Origin and Evolution of Biodiversity

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 Pmela and Tyrp1b Contribute to Melanophore Variation in Mexican Cavefish  (Bethany A. Stahl, Connor R. Sears, Li Ma, Molly Perkins, Joshua B. Gross)....Pages 3-22
 Adaptive Evolution of Yeast Under Heat Stress and Genetic Reconstruction to Generate Thermotolerant Yeast  (Kouichi Kuroda, Mitsuyoshi Ueda)....Pages 23-36
 The Domestication Syndrome in Phaseolus Crop Plants: A Review of Two Key Domestication Traits  (María Isabel Chacón-Sánchez)....Pages 37-59
 Tracing the Evolutionary Origin of the Gut–Brain Axis  (Thomas C. G. Bosch)....Pages 61-80
 Mini-bioreactors as Tools for Adaptive Laboratory Evolution for Antibiotic Drug Resistance and Evolutionary Tuning of Bacterial Optogenetic Circuits  (Ya-Tang Yang)....Pages 81-92
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 Deciphering the Evolution of Vertebrate Immune Cell Types with Single-Cell RNA-Seq  (Santiago J. Carmona, David Gfeller)....Pages 95-111
 Evolutionary Impacts of Alternative Transposition  (Weijia Su, Sharu Paul Sharma, Thomas Peterson)....Pages 113-130
 Allorecognition and Stem Cell Parasitism: A Tale of Competition, Selfish Genes and Greenbeards in a Basal Chordate  (Anthony W. De Tomaso)....Pages 131-142
 How to Become Selfish: Evolution and Adaptation to Self-fertilization in Plants  (Natalia Wozniak, Adrien Sicard)....Pages 143-162
 Immunoglobulin-Like Domains Have an Evolutionarily Conserved Role During Gamete Fusion in C. elegans and Mouse  (Tatsuya Tajima, Hitoshi Nishimura)....Pages 163-179
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 Feralisation—The Understudied Counterpoint to Domestication  (R. Henriksen, E. Gering, D. Wright)....Pages 183-195
 Postglacial Colonization of Northern Europe by Reptiles  (J. L. Horreo, P. S. Fitze)....Pages 197-214
 The Relative Roles of Selection and Drift in Phenotypic Variation: Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Wet  (David S. Jacobs, Gregory L. Mutumi)....Pages 215-237
 Metagenomic Approaches Highlight the Organization and Dynamics of Plankton at the Species Level  (Thomas Vannier)....Pages 239-273
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 Ion–Molecule Reactions as a Possible Synthetic Route for the Formation of Prebiotic Molecules in Space  (Riccardo Spezia, Yannick Jeanvoine, Debora Scuderi)....Pages 277-292
 Did Gene Expression Co-evolve with Gene Replication?  (Charles W. Carter Jr., Peter R. Wills)....Pages 293-313
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 Biological Dogmas in Relation to the Origin of Evolutionary Novelties  (Patricia Tatemoto, Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna)....Pages 317-330
 A Proposed Terminology of Convergent Evolution  (George R. McGhee, Isabelle Hue, Justine Dardaillon, Pierre Pontarotti)....Pages 331-340
 Natura Fecit Saltum: Punctuationalism Pervades the Natural Sciences  (Graham P. Wallis)....Pages 341-361