Evolution and Fluctuating Asymmetry: Genes, Biological Molecules and Public Health
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 12506
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, symmetry being a symbol of biology has gained scientific attention, which reflects the maintenance of individual morphological development under various environmental conditions. Questions such as ‘Does symmetry have a link with evolution?’ or ‘Can symmetry, DNA damage, and human diseases be linked together?’ are still controversial. For instance, asymmetry in human beings has been observed with temporal and spatial walking (Parkinson’s disease), retinitis pigmentosa, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and many other diseases. In addition, symmetry and asymmetry is widely observed in mammalian cells and aspects like cell division, chromosomal DNA replications, normal cell homeostasis, and importantly, structural symmetry exhibits the property of cancer hallmarks.
Fluctuating Asymmetry (FA), an index of developmental stability, measures an organism’s phenotype, genotype, and quality. The link between FA index, quality, and health is unrevealed. However, an unexplored link between symmetry and quality of life directly benefits the selection of healthy disease-free mates with improved health in offspring. Likewise, facial symmetry describes social communication, which is recognised by humans to infer current emotional states. Challenges in this research emphasizes numerous complex aspects of public health.
We envision public health as a society which ensures healthy individuals. Therefore, through this Special Issue “Evolution and Fluctuating Asymmetry: Genes, Biological Molecules and Public Health” we aim to highlight the relationship between improved human health, diseases, and symmetry.
We encourage contributions that are focused on, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Asymmetric and symmetric division in hematologic malignancies, model organisms; solid cancers development and progression.
- Address the theoretical and methodological challenges and opportunities that come with studying symmetry in development, growth and disease.
- Share the best practices for engaging in public health research.
- Processing and analysis of big data in healthcare.
- The symmetry towards asymmetry of biological molecules.
- A systematic evaluation Biological evolution.
- Structural symmetry in membrane proteins related to human diseases.
- DNA replication and cell division; Molecular mechanism in Cells and tissue; Stem cell research; systematic evaluation of DNA/RNA biology
- Asymmetric and symmetric distribution in human diseases
Dr. Abhijit Chakraborty
Dr. Faisal Aziz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioinformatics
- cell division
- DNA
- epidemiology
- evolution
- fluctuating asymmetry
- functional genomics
- human diseases
- pathology
- RNA
- structural biology
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