Access

News and Views

Nature 396, 522-523 (10 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/25007

Open Innovation Challenges

Evolutionary biology:  A plastic genome

Pierre Capy1

Views on the evolution of genome structure and function have changed dramatically over the past three decades. Once thought to be rather stable, except for occasional changes in chromosome structure brought about by translocations or inversions, the genome is now known to have a flexibility often referred to as plasticity.

  1. Pierre Capy is in the Laboratoire Populations, Gntique et Evolution, CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
    e-mail: Email: capy@pge.cnrs-gif.fr