Sciber

Cool work using information theory to establish upper bounds on information maintenance on organism populations. They "prove a general bound on the rate at which information can accumulate per generation, [finding] that both accumulation and maintenance of information are most efficient (require the least fitness variation per bit) when individual loci experience weak selection. This is relevant for selection on traits influenced by many small-effect loci—a common genetic architecture according to genome-wide association studies." Full paper @ PNAS.

Labels: #evolution, #Genetics, #information, #InformationTheory