Genome sizes of plants have long piqued the interest of researchers due to the vast
differences among organisms. However, the mechanisms that drive size differences have …

Genome size varies greatly across the flowering plants and has played an important role in
shaping their evolution. It has been reported that many factors correlate with the variation in …

It has long been known that organismal complexity is poorly correlated with genome size
and that tremendous variation in DNA content exists within many groups of organisms. This …

Genome size varies c. 2400-fold in angiosperms (flowering plants), although the range of
genome size is skewed towards small genomes, with a mean genome size of 1C= 5.7 Gb …

Abstract Given the 2,400-fold range of genome sizes (0.06–148.9 Gbp (gigabase pair)) of
seed plants (angiosperms and gymnosperms) with a broadly similar gene content …

Genome sizes vary considerably across all eukaryotes and even among closely related
species. The genesis and evolutionary dynamics of that variation have generated …

It has been known that eukaryotic genomes span a wide range of sizes regardless of
organism complexity. The observed differences in genome size are primarily due to …

The differential accumulation and elimination of repetitive DNA are key drivers of genome
size variation in flowering plants, yet there have been few studies which have analysed how …

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 …

The lack of correlation between genome size and organismal complexity has long been a
topic of great interest. Over the last decade it has become clear that transposable elements …