Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods

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This book presents 15 selected contributions to the 22nd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2018 in Marseille. They are grouped under the following major themes: · Origin of Life · Concepts and Methods · Genome and Phenotype Evolution The aims of these annual meetings in Marseille are to bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists who employ evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research, and to promote the exchange of ideas and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering an up-to-date overview of recent advances in the field of evolutionary biology, this book represents an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Non-paradoxical Pathway for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Most Primitive RNA-Based Life-like System (Kunio Kawamura)....Pages 3-30 Formation of Nucleosides and Nucleotides in Chemical Evolution (Hideo Hashizume, Benny K. G. Theng, Sjerry van der Gaast, Kazuko Fujii)....Pages 31-42 The First Universal Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA’s (Last UCA) Lineage (Francisco Prosdocimi, Marco V. José, Sávio Torres de Farias)....Pages 43-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 Repeatability and Predictability in Experimental Evolution (Peter A. Lind)....Pages 57-83 RetroSpect, a New Method of Measuring Gene Regulatory Evolution Rates Using Co-mapping of Genomic Functional Features with Transposable Elements (Daniil Nikitin, Maxim Sorokin, Victor Tkachev, Andrew Garazha, Alexander Markov, Anton Buzdin)....Pages 85-111 Methods to Detect and Associate Divergence in Cis-Regulatory Elements to Phenotypic Divergence (Juliana G. Roscito, Michael Hiller)....Pages 113-134 A Look Back Over 20 Years of Evo-Devo Studies on Sponges: A Challenged View of Urmetazoa (Quentin Schenkelaars, Amélie Vernale, Laura Fierro-Constaín, Carole Borchiellini, Emmanuelle Renard)....Pages 135-160 A Geometric Morphometrics-Based Mapping Model of Leaf Shape Evolution (Yige Cao, Xuli Zhu, Rongling Wu, Lidan Sun)....Pages 161-177 Allostery and Structural Dynamics in Protein Evolution (P. Campitelli, S. B. Ozkan)....Pages 179-194 Coevolutionary Approaches to the Science of Language (Nicholas Evans)....Pages 195-213 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 The Parallel Lives of Human Y Chromosome Lineages Across the Strait of Gibraltar (Carla García-Fernández, Francesc Calafell)....Pages 217-231 Vertebrate Genome Size and the Impact of Transposable Elements in Genome Evolution (Maria A. Biscotti, Federica Carducci, Ettore Olmo, Adriana Canapa)....Pages 233-251 Genetic Diversity of the Apoptotic Pathway in Insects (Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, Nicolas Parisot, Patrick Callaerts, Federica Calevro)....Pages 253-285 Xenacoelomorpha, a Key Group to Understand Bilaterian Evolution: Morphological and Molecular Perspectives (Ulf Jondelius, Olga I. Raikova, Pedro Martinez)....Pages 287-315 Cooperation and Competition in Mammalian Evolution (Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Fumitoshi Ishino)....Pages 317-333