Genome complexity: Shapiro review (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, August 08, 2013, 15:08 (3907 days ago) @ David Turell

Shapiro's message that orgnisms tend to make automatic adjustments to their DNA to adapt to challenges most likely creates the mess that is the genomic tree of life: gene studies don't lead to proper trees!-http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/algorithms-revise-tree-of-lif/2/-"According to a new study partly focused on yeast, the conflicting picture from individual genes is even broader than scientists suspected. "They report that every single one of the 1,070 genes conflicts somewhat," said Michael Donoghue, an evolutionary biologist at Yale who was not involved in the study. "We are trying to figure out the phylogenetic relationships of 1.8 million species and can't even sort out 20 [types of] yeast," he said"