Microbial Life History (eBook)

The Fundamental Forces of Biological Design

Steven A. Frank (Autor)

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2022
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23118-1 (ISBN)

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A powerful framework for understanding how natural selection shapes adaptation and biological designDesign and diversity are the two great challenges in the study of life. Microbial Life History draws on the latest advances in microbiology to describe the fundamental forces of biological design and apply these evolutionary processes to a broad diversity of traits in microbial metabolism and biochemistry.Emphasizing how to formulate and test hypotheses of adaptation, Steven Frank provides a new foundation for exploring the evolutionary forces of design. He discusses the economic principles of marginal valuations, trade-offs, and payoffs in risky and random environments; the social aspects of conflict and cooperation; the demographic aspects of age and spatial heterogeneity; and the engineering control theory principles by which systems adjust to environments. Frank then applies these evolutionary principles to the biochemistry of microbial metabolism, providing the first comprehensive link between the forces that shape biological design and cellular energetics.Tracing how natural selection sculpts metabolism, Microbial Life History provides new perspectives on the life histories of organisms, from growth rate and survival to dispersal and defense against attack. Along the way, this incisive book addresses the conceptual and philosophical challenges confronting evolutionary biologists and other practitioners who study biological design and seek to apply its lessons.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 55 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Schlagworte: Acetate • Adaptation • Aerobic organism • Allele • allele frequency • Availability • Bacteria • bacteroides • binding site • biochemical thermodynamics • biochemistry • biogeochemistry • Biological Design • biological electricity • Biology • biomass • Biomass (ecology) • Carbohydrate • carbon • Catabolism • Causal Analysis • Causality • cell membrane • cellular energetics • cell wall • citric acid cycle • coefficient • Coefficient of relationship • combination • Competition • Complication (horology) • Computer Scientist • computer simulation • contexts • control theory in biology • Covariance • Covariate • credibility • David Spergel • Deficiency (medicine) • Demography • distrust • electrode • Electron Acceptor • Electron transport chain • Email • Empirical Research • Employment • energy level • environmental factor • Enzyme • Equilibrium (puzzle) • Escherichia coli • Evolution • Fecundity • Feed forward (control) • Fermentation • Fitness (biology) • fitness landscape • Future Generation • Gamma ray • genetic correlation • genetic variability • genomics • Genotype • Glucose • glucose transporter • glucose uptake • Glycine • Glycogen • Glycolysis • Health Promotion • heat transfer • Hydrogen sulfide • Innovation • International Union of Pure and Applied Physics • kin selection • Laboratory • Laser • Likelihood Function • Lipoprotein(a) • Literature • Low frequency • Mathematical Analysis • Measurement • Messenger RNA • Metabolism • metabolite • Metallicity • Michelangelo • microbial ecology • Microbial metabolism • Microbiological culture • Microbiology • Microorganism • mitochondrion • Molecule • Monosaccharide • Motility • mutation rate • National Science Foundation • Natural Environment • Natural selection • Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide • nitrogen • Normal distribution • nutrient • One-Step • Optics • organism • Oxidative stress • oxidizing agent • Parameter • parapet • Pareto Efficiency • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Physiology • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Size • Prediction • Probability • Processing (Chinese materia medica) • Product inhibition • Protein • Proteome • Pyruvate kinase • Quantity • Reaction Rate • Redox • regulation of biochemical pathways • relative strength • Reproductive success • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Responsive Web Design • Robotic telescope • rRNA Operon • Schizosaccharomyces pombe • secretion • Selection coefficient • Setpoint (control system) • sibling • Siderophore • small molecule • Social Evolution • Sociality • Solution • Star System • Starvation response • Stellar mass • Stimulation • Subset • Sulfate • Sulfate-reducing bacteria • Sulfide • Sunset provision • Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), Milan • Symptom • Synthetic biology • Technology • thigh • Thomas Aquinas • Toxin • Trade-off • Trait Theory • Unit sphere • Virulence • Wastewater Treatment • weighting
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23118-4 / 0691231184
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23118-1 / 9780691231181