Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2010-12-10
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
Accepted by Journal of Statistical Physics
Scientific paper
The biological world, especially its majority microbial component, is strongly interacting and may be dominated by collective effects. In this review, we provide a brief introduction for statistical physicists of the way in which living cells communicate genetically through transferred genes, as well as the ways in which they can reorganize their genomes in response to environmental pressure. We discuss how genome evolution can be thought of as related to the physical phenomenon of annealing, and describe the sense in which genomes can be said to exhibit an analogue of information entropy. As a direct application of these ideas, we analyze the variation with ocean depth of transposons in marine microbial genomes, predicting trends that are consistent with recent observations using metagenomic surveys.
Chia Nicholas
Goldenfeld Nigel
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