期刊
COMPLEXITY
卷 15, 期 5, 页码 34-36出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20296
关键词
Menzerath-Altmann law; genomes; chromosomes; self-organization; quantitative linguistics
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [BFM2003-08258-C02-02, FIS2006-13321-C02-01]
Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law. We find that longer genomes tend to be made of smaller chromosomes in organisms from three different kingdoms: fungi, plants, and animals. Our findings suggest that genomes self-organize under principles similar to those of human language. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 15: 34-36, 2010
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