New insights into patterns of nuclear genome size evolution in plants

Current Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 551-562

  Leitch, I J ^a   Bennett, M D ^a  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; PLANT DNA;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANGIOSPERM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCAS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GYMNOSPERM; LYCOPODIACEAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT SEED; PTERIDACEAE; REVIEW; SANTALACEAE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR PLANT;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYCADOPSIDA; CYCAS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; LYCOPODIACEAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; LYCOPODIUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PTERIDACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA; SANTALACEAE; SANTALALES; SELAGINELLA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0036888964     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202023350183     Document Type: Review

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