Tamazyan GS, Vyatkina KV, Porozov YB, Pinaev AG, Karimov SO, Provorov NA, Andronov EE 17 Topopatric Speciation: from simulations to theory David M. Schneider Part III: Exobiology and Origin of Life 18 A trip through chemical space: why life has evolved the chemistry that it has William Bains.