Costly circRNAs, Effective Population Size, and the Origins of Molecular Complexity.
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DOI: 10.1007/s00239-021-10033-1
Abstract: While much excitement has attended the discovery and study of circular RNAs, a new study in Cell Reports suggests that most mammalian circRNAs are not only functionless, but in fact costly. Comparison across three species is… read more here.
Keywords: molecular complexity; hypothesis; drift barrier; effective population ... See more keywords