caa a22 4500 445391677 CHVBK 20180317143048.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10955-010-0112-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10955-010-0112-8 Statistical Mechanics of Horizontal Gene Transfer inEvolutionary Ecology [Elektronische Daten] [Nicholas Chia, Nigel Goldenfeld] 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. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Evolution nationallicence Horizontal gene transfer nationallicence Mobile genetic elements nationallicence Metagenomics nationallicence Chia Nicholas Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Gregory Drive, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut Goldenfeld Nigel Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Department of Physics and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut Journal of Statistical Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 142/6(2011-04-01), 1287-1301 0022-4715 142:6<1287 2011 142 10955 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-010-0112-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-010-0112-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chia Nicholas Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Gregory Drive, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goldenfeld Nigel Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Department of Physics and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Statistical Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 142/6(2011-04-01), 1287-1301 0022-4715 142:6<1287 2011 142 10955 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer