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Part I. Self/nonself evolution. A new view of how MHC class I molecules fight disease : generalists and specialists / Jim Kaufman ; Evolution and diversity of defensins in vertebrates / Edward J. Hollox and Razan Abujaber ; Interdependencies between the adaptation and interference modules guide efficient CRISPR-Cas immunity / Ekaterina Semenova and Konstantin Severinov ; How the other half lives : CRISPR-Cas's influence on bacteriophages / Melia E. Bonomo and Michael W. Deem ; Hidden silent codes in viral genomes / Eli Goz, Hadas Zur and Tamir Tuller ; Self and nonself from a genomic perspective : transposable elements / Marie Fablet, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Bianca Fraga Menezes, Marlène Roy and Cristina Vieira ; Mammalian-specific traits generated by LTR retrotransposon-derived SIRH genes / Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Masahito Irie and Fumitoshi Ishino ; The life history of domesticated genes illuminates the evolution of novel mammalian genes / Dušan Kordiš -- Part II. Species evolution and evolution of complex traits. Evolution of complex traits in human populations / Carolina Medina-Gomez, Oscar Lao and Fernando Rivadeneira ; The descent of bison / Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat and Jean-Marc Elalouf ; Convergent and parallel evolution in early glires (Mammalia) / Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik ; Reductive evolution of apicomplexan parasites from phototrophic ancestors / Zoltán Füssy and Miroslav Oborník ; Evolution of milk oligosaccharides and their function in monotremes and marsupials / Tadasu Urashima and Michael Messer ; Modelling the evolution of dynamic regulatory networks : some critical insights / Anton Crombach -- Part III. Methods and concepts. Mechanistic models of protein evolution / David D. Pollock, Stephen T. Pollard, Jonathan A. Shortt and Richard A. Goldstein ; Genome-wide screens for molecular convergent evolution in mammals / Jun-Hoe Lee and Michael Hiller ; Assessing evolutionary potential in tree species through ecology-informed genome screening / Hanne De Kort and Olivier Honnay ; Evolutionary constraints on coding sequences at the nucleotidic level : a statistical physics approach / Didier Chatenay, Simona Cocco, Benjamin Greenbaum, Rémi Monasson and Pierre Netter ; Case studies of seven gene families with unusual high retention rate since the vertebrate and teleost whole-genome duplications / Frédéric G. Brunet, Thibault Lorin, Laure Bernard, Zofia Haftek-Terreau, Delphine Galiana, Manfred Schartl and Jean-Nicolas Volff.

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016. They are grouped under the following major themes: · Self/Nonself Evolution · Species Evolution and Evolution of Complex Traits · Methods and Concepts The aims of the annual meetings in Marseille - which bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research - are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering a revealing overview of the latest findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book represents an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students alike.