7th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles

Program 7th EBM
2003 Meeting Program.
7th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles

The Meeting will be organized into 3 sessions :

June 25

Chordate Evolution Session

June 26

Phylogeography and Population Genetic

June 27

Genome Evolution

JUNE 24 : EARLY REGISTRATION AND POSTER INSTALLATION : 04h00 – 08h00
CHORDATE EVOLUTION : JUNE 25
8h00 – 9h30

Registration and Poster installation
9h30 – 9h40

Welcome / Introduction

SESSION I
9h40 – 00h05

(0) Break-up of the NK homeobox gene cluster in amphioxus and human

Peter W H Holland

Linacre Profess or of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX0 3PS, UK
00h05 – 00h30

(2) Molecular evolution of photoreceptors in amphioxus

Authors: S. Candiani0, J. Kreslova3, V. Benes4, D. Oliveri0, P. Castagnola2, M. Pestarino0, Z. Kozmik3

0Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Ambientale e Applicata, Università di Genova, viale Benedetto XV 5, 06032 Genova, Italy. 2Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, largo R. Benzi 00, 06032 Genova, Italy. 3Institute of Molecular Genetics, Flemingovo 2, 06637 Praha 6, Czech Republic.4European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 0, 69007 Heidelberg, Germany
00h30 – 00h30

POSTER SESSION I / BREAK
00h30 – 00h55

(3) The effects of exogenous retinoic acid (RA) and retinoic acid antagonist (BMS009) on developmental gene expression of amphioxus: insights into the evolution of chordate anteroposterior patterning

M. Schubert0, H. Escriva0, N.D. Holland2, L.Z. Holland2 and V. Laudet0.

0Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 5665 CNRS, 46 allee d’Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France. 2Marine Biology research division, Scripps institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0202, USA.
00h55 – 02h20

(4) Co-ordinate mesodermal expression of clustered Fox transcription factors in the Bilateria

Françoise Mazet0, Rebecca F. Furlong0, Graham Luke0, Chris T. Amemiya2 and Sebastian M Shimeld0

0) School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AJ, UK. (2) Benaroya Research Institute, Virginia Mason Research Center, 0200 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98000 USA.
LUNCH (at Restaurant du Vieux Moulin)
SESSION II
04h20 – 04h45

(5) Piecing together ancestral genomes: insights from amphioxus

Filipe Castro and Peter Holland

Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford OX0 3PS UK
04h45 – 05h00

(6) Evolution of the ParaHox gene cluster

David Ferrier and Peter Holland

University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford. OX0 3PS, U.K.

05h00 – 05h50

FLASH PRESENTATIONS (5mn)

List of presented posters : P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7
05h50 – 06h50

POSTER SESSION II / BREAK
06h50 – 07h05

(7) The European Amphioxus Genome Project : Dream or Reality?

Vincent Laudet.

Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 46 Allée d´Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07
07h05 – 07h30

(8) Some amphioxus clusters: from insights into Hox/ParaHox evolution to a DDC example in the amphioxus genome

Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Carolina Minguillón, Elia Benito, Anna Rosanas, Josep Gardenyes, Iain Patten, and Senda Jiménez

Departament de Genetica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal 645 E-08028, Barcelona, Spain
email: jgarcia@bio.ub.es

07h30 – 07h55

(9) Genome evolution of the early chordate

P Pontarotti

Equipe phylogénomique Université Aix Marseille I 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille Cedex 3, France
07h55 – 08h20

(00) A co-evolution perspective of the TNFSF and TNFRSF families in the immune system.

Yves Collette0,, André Gilles2, Pierre Pontarotti0,2 and Daniel Olive0

0. Institut de Cancérologie et d’Immunologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, INSERM, Unite 009, Marseille, France
2. Université de Provence, UPRES Biodiversité 2002, 03330 Marseille cedex 3, FRANCE
DINNER (at Restaurant du Vieux Moulin)
POSTERS
P0

More evidence of the en bloc duplication of the proto-MHC ancestral region and plesiomorphic organisation of human chromosome 9q34 region

Authors: Alexandre VIENNE, Takashi SHIINA, Laurent ABI-RACHED, Etienne DANCHIN, Verane VITIELLO, André GILLES, Hidetoshi INOKO & Pierre PONTAROTTI
Addresses: EA Biodiversité 2202, Université Aix-Marseille I, 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille Cedex 3, France. Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Boscheidei, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-0093, JAPAN. Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Structural Biology, Sherman Fairchild Research Building, 299 Campus Drive West, D-050, Stanford, California 94305-5036
P2

A strange Hox-like multihomeobox gene: an amphioxus oddity or a fingerprint of Hox / ParaHox evolution?

Authors: Josep Gardenyes, Elisa Serra & Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Address: Departament de Genètica Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 645 0a Planta / Lab 0 08028 Barcelona Spain
P3

Evolutional and functional inferences of the Adh gene family from a comparative expression analysis through animal evolution

Authors: Laura Godoy, Cristian Cañestro, Ricard Albalat, Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte
Address: Departament de Genètica. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona 08028 Barcelona. Spain
P4

Insights into the evolution of retinol metabolism in lower chordates

Authors: Diana Dalfó, Jon Permanyer, Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte and Ricard Albalat
Address: Departament de Genètica. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona 08028 Barcelona. Spain
P5

Hypothetical GABAA receptor-associated protein gene expresses in Amphioxus embryonic development

Authors: Y. Lin, K. Liang, Y. Zhang and H. Zhang*
Address: Institute of Developmental Biology, Life Science College, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China
*Corresponding author, e-mail: zhw@sdu.edu.cn
P6

Amphimdp, A Gene Expresses in the Developing Muscle of Qingdao Amphioxus

Authors: Y. Lin, K. Liang, Y. Zhang and H. Zhang*
Address: Institute of Developmental Biology, Life Science College, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China
P7

NPY receptors and genome duplications in early vertebrate evolution

Authors: Salaneck, E, Larson E.T and D. Larhammar.
Address: BMC, Box 593 Dept of Neuroscience S-750 24 Uppsala Section for Medical Pharmacology Uppsala University SWEDEN
P8

Test of the euchordate monophylogeny by whole genome analysis

Authors: A Vienne, A Gilles, P Pontarotti.
Address: EA Biodiversité Université Aix Marseille I 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille Cedex3, France

PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION GENETICS : JUNE 26
SESSION I
9h00 – 9h25

(00) Genetic control of P.falciparum malaria attacks in families living in Burkina Faso

Laurence Flori, Serge Sawadogo, Christelle Esnault, Nicolas F. Delahaye, Francis Fumoux and Pascal Rihet.

Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Pharmacie, Laboratoire d’Immunogénétique et de Pharmacologie du Paludisme, Marseille, France
9h25 – 9h50

(02) A morphometric analysis and correlated traits in Santolina pectinata Lag. (Asteraceae: Anthemideae)

Aixa O. Rivero-Guerra.

Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología. Apartado 0095/40080- Sevilla. España (Spain)
9h50 – 00h05

(03) Evolution of MHC class IIE genes in European cyprinid fish

Andrea Simkova

Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations Campus international de Baillarguet CS 30006, Montferrier sur Lez cedex 34988 Monpellier France
00h05 – 00h55

FLASH PRESENTATIONS I

List of presented posters : P00, P00, P03,P04, P06, P07,P20
00h55 – 00h40

POSTER SESSION I
00h40 – 02h05

(04) The population genetics of the subtidal seagrass Zostera marina in the Ria Formosa, Portugal

Martin R. Billingham0, Thorsten B. H. Reusch2, Filipe A. Alberto0 and Ester Serrão0

0 Faculdade de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal. 2 Max-Planck Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany
02h05 – 02h30

(05) The consequences of genetic impoverishment for plant community structure and diversity

Rajenda Whitlock

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S00 2TN UK
LUNCH (at Restaurant du Vieux Moulin)
SESSION II
04h05 – 04h40

(06) Nuclear and chloroplast phylogeography of the Atlantic-east-Pacific mangrove Avicennia germinans

Richard Dodd

Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, 045 Mulford Hall, University of California, berkeley, CA 94720
04h40 – 05h05

(07) Etude du polymorphisme de l’ADN mitochondrial d’une population actuelle tunisienne Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms of a Tunisian population (Maktar region)

R. Kéfi, E. Bouzaïd and E. Béraud-Colomb

Unité 387 INSERM Hôpital Sainte Marguerite BP.29- 03277 Marseille cedex 9
05h05 – 05h55

FLASH PRESENTATIONS II

List of presented posters : P25, P27,P29,P30, P30, P32,P38
05h55 – 07h00

POSTER SESSION II
07h00 – 07h25

(08) Evolution and Biological Conservation: multiple implications of plant mating systems

Angélique QUILICHINI

Laboratoire « Evolution et Diversité Biologique » Université Paul Sabatier Bât. 4R3, b2, 2ème étage 008, route de Narbonne 30062 TOULOUSE cedex 4 FRANCE
07h25 – 07h50

(09) Molecular anthropology and human variation in the “genomic era”

Gibert Morgane

UMR 6578 Adaptabilité Humaine, Anthropologie Biologique et Culturelle -CNRS/Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine ; Marseille, France. Etablissement Français du Sang «Alpes-Méditerranée », Marseille, France
07h50 – 08h05

(20) Single nucleotide polymorphisms at the ECM38 locus of two wide used S.cerevisiae S288C starins: tracing the origins

C. Kumar, R. Sharma and A. Kumar Bachhawat

Institute of microbial technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-060 036, India.
COCKTAIL
POSTERS
P9

Genetic diversity and conservation of Amphibian from french Guyana

Authors: Marie-Dominique Salducci, Christian Marty, Blanc Michel and André Gilles
Address: Laboratoire d’Hydrobiologie, EA Biodiversité 2202,Université de Provence, 3 place Victor Hugo 03330 Marseille, France.
P00

Cichlidae phylogeny of the Tanganyika lake

Author: C. Clabaut
Address: Institute of evolutionary biology. Department of Biology. P.O. Box M607. University Konstanz. D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
P00

The variation of Alu polymorphic elements and the prehistoric relationships between human populations in Western Mediterranean

Authors: E. Gonzalez-Perez0, E. Esteban0, M. Via0, N. Rodon0, N. Harich2, J.M. Dugoujon3 and P. Moral0.
Addresses: 0Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 2Universite Chouaib-Doukkali, El Jadida, Morocco. 3Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
P02

Chemotaxonomy of some Artemisia species on the basis of volatile compouds

Authors: V. Masotti, F. Juteau, J.M. Bessiere and J. Viano.
Address: Université Aix-Marseille I, 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille, France.
P03

Evolutionary biology as a tool towards a more customized biological control strategy of weeds: Hoary cress as a case study

Authors: Fumanal B.0, Martin J.F.2, Sobhian R.0 , Quimby P.C.0, Gaskin J. 3 and Bon M.C.0
Addresses: 0 EBCL-ARS, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34980 Montferrier Le Lez, France bfumanal@ars-ebcl.org; rsobhian@ars-ebcl.org; mcbon@ars-ebcl.org; cquimby@ars-ebcl.org 2 Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34980 Montferrier sur Lez, France. martinjf@ensam.inra.fr 3 USDA-ARS, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Sidney, Montana, USA. JGaskin@sidney.ars.usda.gov
P04

Systématique du genre Ophrys

Author: Errol VELA
Address: Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (CNRS), Université d’Aix-MArseille 3
P05

Regional differentiation among populations of Pinus nigra detected by chloroplast SSRs

Author: Richard Dodd
Address: Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, 045 Mulford Hall, University of California, berkeley, CA 94720
P06

Molecular evidence for hybridization and introgression in the section Mentha using AFLP and ISSR markers

Author: MOJA Sandrine
Address: Laboratoire de biotechnologies appliquées aux plantes aromatiques et médicinales – Université Jean Monnet – Faculté des Sciences, 23 rue du Dr. P. Michelon, 42023 Saint-Etienne cedex 2
P07

Complementarity of molecular data for understanding phylogenetic relationships in the section Mentha

Author: MOJA Sandrine
Address: Laboratoire de biotechnologies appliquées aux plantes aromatiques et médicinales – Université Jean Monnet – Faculté des Sciences, 23 rue du Dr. P. Michelon, 42023 Saint-Etienne cedex 2
P08

When the collections dead recount by the way of the DNA molecules : molecular systematics and evolutionary history of the Melanoplinae subfamily (Insecta, Orthoptera, Caelifera)

Author: Ioana C. CHINTAUAN-MARQUIER
Address: Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, Genomique des Populations D’Altitude et Biodiversite, UMR CNRS-UJF 5553, 38040 Grenoble
P09

Utilising Retrotransposons as a tool for Analyzing Genetic Diversity and Phylogeny in Lycopersicon and Capsicum (Solanaceae)

Author: Sheh May Tam
Address: INRA, Biologie Cellulaire, 78026, Versailles ceadex, FRANCE
P20

Hypervariable regions of self-incompatibility RNases and phylogeny inference”

Author: Andrey V. Alexeyenko
Addresses: Northern Caucasus Research Institute for Horticulture and Viticulture, Russia
And: Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
E-mail address of the author: Andrey.Alexeyenko@cgb.ki.se
P20

Analyse de l’ADN ancien extrait à partir de momies naturelles du site archeologique de FOSTAT (Egypte)

Authors : E. Bouzaïd £, R. Kéfi £, F. Paris # , R-P. Gayraud§ et E. Béraud-Colomb£
Addresses : £: Unité 387 INSERM Hôpital Sainte Marguerite BP.29- 03277 Marseille CEDEX 9 # : Représentant de l’IRD (ex Orstom) en Egypte, P.O. Box 26, 02200 GIZA, République Arabe d’Egypte. § :UMR 6572 CNRS, Laboratoire d’Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne, 5 rue du château de l’horloge, BP647, 03094 Aix en Provence Cedex 02, France
P22

HSPs EXPRESSION IN BRANCHIOPODS (CRUSTACEA): biomarker of stress adaptation and witness of evolution.

Authors : S. Jean, L. De Jong, X. Moreau, A. Thiéry
Address : EA 2202 « Biodiversité », Laboratoire de Biologie Animale (Plancton), Université de Provence, Marseille, France.
P23

Deciphering the evolutionary biology of freshwater fish using multiple approaches – insights for the biological conservation of Leuciscus souffia souffia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) as a case study.

Authors : M. D. Salducci #, J.-F. Martin†, N. Pech #, R. Chappaz #, C. Costedoat # & A. Gilles #* Address : E. A. Biodiversité 2202, Université Aix-Marseille I, 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille, cedex 3, France.
P24

High similarity between flanking regions of different microsatellites in Parnassius apollo and Euphydryas aurinia (Lepidoptera)

Authors : Emese Meglécz*, Frederic Petenian*, Etienne Danchin** , Jean-Yves Rasplus***, Eric Faure* Address : * Evolutionary Systematics Laboratory, CASE 5, UPRES Biodiversité 2202, Université de Provence, 3 place Victor Hugo, F-03330, Marseille Cedex 3, France ** Phylogenomics Laboratory, UPRES Biodiversité 2202, Université de Provence, 3 place Victor Hugo, F-03330, Marseille Cedex 3, France. *** Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations (CBGP), Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30 006, 34 988 Montferrier, France

GENOME EVOLUTION : JUNE 27
SESSION I
9h00 – 9h25

(20) Cytogenetics study in Santolina L. (Asteraceae: Anthemideae)- a multivariate analysis

Aixa O. Rivero-Guerra.

Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología. Apartado 0095/40080- Sevilla. España (Spain)
9h25 – 9h50

(22) Ongoing hybridization in cyprinids: implication for tree topology and their evolutionary process

Jean-Francois Martin0, André Gilles2

0Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS30006, 34988 Montferrier/Lez, France 2E. A. Biodiversité 2202, Université Aix-Marseille I, 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille, cedex 3, France.
9h50 – 00h05

(23) Back to the pre-genomic era.

Etienne Danchin, Piere Pontarotti.

Equipe phylogénomique Université Aix Marseille I 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille Cedex 3, France.
00h05 – 00h50

BREAK

00h50 – 00h05

(24) Are GC-rich isochores really vanishing from mammalian genomes?

Elise M.S. Belle*, Nicolas Galtier§, Laurent Duret† & Adam Eyre-Walker*

*Centre for the Study of Evolution School of Biological Sciences – University of Sussex BN0 9QG Brighton (United Kingdom) † Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie évolutive UMR CNRS 5558 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 0 06 rue Raphael Dubois 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex (France) § Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions UMR CNRS 500 Université Montpellier 2 CC63, Place Eugene Bataillon 34 95 Montpellier Cedex (France)
00h05 – 00h40

(25) Phylogenetic demonstration that crustacean major egg yolk precursor protein is an apolipophorin and not a vitellogenin

Jean-Christophe Avarre0*, Esther Lubzens0 and Patrick Babin2

0 Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, P. O. Box 8030, Haifa 30080, Israel 2 Génomique et Physiologie des Poissons, USC INRA, Université Bordeaux 0, 33405 Talence, France
*Present address : Défense et résistance chez les Invertébrés Marins, Ifremer/Cnrs, UMR 5098, Université Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier cedex, France
00h40 – 02h05

(26) Genomics as a tool to explore the genetic basis of development and evolution in cycads

Jose Eduardo de la Torre0, Eric D. Brenner2, Robert A. Martienssen3, Gloria Coruzzi0,
Manpreet Katari4, Guangwei Dai5, Suzan Runko2, Richard Twigg2, Philip N. Benfey0, W. Richard McCombie4, Dennis W. Stevenson2

* NYPGC: The New York Plant Genomics Consortium, a joint effort between New York University, The New York Botanical Garden, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Dept. of Biology, New York University; 0009 Silver Bldg. 000 Washington Sq. East. New York, NY 00003. The New York Botanicl Garden, 200th St. and Kazimiroff Blvd. Bronx, NY 00458
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 0 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 00724 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 500 Sunnyside Blvd. Woodbury, NY 00797 Dept. of Computer Science, New York University; Weaver Hall. New York, NY 00002.
LUNCH (at Restaurant du Vieux Moulin)
SESSION II
04h05 – 04h40

(27) Gene duplication and functional adaptation : the Amt/Rh protein family

Giorgio Matassi

Stazione Zoologica « Anton Dohrn », Villa Comunale, 80020 Naples, Italy e-mail: gmatassi@szn.it
04h40 – 05h05

(28) Systems evolutionary biology: how life evolves as a unified system?

Soichi Ogishima0,3 and Hiroshi Tanaka2,3

0Dept. of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University 2Dept. of Computational Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University 3Dept. of Bioinformatics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
05h05 – 05h30

(29) Evolution of the duplicated CG-TIMP gene in the oyster Crassostrea gigas: can we use the signature of natural selection to identify loci involved with parasite resistance?

Sarah Saminadin and Tim Sharbel

Laboratoire de génétique et pathologie IFREMER 07390 La Tremblade France.
05h30 – 06h00

BREAK
06h00 – 06h35

(30) Adaptive Evolution of Human MHC genes

Rebecca F. Furlong, Joseph P. Bielawski and Ziheng Yang

Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC0E 6BT
06h35 – 07h00

(30) Evolution of the function of duplicated genes : from an interaction network point of view.

Christine Brun, Anaïs Baudot, Bernard Jacq

Laboratoire de Génétique et Physiologie du Développement, CNRS, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 907, 03288 Marseille Cedex 9 France
Beer At The “Brise Marine” Pub
POSTERS
P25

Sex-ratio drive and Y chromosome evolution

Authors:C. Montchamp-Moreau0, D. Jutier0 and A. Atlan2
Addresses: 0CNRS UPR 9034, Populations, génétique et Evolution, Avenue de la terrasse, F90098 Gif sur Yvette Cedex 2CNRS UMR6556, Ecobio, université Rennes 0, F35042 Rennes Cedex
P26

Comparative genomics of sunflower and Arabidopsis and insight into synteny across time

Author:A. Cibrian Jaramillo
Adress: Center for environmental research and conservation. Columbia university. Schermernhorn Extension 00th floor, 0200 Amsterdam ave, MC 5557. New-York, NY 00027.
P27

Conserved synteny and evolution of chiken fucosyltransferase genes compared to human and mouse

Authors: Philippe Coullina, Rafael Oriolb, Richard PMA Crooijmansc, Rosella Molliconeb, Martien AM Groenenc, Valérie Fillond, Charlotte Adrien-Dehaisa, A. Bernheima, Rima Zoorobe and Jean-Jacques Candelierb 0
Addresses: INSERM U 504 06, Avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
UMR 8025, Cytogénétique et génomique des cancers, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Animal Breeding and Genetics group, Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, Centre INRA de Toulouse-Auzeville, BP27, 30326 Castanet Tolosan. France
CNRS FRE 2376, 09 rue Guy Moquet BP8 94800 Villejuif France
P28

Potential role of olfaction in genome evolution

Authors : A Grimaldi , S Roetynsk an P Pontarotti
Address: Equipe Phylogénomique Université Aix Marseille I 3 place Victor Hugo, 03330 Marseille Cedex 3, France
P29

Fitness costs of Doc expression are insufficient to stabilize its copy number in Drosophila melanogaster

Authors: Hsiao-Pei Yang & Sergey V. Nuzhdin
Section of Evolution and Ecology UC Davis, Davis, CA 95606
P30

Genome-wide analysis of orthologous proteins in worm, fly, and human

Authors: Andrey V. Alexeyenko*, Ivica Tamas, Erik L.L. Sonnhammer
Address: Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
*E-mail address of the corresponding author: Andrey.Alexeyenko@cgb.ki.se
P30

Modeling evolution after gene duplication

Authors: F.N. Braun, A.C. Berglund, and D.A. Liberles*
Addresses: Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, 00690 Stockholm, Sweden and Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway liberles@cbu.uib.no , lottab@sbc.su.se
P32

Molecular evolution of the TCP gene family in some Angiosperm taxa.

Authors: Catherine Damerval0,2 , Muriel Jager 3and Michaël Manuel3
Addresses: 0Station de Génétique Végétale, INRA/UPS/INA-PG/CNRS UMR 8020, La Ferme du Moulon, 90090 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 2 Groupe Développement et Evolution, Université Pierre et Marie Curie /CNRS UMR 7622, 9 quai Saint-Bernard, case 240, 75252 Paris, France – address from 00/2000 to 00/2002. 3Service Commun de Biosystématique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 9 quai Saint-Bernard, case 240, 75252 Paris, France
P33

Amphimdp, A Gene Expresses in the Developing Muscle of Qingdao Amphioxus

Ahthors:K. Liang, Y. Lin, Y. Zhang, P. Zhang* and H. Zhang+
Addresses: Institute of Developmental Biology, Life Science College, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China
* Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. +Corresponding author, e-mail: zhw@sdu.edu.cn
P34

A new method that improves structural annotation

Author: V. Vitiello
Address: Phylogenix, Technopole de Chateau Gombert, Marseille, France.
P35

Automatisation of the phylogenetic analysis

Author: P. Gouret
Address: Phylogenix, Technopole de Chateau Gombert, Marseille, France.
P36

Serotonin-like immunoreactive neurons in the brain and the visual system of Euphausiacea (Crustacea, Eucarida).

Author : D. Benzid, X. Moreau, L. De Jong, J.-P. Casanova
Address : EA 2202 « Biodiversité », Laboratoire de Biologie Animale (Plancton), Université de Provence, Marseille, France.
P37

A new tool to search and Blast the Gene Ontology network.

Authors : O. Richard, D. Roussel
Address : Université de la Méditerrannée, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Case 900 03288 Marseille, France.
P38

A non hyperthermophilic ancestor for Eubacteria

Author : Céline BROCHIER
Address : Atelier de BioInformatique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), 02, rue Cuvier escalier A, 3ième Etage 75005 Paris FRANCE
P39

Back to the pre-genomic era.

Authors : Etienne Danchin, Pierre Pontarotti.