Enrique M. Muro

Gene and protein length distributions are lognormal. Length distributions for genes (blue, measured in number of base pairs) and their corresponding proteins (orange, measured in number of amino acids) for Danio rerio (zebrafish). Note that lengths are represented on a logarithmic scale. The red curves are fits to lognormal distributions.

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An evolutionary algorithmic phase transition 2.6 billion years ago may have sparked the emergence of eukaryotic cells An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the eukaryotic cell.

A phase transition in gene length distribution around 2.6 billion years ago is identified as a key event marking the emergence of eukaryotic cells and a major increase in biological complexity. doi.org/g9fxfk

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The image shows the evolution of protein-coding gene length distributions across evolutionary time (ill./©: Fernando J. Ballesteros)

#EukaryoticCells emerged as evolutionary algorithmic phase transition / #Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by tension of increasing gene length and constraints on producing longer #proteins 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-c...

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Die Grafik zeigt die Entwicklung der Längenverteilung proteincodierender Gene im Laufe der Evolution. (Abb./©: Fernando J. Ballesteros)

Entstehung komplexen Lebens: Wissenschaftler haben herausgefunden, warum #Eukaryoten entstanden sind / Entwicklung der eukaryotischen Zelle stellt größte Komplexitätssteigerung in der Geschichte des Lebens auf der Erde dar 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/die-entstehu...

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Gene and protein length distributions are lognormal.

Scale-invariant relationship between mean gene length and variance. Each dot in this log–log plot represents the genome of a single species (33,627), with H. sapiens highlighted by the circle. Different colors identify major phyletic groups.

Our new study on the emergence of the eukaryotic cell as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition. The transition was continuous yet abrupt...

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