Evolutionary genomics and the reach of selection

Opinion

Laurence D Hurst

Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, Somerset BA2 7AY, UK

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:12 doi:10.1186/jbiol113

Published: 23 February 2009

Unexpected findings in evolutionary genomics both question the role of selection in genome evolution and clarify how genomes work.