Comparative genome analysis reveals divergent genome size evolution in a carnivorous plant genus

Plant Genome

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Vu, Giang T H ^a,b   Schmutzer, Thomas ^a   Bull, Fabian ^a   Cao, Hieu X ^a   Fuchs, Jörg ^a   Tran, Trung D ^a   Jovtchev, Gabriele ^a,g   Pistrick, Klaus ^a   Stein, Nils ^a   Pecinka, Ales ^b   Neumann, Pavel ^c   Novak, Petr ^c   Macas, Jiri ^c   Dear, Paul H ^d   Blattner, Frank R ^a,e   Scholz, Uwe ^a   Schubert, Ingo ^a,f  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 84946811623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.04.0021     Document Type: Article

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