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.

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

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