@article{4062, keywords = {Time Factors, Biological Evolution, Environment, Physiological Phenomena}, author = {Arvind Murugan and Kabir Husain and Michael Rust and Chelsea Hepler and Joseph Bass and Julian Pietsch and Peter Swain and Siddhartha Jena and Jared Toettcher and Arup Chakraborty and Kayla Sprenger and T Mora and A Walczak and O Rivoire and Shenshen Wang and Kevin Wood and Antun Skanata and Edo Kussell and Rama Ranganathan and Hong-Yan Shih and Nigel Goldenfeld}, title = {Roadmap on biology in time varying environments.}, abstract = {
Biological organisms experience constantly changing environments, from sudden changes in physiology brought about by feeding, to the regular rising and setting of the Sun, to ecological changes over evolutionary timescales. Living organisms have evolved to thrive in this changing world but the general principles by which organisms shape and are shaped by time varying environments remain elusive. Our understanding is particularly poor in the intermediate regime with no separation of timescales, where the environment changes on the same timescale as the physiological or evolutionary response. Experiments to systematically characterize the response to dynamic environments are challenging since such environments are inherently high dimensional. This roadmap deals with the unique role played by time varying environments in biological phenomena across scales, from physiology to evolution, seeking to emphasize the commonalities and the challenges faced in this emerging area of research.
}, year = {2021}, journal = {Phys Biol}, volume = {18}, month = {2021 May 17}, issn = {1478-3975}, doi = {10.1088/1478-3975/abde8d}, language = {eng}, }