Evolutionary biology: a transdisciplinary approach

This book includes 16 selected contributions presented at the 23rd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in Marseille in September 2019. The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research. The aim of these meetings is to promote the exchange of ideas to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering an up-to-date overview of recent findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book is an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students.

Chapters were selected from the meeting presentations and from propositions born by the interaction of meeting participants of the Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseilles.

Genetic and Morphological Differentiation of Common Toads in the Alps and the Apennines / Jan W. Arntzen, Wouter de Vries, Daniele Canestrelli, Iñigo Martínez-Solano -- Molecular Phenotypes as Key Intermediates in Mapping Genotypes to Fitness / Aditya Ballal, Constantin D. Malliaris, Alexandre V. Morozov -- A Practical Guide to Orthology Resources / Paul de Boissier, Bianca H. Habermann -- Protein Recoding Through RNA Editing: Detection, Function, Evolution / Eli Eisenberg -- Most Successful Mammals in the Making: A Review of the Paleocene Glires / Lucja Fostowicz-Frelik -- Continuous Spectrum of Lifestyles of Plant-Associated Fungi Under Fluctuating Environments: What Genetic Components Determine the Lifestyle Transition? / Kei Hiruma -- Genome Evolution of Asexual Organisms and the Paradox of Sex in Eukaryotes . Elvira Hörandl, Jens Bast, Alexander Brandt, Stefan Scheu, Christoph Bleidorn, Mathilde Cordellier, Minou Nowrousian, Dominik Begerow, Anja Sturm, Koen Verhoeven, Jens Boenigk, Thomas Friedl, Micah Dunthorn -- On the Origin of Life and Evolution of Living Systems from a World of Biological Membranes / Aditya Mittal, Suneyna Bansal, Anandkumar Madhavjibhai Changani -- Ort…