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The evolution of plant genomes: scaling up from a population perspective.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Dec 2008
Flowers Jonathan M, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Plant genomes exhibit tremendous diversity in both their size and structure, with genome sizes across land plants ranging over two to three orders of magnitude and significant variation in structural organization was observed across species (EA Kellogg, JL Bennetzen, The evolution of nuclear genome structure in seed plants, Am J Bot 2004, 91:1709-1725). Five plant genomes are now either completely sequenced or in...
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