Emerging Frontiers in the Study of Molecular Evolution

David A. Liberles; Belinda Chang; Kerry Geiler-Samerotte; Aaron Goldman; Jody Hey; Betül Kaçar; Michelle Meyer; William Murphy; David Posada; Andrew Storfer

doi:10.1007/s00239-020-09932-6

Emerging Frontiers in the Study of Molecular Evolution

David A. Liberles, Belinda Chang, Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Aaron Goldman, Jody Hey, Betül Kaçar, Michelle Meyer, William Murphy, David Posada, Andrew Storfer

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	211-226
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Molecular Evolution
Volume	88
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09932-6
State	Published - Apr 1 2020

Keywords

Comparative genomics
Directed evolution
Evolutionary cell biology
Molecular evolutionary ecology
Prebiotic evolution
Somatic evolution

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Molecular Biology
Genetics

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