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Genome Biology: Not Drowning but Waving

Author(s) -

Adrian Bird

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.010

Subject(s) - biology , genome , scopus , genetics , evolutionary biology , gene , medline , biochemistry

One could be forgiven for thinking that biology is in turmoil following recent discoveries that seem to undermine conventional wisdom surrounding the role of genomes in evolution (Ball, 2013). Is the vast excess of genomic DNA—hitherto dismissed as junk—indispensable after all? Are the effects of the environment often transmitted between generations regardless of the information in genes? What is a gene these days anyway? Such speculations are exhilarating, but I suggest that most biologists are not more confused than ever about the role of genes in evolution but, rather, less.

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