Publications by authors named "Sergio Palmitessa"
Mol Biol Evol
September 2023
Article Synopsis
- Nonadaptive hypotheses suggest that eukaryotic genome size increases when purifying selection weakens, predicting a relaxed selection signature in species with large genomes like lungfish.
- The study found that the Australian lungfish's transcriptome shows excessive transcription, likely due to poor transcriptional control.
- It also revealed a notable relaxation in coding genes of lungfish compared to other vertebrates, supporting the idea that large animal genomes evolved in a nearly neutral environment with less constraint on expansion.
