Comparative genomics analysis of rice and pineapple contributes to understand the chromosome number reduction and genomic changes in grasses

Rice is one of the most researched model plant, and has a genome structure most resembling that of the grass common ancestor after a grass common tetraploidization ~100 million years ago. There has been a standing controversy whether there had been 5 or 7 basic chromosomes, before the tetraploidizat...

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Main Authors: Jinpeng Wang, Jiaxiang Yu, Pengchuan Sun, Yuxian Li, Ruiyan Xia, Yinzhe Liu, Xuelian Ma, Jigao Yu, Nanshan Yang, Tianyu Lei, Zhenyi Wang, Li Wang, Weina Ge, Xiaoming Song, Xiaojian Liu, Sangrong Sun, Tao Liu, Dianchuan Jin, Yuxin Pan, Xiyin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2016.00174/full