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Quantifying organismal complexity using a population genetic approach.

PloS one - 14 Feb 2007

Tenaillon Olivier, Silander Olin K, Uzan Jean-Philippe, Chao Lin

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BACKGROUND: Various definitions of biological complexity have been proposed: the number of genes, cell types, or metabolic processes within an organism. As knowledge of biological systems has increased, it has become apparent that these metrics are often incongruent. METHODOLOGY: Here we propose an alternative complexity metric based on the number of genetically uncorrelated phenotypic traits contributing to an...

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PMID: 17299597
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000217
PMCID: PMC1790863

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