Quantifying Organismal Complexity using a Population Genetic Approach
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Quantifying Organismal Complexity using a Population Genetic Approach
BACKGROUND Various definitions of biological complexity have been proposed: the number of genes, cell types, or metabolic processes within an organism. As knowledge of biological systems has increased, it has become apparent that these metrics are often incongruent. METHODOLOGY Here we propose an alternative complexity metric based on the number of genetically uncorrelated phenotypic traits c...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000217