Evolutionary biology from concept to application / edited by Pierre Pontarotti.

Selected papers from the 11th (2007) "Evolutionary biology meeting at Marseilles." Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rate of adaptation of large populations / Feng Yu and Alison Etheridge -- A phylogenetic mixture model for heterotachy / Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel -- Accelerated evolution of genes of recent origin / Macarena Toll-Riera, Jose Castresana, and M. Mar Albà -- Life-cycle features of tumor cells / Jekaterina Erenpreisa and Mark S. Cragg -- General evolutionary regularities of organic and social life / Valeria I. Mikhalevich -- Old and new concepts in evo-devo / Margherita Raineri -- Overturning the prejudices about hydra and metazoan evolution / Hiroshi Shimizu -- The search for the origin of cnidarian nematocysts in dinoflagellates / Jung Shan Hwang ... [et al.] -- A possible relationship between the phylogenetic branch lengths and the chaetognath rRNA paralog gene functionalities : ubiquitous, tissue-specific or pseudogenes / Roxane-Marie Barthélémy ... [et al.] -- Mode and tempo of matK : gene evolution and phylogenetic implications / Khidir W. Hilu and Michelle M. Barthet -- Phylogeography and conservation of the rare South African fruit chafer Ichnestoma stobbiai (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) / Ute Kryger and Clarke H. Scholtz -- Nothing in medicine makes sense except in the light of evolution : a review / Bernard Swynghedauw -- An overview of evolutionary biology concepts for functional annotation : advances and challenges / Anthony Levasseur and Pierre Pontarotti.