From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Jan 16 22:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!cc.UManitoba.CA!gordonr From: gordonr@cc.UManitoba.CA (Richard Gordon) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Biological Application of Thermodynamics Date: 17 Jan 1999 11:33:34 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 98 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net To: biophys@net.bio.net From: "Barak Akabayov" Subject: Thermodynamics&Biology Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:11:49 +0200 Hi, I need central concepts in Biological Application of Thermodynamics. Thank you. Ak_barak@internet-zahav.net Dear Barak, In regard to thermodynamics and evolution, see the refernces listed below Yours, -Dick Gordon Brooks, D.R., D.D. Cumming & P.H. LeBlond (1988). Dollo's law and the second law of thermodynamics: analogy or extension. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, Bradford Books, p. 189-226. Campbell, J.H. (1988). Evolution as nonequilibrium thermodynamics: halfway there? In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Bradford Books, p. 275-284. Conrad, M. (1974). Thermodynamic correlates of evolution. BioSystems 6(1), 1-15. Depew, D.J. (1986). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and evolution: a philosophical perspective. Philosophica 37, 27-58. Depew, D.J. & B.H. Weber (1988). Consequences of nonequlibrium thermodynamics for the Darwinian tradition. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Bradford Books, p. 317-354. Gladyshev, G.P. (1997). Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings. Moscow: N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Gladyshev, G.P. (1997). Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings. New York: NOVA Scientific Publishers. Johnson, L. (1988). The thermodynamic origin of ecosystems: a tale of broken symmetry. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 75-105. Meléndez-Hevia, E., T.G. Waddell & M. Cascante (1996 Sep). The puzzle of the Krebs citric acid cycle: assembling the pieces of chemically feasible reactions, and opportunism in the design of metabolic pathways during evolution. J Mol Evol 43(3), 293-303. Meléndez-Hevia, E., T.G. Waddell, R. Heinrich & F. Montero (1997 Mar 1). Theoretical approaches to the evolutionary optimization of glycolysis-- chemical analysis. Eur J Biochem 244(2), 527-43. Schneider, E.D. (1988). Thermodynamics, ecological succession, and natural selection: a common thread. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 106-138. Shakhnovich, E.I. & A.M. Gutin (1990). Implications of thermodynamics of protein folding for evolution of primary sequences. Nature 346, 773-775. Weber, B.H., D.J. Depew, C. Dyke, S.N. Salthe, E.D. Schneider, R.E. Ulanowicz & J.S. Wicken (1989). Evolution in thermodynamic perspective: an ecological approach. Biol. Phil. 4, 373-405. Wicken, J.S. (1979). The generation of complexity in evolution: a thermodynamic and information-theoretical discussion. J. Theor. Biol. 77, 349-365. Wicken, J.S. (1980). A thermodynamic theory of evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 87, 9-23. Wicken, J.S. (1987). Evolution, Thermodynamics, and Information: Extending the Darwinian Program. New York: Oxford University Press. Wicken, J.S. (1988). Thermodynamics, evolution, and emergence: ingredients for a new synthesis. In: B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew & J.D. Smith (eds.), Entropy, Information, and Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, p. 139-172. Wiley, E.O. & D.R. Brooks (1983). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and evolution: a response to Løvtrup. Syst. Zool. 32, 209-219. Yockey, H.P. (1995b). Comments on "Let there be life; Thermodynamic reflections on biogenesis and evolution" by Avshalom C. Elitzur. J. Theor. Biol 176, 349-355. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Richard Gordon, Department of Radiology University of Manitoba, Health Sciences Centre 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9 Canada Phone: (204) 789-3828, Fax: (204) 787-2080, E-mail: GordonR@cc.UManitoba.ca The Hierarchical Genome and Differentiation Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics and Evolution: http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/lifesci/2755.html .