McCandlish, D. M., Plotkin, J. B. (March 2016) Transcriptional errors and the drift barrier. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113 (12). pp. 3136-8. ISSN 1091-6490 (Electronic)0027-8424 (Linking)
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Abstract
Population genetics predicts that the balance between natural selection and genetic drift is determined by the population size. Species with large population sizes are predicted to have properties governed mainly by selective forces; whereas species with small population sizes should exhibit features governed by mutational processes alone. This “drift-barrier hypothesis” has been successful in explaining extensive variation in genome size, mutation rate, transposable element abundance, and other molecular features across diverse taxa (1⇓–3). However, in PNAS Traverse and Ochman (4) report a striking exception to this theory by showing that transcriptional error rates are nearly equal across several bacterial species with very different population sizes.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | *Genetic Drift Humans |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing evolution |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > McCandlish lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 22 March 2016 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2017 20:52 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2017 20:04 |
| PMCID: | PMC4812742 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/34033 |
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