linkedin post 2018-10-20 04:00:50

GENOMIC STREAMLINING. “Genomic researchers have proposed that natural selection may favor small genomes—weeding out superfluous material—through a process called “genomic streamlining. Streamlining makes inherent sense because a small genome should aid metabolic efficiency, because genome size is correlated with cell size.”

http://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=selective+pressures+for+genomic+simplicity&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8_67jh8zPAhXBbRQKHa6-BbEQgQMICDAA

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