Symmetry/Asymmetry in Life Sciences: Feature Papers 2025
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluctuating asymmetry; developmental instability; evolutionary genetics; hybrid zones; community ecology
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Interests: hemispheric asymmetry and behavior in humans; EEG hemispheric asymmetry and individual differences in personality traits; hemispheric asymmetry and suggestibility, attention, and related phenomena
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry is invariant under some mathematical transformations, such as reflection, rotation, or translation. It may occur in three-dimensional space, such as in the symmetrical geometry of organisms or molecules. Symmetry in time, though, is a fourth dimension, including symmetrical enzymatic reactions, for example, and animal and human behaviors. Symmetry in additional dimensions is a possibility as well. Symmetries may also be symmetries of scale, such as fractals in nature and art.
Symmetries are often broken, and these are subject to study. Upon fertilization, for example, a spherical oocyte undergoes a series of broken symmetries, culminating in an adult organism that is no longer spherically symmetrical. Broken symmetry also arises in the molecules of life. Deoxyribonucleic acid undergoes a conformational change that breaks helical symmetry during the processes of replication and translation.
Prof. Dr. John H. Graham
Prof. Dr. Vilfredo De Pascalis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicine
- molecular biology
- cell biology
- gene expression
- proteins
- evolutionary biology
- biodiversity
- fluctuating asymmetry
- brain asymmetry
- biradial symmetry
- directional asymmetry
- antisymmetry (e.g., right-handed or left-handed, handedness, etc.)
- symmetries of scale
- symmetrical enzymatic reactions
- symmetrical geometry
- symmetry and biological robustness
- spherical symmetry
- helical symmetry
- broken symmetries
- random asymmetries
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