Macroevolutionary dynamics of gene family gain and loss along multicellular eukaryotic lineages
M. Domazet-Loso, T. Siroki, T. Domazet-Loso
The paper analyzes gene family gain and loss across multicellular eukaryotic lineages, finding that genome complexity peaks at major evolutionary transitions and then declines, suggesting simplification through gene loss is common.
bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2022Evolutionary Biology