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Response to Dr Stephen Cooper's ‘On the use of metaphor to understand, explain, or rationalize redundant genes in yeast’

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Earlier use of a metaphor in explaining genetic redundancy in a news article has triggered a commentary and a competing metaphor by Dr Stephen Cooper, who went on to conclude that genetic redundancies are relatively unimportant for microorganisms. We argue here that the new metaphor is flawed and that genetic redundancies are integral to buffering all organisms against environmental and genetic damage.

Source: FEMS Yeast Research

DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00357.x

Authors: Xuewen Pan, Daniel Yuan, Ping Ye, Joel Bader, Jef D. Boeke

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Baylor College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1550266642

FWCI: 0.19

Cites: 8

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10