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The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology and phenotype.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2005
Knight Charles A, Molinari Nicole A, Petrov Dmitri A
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: If large genomes are truly saturated with unnecessary 'junk' DNA, it would seem natural that there would be costs associated ith accumulation and replication of this excess DNA. Here we examine the available evidence to support this hypothesis, which we term the 'large genome constraint'. We examine the large genome constraint at three scales: evolution, ecology, and the plant phenotype....
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