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The self‐organization of genomes

Author(s) -

FerrerICancho Ramon,

Forns Núria

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

complexity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447

H-Index - 61

eISSN - 1099-0526

pISSN - 1076-2787

DOI - 10.1002/cplx.20296

Subject(s) - genome , metaphor , word (group theory) , biology , human genome , human language , evolutionary biology , linguistics , computer science , genetics , philosophy , gene

Menzerath‐Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law. We find that longer genomes tend to be made of smaller chromosomes in organisms from three different kingdoms: fungi, plants, and animals. Our findings suggest that genomes self‐organize under principles similar to those of human language. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity, 2010

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