Emerging Frontiers in the Study of Molecular Evolution
Abstract
A collection of the editors of Journal of Molecular Evolution have gotten together to pose a set of key challenges and future directions for the field of molecular evolution. Topics include challenges and new directions in prebiotic chemistry and the RNA world, reconstruction of early cellular genomes and proteins, macromolecular and functional evolution, evolutionary cell biology, genome evolution, molecular evolutionary ecology, viral phylodynamics, theoretical population genomics, somatic cell molecular evolution, and directed evolution. While our effort is not meant to be exhaustive, it reflects research questions and problems in the field of molecular evolution that are exciting to our editors.
Repository Citation
Liberles, David A., Belinda Chang, Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, et al. 2020. "Emerging Frontiers in the Study of Molecular Evolution." Journal of Molecular Evolution 88(3): 211-226.
Publisher
Springer
Publication Date
4-1-2020
Publication Title
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Department
Biology
Document Type
Other
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09932-6
Notes
Invited editorial.
Keywords
Prebiotic evolution, Comparative genomics, Evolutionary cell biology, Molecular evolutionary ecology, Somatic evolution, Directed evolution
Language
English
Format
text
