BioConcepts

aptonuonAptonuon (ger.)

• A nuon that is adaptive due to selection in the past. (HWB)
  category gene see also naptonuon nuon potonuon xaptonuon

  1992

  In our genomic terminology, such conventional adaptive changes are "aptonuons," "aptogenes," etc.

  Brosius, J. & Gould, S.J. (1992). On “genomenclature”: a comprehensive (and respectful) taxonomy for pseudogenes and other “junk DNA”. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10708; id. (1993). Molecular constructivity. Nature 365, 102.