Evolutionary Biology

Pierre PontarottiEvolution Biologique et ModélisationAix Marseille Université / CNRSMarseille, France

• An evolutionary view of mitochondria and BCL-2 proteins in cell suicide.- Deep phylogenomics of galectins mediating avian limb skeletogenesis.- Evolutionary Origins Of Chemical Diversity in Terpene Natural Products.- Studying convergent evolution of sexual size dimorphism and related phenotypes in spiders.- The gene expression consequences of repeated subterranean colonization.- Convergence as an Evolutionary Trade-Off in the Evolution of Acoustic Signals: Echolocation in Horseshoe bats as a Case Study.- Analysing Convergent Evolution: A Practical Guide to Methods.- How likely are we? The evolution of complex life.- Neo-sex chromosomes and their role in radiation of Lepidoptera.- Involvement of Chlamydiae in the emergence of Archaeplastida phylum.- Genomic analysis of Legionella pneumophila outbreaks.- The function debate: between “cheap tricks” and evolutionary neutrality.- From Compositional Chemical Ecologies to Self-Replicating Ribosomes.- The bacterial origin of mitochondria – new clues.- Three-dimensional eukaryotic genomic organization is strongly correlated with codon usage expression and function.- Inference methods for multiple merger coalescents.- Phylogenomics with Paralogs.- Convergent evolution of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) in humans and horses.- morFeus: a esource for remotely conserved orthologs.- Cardiovascular Architecture in Squamates.- Testing adaptation itself: separating spandrels from phenotypic targets of molecular evolution.- The Evolution of Brains and Cognitive Abilities.- The molecular alterations underlying evolutionary diversification of vertebrate limbs.