“GENOME SIZE varies c. 2400-fold in angiosperms (flowering plants), although the range of genome size is skewed towards small genomes. There are two major drivers of this astonishing GS diversity: (i) polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication, causing, at least initially, step-wise increases in GS, and (ii) deviation in repeat copy numbers, that can either result in subtle or more dramatic GS changes.”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X15001057
linkedin post 2022-06-29 05:12:48
Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022