Introduction. Evolution is a unifying paradigm with important implications in virtually all areas of biology. Indeed, all characters that are studied in biology, from morphological or behavioural traits to the fine regulatory mechanisms of gene expression are the products of biological evolution. Evolutionary concepts are pertinent not only to the large diversity of possible applications across disciplines, but also to the massive realm of diversity across living beings - i.e., from natural/artificial clones to the major kingdoms made of approximately 50 millions of extant species, all living beings are connected through pedigrees and the phylogenetic tree of life.

The core activities in my laboratory have revolved these last 10 years around three domains of evolutionary genetics: Conservation Genetics, Molecular Phylogenetics, and Applied Evolutionary Genetics. Although we will continue working on a selected number of issues within some of these disciplines, a major proportion of our activities will relate to two of the most fascinating and promising challenges in evolutionary biology: Evolutionary Developmental Genetics (Evo-Devo) and Experimental Evolution.

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1. Release of MetaPIGA2 for large phylogeny inference under Maximum Likelihood (BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11: 379). Software download.
   

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