Digital genomes : Monte Carlo simulations of microbes and evolution / Weigang Qiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qiu, Weigang, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genomes.

Monte Carlo method.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

xxv, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2026]

Summary:

"Microbial studies rarely concern evolution. The converse is also true: microbiology remains a stubborn outlier of the Modern and New Synthesis, the grand evolutionary integration of Mendelian genetics, Darwinian natural selection, molecular biology, and other biological triumphs (Woese and Goldenfeld, 2009; Koonin, 2009). With some notable exceptions (Robinson et al., 2010), this lack of systematic evolutionary analysis of microbial populations leaves significant gaps in the intellectual landscapes of both microbiology and evolutionary biology, an increasingly untenable situation considering the antiquity and ubiquity of microbial life on Earth, and the frequent emergence and global spread of deadly microbial pathogens. Meanwhile, breakthroughs in DNA sequencing technologies in recent decades have catapulted microbial ecology and evolution to the forefront of scientific and biomedical discoveries of our time (Lenski, 2017; Garud and Pollard, 2020). Equally frustrating to a college biology professor like me are the difficulties and confusion students encounter when we throw them into the deep waters of human genetics first and foremost. As this book strives to demonstrate, the haploid but nonetheless sexual microbial systems are simpler to build the foundational understandings of the evolution of biological - and, in fact, artificial, cultural, and other non-biological - systems without compromising general laws and principles governing the evolutionary processes."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781394314614

1394314612

OCLC:

1551431128

Publisher Number:

90104535694