What is it about?

In many ways, the eukaryotic genome is like "a swarm of social insects", where the queens are protein-coding sequences, and workers, non-coding DNA.

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Why is it important?

To better understand the physiological structure and functions of the genome and its components.

Perspectives

This article may change your impression about the eukaryotic genomes.

Guo-Hua Qiu
Longyan University

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This page is a summary of: The eukaryotic genome is structurally and functionally more like a social insect colony than a book, Epigenomics, October 2017, Future Medicine,
DOI: 10.2217/epi-2017-0059.
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