Did genetic drift drive increases in genome complexity?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Whitney, Kenneth D ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957326306     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001080     Document Type: Article

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