ReviewJournal of molecular biology2020
A Theoretical Framework for Evolutionary Cell Biology.
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- Evolutionary scaling of maximum growth rate with organism size.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Rapid evolution of mutation rate and spectrum in response to environmental and population-genetic challenges.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Flagellar energy costs across the tree of life.eLife · 2022Article
- Inferring the distribution of fitness effects in patient-sampled and experimental virus populations: two case studies.Heredity · 2022Article
- Comparative Population Genetics in the Human Gut Microbiome.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Cell types as species: Exploring a metaphor.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
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Abstract
One of the last uncharted territories in evolutionary biology concerns the link with cell biology. Because all phenotypes ultimately derive from events at the cellular level, this connection is essential to building a mechanism-based theory of evolution. Given the impressive developments in cell biological methodologies at the structural and functional levels, the potential for rapid progress is great. The primary challenge for theory development is the establishment of a quantitative framework that transcends species boundaries. Two approaches to the problem are presented here: establishing the long-term steady-state distribution of mean phenotypes under specific regimes of mutation, selection, and drift and evaluating the energetic costs of cellular structures and functions. Although not meant to be the final word, these theoretical platforms harbor potential for generating insight into a diversity of unsolved problems, ranging from genome structure to cellular architecture to aspects of motility in organisms across the Tree of Life.
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