The evolutionary ecology of molecular replicators
| Autor: | Sean Nee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
transposon evolution 030106 microbiology Biology sociomicrobiology 03 medical and health sciences Cellular and Molecular Biology Price equation mobilome lcsh:Science Simple (philosophy) virus evolution Multidisciplinary Field (Bourdieu) Sputnik virophage biology.organism_classification Multicellular organism 030104 developmental biology Evolutionary biology Viral evolution Evolutionary ecology lcsh:Q Game theory Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Royal Society Open Science Royal Society Open Science, Vol 3, Iss 8 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2054-5703 |
| Popis: | By reasonable criteria, life on the Earth consists mainly of molecular replicators. These include viruses, transposons, transpovirons, coviruses and many more, with continuous new discoveries like Sputnik Virophage. Their study is inherently multidisciplinary, spanning microbiology, genetics, immunology and evolutionary theory, and the current view is that taking a unified approach has great power and promise. We support this with a new, unified, model of their evolutionary ecology, using contemporary evolutionary theory coupling the Price equation with game theory, studying the consequences of the molecular replicators' promiscuous use of each others' gene products for their natural history and evolutionary ecology. Even at this simple expository level, we can make a firm prediction of a new class of replicators exploiting viruses such as lentiviruses like SIVs, a family which includes HIV: these have been explicitly stated in the primary literature to be non-existent. Closely connected to this departure is the view that multicellular organism immunology is more about the management of chronic infections rather than the elimination of acute ones and new understandings emerging are changing our view of the kind of theatre we ourselves provide for the evolutionary play of molecular replicators. This study adds molecular replicators to bacteria in the emerging field of sociomicrobiology. |
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