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Non-adaptive evolution of genome complexity.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Oct 2006

Yi Soojin V

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Genome complexity is correlated with biological complexity. A recent paper by Michael Lynch proposes that evolution of complex genomic architecture was driven primarily by non-adaptive stochastic forces, rather than by adaptive evolution.1 A general negative relationship between selection efficiency and genome complexity provides a strong support for this hypothesis. The broad capacity of this theory is both its...

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PMID: 16998825
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20478

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