Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?

Kenneth D. Whitney; Theodore Garland Jr

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001080

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Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?

Kenneth D. Whitney ,

* E-mail: kwhitney@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Theodore Garland Jr

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
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Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?

Kenneth D. Whitney,
Theodore Garland Jr

Published: August 26, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001080

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Posted by PLOS_Genetics on 15 Jun 2011 at 11:12 GMT

Two Viewpoints articles have been written in response to this research article:
'Statistical Inference on the Mechanisms of Genome Evolution' by Michael Lynch (http://www.plosgenetics.o...)
'Drift and Genome Complexity Revisited' by Whitney et al. (http://www.plosgenetics.o...)

No competing interests declared.

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