Evolutionary Biology: Genome Evolution, Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of Life

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