The right stuff: evidence for an 'optimal' genome size in a wild grass population

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 883-885

  Beaulieu, Jeremy M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Genome size variation; Perennial grass; Phenotypic and ecological consequences; Plant genome size; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NOTE; PLANT GENOME; POACEAE; POPULATION GENETICS;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, PLANT; POACEAE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955760940     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03412.x     Document Type: Note

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