Getting clear about the F-word in genomics

About the Authors: Stefan Linquist * E-mail: linquist@uoguelph.ca Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4654-0419 W. Ford Doolittle Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University...

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Published in:PLoS genetics 2020-04, Vol.16 (4), p.e1008702-e1008702
Main Authors: Linquist, Stefan, Doolittle, W Ford, Palazzo, Alexander F
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biochemistry
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Biology and Life Sciences
Genes
Genomics
Medicine and Health Sciences
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Summary:About the Authors: Stefan Linquist * E-mail: linquist@uoguelph.ca Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4654-0419 W. Ford Doolittle Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4675-8832 Alexander F. Palazzo Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-1995 Citation: Linquist S, Doolittle WF, Palazzo AF (2020) Getting clear about the F-word in genomics. Funding: Financial support for this research was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/, grant #430335) to Stefan Linquist and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (nserc-crsng.gc.ca, grant # GLDSU44989) to W. Ford Doolittle. [...]our recommendation is for researchers to always clarify which sense of “function” they mean (origin or maintenance) when talking or writing about selected effects. [...]most researchers are in fact searching for entities which they presume to have been under some form of selection.
ISSN:1553-7404
1553-7390
1553-7404
DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008702