Department of Biology and Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada.
J Mol Evol. 2020 Apr;88(3):211-226. doi: 10.1007/s00239-020-09932-6.
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.
《分子进化杂志》的编辑们齐聚一堂，提出了分子进化领域的一系列关键挑战和未来方向。主题包括前生物化学和 RNA 世界的挑战和新方向、早期细胞基因组和蛋白质的重建、大分子和功能进化、进化细胞生物学、基因组进化、分子进化生态学、病毒系统发育、理论群体基因组学、体细胞分子进化和定向进化。虽然我们的努力并不是详尽无遗的，但它反映了我们编辑认为分子进化领域令人兴奋的研究问题和难题。
