Variation in DNA content has been largely ignored as a factor in evolution, particularly
following the advent of sequence-based approaches to genomic analysis. The significant …

You might expect more complex organisms to have progressively larger genomes, but
eukaryotic genome size fails to correlate well with apparent complexity, and instead varies …

The amount of DNA in the nuclear genome (the DNA C-value) of eukaryotes varies at least
80000-fold across species, and yet bears little or no relation to organismic complexity or to …

Eukaryotic genomes come in a wide variety of sizes. Haploid DNA contents (C values)
range> 80 000-fold without an apparent correlation with either the complexity of the …

The 40000-f0ld variation in eukaryote haploid DNA content is unrelated to organismic
complexity or to the numbers of protein-coding genes. In eukaryote microorganisms, as well …

The mass of DNA in a haploid nucleus is usually constant in any one species and is known
as its C-value (134) or genome size. Just as atomic theory explains the different masses and …

The forces responsible for modulating the large-scale features of the genome remain one of
the most difficult issues confronting evolutionary biology. Although diversity in chromosomal …

Aims Plants and animals represent the first two kingdoms recognized, and remain the two
best-studied groups in terms of nuclear DNA content variation. Unfortunately, the traditional …

Some notable exceptions aside, eukaryotic genomes are distinguished from those of
Bacteria and Archaea in a number of ways, including chromosome structure and number …

The February 15th, 2001 announcement of the draft human genome sequence was the
culmination of a momentous undertaking. The analyses of this sequence (International …