The evolutionary scaling of cellular traits imposed by the drift barrier.

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Owing to internal homeostatic mechanisms, cellular traits may experience long periods of stable selective pressures, during which the stochastic forces of drift and mutation conspire to generate variation. However, even in the face of invariant selection, the drift barrier defined by the genetic effective population size, which is negatively associated with organism size, can have a substantial influence on the...

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