Driven progressive evolution of genome sequence complexity in Cyanobacteria.

ABSTRACT: Progressive evolution, or the tendency towards increasing complexity, is a controversial issue in biology, which resolution entails a proper measurement of complexity. Genomes are the best entities to address this challenge, as they encode the historical information of a species' biotic and environmental interactions. As a case study, we have measured genome sequence complexity in the ancient phylum Cyanobacteria. To arrive at an appropriate measure of genome sequence complexity, we have chosen metrics that do not decipher biological functionality but that show strong phylogenetic signal. Using a ridge regression of those metrics against root-to-tip distance, we detected positive trends towards higher complexity in three of them. Lastly, we applied three standard tests to detect if progres

SUBMITTER: Moya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643063 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature