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On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk

The idea that much of our genome is irrelevant to fitness—is not the product of positive natural selection at the organismal level—remains viable. Claims to the contrary, and specifically that the notion of “junk DNA” should be abandoned, are based on conflating meanings of the word “function”. Rece...

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Autores principales: Doolittle, W. Ford, Brunet, Tyler D. P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29207982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0460-9