New Horizons in Evolution
- 1st Edition - July 30, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Solomon P. Wasser, Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 7 5 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 7 5 3 - 8
New Horizons in Evolution is a compendium of the latest research, analyses, and theories of evolutionary biology. Chapters are collected from the international symposium held by t… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNew Horizons in Evolution is a compendium of the latest research, analyses, and theories of evolutionary biology. Chapters are collected from the international symposium held by the Board of Governors of the University of Haifa to honor Dr. Eviatar Nevo, founder and director of the Institute of Evolution.
This book includes material written by top global scientists. Such detailed summaries and recent advances include topics like genomics, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, and the evolution of cancer. This book analyzes evolutionary biology of animals, such as lizards and subterranean mammals. It also discusses agricultural evolution, specifically the vital wheat crop in various climates and locations. Each chapter contributes the most up-to-date knowledge of evolution’s role in speciation, adaptation, and regulation.
New Horizons in Evolution is a valuable resource for researchers involved in evolution, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in evolutionary biology courses will also find this useful due to the high expertise level and latest knowledge available through this resource.
- Examines the evolution of species in extreme conditions
- Discusses the role of evolution in medicine and cancer research
- Features the latest data and advances in evolution theory
Researchers in evolutionary studies and evolutionary biology. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in evolution-based courses
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. How should we think about evolution in the age of genomics?
- Abstract
- Background: tribute to a unique evolutionary biologist
- Basic principles of evolutionary change necessary to encompass Eibi’s work
- Cell fusions produced foundational evolutionary innovations
- Microbiomes and holobionts
- Interspecific hybridization
- Protein evolution
- Horizontal DNA transfers
- The virosphere as an evolutionary R&D sector (online link 20)
- Extracellular vesicles—stress responses and crossing the Weismann Barrier in animals
- Evolutionary changes in genome composition
- Evolutionary thinking in the years to come
- List of abbreviations used
- References
- Declarations
- Chapter 2. Experience and the genome: the role of epigenetics
- Abstract
- Introduction
- DNA methylation conferring cell type identity on DNA
- DNA methylation and gene function
- Mechanisms of silencing of expression by DNA methylation
- Epigenetic programming by exposure and experience
- Epigenetic programming by maternal care
- Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior is reversible
- Early life adversity triggers epigenetic reprogramming
- Alterations in DNA methylation and chromatin modification in response to early life stress are broad and affect multiple gene networks
- The response to early life social environment is evolutionary conserved
- The response to early life adversity is system wide
- Early life adversity affects dynamic developmental trajectories of DNA methylation
- Quebec Ice storm of 1998: a quasiexperimental design for studying early life adversity in humans
- How can early life stress produce a system-wide epigenetic response that lasts into adulthood?
- Summary and prospective: DNA methylation mediating life-long adaptation to early life signals
- Author contributions
- Funding
- References
- Chapter 3. Conflict-driven evolution
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Competing interactions and frustration drive biological evolution
- Evolutionary entanglement between hosts and parasites as a key factor of evolution
- Competing interactions drive major innovations and transitions in evolution
- Cancer, aging, and death
- Frustration as the major cause of complexity in nature and specifics of biology
- Conclusions
- Declarations
- References
- Chapter 4. Evolutionary perspectives on cancer and aging
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background supporting data
- Origins of somatic genetic variation
- Mechanisms of somatic selection in adult tissue stem cells
- Quantitative model
- Discussion
- Conflict of interest
- Author contributions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 5. Evolutionary medicine—Apolipoprotein L1 in human health and disease
- Abstract
- Introduction
- A glimpse into the Trypanosoma—APOL1 arms race, explaining the high frequencies of APOL1 renal risk variants
- The mode of inheritance paradox
- References
- Chapter 6. Network analyses of the impact of visual habitat structure on behavior, demography, genetic diversity, and gene flow in a metapopulation of collared lizards (Crotaphytus collaris collaris)
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Author contributions
- Acknowledgments
- Ethics approval
- Availability of data and materials
- References
- Chapter 7. Sensory perception of mole-rats and mole rats: assessment of a complex natural global evolutionary “experiment”
- Abstract
- Background
- Eye and vision: adaptation, neutral evolution, or side effect or …?
- Ear and hearing: degeneration or adaptation?
- Magnetoreception underground: new possibilities for an old sense!
- Declarations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 8. Evolutionary agriculture domestication of wild emmer wheat
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Evolutionary domestication of Triticum dicoccides
- Gene discovery in Triticum dicoccoides
- Breeding application of Triticum dicoccoides germplasm in China
- Concluding remarks and future perspectives
- Conflict of interest
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 9. Evolutionary Modeling of Protein Families by Chromosomal Translocation Events
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Data resources
- Protein domain detection
- EvoProDomDB
- Results
- Mapping of genes to proteins and alternative splicing
- Protein domain content
- DA as a basic unit in EvoProDom
- Evolutionary mechanism in EvoProDom
- Translocation domains are enriched in chimeric transcripts
- Discussion
- Conflict of interest
- Author contributions
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 10. Evolution Canyons model: biodiversity, adaptation, and incipient sympatric ecological speciation across life: a revisit
- Abstract
- The Evolution Canyon model
- Evolution Plateau
- Evolution Slope
- Microclimatic interslope divergence underlying biodiversity contrasts in EC
- Yeast pioneering discovery in micro- and macroscales in Israel
- Continental biome interslope divergence at a microsite EC I, Mount Carmel
- Adaptation to environmental stresses
- Cyanobacteria evolution at Evolution Canyon I
- Origin and evolution of circadian clock genes in prokaryotes
- Evolution caused by environmental stress
- Repeatome evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
- Developmental instability of vascular plants in contrasting microclimates at EC
- Soil fungi in four Israeli Evolution Canyons
- Solar radiation effects on adaptive melanin levels
- Transcriptome analysis
- Conclusions and prospects
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 30, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 382
- No. of pages (eBook): 382
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323907521
- eBook ISBN: 9780323907538
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Solomon P. Wasser
Solomon P. Wasser is a world leader in medicinal mushrooms study and fungal evolution, taxonomy, and biodiversity, especially in higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms. He has introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi, including 42 species of higher Basidiomycetes species. He has also developed and patented new dietary supplements with immunomodulating, cholesterol lowering, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and radical scavenging activities. He is founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Algologia, and International Journal on Algae and is an author and coauthor of 600 scientific publications, including 57 books and 15 patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Haifa University, Haifa, IsraelMF
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern completed her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2006. She made her first postdoc in the lab of Prof. Uri Alon in Systems Biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and the second postdoc in the lab of Prof. Alfonso Valencia in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is a founder of special scientific Art in Science competition at the international Bioinformatics conferences since 2008, a chair of the ISCB affiliated Israeli Bioinformatics group, and a head of the "Cancer Genomics and BioComputing in Complex Diseases" group in the Azrieli faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University. Her group has developed unique protocols for the cell free DNA isolation and its analysis using unique and patented techniques, the group in working in evolution of protein interaction networks.
Affiliations and expertise
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, IsraelRead New Horizons in Evolution on ScienceDirect