Genome size and GC content evolution of Festuca: Ancestral expansion and subsequent reduction

Annals of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 421-433

  Šmarda, Petr ^a   Bureš, Petr ^a   Horová, Lucie ^a   Foggi, Bruno ^b   Rossi, Graziano ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Base composition; Chromosome size; Fescue; Festuca; Flow cytometry; GC content; Genome size evolution; Grasses; Phylogeny; Polyploidy; Retrotransposon dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DIVERGENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME; GRASS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE;

ARTICLE; FESCUE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; RETROPOSON;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FESTUCA; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; RETROELEMENTS;

FESTUCA; POACEAE; POEAE;

EID: 38849171052     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm307     Document Type: Article

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