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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2010

Constraints and plasticity in genome and molecular-phenome evolution.

Eugene V Koonin, Yuri I Wolf

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers.

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87citing papers in PubMed
9.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

87 citing papers in PubMed, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Orthrus: Towards Evolutionary and Functional RNA Foundation Models.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  16. Using evolutionary constraint to define novel candidate driver genes in medulloblastoma.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  17. Biofilm forming multidrug resistantIranian journal of veterinary research · 2023
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  19. Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA. koonin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Yuri I Wolf
National Center for Biotechnology Information · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Comparative Analysis Of Completely Sequenced GenomesZIALM000073 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$43.1M
Finding Protein Sequence Motifs--Methods And ApplicationsZIALM000061 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$10.6M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA LM000073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple constraints variously affect different parts of the genomes of diverse life forms. The selective pressures that shape the evolution of viral, archaeal, bacterial and eukaryotic genomes differ markedly, even among relatively closely related animal and bacterial lineages; by contrast, constraints affecting protein evolution seem to be more universal. The constraints that shape the evolution of genomes and phenomes are complemented by the plasticity and robustness of genome architecture, expression and regulation. Taken together, these findings are starting to reveal complex networks of evolutionary processes that must be integrated to attain a new synthesis of evolutionary biology.

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Evolution, MolecularGenomeAnimalsArchaeaBacteriaDNAEukaryotaProteinsVirusesDNAProteins

Identifiers

PMID20548290
PMCPMC3273317
OpenAlexW1970764623

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