The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: -Evolutionary Biology Concepts -Genome/Molecular Evolution -Morphological Evolution/Speciation This book offers an up-to-date overview of evolutionary biology concepts and their use in the biology of the 21st century.

Evolutionary Biology Concepts

Extinct and Extant Reptiles: A Model System for the Study of Sex Chromosome Evolution
Constraints, Plasticity, and Universal Patterns in Genome and Phenome Evolution
Starvation-Induced Reproductive Isolation in Yeast
Populations of RNA Molecules as Computational Model for Evolution
Pseudaptations and the Emergence of Beneficial Traits
Genome / Molecular Evolution
Transferomics: Seeing the Evolutionary Forest Using Phylogenetic Trees
Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics of Lactation
Evolutionary Dynamics in the Aphid Genome: Search for Genes Under Positive Selection and Detection of Gene Family Expansions
Mammalian Chromosomal Evolution: From Ancestral States to Evolutionary Regions
Mechanisms and Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning
Evolutionary Genomics for Eye Diversification
Do Long and Highly Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Vertebrates Have Biological Functions?
Morphological Evolution / Speciation
Male-Killing Wolbachia in the Butterfly Hypolimnas bolina
Evolution of Immunosuppressive Organelles from DNA Viruses in Insects
The Neogastropoda: Evolutionary Innovations of Predatory Marine Snails with Remarkable Pharmacological Potential
Antennal Hammers: Echos of Sensillae Past
Adaptive Radiation of Neotropical Emballonurid Bats: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Patterns in Behavior and Morphology
Trends in Rhizobial Evolution and Some Taxonomic Remarks
Convergent Evolution of Morphogenetic Processes in Fungi
Evolution and Historical Biogeography of a Song Sparrow Ring in Western North America
Cave Bear Genomics in the Paleolithic Painted Cave of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc.