Researchers explain the origin of the mysterious periodicity of the genome
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have found an explanation for a periodicity in the sequence of the genomes of all eukaryotes, from yeast to humans. The results published in the journal Cell offer an alternative explanation to the one based on natural selection, which has been accepted by the scientific community to date.