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ABUNDANT STREAMLINING. "Bona fide adaptive genome streamlining appears to be a reality of evolution as well. Features of such streamlining are detectable in the genomes of the highly successful free-living organisms...(including) the most abundant cellular life forms on earth. Genome evolution of these highly successful life forms involves a drop in the overall complexity but an increase in information density." https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

TWO REDUCTION ROUTES. "Both neutral and adaptive routes lead to genome reduction. Genome reduction in different life forms seems to have occurred via two distinct routes: (i) the neutral gene loss ratchet and (ii) adaptive genome streamlining." https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

DISSOCIATION AT SCALE. "The relationship between genomic complexity and the complexity at various levels of the phenotype, from molecular to organismal, is far from being straightforward as it has become clear already in the pre-genomic era. Comparative genomics reinforced the complex relationships between the different levels of complexity in the most convincing manner by demonstrating the lack of a simple link between genomic and organismal complexities." https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

ALIEN PERSPECTIVE. "If an alien landed on Earth and studied the biology here, it might justifiably conclude that viruses run the planet." Viruses or bacteria. https://lnkd.in/e9h9zTt View in LinkedIn

EQUAL PULL. "Simplification could be an “an equal partner to complexification” in the evolution of eukaryotes." Or perhaps greater than equal. https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

THE REAL BOSS. The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Joshua Lederberg once wrote that the “single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on this planet is the virus.” One perspective. Another is that they have helped our species in countless ways. https://lnkd.in/e--W3GC View in LinkedIn

GRAND SCHEME. "Quantitatively, the evolution of genomes appears to be dominated by reduction and simplification, punctuated by episodes of complexification." https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES are ancient creatures in the Grey Zone are so simple they were not considered alive until recently. Traditionally, we have wrongly associated them only with diseases, which is actually a minor part of the picture. These remarkable creatures have played a key role in building the genomes of all life forms by their promiscuous RNA and DNA sharing, and shaping the geosphere. View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR CLOCK. "Reconstructions of genome evolution in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes indicate that the loss of genes and introns typically occurs roughly proportionally to time, thus conforming with a form of genomic molecular clock." https://lnkd.in/egqWFZp View in LinkedIn

QUIZ. "What has a tiny shell, it's invisible to the naked eye, it affects the Earth's climate and causes cancer? It's a virus. Viruses kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day. And they invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. Wow." https://lnkd.in/eWe4ADF View in LinkedIn