Genetic details, optimization and phage life histories

• Published in: Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 76 - 82
• Main Authors: Bull, J.J., Pfennig, David W., Wang, Ing-Nang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Biological evolution; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution; Virus; Life history; Phenotype; Biological evolution; Lysis; Models; Timing; Phage; Natural selection

Optimality models assume that phenotypes evolve by natural selection largely independently of underlying genetic mechanisms. This neglect of genetic mechanisms is considered an advantage by some evolutionary biologists but a fatal flaw by others. The controversy has gone unresolved, in part, from a...