Deviation from Power-Law Distribution when Scaling the Distribution of Marine Plankton Folds from Genomes to Communities
Lucas Pavlovic, Caroline Vernette, Emanuele Pigani, Louis Joigneaux, Alexandre Labesse, Janaína Rigonato, Daniele Iudicone, Magali Lescot, Youri Timsit, Olivier Jaillon
The paper shows that the distribution of protein folds in marine plankton communities deviates from a power law to a Type II Pareto distribution when scaling from individual genomes to communities.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2025 · PreprintGenomics