Does variation in genome sizes reflect adaptive or neutral processes? New clues from Passiflora.
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 inves...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-03-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3065483?pdf=render |