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SUBMITTER: Yotoko KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065483 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yotoko Karla S C KS Dornelas Marcelo C MC Togni Pakisa D PD Fonseca Tamara C TC Salzano Francisco M FM Bonatto Sandro L SL Freitas Loreta B LB
PloS one 20110328 3
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 comparison between GS and flower diameters (FD) of 50 Passiflora species, more specifically, ...[more]