No evidence that sex and transposable elements drive genome size variation in evening primroses

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1053-1062

  Ågren, J Arvid ^a   Greiner, Stephan ^b   Johnson, Marc T J ^a   Wright, Stephen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C value enigma; Functional asexuality; Mating system; Oenothera; Repetitive DNA

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

OENOTHERA;

PLANT DNA; TRANSPOSON;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; OENOTHERA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; TRANSPOSON;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PLANT; OENOTHERA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84927729310     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12627     Document Type: Article

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