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Nutrient reserves may allow for genome size increase: evidence from comparison of geophytes and their sister non-geophytic relatives.
Annals of botany - 1 Oct 2013
Veselý Pavel, Bureš Petr, Šmarda Petr
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The genome size of an organism is determined by its capacity to tolerate genome expansion, given the species' life strategy and the limits of a particular environment, and the ability for retrotransposon suppression and/or removal. In some giant-genomed bulb geophytes, this tolerance is explained by their ability to pre-divide cells in the dormant stages or by the selective advantage of...
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