Article
Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity.
Nature - 18 May 2011
Fernández Ariel, Lynch Michael
Abstract excerpt
The boundaries between prokaryotes, unicellular eukaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes are accompanied by orders-of-magnitude reductions in effective population size, with concurrent amplifications of the effects of random genetic drift and mutation. The resultant decline in the efficiency of selection seems to be sufficient to influence a wide range of attributes at the genomic level in a non-adaptive manner. A...
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