Spartina anglica is a classical example of recent alloploid speciation. It arose during the end
of the nineteenth century in England by hybridization between the indigenous Spartina …

Hybridization and polyploidy represent major features of Spartina (cordgrass) evolution, and
the recent formation of the common cordgrass Spartina anglica is one of the most striking …

Gene and whole-genome duplications are widespread in plant nuclear genomes, resulting
in sequence heterogeneity. Identification of duplicated genes may be particularly …

Spartina species have a critical ecological role in salt marshes and represent an excellent
system to investigate recurrent polyploid speciation. Using the 454 GS-FLX pyrosequencer …

The cordgrasses in the genus Spartina have become model organisms for studying
biological invasions from both ecological and genetic perspectives. Here we characterize 11 …

Spartina anglica arose during the end of the 19th century in England by hybridization
between the indigenous Spartina maritima and the introduced East American Spartina …

Spartina species play an important ecological role on salt marshes. Spartina maritima is an
Old-World species distributed along the European and North-African Atlantic coasts. This …

The repeatome is composed of diverse families of repetitive DNA that keep signatures on
the historical events that shaped the evolution of their hosting species. The cold seasonal …

Abstract In Southampton Water, UK, the recent (c. 150 years ago) interspecific hybridisation
between Spartina alterniflora (2n= 6x= 62; A-genome) and S. maritima (2n= 6x= 60; M …

Plant genomes are dominated by repetitive DNA sequences of many distinct types which,
due to their variability and high copy numbers, are difficult to analyse. This sequence …