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Does variation in genome sizes reflect adaptive or neutral processes? New clues from Passiflora.
PloS one - 28 Mar 2011
Yotoko Karla S C, Dornelas Marcelo C, Togni Pakisa D, Fonseca Tamara C, Salzano Francisco M, Bonatto Sandro L, Freitas Loreta B
Abstract excerpt
One of the long-standing paradoxes in genomic evolution is the observation that much of the genome is composed of repetitive DNA which has been typically regarded as superfluous to the function of the genome in generating phenotypes. In this work, we used comparative phylogenetic approaches to investigate if the variations in genome sizes (GS) should be considered as adaptive or neutral processes by the...
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