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Résumé :
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This book is one of the outcomes of the 14th international symposium with the theme of the biology of biodiversity held in hayama (9-10 december 1998). four parts focus on multidisciplinary approaches to major problems in biodiversity, with an emphasis on the increasing use of molecular approaches to the problems of speciation, phylogeny, developmental morphology, and genetic biodiversity. the first part reviews molecular phylogenetic and genetic approaches, in order to better understand the origin of reproductive isolation, phylogeography and conservation, phylogenetic relationships, species taxonomy, and adaptive radiation. the second part discusses the significance of biodiversity science, ecosystem processes, relationships between reproduction and landscape fragmentation, population persistence and community diversity, biodiversity maintenance, and ecological factors of biodiversity enhancement. the third part reviews the explosion of evolutionary and molecular development research on the body-plan diversity of animals and plants owing to the evolution of transcription factor-encoding genes. the final part looks at progress in studies on the genetic diversity and evolution of advanced animals.
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