Adaptive and nonadaptive genome size evolution in Karst endemic flora of China

New Phytologist

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1371-1381

  Kang, Ming ^a   Tao, Junjie ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^a   Ren, Chen ^a   Qi, Qingwen ^a,b   Xiang, Qiu Yun ^c   Huang, Hongwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome number; Correlated evolution; Flow cytometry; Genome size evolution; Karst flora; Phylogeny based comparative analysis; Primulina; Specific leaf area

Indexed keywords

PRIMULINA;

PLANT DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; CHINA; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY;

ANGIOSPERMS; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

EID: 84899966121     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12726     Document Type: Article

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