The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations.

This book contains the most essential contributions presented at the 14^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2010. It comprises 19 chapters organized according to the following categories:

· Evolutionary Biology Concepts

· Biodiversity and Evolution

· Macroevolution

· Genome Evolution

Offering an up-to-date overview of recent results in the field of evolutionary biology, this book is an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.

Site-specific self-catalyzed DNA depurination, the basis of a spontaneous mutagenic mechanism of wide evolutionary significance

Stochastic processes driving directional
Evolution of self-fertile hermaphrodite
Insights into eukaryotic interacting protein evolution
Integration of evolutionary biology concepts for functional annotation and automation of complex researches in evolution: the multi-agents software system DAGOBAH
A new animal model for merging ecology and evolution
Rapid evolution of simple microbial communities in the laboratory
Use of paleontological and phylogenetic data in comparative and paleobiological analyses : a few recent developments
Seasonal flowering and evolution: will plant species be under stress from global warming?- The emergence of cellular complexity at the dawn of the eukaryotes: reconstructing the endomembrane system with in silico and function
Neurophilogeny-retracing early metazoan brain evolution
A new early Cambrian lobopod-bearing animal (Murero, Spain) and the problem of the ecdysozoan early diversification
Genomic perspectives on the long-term absence of sexual reproduction in animals
Evolutionary constraint on DNA shape in the human genome
Evolution of fungi and their respiratory metabolism
Genome structure and gene expression variation in plant mitochondria, particularly in the genus Silene
Evolutionary dynamics and genomic impact of prokaryote transposable elements
Transposable elements in a marginal population of Aegilops speltoides: temporal fluctuations provide new insights into genome evolution of wild diploid wheat
Analysis of the conservative motifs in promoters of miRNA genes, expressed in different tissues of mammalians
Analysis of the conservative motifs in promoters of miRNA genes, expressed in different tissues of mammalians.