Evolutionary Biology

Part I Concept and Knowledge 1 Spontaneous generation revisited at the molecular levelFabiana Ciciriello, Giovanna Costanzo, Samanta Pino, Ernesto Di Mauro 2 Minimal Cell Model to Understand Origin of Life and EvolutionTadashi Sugawara 3 New fossils and new hope for the origin of angiospermsXin Wang 4 Vertebrate evolution: the strange case of gymnophionan amphibiansJean-Marie Exbrayat and Michel Raquet 5 The evolution of morphogenetic signalling in the social amoebasYoshinori Kawabe, Elisa Alvarez-Curto, Allyson V. Ritchie and Pauline Schaap 6 On the surprising weakness of pancreatic beta-cell antioxidant defences: an evolutionary persectiveArmin Rashidi, Thomas B L Kirkwood and Daryl P Shanley 7 The importance of transpositions and recombination to genome instability according hobo-element distribution pattern in completely sequence genome of Drosophila melanogasterL. P. Zakharenko, M. P. Perepelkina and D. A. Afonnikov 8 Long-term evolution of histone families: old notions and new insights into their mechanisms of diversification across eukaryotesJosé M. Eirín-López, Rodrigo González-Romero, Deanna Dryhurst, Josefina Méndez and Juan Ausió 9 Masculinization Events and Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA: A Model for Understanding the Evolutionary Dynamics of Gender-asssociated mtDNA in MusselsDonald T. Stewart, Sophie Breton, Pierre U. Blier, and Walter R. Hoeh 10 Missing the Sub-Cellular Target: A Mechanism of Eukaryotic Gene EvolutionS. A. Byun McKay, R. Geeta, R. Duggan, B. Carroll, and S. J. McKay 11 The evolution of functional gene clusters 1 in eukaryote genomesTakashi Makino and Aoife McLysagh 12 Knowledge standardization in evolutionary biology: the Comparative DataAnalysis Ontology (CDAO)Francisco Prosdocimi, Brandon Chisham, Enrico Pontelli, Arlin Stoltzfus and Julie D. Thompson Part II Modelization 13 Large scale analyses of positive selection using codon modelsRomain A. Studer and Marc Robinson-Rechavi 14 Molecular Coevolution and the