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Organelle genome complexity scales positively with organism size in volvocine green algae.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Apr 2013
Smith David Roy, Hamaji Takashi, Olson Bradley J S C, Durand Pierre M, Ferris Patrick, Michod Richard E, Featherston Jonathan, Nozaki Hisayoshi, Keeling Patrick J
Abstract excerpt
It has been argued that for certain lineages, noncoding DNA expansion is a consequence of the increased random genetic drift associated with long-term escalations in organism size. But a lack of data has prevented the investigation of this hypothesis in most plastid-bearing protists. Here, using newly sequenced mitochondrial and plastid genomes, we explore the relationship between organelle DNA noncoding content...
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