Do data from the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project render the notion of
junk DNA obsolete? Here, I review older arguments for junk grounded in the C-value …

In its last round of publications in September 2012, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements
(ENCODE) assigned a biochemical function to most of the human genome, which was taken …

You might expect more complex organisms to have progressively larger genomes, but
eukaryotic genome size fails to correlate well with apparent complexity, and instead varies …

This week, 30 research papers, including six in Nature and additional papers published
online by Science, sound the death knell for the idea that our DNA is mostly littered with …

Following Crick (1958), the last pre-cept is usually called the" Central Dogma" of molecular
biology. These three precepts are so universally accepted that they usually find their way …

The nucleic acids have become fashionable and we shall presumably be offered
monographs on the subject for many years to come. Each author no doubt feels that his own …

The February 15th, 2001 announcement of the draft human genome sequence was the
culmination of a momentous undertaking. The analyses of this sequence (International …

Variation in DNA content has been largely ignored as a factor in evolution, particularly
following the advent of sequence-based approaches to genomic analysis. The significant …

From bacteria to mammals, the DNA content of genomes has increased by about three
orders of magnitude in just 3 billion years of evolution (1). Early DNA association studies …

It is recalled that dispensability of sequences and neutral substitution rate must not be
construed to be markers of nonfunctionality. Different aspects of functionality relate to …