Biodiversity and Evolution
Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Evolution and Biodiversity -- 1: From Richard Owen to Charles Darwin: Understanding the Origin of Life's Diversity -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Richard Owen, the archetype and the diversity of vertebrates -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2: Life Engineering in an Evolutionary World -- Abstract -- 2.1 Why "Engineers"? -- 2.2 The animal-machine legacy -- 2.3 Genetic engineering: rational design or tinkering? -- 2.4 Synthetic biology as the paradigm of bioengineering -- 2.5 Transforming a transformation? -- 2.6 Our cousins, the engineers -- 2.7 Engineering and evolutionary dynamics -- 3: The View of Systematics on Biodiversity -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Species: all different -- 3.3 How about studying the other 90%? -- 3.4 Biodiversity changes -- 3.5 Challenging decades -- 4: Which Model(s) Explain Biodiversity? -- Abstract -- 4.1 Birth-death processes -- 4.2 Coalescent trees -- 4.3 Birth-death and/or coalescent model? -- 4.4 Acknowledgements -- 5: Analysis of Microbial Diversity: Regarding the (Paradoxical) Difficulty of Seeing Big in Metagenomics -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Comparing metagenomic data sets is difficult -- 5.3 Path dependency and knowledge production -- 5.4 Standardizing metagenomics -- 5.5 Unlocking metagenomics -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 5.7 Acknowledgements -- 5.8 Figure legends -- 6: Genetic Code Degeneracy and Amino Acid Frequency in Proteomes -- Abstract -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Frequency-mass correlation of encoded amino acids -- 6.3 Amino-acid volume correlation in the genetic code -- 6.4 Origin of genetic code degeneracy -- 6.5 Origin of the frequency-mass correlation -- 6.6 Summary and discussion -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 6.8 Acknowledgments -- 7: Telomeres and Telomerases: Structural Diversity for the Same Role -- Abstract