Ecological and evolutionary significance of genomic GC content diversity in monocots

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages E4096-E4102

  Šmarda, Petr ^a   Bureš, Petr ^a   Horová, Lucie ^a   Leitch, Ilia J ^b   Mucina, Ladislav ^c,d   Pacini, Ettore ^e   Tichý, Lubomír ^a   Grulich, Vít ^a   Rotreklová, Olga ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genome size evolution; Geographical stratification; Phylogenetic regression; Plant genome; Poaceae

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANGIOSPERM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; POACEAE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE;

EID: 84907584860     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321152111     Document Type: Article

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